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Walton backed The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump super-PAC, which ran ads in battleground states.^[11] She donated $20,000 to The Lincoln Project in January 2020 and a further $10,000 in May 2020.^[12]

Walton backed No Kings Day, a nationwide anti-Trump protest on June 14, 2025, placing a full-page ad in The New York Times to promote it.^[13]

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A depicts a scenario in which a sheriff arrests a man and his pregnant teenage daughter because he suspects he is driving her to another state to get an abortion. The sheriff declares, "And you, young lady, well, you're under arrest for evading motherhood."

The ad wasn't created by Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the National Organization for Women (NOW) or Emily's List, but rather, — an anti-Donald Trump conservative group that is supporting Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race. And according to The Guardian's David Smith, it is a prime example of "Red Dawn conservatives" reaching out to "Dobbs dads."

"Red Dawn" (starring Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen) was a 1984 Hollywood action movie that depicted American teenagers fighting communists after a Soviet invasion of the United States.

Smith describes "Red Dawn conservatives" as non-MAGA conservatives who "value a strong national defense and traditional alliances" and "Dobbs dads" as "suburban Gen-X and Millennial fathers angered by the prospect of 'big government' making choices for their wives' and daughters' reproductive healthcare needs."

The two, according to Smith, have formed an unlikely pro-Harris alliance in this year's election.

"It is the latest attempt to find a snappy shorthand to describe the type of voters whose decisions are set to affect the whole of America and the world," Smith explains. "That is because, in the absence of a national popular vote, the result of the presidential election is likely to come down to just tens of thousands of votes in seven swing states…. That the Dobbs decision, which overturned half a century of legal precedent protecting the right to abortion under Roe v. Wade, already galvanized progressive female voters in the 2022 midterm elections is no secret. But the Lincoln Democracy Institute believes that conservative men could also be crucial."

Trygve Olson, senior adviser to The Lincoln Project's Lincoln Democracy Institute, told The Guardian, "The Dobbs dads tend to be Millennial. They are more likely to be college-educated white males, and they're disproportionately girl dads. Some of them are pro-life; they're conservatives. Their conservatism is grounded in, 'I don't want government telling me what to do.'"

*Read The Guardian's full article at this link and watch the full Lincoln Project video below or here.

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lincoln Project cofounder George Conway has jokingly offered to provide free legal services to the SuperPAC should former President Donald Trump follow through with his threat to sue the organization over an advertisement.

The “Failures” advertisement aired on Fox News last week. It accused Trump advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles of failing to foresee that President Joe Biden would drop out of the election.

“They told you that Biden should never quit — that you should spend all that time, all that money, so much money, focusing on Biden. How he’s too old,” an announcer reads during the ad. “Now it’s Harris. She’s younger than you — by a lot. Faster on her feet. Better than Biden was on camera. They were wrong. But they’re wrong a lot. Wrong that Vance would help you. You know he’s terrible. Wrong that you have the race sewn up. It’s sad, Donald. They spend more time trying to keep you under control than trying to win.”

On Friday, the Trump campaign sent the Lincoln Project a cease and desist letter, which the SuperPAC posted to Threads. Trump’s lawyer, David A. Warrington, claimed the “Failures” spot was defamatory to LaCivita, Wiles and the Trump campaign. Warrington said the ad’s claims “are a complete fabrication, and defame the Campaign’s leaders,” and “would harm the Campaign by discouraging future contributions.”

Tuesday morning the Lincoln Project confirmed that it would not be removing the “Failures” advertisement, and followed up with a new spot, “Futile.”

“This is the third time you’ve threatened to sue the Lincoln Project. This time, it’s because we told you the truth about how your campaign is failing, broken and dead in the water, wrong that you have the race sewn up. Sad, Donald. We told you, Chris and Susie made a mistake when they bragged that Biden would stay in the race. It’s embarrassing, Donald. Your whole campaign is a hot mess. You’re terrible on camera these days. You just look old, tired and [expletive] crazy America, America’s just done with you, Donald, and with the political team you have, there’s nothing you can do but, lose, lose, lose,” the announcer says in the new clip.

