Author: Gabe Kaminsky

A progressive watchdog group shaping Senate Democratic-led proposals targeting the private equity industry fills its war chest with millions of dollars from donors who get rich off lucrative investment funds, documents show. Private Equity Stakeholder Project, a group based in Chicago, has established itself as one of the top outside allies of Sen. Elizabeth Warren…

EXCLUSIVE — A senior House Foreign Affairs Committee member is calling for a State Department office to be shuttered due to its “domestic censorship activities,” according to a letter. In the letter, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) raised concerns to Secretary of State Antony Blinken over “the outright censorship of Americans by the State Department under…

EXCLUSIVE — President Joe Biden’s White House National Security Council recently hosted the leader of a group with a track record of collaborating in Gaza with Hamas officials, the Washington Examiner confirmed. The NSC held a meeting in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 11 with Syrian-American community leaders, including Shadi Zaza, CEO of the Michigan-based organization…

The philanthropy of Democratic megadonor George Soros cut a large check last year to the charity arm in the United States of a group blacklisting conservative media from advertising dollars, according to newly released grant records. The records show the Soros-backed Foundation to Promote Open Society, a major grantmaking organization, sent $250,000 in 2023 to…

EXCLUSIVE — House Republicans are investigating the American Medical Association over its ties to a left-wing activist group behind sprawling voter registration efforts ahead of the 2024 elections, the Washington Examiner has learned. Reps. Clay Higgins (R-LA), Chip Roy (R-TX), and Andy Biggs (R-AZ) sent a letter on Friday to AMA President Bruce Scott urging…

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is under the microscope of the Federal Election Commission after his reelection campaign received donations from an Ohio woman who died months earlier, according to a report. Brown’s campaign took two contributions totaling $350 in May from Carol Ann Baker of Toledo, Ohio, who died in December 2023, financial disclosures show.…

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) has long described the moment in 2004 that inspired him to run for public office. In Walz’s telling, the “folksy” high school teacher and two of his students attended a campaign rally for President George W. Bush as an educational experience. However, Walz says, all three of them were denied entry…

In her own telling, Rebecca Cooke is running for Congress in Wisconsin as an outsider who doesn’t “come from a career background in politics.” In a recent campaign video, she emphasized how the public “doesn’t see a lot of people” like her in Washington, D.C., a city the Democrat warned is full of “career politicians…

A Cabinet secretary in the Biden-Harris administration appeared in a photo at the Democratic National Convention with a man once referred to as a “top soldier” of Louis Farrakhan, the notorious antisemite who leads the Nation of Islam. A since-deleted Facebook post last week shows Environmental Protection Agency head Michael Regan posed for a photo…

A Democratic congressional candidate running in a competitive swing state race was once excoriated in court as an environmental lawyer for overbilling the federal government for “imaginary” legal services, court records show. Court records obtained by the Washington Examiner show Kirsten Engel, as a then-staff attorney for the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, now known as Earthjustice, faced condemnation…