GOP donors care immensely about advocacy media & spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year on it, in contrast to Dems who spend almost none. Many rw media sites have huge audiences & budgets, even though most ppl don't know them.

I'll update this reference thread periodically

In no particular order, let's start w/the "David Horowitz Freedom Center." It's a rabidly anti-Muslim and often racist org w/annual revenues of nearly $8 mil. Its content is devoted to terrifying elderly Christians & Jews w/elaborate delusions.

Recently, it's been hyping total falsehoods about Christianity becoming illegal and telling Republicans that they're viewed as subhuman by others. https://t.co/8Dk2VQWb73

Bizarrely, the David Horowitz Freedom Center is literally named after the grifter who created it. It's that much of a cult.

Naturally, he's made numerous slurs against Palestinians, Muslims, and has even made defenses of lynchings https://t.co/DNk9G2Ds86

The group hosts numerous events for billionaires, far-right entertainers, and GOP politicians. It's dedicated to providing talking points to elites, in addition to poisoning the minds of the hoi polloi. https://t.co/xt4m6rpInb https://t.co/PpqDpDDAXX

Thanks for reading. I'll be back soon with more.

In the meantime, I can't stress enough that too many ppl on the center-left have a naive/damaging attitude that because they can spot lies & propaganda, that others can, too.

Totally false. But fact-checking isn't enough.

I just published an in-depth podcast episode and Twitter thread on Charlie Kirk and the Christofascist cult of TPUSA. Here's a link on the reference thread. This is yet another right-wing media entity that left-wing elites don't take seriously. https://t.co/Uh3DdvJzDB