The Nation: The Right Leans In

Mar 26, 2013 | Stories

Media-savvy conservative think tanks take aim and fire at progressive power bases in the states.

The mood at the beginning of the meeting matched the weather: gray and dreary. The warm-up speaker told a joke about how local Republicans could merit placement on the endangered species list, which met with polite laughter. Talk of the most recent presidential election elicited audible groans.

Days after Barack Obama took the oath of office for his second term, about 400 GOP donors gathered in a downtown San Francisco hotel to hear Jim DeMint—who had just resigned from the Senate to take a $1-million-a-year job as head of the Heritage Foundation—explain the way forward.

Read more.

Donate Here

Our accountability campaigns and digital organizing depends on supporters like you.

Capital Spotlight Newsletter