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Many companies that cut off donations to seditionist Republicans in Congress after January 6 have since abandoned those commitments or resumed giving to the main Republican party committees, reportedlydriven by concerns about losing influence with Republican lawmakers. This has been amplified by members of the Sedition Caucus threatening companies that cut them off.


CREW has persistently called out the companies that have caved to this pressure for putting political access over the urgent need to take a stand for democracy. Instead of filling the campaign coffers of members who voted not to certify the election and continue to spread the Big Lie, corporations and industry groups should demand that these members renounce their votes and stop undermining our democracy.

Since January 2021, CREW has tracked the promises companies made — and broke — about giving to members of Congress who voted against the election results. In addition to donations to the 147 members of the Sedition Caucus and the GOP’s party committees, corporations have resumed giving to the state attorneys general challenging the election results in four battleground states.


Many companies made anti-racist commitments following the summer 2020 racial justice protests and publicly denounced new discriminatory voting legislation. Some of these same companies lined the pockets of lawmakers who tried to invalidate millions of votes cast by people of color. 

Here are the most important findings from one year of tracking corporate support for the Sedition Caucus:
Since the insurrection, 717 corporations and industry groups have donated over $18 million to 143 of the 147 members of Congress who objected to the results of the 2020 presidential election, as well as the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) and the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC).

Companies that pledged to stop or pause their political giving to these members have contributed a total of $4,785,000  to insurrectionist political groups, including $2,381,250 directly to members of the Sedition Caucus’s campaigns and leadership PACs and $2,403,750 to the NRSC and NRCC.

Boeing ($346,500), Koch Industries(ALEC) ($308,000), American Crystal Sugar ($285,000), General Dynamics ($233,500) and Valero Energy ($207,500) are the top corporate donors to those who objected to the election and their party committees.

Some companies resumed giving almost immediately. Toyota, which called the January 6 attack “horrific” and promised to reevaluate its giving criteria, poured $9,000 into the pockets of nine Sedition Caucus members within a month of the riot. Cigna and AT&T also resumed giving to seditionists within two months of the riot, with AT&T also contributing to both GOP party committees.

These three companies have contributed more than $300,000 to seditionists and their party committees, including lawmakers who sit on committees with power over the companies’ business interests.
Home Depot, JP Morgan, Delta Airlines, UPS, and many others issuedstatements, speaking out against new voting laws in Georgia as racist, while hundreds of other companies — including American Airlines, Ford, General Motors, and Johnson & Johnson — signed a full page New York Times adcondemning discriminatory voting legislation being passed nationwide.

Twenty companies including Boeing, Walmart, and Home Depot have donated $60,200 through their federal PACs to 12 attorneys general involved in the lawsuit, which was led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall collected the most in donations, bringing in $14,500. He is the head of the Rule of Law Defense Fund, a dark money organization that paid for robocallspromoting the “Save America” rally held on January 6 before the insurrection.



PACs affiliated with these groups have contributed $7,678,598 to insurrectionist political groups, including $5,251,098 to campaigns and leadership PACs directly and $2,427,500 to GOP party committees. These contributions undermine the commitments of the groups’ corporate members.

The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers ($342,000), National Association of Realtors ($303,000), Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America ($270,000), National Electrical Contractors Association ($222,000) and the Credit Union National Association ($217,500) have given the most to insurrectionist members of Congress and Republican committees.

Some members of the Sedition Caucus have continued to promote the Big Lie, including Madison Cawthorn, Louie Gohmert, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. Complicit in these anti-democratic actions are the corporations and trade associations that have continued to bankroll them.

Kevin McCarthy is the top fundraiser of the Sedition Caucus with $688,000 from 105 corporate and industry donors, including Chevron, Valero, UPS, Merck, Anheuser-Busch, and Ford.


Toyota stopped giving to seditionist members as a result of public pressure and after receiving pushback from CREW.

Hewlett Packard and Charles Schwab shut down their PACs entirely.

Hallmark Cards went as far as requesting that Senators Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Roger Marshall (R-KS) return its PAC’s donations.

These examples show accountability is possible, and highlight the failures of companies who have continued to support the Sedition Caucus.
 
 
 

Razoo the chink cocksucker

I refuse to acknowledge Jan 6th as anything more than a sit in protest gone wrong. Calling it more than that is dishonest, alarmist, and counter productive.

Neo » 30 Aug 2023, 12:53 pm » wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2023, 12:53 pm

I refuse to acknowledge Jan 6th as anything more than a sit in protest gone wrong. Calling it more than that is dishonest, alarmist, and counter productive.

It's a marker for clinical hysteria. 

for facism; read the op's post.

all of it is a call to censor people of different political bent.

sunburn » 30 Aug 2023, 2:11 pm » wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2023, 2:11 pm

for facism; read the op's post.

all of it is a call to censor people of different political bent.

Wrong again ....... it is a call to jail all of those involved in the insurrection including the corporations who funded the unAmerican activity. 

 

razoo » 30 Aug 2023, 3:20 pm » wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2023, 3:20 pm

Wrong again ....... it is a call to jail all of those involved in the insurrection including the corporations who funded the unAmerican activity.

phony "insurrection".

sunburn » 30 Aug 2023, 3:24 pm » wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2023, 3:24 pm

phony "insurrection".

phony "insurrection" = distorted definition = aka typical fake republican BS. There are Jan 6th terrorists sitting in jail/prison with a charge of insurrection in their criminal portfolio. Some with sedition ........