Conway shared “Futile” on Tuesday morning, along with a needling caption.

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Trump supporters at the Missouri Republican Caucus on Saturday attacked fellow attendees who supported the former president's opponent, a prior member of the "grand old party" reported.

Former Lincoln Project veterans affairs adviser Fred Wellman, an ex-Republican and current Democratic campaign consultant, reportedthe aggressive development on social media. Wellman also recently hit retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a Trump adviser who played a prominent role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election, with a sanctions bid in a defamation lawsuit.

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On Saturday, Wellman conveyed information he said he received via text about the caucus in Missouri.

"I have a friend who attended the Missouri Republican Presidential Caucus today," he wrote Saturday. "They asked Nikki Haley supporters to line up in the middle of the auditorium and were booed and screamed at by the Trump supporters."

He continued: "They attacked fellow Republicans. Feel like democracy to you?"

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Quoting a reported follow-up text from the source, Wellman then said, "The woman who spoke for Haley couldn’t stop shaking and crying. It was so scary.”

Someone in the comments wrote to Wellman, "Those Dale Carnegie courses didn't take..." He responded, "Nope. Do you think those folks will vote for Trump in November?"

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rick Wilson, one of the Never Trump Republicans behind the popular Lincoln Project political action committee (PAC), weighed in with his opinion of President Donald Trump's former advisor Steve Bannon and why he "must be destroyed."

During an interview with AdAge, Wilson discussed his ad development process for the political organization, and, at one point, he also offered his take on Bannon beginning with their long history.

"Bannon and I have a lot of history," Wilson admitted.

He went on to explain what led to his opposition with Bannon. According to Wilson, the rift deepened in 2015 when he publicly denounced Trump during his first presidential bid. At the time, Bannon was serving as the chief executive officer of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

Wilson received details about a Slack conversation where Bannon plotted to take him down. Based on the context of the conversation, Bannon was out to get him over his decision to distance from Trump.

"In 2015, when I came out against Trump, a person inside Breitbart News sent me an internal Slack from Bannon."

He added, "And Bannon said, 'I want you to go after Wilson. I want you to go after his kids, his family, his wife, his business, everything. I want to destroy him.'

Bannon was reportedly warned that Wilson would not go down easily and would likely retaliate but he welcomed the challenge. Now, Wilson has made it a point to continue going after Bannon.

He added, "So, since then, I have pursued Steve Bannon like a wild animal. And I will never — Steven Bannon will never be off the hook for me. Once he goes back to prison, once he gets into prison, I'm gonna... I'm only just starting."

Wilson's latest interview comes months after Bannon found himself at the center of a fraud investigation over the "We Build the Wall" campaign where he allegedly swindled Trump supporters into donating funds that were not used for the intended purpose. While Bannon is behind bars, Wilson also plans to troll him.

"I'm gonna send him stuff like—I'm gonna send him stuff that it's gonna make sure that every time he gets a letter, it's gonna cause him to have a disciplinary hearing," Wilson said laughing. "He's a truly repugnant individual who was, you know, kidding aside."

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Steve Schmidt calls for 'venomous and dangerous' Rupert Murdoch to be stripped of US citizenship

Rupert Murdoch receiving the 2015 Global Leadership Award, Wikimedia Commons

David Badash and The New Civil Rights Movement May 18, 2022

Lincoln Project co-founder and former GOP strategist Steve Schmidt wants the United States to strip Rupert Murdoch of his U.S. citizenship, calling the 91-year-old Australian-born media titan “the most venomous and dangerous foreigner to ever arrive on American soil.”

Murdoch is the man behind News Corp, a massive multi-national conglomerate that in the U.S. owns Fox News, The New York Post, the Wall Street Journal, book publisher HarperCollins, and even realtor.com.

But it is Fox News that Schmidt is focused on.

