Documented offers more detailed information about the dark money groups behind the incremental assault on voting rights reported in the N.Y. Times yesterday. The four groups identified are:
- Cleta Mitchell’s “Election Integrity Network” has organized coalitions of far-right grassroots activists in swing states staffed with people fully committed to election conspiracies. . . . incubated by the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI), the $45 million MAGA institution led by former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows. . . .
- The Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) and its advocacy arm, the Opportunity Solutions Project, have emerged as key drivers of state policies that undermine the freedom to vote. . . .
- Heritage Action, the advocacy arm of the Heritage Foundation, is spending tens of millions of dollars pushing for restrictive state voting laws by hiring lobbyists, promoting “model election laws,” mobilizing state-based activists, and running TV and digital media campaigns. . . .
- The Honest Elections Project (HEP), a group founded by powerful conservative activist Leonard Leo . . .