Tate Ryan-Mosley:So data trust is the Republican’s kind of main data aggregation technology. And so what it enables them to do is collect data on all prospective voters, host that data, analyze the data, and actually share it with, politically aligned PACs, 501(c)(3)’s and 501(c)(...
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The federal earmark is a topic often lamented by the general public as corrupt and wasteful. Until recently, this "pork" was a mainstay of politics in Washington. Because distributive spending is often used to advance partisan goals such as reelection...
elections. This allowed the GOP to easily defeat or ignore them (with some rare exceptions). Second, the PACs drained money especially fromlocalTea Party groups, some of which were actively trying to grow the movement electorally from the ground up, at the school board and city council level...
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