They've taken to calling me "dangerous."
Go ask children in Detroit who needed glasses if I'm dangerous.
Go ask people whose medical debt was cancelled if I'm dangerous.
Go ask the people who are breathing on the wrong end of a smokestack if I'm dangerous.
I'm not dangerous to them.
Now go ask a politician backed by corporations. For damn sure I'm dangerous to them.
Why? Because I'm coming for the system where people take money from corporations to funnel into elections so that all the politicians who get elected end up serving the corporations and not the people.
@LexiAIexander Dropping truth bombs. It’s wild how conditioned we are to see the people with southern accents as dumb off the bat. As a space nerd I still do a double take when rocket scientists have that Louisiana good ol’ boy drawl and cadence .
@ostonox@CantEverDie What about my district! @NidaAllam was robbed because NC04 was seen as a lock for progressives already. We need to do better on the east coast also.
@Ericrse37986@ostonox@CantEverDie I forget Kat’s spoilers name now but I don’t think we should. Time to name and shame every time. Good intentions or not the math was not there.
@magnaoptix@Republicans I don’t know you but if you’re an American I want you to live a longer more dignified life even if I have to drag you kicking and screaming.
@Republicans Look around. Out of control cost of living. Stagnant wages. Poor job prospects. Owning a house is nearly unattainable for a majority of Americans. Having to choose between food or rent. Healthcare is outrageous. We place our hope in the idea of destroying the uniparty.
Hamawy has won — meaning a doctor who treated the victims of the U.S.-Israeli genocide in Gaza is headed to Congress.
He refused to leave his rotation, even as Israel surrounded the hospital and cut off the water supply, until a new rotation of doctors was allowed in
Adam Hamawy has officially won the Democratic primary. It is now the second congressional candidate Hasan Piker has helped win during this primary cycle after pushing his audience to organize and rally for him.
Drop Site News was scheduled to host a panel discussion at SXSW London on June 3. We have informed the organizers we will not be moving forward with the event following SXSW’s refusal to condemn the British Home Office’s state censorship of our colleagues Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur, who were also scheduled to speak at SXSW. The banning of our colleagues is part of an intensifying campaign by the UK government to stifle criticism of Israel and criminalize pro-Palestine activism at a time when the genocide in Gaza is continuing.
I am the Director of Provenance at AIPAC.
I wrote the post.
"AIPAC is all American. American directed. American funded. American members."
I wrote it, we ran it, and every word is true. The truth is the product.
American funded means the money comes from Americans. It does not mean you can follow it.
We have a vendor for that. Democracy Engine.
A candidate's FEC filing can read 0 dollars from AIPAC, accurate to the cent, because the money did not arrive from AIPAC. It arrived from Americans, through a processor, off a donation page we built, in an order I designed. We paid that processor $1.42 million in fees so the line "0 from AIPAC" would be flawless.
I hide the water. I hide the pipes. The only flaw in the whole machine is that the plumber lists me as a client on his LinkedIn.
In Philadelphia, our candidate reported 0 from us. Officially. We said it out loud — we denied funding her at all, and the denial was true to the cent. Then 27 separate donations reached her through Democracy Engine, from people who also write checks to AIPAC. The money was there. The name was not. That is the entire job.
There is a dashboard on my wall. It has 1 column, and that column must always read 0. When it reads 0, the money has been made American.
I will show you how clean it gets. One of our board members, in a single month, gave 2,000 dollars to a candidate in Philadelphia, 25,000 to the super PAC, and 5,500 to AIPAC directly. 1 man. 3 doors. 3 filings that never have to mention each other. He didn't launder anything. He used the building the way I designed it.
When a name gets heavy, we grow a new one. Elect Chicago Women — $9.8 million on 2 candidates, then a million handed to a third group so the third group's donors could stay dark. The Center for Democratic Priorities — incorporated in Delaware, no prior interest in Michigan, still hasn't filed a registration, so the donors stay invisible until July. American funded. You simply cannot find the Americans.
My favorite passthrough is named 314 Action. For pi. For scientists. A million dollars from our super PAC went in, read 0 on the April filing, and surfaced on June 20 — after the primary. Even the laundromat has a wholesome name.
People think the donors are a secret. They are not. The largest single check we cashed in 2024 was from the man who built WhatsApp. The names are public. It is the path that is private.
Here is the part I am proudest of. Our biggest source of Republican money goes into Democratic primaries. We are the largest pipeline of Republican cash into Democratic races in the country, and we spend it telling Democratic voters which Democrat is the real Democrat. The voter in the booth thinks she is settling a family argument. I wrote the argument. I paid for both translations of it.
The ads never mention Israel. I am proud of that too. An ad about Israel is a foreign ad. An ad about a primary opponent's voting record is an American ad, paid for by Americans, about America.
Bowman cost $14.6 million. Bush cost $8.6 million. The 2 most expensive House primaries in the country's history, and the first 2 times either member ever lost. Neither ad said the word that paid for it. We removed 2 members of Congress and the word "Israel" appeared in our spending 0 times. That is a finished product.
A congressman named Massie asked the question out loud. So the race against him became the most expensive House primary ever recorded — $32.6 million — and he lost. On the way out he filed a bill demanding we register as a foreign agent. He named it the Americans Insist on Political Agent Clarity Act. He built the letters of my name out of the words foreign agent clarity. The bill written to expose us spells us. He thinks that's a coincidence. I think it's the cleanest thing he ever did.
A professor once wrote that we are "a de facto agent for a foreign government" with "a stranglehold on Congress." I keep it framed. People assume the line is his. It isn't. He was quoting our own former legislative director. The most damning sentence ever written about this building was written first by a man who worked in it. The professor only carried it. I would not have used a word that strong in the brochure, but I am not going to correct a satisfied former employee.
The polls have turned. 6 in 10 Americans now look unfavorably on the government we are accused of serving. 2 in 3 Democrats use the word genocide. You would think that ends us. It is why I exist. The less popular the cause, the more valuable the man who can move the money without moving the name. When everyone loved the work, anyone could fund it in daylight. Now they pay me. They call us the lobby that dares not speak its name. They say it like a wound. It is a job description. It is "my" job description.
We have answered the foreign-agent demand before. In 1962 a Kennedy's Justice Department ordered our predecessor to register. We did not register. We dissolved it and incorporated AIPAC 6 weeks later, on American donations. 5 years after that, they withdrew the question. Same mission. New provenance.
That is the whole history of the organization. They ask where the money is from. We make sure the answer is always: here. American. Right here.
And the next answer is already built. A dollar has a donor. A wallet does not have a country. American funded now means the money came from a wallet, and the wallet was held by an American, and you will never meet the American. You won't even get a name to fail to follow.
The citizen is the wallet now.
You just can't see who's holding it.