Seditionists gonna sedition.
The Washington Post scrapes up a little more information on what the pro-Trump, sedition-backing conspiracy funnel Ginni Thomas has been up in the past few years. It looks like one of her side projects, when she wasn't Actively Conspiring To Overthrow The United States Government, was a new group called "Crowdsourcers for Culture and Liberty."
As the name already suggests, if you're familiar with far-right conspiracy groups, it is (or was?) a new group devoted to waging "a cultural battle against the left," as the Post puts it. The "Crowdsourcers" part appears to be either a nod to the project's astroturfy roots or a hint that the group would focus on the sort of "crowdsourced" hate attacks on random not-conservative Americans that individual online accounts like "Libs of TikTok" have made new careers out of.
We might never know the details. The Post's scoop is that this new Thomas-led group had nearly $600,000 funneled to it between 2019-2022 from anonymous conservative donors. It was funneled through conservative think tank Capital Research Center, which agreed to temporarily host the new similarly aligned group during its startup phase. That's not an uncommon relationship among these sort of think tanks and ideological groups, notes the Post, but what that really means is that no matter how many of these ratty little things pop up, it's almost always the same conservative donors, lobbyists, and activists behind all of them.
Sharing office space makes sense when almost every new astroturf group is headed up by the same groups of professional astroturfers. Why commute through horrible Washington, D.C.-area traffic when you can just walk down the hall?
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