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Accountability

The cases against fake electors and where they stand

As part of Donald Trump and his allies’ nationwide effort to undermine the 2020 presidential election, 84 total fake electors across seven states signed false electoral certificates claiming that Trump won the election in their states. As of June 2024, fake electors from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Nevada have been charged with crimes.

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Corruption

Bankrolling the Big Lie

We're scoring companies’ support for democracy based on how much they are giving to members who have done the most to undermine it.

Methodology

Corruption

Bankrolling the Big Lie — Methodology

CREW considered six criteria when measuring lawmakers’ commitment to upholding American democracy and the corporations funding them.

Reports

Accountability

Trump’s immunity claim is outrageous. Take it from these GOP senators.

Mitch McConnell, Thom Tillis and John Cornyn all once noted that Trump was not immune from prosecution once he left office.

Reports

Corruption

“Trump has called all patriots”: 210 Jan. 6th criminal defendants say Trump incited them

210 defendants from 40 states who were charged for their participation in the January 6th insurrection have said they were answering Donald Trump's calls when they traveled to Washington and joined the violent attack on the Capitol.

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Corruption

Trump was disqualified for insurrection in the only three states that heard evidence

Donald Trump has been disqualified from the ballot in Colorado, Maine and Illinois—and it is no coincidence that those are the only three states that have substantively grappled with whether the Fourteenth Amendment bars Trump from the ballot.

The cases against fake electors and where they stand

Bankrolling the Big Lie

Bankrolling the Big Lie — Methodology

Trump’s immunity claim is outrageous. Take it from these GOP senators.

“Trump has called all patriots”: 210 Jan. 6th criminal defendants say Trump incited them

Trump was disqualified for insurrection in the only three states that heard evidence

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