@Rothmus The Patriot and Tea Party orgs claimed tax exemption under Social org code sections rather than Political. This ploy was to avoid disclosing donors which political NGOs have to do. Liberal orgs did the same but were harder to ID because they didn’t use standardized names.
@DataRepublican@data_republican@rwg686@astrarce@SecScottBessent This dates back to when the TEGE branch of IRS correctly stopped the approval of non profit status for Tea Party applications since they applied as Social rather than Political orgs in order to hide donor lists. The IRS budget was gutted as retribution.