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“Follow the Dark Money: Expose of Leonard Leo’s Funding of Project 2025″

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Leo began building a machine to do just that. He didn’t just cultivate friendships with conservative Supreme Court justices, arranging private jet trips, joining them on vacation, brokering speaking engagements. He also drew on his network of contacts to place Federalist Society protégés in clerkships, judgeships and jobs in the White House and across the federal government. He personally called state attorneys general to recommend hires for positions he presciently understood were key, like solicitors general, the unsung litigators who represent states before the U.S. Supreme Court. In states that elect jurists, groups close to him spent millions of dollars to place his allies on the bench. In states that appoint top judges, he maneuvered to play a role in their selection.
We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority
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Welcome to the Show
Welcome to the Show by Bryon Slack
Come one, come all! Feast your eyes on a macabre parade— Monsters so twisted, so wickedly made, their very souls recoil from the sun. Creatures of night, brought to light!
Peter Thiel— the Ringwraith who read Tolkien and crowned himself a Valar. He spun a fortune from spider silk and a PayPal grin, then declared: “Democracy and freedom are not compatible.” He fears the mob, hates the vote, and dreams of thrones for kings alone. Creatures of night, brought to light!
Ladies and gentlemen, good evening! You've seen and seeing is believing, The pounding in your ears is just your pulse still seething— follow me to who's next for meeting.
Leonard Leo— A would-be priest wrapped in robes that smell of secrets and soft earth near shuttered schools and shallow graves. Builder of altars in marble courtrooms, he lit the incense of influence with dark money flames.
Speaks like he's got a direct line to God, but just left on read like any other fraud. Each robe he’s stitched into power trails whispers of the confessional— but he’s not sure who heard them.
He crowns judges and calls it ministry, but even he wonders if heaven would recognize his name.
Two Leos now— one of light rebuking his shadow twin's slithering form. Creatures of night, brought to light!
Right this way, please—step in closer! Feast your eyes on an American poser. He whispers of war with no foe in sight, His soul the only thing he’s sold outright.
Erik Prince— An example of what happens to bad little boys when never told no to money or tiny soldier toys. Built Blackwater to make macho noise and have bodyguards he can still call his boys.
Dreams of empires on foreign sand, sells justice in bullets, not laws or land. He’s a crusader for hire, a patriot-for-pay, who prays with his trigger and profits from grey. His God wears camo and signs NDA’s— and the dead are just margins he shuffles away. Creatures of night, brought to light!
Ladies follow me, right this way, to lay your eyes on the last freak today. Guard your husbands, steel your kids, to see the rot where this goblin lives.
Stephen Miller— Behold the pale worm in tailored skin, a fascist in loafers, proud of his sin. Fed on resentment and fear, he writes cruelty onto everything near.
Lizard of mind and reptile of soul, he writes out edicts with blood that runs cold. A child of immigrants, not that he'd admit— He'd deport his own blood and sleep without fit.
In the mirror, he sees a prophet, a sage— but it’s just a boy still howling with rage. Told to clean up his mess and sweep up the floor, can't stop screaming that's what the plebs are for.
A whisper in Trump’s ear, slick with bile and spite, Playing at Gríma, a tongue made of worms, Making Thiel jealous ‘cause that’s his true form. Creatures of night, brought to light!
Step back, dear crowd, the curtain now falls— But the echo lingers in these gilded halls. These beasts don’t vanish when the lights go down low, they feast in boardrooms, not just in the shadow.
The freak show thrives on your silent cheers, on shrugs and scrolls and cushioned fears. You paid the price, you chose your seat— and now their parade marches down your own street.
So ask yourself, while you clutch the night: Will you join the dark… or bring the light?
👉 Bryon Slack on Substack
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Mark Peterson photographs Leonard Leo for The New Yorker!
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Never could he have imagined his legacy would be taken in such ... different directions simultaneously. #Hamilton @hamiltonmusical @fedsoc #Federalism #LeonardLeo #NeilGorsuch #LinManuel #Broadway #SupremeCourt #FoundingFather (at United States)
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Flush with money after receiving the largest-known political advocacy donation in U.S. history, conservative activist Leonard Leo and his associates are spending millions of dollars to influence some of the Supreme Court’s most consequential recent cases, newly released tax documents obtained by ProPublica and The Lever show.
The documents detail how Leo, who helped build the Supreme Court’s conservative majority as an adviser to President Donald Trump, has used a sprawling network of opaque nonprofits to fund groups advocating for ending affirmative action, rolling back anti-discrimination protections and allowing state legislatures unreviewable oversight of federal elections.
The records also show that the Leo-aligned nonprofits paid millions of dollars to for-profit entities connected to Leo.
Leo and one of his top associates did not respond to requests for comment.
The money flowed mostly through so-called dark money groups, which don’t have to disclose their donors. They are required to reveal the recipients of their spending in their annual tax returns, which are released to the public, but often those are also dark money groups or other entities that have minimal disclosure rules.