I speculate some white collars will eventually be introduced to the charge of insurrection or sedition and who knows maybe treason.

What is the real meaning of insurrection?
act of revolt or rebellion =  insurrection, an organized and usually violent act of revolt or rebellion against an established government or governing authority of a nation-state or other political entity by a group of its citizens or subjects; also, any act of engaging in such a revolt.

 
 

RebelGator » 30 Aug 2023, 12:54 pm » wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2023, 12:54 pm

It's a marker for clinical hysteria.

The cognitive dissonance required to call January 6th an insurrection and the blm love riots a mostly peaceful civil rights movement is staggering. All violence for political reasons is idiocy but we are comparing a paper cut to a bullet wound. 
 

razoo » 30 Aug 2023, 3:20 pm » wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2023, 3:20 pm

Wrong again ....... it is a call to jail all of those involved in the insurrection including the corporations who funded the unAmerican activity.

So, what do you call all the KNEEGROW RIOTS AND LOOTING in the Summer of Love in 2020???

Why have NONE OF THOSE been put in prison for INSURRECTION and various OTHER crimes?? They DID attempt to BURN AND DESTROY SEVERAL FEDERAL BUILDINGS and that is INSURRECTION at it's finest!!

Neo » 30 Aug 2023, 12:53 pm » wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2023, 12:53 pm

I refuse to acknowledge Jan 6th as anything more than a sit in protest gone wrong. Calling it more than that is dishonest, alarmist, and counter productive.

I absolutely agree, with my friend Neo.

100,000 Americans came to Washington DC for a peaceful protest called a Stop the Steal rally.

Maybe 5,000 breached the barricade lines, and only maybe a thousand or so attacked police officers and breached the Capitol.

About a thousand are being prosecuted, the other 99 thousand left to their daily pursuits.

What needs done is the top of the ringleaders alone, should die in prison.

Then protests won’t go bad again in the future.

Beekeeper » 30 Aug 2023, 6:06 pm » wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2023, 6:06 pm

So, what do you call all the KNEEGROW RIOTS AND LOOTING in the Summer of Love in 2020???

Why have NONE OF THOSE been put in prison for INSURRECTION and various OTHER crimes?? They DID attempt to BURN AND DESTROY SEVERAL FEDERAL BUILDINGS and that is INSURRECTION at it's finest!!

Agreed.

razoo » 30 Aug 2023, 3:52 pm » wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2023, 3:52 pm

phony "insurrection" = distorted definition = aka typical fake republican BS. There are Jan 6th terrorists sitting in jail/prison with a charge of insurrection in their criminal portfolio. Some with sedition ........

I speculate some white collars will eventually be introduced to the charge of insurrection or sedition and who knows maybe treason.

What is the real meaning of insurrection?
act of revolt or rebellion =  insurrection, an organized and usually violent act of revolt or rebellion against an established government or governing authority of a nation-state or other political entity by a group of its citizens or subjects; also, any act of engaging in such a revolt.

news for you; there was no revolt against the United States Government. there was a demonstration against a crooked election.

Bruce » 30 Aug 2023, 6:14 pm » wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2023, 6:14 pm

I absolutely agree, with my friend Neo.

100,000 Americans came to Washington DC for a peaceful protest called a Stop the Steal rally.

Maybe 5,000 breached the barricade lines, and only maybe a thousand or so attacked police officers and breached the Capitol.

About a thousand are being prosecuted, the other 99 thousand left to their daily pursuits.

What needs done is the top of the ringleaders alone, should die in prison.

Then protests won’t go bad again in the future.

Ringleaders of a failed sit in protest? The only things planned that day were the photo ops. Over prosecution of political opponents could have unforseen consequences. 
 

Neo » 30 Aug 2023, 7:45 pm » wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2023, 7:45 pm

Ringleaders of a failed sit in protest? The only things planned that day were the photo ops. Over prosecution of political opponents could have unforseen consequences.

Wait.

Somebody at the very top, lied to millions of people about rampant voter fraud, about rigged election machines, 2,000 mules, and 100% of all that was a Joesph Goebells grade BIG LIE.

The one per cent of his gullible disciples who breached the Capitol are getting off fairly easy.

But the kingpin needs to die in prison.

It will make future kingpins more cautious about lying.

Bruce » 30 Aug 2023, 9:31 pm » wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2023, 9:31 pm

Wait.

Somebody at the very top, lied to millions of people about rampant voter fraud, about rigged election machines, 2,000 mules, and 100% of all that was a Joesph Goebells grade BIG LIE.

The one per cent of his gullible disciples who breached the Capitol are getting off fairly easy.

But the kingpin needs to die in prison.

It will make future kingpins more cautious about lying.

I have never claimed the election was stolen. The election was held under pandemic conditions with the very real threat of widespread civil unrest if Trump won. Businesses were borded up, national guard on patrol. Under gun point and from threat of disease, the American people were given a choice. Biden or infliction of misery never before seen in the nation. 

Hardly the most secure and fair election ever to be held in a western democracy.