Face The Nation is a long-running CBS Sunday news program focusing on politics and public policy. The show features a roundtable of politicians, government leaders, and media figures, and it is currently hosted by moderator Margaret Brennan.

The Heartland Institute is funded by fossil fuel companies and organizations tied to the oil billionaire Koch brothers, and promotes denial of climate change in government and media outlets.

Stuart Varney joined Fox News in 2004 and currently hosts the three-hour morning Fox Business program Varney & Co. Over the years Varney has repeatedly denigrated low-income Americans and disparaged government programs to aid them.

Ed O’Keefe joined CBS News as a political correspondent in 2018. Prior to that, he was a Washington Post reporter.

The United States attacked and invaded Afghanistan in October 2001 following the devastating September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks because the Taliban-run Afghan government harbored the Al Qaeda terrorist organization which carried out the attacks. It is still ongoing and is now the longest war in American history.

Grover Norquist is a conservative activist who crusades against tax increases on the wealthy and advocates for reducing taxation across the board to decrease government revenue. He founded the nonprofit organization Americans for Tax Reform in 1985 and has also served on the board of other conservative organizations, including the National Rifle Association and American Conservative Union.

As attorney general of Oklahoma, Pruitt joined a coalition of state attorneys general in a court challenge against the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. He became President Donald Trump's first EPA chief in 2017 but was forced to resign in 2018 after numerous scandals, including misuse of government funds, surfaced.

Ken Blackwell is a longtime conservative activist who is currently a senior fellow at the anti-LGBTQ Family Research Council and on the board of directors of the NRA. He had previously held several offices in Ohio government, including secretary of state and mayor of Cincinnati, and unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2006. In 2017, he was appointed to President Trump’s discredited voter fraud commission.

Tea party organizations began in 2009 after the election of President Barack Obama, ostensibly to oppose tax increases and government deficits. The movement was quickly adopted by the Republican Party, with many GOP candidates running during the 2010 midterm elections with tea party endorsements. Several tea party organizations turned out to be astroturfed or fundraising scams. Fox News was a major promoter of tea party events, even endorsing some of them as “FNC Tax Day Tea Parties.”

Charles Payne joined Fox Business in 2007 and currently hosts Making Money with Charles Payne. Payne frequently disparages low-income Americans and pushes falsehoods about government programs to alleviate poverty in his commentary.

Numerous news stories, government investigations, indictments, and convictions have stemmed from allegations that members of President Donald Trump's campaign, transition team, and administration assisted Russia in its interference in the 2016 presidential election in support of Trump.

Art Laffer was an economic adviser to President Reagan and is famous for his economic theory between tax rates and levels of revenue collected by the government, called the Laffer Curve. He is an advocate of cutting taxes for rich Americans and makes frequent appearances on Fox News and Fox Business.

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is one of the largest and most influential anti-LGBTQ groups pushing for discriminatory laws and policies around the world that target LGBTQ people, with dozens of allies and former staffers serving in influential government positions. It is leading the fight against transgender student equality in schools, defends the discredited and dangerous practice of conversion therapy, and works to legalize discrimination against LGBTQ people in all aspects of life.

A former Fox News contributor, Mercedes Schlapp now serves as the director of strategic communications in the Trump White House. Prior to joining the administration, Schlapp was a board member of the National Rifle Association and director of specialty media for President George W. Bush. She is married to Matt Schlapp, chair of the American Conservative Union.

Project 2025 is an extreme right-wing initiative organized by The Heritage Foundation to provide policy and personnel to the next Republican presidential administration. The effort involves more than 100 partner organizations, and its nearly 900-page policy book — Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise — represents a major threat to democracy.

Ed Rogers is the chairman of the lobbying firm BGR Group and has long written his Washington Post column without disclosure of his multiple conflicts of interests on the topics he writes about. Following the Saudi Arabian government's murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, the Post forced him to dump Saudi Arabia as his lobbying client as a condition for retaining his position at the newspaper.

An anonymous user who signs their posts as Q and claims to be a high-level member of the federal government makes cryptic posts on the far-right internet forum 8chan/8kun. Dedicated believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory mine those posts for clues about an alleged master plan by President Donald Trump to take down his “deep state" opponents and pedophilia rings supposedly linked to celebrities and politicians. It has been linked to multiple instances of violence and was flagged as domestic terrorism threat by the FBI.