Two progressive groups operating in complete secrecy spearheaded a $32 million campaign during the midterms to push back against Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” movement.
12/12/2022 04:31 AM ESTA pair of progressive organizations operating in complete secrecy spearheaded a $32 million campaign during the midterms to push back against former President Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” movement.
“It was very clear that there was a mobilized constituency that cared about democracy, but it was on the wrong side,” David Donnelly, the veteran progressive operative behind the groups, said of conservative election activists after 2020. “And there wasn’t as big of a response to what we needed to have to defeat it.”
As one point of comparison: The Conservative Partnership Institute, which has served as a hub of Trump allies — including attorney Cleta Mitchell, who was on the call where Trump tried to pressure Georgia officials to overturn the 2020 election — brought in $45 million in 2021, according to tax documents shared with theThe group intentionally operated behind the scenes throughout the midterm election cycle, not conducting media outreach or even launching a public-facing website.
Donnelly said that he kept the network under wraps throughout the cycle because, as a general principle, he doesn’t “believe in promoting work before we do it,” and publicizing the effort wouldn’t have been helpful to partner organizations. Now, with the 2022 election over, “the groups that worked in states deserve the credit … because I think they played an essential role in not just having democracy at the ballot but at the doors.
Doran Schrantz, the executive director of Faith in Minnesota, helped lead a larger coalition of groups in her state called We Choose Us, which was focused on “expanding and protecting multi-racial democracy” in the state. That effort was already underway when the Pro-Democracy groups reached out, eventually sending $1 million to it, Schrantz said.
It was the right way, Schrantz said, to counter “the very robust grassroots organizing on the ground that we could see was about ‘Stop the Steal.’”
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