“The January 6 Committee will prove a massive conspiracy,” Schmidt tweeted Tuesday night. “That conspiracy will likely involve @foxnews hosts and personalities. @rupertmurdoch is responsible for what happens on @foxnews, which has long claimed in Federal Court that is not news but entertainment.”

Taking a dig at Murdoch and the birther movement which Fox News amplified, Schmidt says Murdoch “is not a Birthright Citizen like @BarackObama. He is a Naturalized Citizen. Though it happens rarely, there is a Denaturalization process that can lead to revocation of US Citizenship and removal from the country.”

Murdoch became a U.S. citizen in 1985 so he could own American television stations.

“There are conditions and requirements for Denaturalization,” Schmidt continues. “This should be studied closely by Attorneys. I believe a strong case could be made that @rupertmurdoch, the most venomous and dangerous foreigner to ever arrive on American soil meets it easily.”

Schmidt in his final tweet tags former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who over the past few years has accused Murdoch and his media properties of undermining democracy in the U.S. and in Australia.

Last November Schmidt said Murdoch “has been a pancreatic cancer on democracy, pluralism and decency.”

And in February Schmidt suggested Fox News was an enemy of the U.S., calling it “an American Fifth Column that has declared war on American patriotism.”

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stuart Stevens is calling out News Corp founder and chief Rupert Murdoch as a "domestic threat" in response to a stunning preview clip from Fox News' top personality, Tucker Carlson, that falsely paints Donald Trump's January 6 insurrection as a false flag operation by Democrats.

"If Rupert Murdoch were applying for American citizenship today, there would be ample evidence to classify him as a domestic threat and deny citizenship," Stevens says of Murdoch, an Australian-born naturalized U.S. citizen. "He's a dangerous man who should be treated as the anti-democratic propagandist he is."

Stevens is known as one of the top Republican strategists who became a never-Trumper and co-founded The Lincoln Project. Murdoch owns News Corp, the parent company of Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, and numerous other outlets across the globe. He became a U.S. citizen in 1985 to meet the requirements to purchase and own TV stations.

The clip of Tucker Carlson's three-part series on the January 6 insurrection (below) is being called "fucking insane" by fellow never-Trumper Tim Miller, a former GOP strategist.

"I'd like to focus in on the fact that Fox is hosting one of the main architects of the Stop The Steal insurrection Ali Akbar Alexander for this 1/6 special," Miller adds. "Going full Newsmax."

In a scathing strike against Carlson, former Obama HUD deputy assistant secretary Brandon Friedman compared the Fox News personality to a radio station**known for helping to incite the Rwandan genocide**in which more than one million people died and up to half a million women were raped.

Here's the clip, which is loaded with falsehoods and anti-American, anti-democracy propaganda:

scathing ad slamming Greg Abbott was pulled from football broadcast at the last minute: report

Alex Henderson

On Saturday, September 18, a scathing Lincoln Project ad attacking Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was scheduled to air during ESPN's broadcast of a football game between the University...

https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/lincoln-project/

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https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2021/01/never-trump-dark-money-group-to-spend-millions-backing-pro-impeachment-republicans/

A new anti-Trump group helmed by Republicans announced Tuesday that it would raise $50 million to encourage lawmakers to break with President Donald Trump. Behind the project is Defending Democracy Together, one of the top-spending “dark money” groups in the 2020 election cycle.

The new effort — the Republican Accountability Project — promises to use its cash to “ensure that ample resources are available for those principled Republicans who do the right thing and hold Trump accountable for inciting an attack on the U.S. Capitol.”

The campaign joins another never-Trump Republican group, super PAC The Lincoln Project, in its efforts to sway Republican who might otherwise hesitate to break from the president in order to avoid alienating Trump voters in their home states and districts. The Republican Accountability Project’s website offers scant detail about how lawmakers will be selected to benefit from the campaign, but promises to back “credible primary challengers” against “Republican members of Congress who have enabled or capitulated to Trump and Trumpism.”

The group promises Republicans who vote to impeach that it will provide them with political protection against primary challenges from Trump loyalists. The president’s campaign has raised $200 million since the election, which he could use against incumbent members of Congress who speak out against him.