As ProPublica and The Lever detailed in August, Leo was gifted a $1.6 billion fortune last year by a reclusive manufacturing magnate, Barre Seid. The newly revealed tax documents cover last year, just as Leo was in the process of receiving that enormous donation.
The Supreme Court case involving a Colorado-based website designer who refuses to work for same-sex couples provides a window into Leo’s strategy.
At least six groups funded by Leo’s network have filed briefs supporting the suit, which seeks to overturn Colorado’s anti-discrimination law. The Ethics and Public Policy Center, which records show received $1.9 million from Leo’s network, submitted a brief supporting the web designer. So did Concerned Women for America, which has received at least $565,000 over the past two years from the Leo network, as well as an organization called the Becket Fund, which got $550,000 from a Leo group.
Leo’s network has also been the top funder of the Republican Attorneys General Association, or RAGA, which spends money to elect GOP attorneys general and serves as a policy hub for the state officials. Twenty Republican attorneys general have also filed a brief in support of the case. One Leo group donated $6.5 million to RAGA during the 2022 election cycle, according to the association’s federal filings.
The largest donation by Leo’s network was $71 million given to DonorsTrust, a so-called donor-advised fund that pools money from numerous funders and gives it out to largely conservative and libertarian groups. Past reports have described DonorsTrust as a “dark-money ATM” of the conservative movement.
Another case that Leo groups have sought to influence is Moore v. Harper, which could have sweeping implications for American democracy. The question posed in the case is whether the Constitution affords state legislatures the power to create rules for federal elections without state court oversight or intervention.
The Honest Elections Project, an initiative within another key Leo organization, the 85 Fund, has backed the plaintiff’s case with an amicus brief. The tax documents show that the 85 Fund also donated $400,000 in 2020 to the Public Interest Legal Foundation, an Indianapolis-based conservative legal group that filed a supportive brief in the case.
Thirteen Republican attorneys general filed a brief backing the suit as well.
The Supreme Court is also hearing two cases this term brought by the conservative group Students for Fair Admissions that are challenging universities’ affirmative action policies. The group received $250,000 from the 85 Fund in 2020, the tax records show, more than a third of the total it raised that year.
Speech First, which the records show received $700,000 in 2020-21 from the 85 Fund, filed briefs backing Students for Fair Admissions in both cases. Republican attorneys general, backed by Leo’s network, submitted briefs, too.
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Republican/MAGA seditionists many of whom have not been held accountable for the crimes they committed against the United States and its citizens.

After Trump lost the 2020 election claiming massive voter fraud, the seditious Republican party actively promoted and endorsed Trump's claims. While privately admitting they were aware it was all absolutely, positively nothing but bullshit, they joined Trump and his wealthy American oligarchs in setting this country on the path to destruction and dictatorship.
#FakePatriots#RepublicanSeditionists#MAGA/Republicans#Election2020#AmericanOligarchs#KochBros#TraitorTrump#HeritageFoundation#FederalistSociety#LeonardLeo#Project2025#FoxFakeNews#RupertMurdoch#VOTEBLUE#Election2024
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Far-right fossil fuel company allies pressure US supreme court to shield firms in unprecedented campaign | Oil and gas companies | The Guardian
Leonard Leo, Charles Koch and other right-wing extremist billionaires, organizations and corporate interests are attempting to halt litigation by various states against the destructive, corrupt fossil fuel companies.
It's outrageous these so-called 'conservative' elites and entities are standing in the way of holding fossil fuel industry accountable for their unsafe, destructive products by pressuring the Supreme Court to rule against the states filing litigation.
These hypocrites shout "States Rights" only when in its in their favor.
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TraitorTrump's explainers are saying he didn't say what he said.
Trump and the complicit, corrupt Republican party are the most serious domestic threat to the United States and its citizens since 1776.
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The big-money rightwing donor Leonard Leo said he would not comply with a subpoena issued by the US Senate judiciary committee, as it investigates undisclosed gifts to conservative supreme court justices that have stoked an ethics crisis at a court already held in historically low public esteem.
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Leonard Leo’s network is the largest funder of RAGA. There are corporations that have funded RAGA, Koch Industries, tobacco companies, energy companies. And some of my research about Leonard Leo showed that there’s this group called the Judicial Education Project—and it is now known as the 85 Fund because these names are all disposable names for them. But back then it was called the Judicial Education Project, and we’d been looking into it in part because it’s the group that Leonard Leo used to pay Ginni Thomas secretly through Kellyanne Conway’s firm from a secret donor. That was after Harlan Crow staked Ginni Thomas with $500,000 to fund her group, Liberty Central, while the Citizens United decision was pending.
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The conservative legal movement in the United States is more powerful than ever. One largely unknown man has played a significant role in pushing the American judiciary to the right: Leonard Leo.
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