Don Imus was a longtime “shock jock” and talk radio host for 40 years, getting his start in 1968 and ending his career in 2018. Imus' show was simulcasted on MSNBC from 1996 until 2007, when he made a racist, sexist comment about the Black women on Rutgers University's basketball team.

The Judicial Crisis Network is a conservative political organization that lobbies for right-wing judges to be confirmed to the federal bench and organizes campaigns against Democratic judicial nominees. It has received millions of dollars in funding from the Koch-founded dark money group Wellspring Committee, has given millions in funding to Republican aligned groups, and runs misleading campaigns.

Bill Kristol was a major cheerleader for the 2003 Iraq War and is a former Fox News contributor. He has been mostly opposed to Donald Trump's candidacy and presidential administration. He founded conservative magazine The Weekly Standard, which shut down at the end of 2018, and is now editor-at-large at anti-Trump conservative website The Bulwark.

Kevin Williamson was a longtime writer for the conservative National Review with a history of hateful comments when he was hired as a columnist for The Atlantic. Soon afterward, Media Matters revealed that Williamson had called for women who obtained abortions to be hanged, and he was fired from The Atlantic for lying about his comments. He has since returned to National Review as a roving correspondent.

Emily Miller has worked as a Republican communications official, a Washington Times columnist, and a reporter for Fox’s Washington, DC, affiliate WTTG, where she spread misinformation about gun laws. In 2016 she joined One America News Network as a correspondent. In August 2020, she joined the FDA as a spokesperson before departing after 11 days.

Victoria Toensing is a Republican activist and attorney who, along with her husband Joseph diGenova, played a partisan role in Republican congressional investigations into President Bill Clinton during the 1990s, where she was criticized for unprofessional behavior. She pushed fake whistleblower claims about the Benghazi terrorist attack and tried to join President Donald Trump's personal legal defense team amid investigations into his campaign and presidency.

Joe Arpaio became a right-wing media celebrity due to his inhumane treatment of prisoners, who he kept detained in an outdoor prison camp, and for his hostility to immigrants. In 2017, Arpaio was convicted for criminal contempt of court in violation of an order to stop detaining suspected undocumented immigrants. President Donald Trump controversially pardoned the former sheriff, and he went on to lose a bid for Senate in 2018.

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.

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.

Pro-Trump MAGA trolls and self-identified members of the “alt-right” include the far-right social media personalities Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec, Charlie Kirk, Laura Loomer, and white supremacists that brand themselves with the “alt-right” label.

Anti-LGBTQ groups and right-wing media have for years baselessly likened transgender people to sexual predators for wanting to use public bathrooms that match their gender identity. They have used this myth to push laws and policies at the local, state, and federal level that discriminate and lead to violence against transgender people.

Scott Brown served as a Republican senator for Massachusetts from 2010-2013 after winning a special election held after the death of longtime Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA). After losing his 2012 reelection campaign, Brown joined Fox News as a commentator. Brown unsuccessfully ran for a Senate seat in New Hampshire in 2014.

Joseph diGenova is a Republican activist and attorney who, along with his wife Victoria Toensing, played a partisan role in Republican congressional investigations into President Bill Clinton during the 1990s, where he was criticized for unprofessional behavior. He also fabricated claims about the Benghazi terrorist attack and tried to join President Donald Trump's personal legal defense team amid investigations into Trump’s campaign and presidency. In his Fox News appearances, he typically criticizes the probes into Trump.

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.

President George W. Bush launched an invasion of Iraq in March 2003 under false pretenses that Iraq had an active weapons of mass destruction program, abetted by neoconservative media allies who advocated for the war and shoddy reporting by major news outlets. Media supporters of the Iraq War are still given prominent media platforms despite well over 4,000 Americans and many more thousands of Iraqis being killed as a result of the invasion and occupation.

The Benghazi hoax was a series of false narratives about the tragic deaths of four Americans in a terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. They were pushed for years by conservative media and endorsed and investigated by Republican lawmakers to harm President Barack Obama's chances of re-election, and then used to attack Democratic 2016 presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

James Comey was appointed director of the FBI by President Barack Obama and continued to serve until he was abruptly fired by President Donald Trump while overseeing investigations into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia during the 2016 presidential election. Comey was also heavily criticized for his public statements about an investigation into Democratic candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email use so close to the 2016 election, which could have affected its outcome. Comey previously served as a U.S. attorney and deputy attorney general during the George W.

Jim Pinkerton is a former Fox News contributor whose work with Fox News founder and former president and CEO Roger Ailes dated back to at least George H.W. Bush’s 1988 presidential campaign. At Fox, he was a regular panelist on Fox’s defunct weekend media criticism show Fox News Watch. Pinkerton also reportedly worked anonymously on the bizarre pro-Fox blog The Cable Game, which was used to attack Ailes’ rivals and critics. He currently writes for Breitbart News.