Ten House Republicans voted to impeach Trump Wednesday, making the vote the most bipartisan impeachment in U.S. history. The resolution will now move to the Senate, where Democrats need to win over at least 17 Republicans in order to convict Trump. The impeachment trial is expected to begin next week following the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.

The Lincoln Project released an ad Wednesday urging members of Congress to vote to both impeach and convict Trump of inciting insurrection. The organization also aired an in California urging staff employed by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to “quit en masse” following Trump supporters’ Jan 6. attack on the Capitol.

The Lincoln Project receives millions of dollars from so-called dark money groups, 501(c)(4) nonprofits that are not required to disclose their funders. Defending Democracy Together is itself a 501(c)(4) organization that props up its affiliated super PACs with millions of dollars from undisclosed sources.

Both organizations are helmed by Republicans who broke from Trump at some point during his four-year term. Bill Kristol is the director of Defending Democracy Together and chairman of the board for the Republican Accountability Project. Kristol worked as an executive branch staffer during the administrations of both former Republican Presidents George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan.

Olivia Troye and Elizabeth Neumann, who both briefly worked in the Trump White House before breaking with the president in 2020, are co-directors of the project. Sarah Longwell, a Republican consultant and long-time Trump critic, is executive director of Defending Democracy Together and its newly-announced project.

Troye was a top aide to Vice President Mike Pence and advised the administration on its response to the COVID-19 pandemic before leaving in July, accusing Trump of grievously mishandling the federal government’s response to the crisis. She appeared in several TV ads produced by Defending Democracy Together that aired before the election.

Despite the partisan affiliation of their leaders, the Lincoln Project and Defending Democracy Together are both funded largely by Democratic donors with deep pockets. In the run up to the 2020 election, The Lincoln Project took $1 million from Gordon Getty and hundreds of thousands of dollars from other billionaire Democrats including John Pritzker of Geolo Capital, Jonathan Lavine of Bain Capital and Dreamworks Founder David Geffen.

In 2020, Republican Voters Against Trump, a super PAC organized and funded by Defending Democracy Together, received $500,000 each from Pritzker and Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City who spent $152 million supporting Democratic candidates in the 2020 election cycle.

Polls show that voters blame Trump for the Jan. 6 violence that left five dead. Some Republicans in Congress are taking the hint and denouncing Trump for his role in inciting the mob, but others have resisted linking the president to the violence.

https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/lincoln-project

Rick Wilson, one of the Never Trump Republicans behind the popular Lincoln Project political action committee (PAC), weighed in with his opinion of President Donald Trump's former advisor Steve Bannon and why he "must be destroyed."

During an interview with AdAge, Wilson discussed his ad development process for the political organization, and, at one point, he also offered his take on Bannon beginning with their long history.

"Bannon and I have a lot of history," Wilson admitted.

Wilson received details about a Slack conversation where Bannon plotted to take him down. Based on the context of the conversation, Bannon was out to get him over his decision to distance from Trump.

"In 2015, when I came out against Trump, a person inside Breitbart News sent me an internal Slack from Bannon."

He added, "And Bannon said, 'I want you to go after Wilson. I want you to go after his kids, his family, his wife, his business, everything. I want to destroy him.'

Bannon was reportedly warned that Wilson would not go down easily and would likely retaliate but he welcomed the challenge. Now, Wilson has made it a point to continue going after Bannon.

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Lincoln Project ad targets ‘parasite’ Lindsay Graham with extremely disturbing images

Travis Gettys / Raw Story September 9, 2020

The Lincoln Project took aim at Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) in a new ad comparing him to a parasite. The ad uses graphic imagery of infestation and decay to castigate…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlm3uMcrcPI

The Darkness – Trump's America in 75 seconds from RNC night #1

A dark and disturbing assessment of America. From The Lincoln Project

https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/trumps-confederacy-loving-fans-accused-of-treason-in-brutal-new-lincoln-project-ad/

another no-holds-barred ad from theLincoln Project — headed up by Republicans Rick Wilson, George Conway and Steve Schmidt — Donald Trump is linked to the Confederacy and, by extension, treason against the United States.

