Sandy Rios Sandy Rios hosts a radio show and works as the director of governmental affairs for the anti-LGBTQ American Family Association She is also a former Fox News contributor and has a history of extreme rhetoric against LGBTQ Americans and feminism.
American Legislative Exchange Council The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a corporate-funded organization that encourages legislators to introduce and pass right-wing model legislation that advances the interests of its various industry and right-wing foundation members. Examples of these efforts include the NRA's “stand your ground” law and measures that weaken labor unions and decrease funding for public education.
Andrew McCarthy Andrew McCarthy writes for National Review and appears on Fox News as a paid contributor where he has repeatedly downplayed the Mueller probe into Russian election interference during President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and the convictions resulting from it. He also has a history of pushing anti-Muslim rhetoric.
Alex Castellanos Alex Castellanos is a Republican political consultant who also works for ABC as a political analyst. He was previously a CNN contributor and in 2009 was allowed to discuss the health care reform debate without disclosing that he was involved in the health insurance industry's ad campaign attacking Democrat's health reform plans.
Sara Carter Sara Carter was formerly a reporter at the right-wing website Circa News. She now publishes stories on her personal blog and mostly appears on Fox News' Hannity, where she regularly attempts to undermine the special counsel probe into any Trump campaign involvement in Russia's 2016 election interference.
Maureen Dowd Maureen Dowd has been a columnist for The New York Times since 1994. Over time, she became well known for her dislike of Hillary Clinton, writing well over 100 negative, sexist columns about her spanning the time Clinton was first lady to her second presidential campaign.
Andrew Lack Andrew Lack was the chairman of NBC News and MSNBC, where he has come under scrutiny due to his disastrous hiring of right-wing voices like former Fox News host Megyn Kelly and pervasive reported sexual misconduct that happened under his purview at NBC. On May 4, 2020, it was announced that Lack would leave the network by the end of the month.
Black Lives Matter Black Lives Matter is a Black American-led movement that protests police brutality and shootings. Conservative media have frequently smeared the movement as terroristic and supportive of violence against police officers.
Grover Norquist 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.
David Frum David Frum was a speechwriter for President George W. Bush for the first year of his presidency and helped Bush sell the Iraq War to the American public by writing the 2002 “axis of evil” State of the Union speech. After leaving the White House, Frum worked for the conservative American Enterprise Institute and later formed his own website. He is currently a staff writer for The Atlantic.
Matt Schlapp Matt Schlapp is a pro-Trump commentator and chairman of the American Conservative Union, which produces the annual Conservative Political Action Conference and sometimes features far-right extremists. Schlapp has gone all-out to defend the Trump administration -- where his wife Mercedes Schlapp works in the communication office -- from numerous scandals, controversies, and investigations.
Zuhdi Jasser Zuhdi Jasser is the president and founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, a think tank which receives funding from anti-Muslim organizations. He’s also a conservative pundit who has regularly appeared on Fox News to reinforce right-wing anti-Muslim narratives about terrorism and to criticize American Muslim civil rights groups.
Mercedes Schlapp 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.
George W. Bush George W. Bush became president in 2000 following an extremely close election after the U.S. Supreme Court intervened to stop a recount of votes in Florida, and he served for two terms. He presided over the worst terrorist attack in American history on 9/11, launched a global “war on terror” which still persists, and invaded Iraq after making false claims that it had an active weapons of mass destruction program, costing thousands of American and countless Iraqi lives.