The ad notes the prevalence of the Confederate flag at Trump rallies — some even bearing his name — and notes, “The men who followed this flag 150 years ago knew what it meant: Treason against their country. Death of the United States,” in the voiceover.

With clips showing the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, the ad goes on to ask, “What does it say that they’re all in for Trump?”

The ad concludes with what might likely become a campaign slogan against the president asking voters, “This is a time for choosing: America or Trump?"

according to CNN, the Lincoln Project isinvesting $500,000 to air that ad in the battleground states of Florida, Wisconsin and Michigan.

Watch below:

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/05/lincoln-project-capitalizes-on-trump-rage

esident Donald Trump is directing his rage at a new super PAC ad that accuses him of ignoring the coronavirus that has now killed more than 70,000 Americans.

The Lincoln Project, a super PAC launched by prominent anti-Trump Republicans, aired an ad this week on Fox News that trashes Trump over his response to COVID-19. Trump responded with a tweetstorm ripping the group and its members, with much of his ire directed at George Conway, husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway.

That response seems to be exactly what The Lincoln Project was looking for, as it reportedly raised $1 million shortly after Trump slammed the group on Tuesday. The Republican super PAC has amassed a substantial war chest, but it has come under scrutiny for funneling money to its advisory board members and spending relatively little airing political ads to influence voters. The group also hides some of its vendors by stealthily paying subcontractors, making it difficult to follow the money

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The Lincoln Project reported spending nearly $1.4 million through March. Almost all of that money went to the group’s board members and firms run by them. The super PAC spent nearly $1 million with Summit Strategic Communications, a firm run by Lincoln Project treasurer Reed Galen. Another $215,000 went to Tusk Digital, a company run by Lincoln Project adviser Ron Steslow. Both companies received little business from other federal committees since Trump’s inauguration.

That seven-figure spending, noted earlier by campaign finance expert Rob Pyers on Twitter, comes as the group spends relatively little on direct political activity. The super PAC shelled out $364,000 to Galen and Steslow’s companies to run opposing Trump and his Republican allies in Congress. But just 52 percent of that money went to buying and placing ads, with the rest spent on producing the ads themselves.

That’s an unusually high rate for production costs compared to most super PACs. At least 2 percent of independent expenditures from pro-Trump super PAC America First Action this cycle were labeled as production costs, with the rest going to ad buying. And that group has come under fire from Republican operatives for spending donors’ money generously.

The Lincoln Project spent more than $19,000 opposing Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.). But just one-quarter of that money went to placing the ad online with the rest spent on production costs. In response to the group’s attacks on Senate Republicans, the National Republican Senatorial Committee called The Lincoln Project a “scam PAC” and accused its members of “lining their own pockets.” The Lincoln Project did not respond to a request for comment.

Still, Federal Election Commission filings don’t tell the whole story about The Lincoln Project’s spending. The group buys its television ads through a little-known Maryland firm called Ashton Media, according to OpenSecrets political ads database, but doesn’t disclose paying that firm in FEC filings.

Another firm, Howe Creative, appears to produce some of The Lincoln Project’s ads, but also isn’t listed as being paid by the super PAC. This suggests that Galen and Steslow’s companies are likely paying these firms as subcontractors. This process is also used by the Trump campaign to hide the specifics of its spending.

Ashton Media was incorporated in March 2019 by Republican ad buyer Steve Hazleton, according to Maryland state records. Hazleton’s firm, SRH Media, was paid by two Republican committees this cycle, including former White House physician Ronny Jackson’s unsuccessful House campaign in Texas. Howe Creative most recently purchased ads for a super PAC supporting Democrat Dan McCready in last year’s expensive special election in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District.

Raking in small donor dollars

The Lincoln Project has spent over $276,000 running ads on Facebook. However many of these ads are geared toward attracting donors, often linking to the group’s donate page.

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