Matt_D_Cohen
Matt is a reporter covering extremism and politics. He was previously a former Ben Bagdikian investigative reporting fellow at Mother Jones and the former arts editor at Washington City Paper and editor-in-chief of DCist.
Giffords and March for Our Lives are asking law students to sign a pledge saying they won't work for law firms that represent the gun industry.
By Matt Cohen - May 18, 2023
The Concord Fund, which has ties to Federalist Society co-chairman Leonard Leo, has given more than $2 million to a PAC supporting the Kentucky attorney general's gubernatorial campaign.
By Matt Cohen - May 12, 2023
The billionaire hedge fund manager, who contributed millions to the Florida governor's recent reelection campaign, has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on local elections in Illinois.
By Matt Cohen - May 11, 2023
The conservative lawyer and co-chairman of the Federalist Society has used his nonprofit group the Concord Fund to funnel millions of dollars in dark money toward judicial advocacy and elections.
By Matt Cohen - April 26, 2023
Since the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, political spending and dark money in elections have soared to record highs.
By Matt Cohen - April 17, 2023
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, a Republican candidate for governor in the state, accepted campaign money from lobbyists for corporations that paid settlements in connection with the opioid crisis.
By Matt Cohen - April 07, 2023
The Republican State Leadership Committee placed a $200,000 ad buy in support of conservative Justice Daniel Kelly last week.
By Matt Cohen - March 28, 2023
Kelly’s campaign has received at least $6 million from groups associated with far-right megadonor Dick Uihlein.
By Matt Cohen - March 24, 2023
Daniel Kelly voted in 2017 against a rule that would force judges off cases involving those who spent money to get them elected.
By Matt Cohen - March 07, 2023
The conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate was involved in a GOP scheme to submit fake electors to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and was part of a nine-city ‘election integrity’ tour in 2022.
By Matt Cohen - March 03, 2023
The groups have ties to a national anti-abortion group, election deniers, and a major conservative donor.
By Matt Cohen - February 17, 2023
The race will determine the partisan makeup of the state’s highest court at a time when abortion rights and voting rights are at risk.
By Matt Cohen - February 07, 2023
At the same time, the Republican candidate has spoken out against same-sex marriage and accused pro-choice organizations of seeking to ‘preserve sexual libertinism.’
By Matt Cohen - January 24, 2023
Voters didn’t fall for the bogus narrative of unchecked violent crime and so-called ‘defunding’ of police under Democratic leadership.
By Matt Cohen - December 27, 2022
Republican Washington U.S. Senate candidate Tiffany Smiley is a supporter of anti-LGBTQ evangelical leader Franklin Graham and groups such as Focus on the Family.
By Matt Cohen - November 04, 2022
Voters will choose which party controls the Illinois Supreme Court on Nov. 8.
By Matt Cohen - November 03, 2022
The charges stemmed from a Florida spa with alleged ties to a human trafficking ring.
By Matt Cohen - October 26, 2022
A new entity created by the Uihlein-funded Restoration PAC is aimed specifically at electing far-right judges in state supreme court races.
By Matt Cohen - October 21, 2022
The arrests are part of a larger effort by Florida Republicans to disenfranchise Black voters, civil rights advocates say.
By Matt Cohen - October 20, 2022
The Republican State Leadership Committee has ties to dark money donors and has ramped up spending on judicial races.
By Matt Cohen - October 10, 2022
Marilyn Zayas, an IT manager turned lawyer turned appellate court judge, is seeking to unseat Pat DeWine, a Republican and the son of Ohio’s current governor, from the Ohio Supreme Court.
By Matt Cohen - September 30, 2022
North Carolina state Sen. Phil Berger is the father of state Supreme Court Justice Phil Berger Jr.
By Matt Cohen - September 28, 2022
Trey Allen, a candidate for the North Carolina Supreme Court, has benefited from a PAC with ties to the Republican state Senate leader.
By Matt Cohen - September 27, 2022
Part one of a three-part series on North Carolina’s state Supreme Court election in November.
By Matt Cohen - September 26, 2022
The House Republicans have taken a total of $998,895 in contributions from the pharmaceutical industry this year.
By Matt Cohen - September 01, 2022
Republican Gov. Mike DeWine is a defendant in three lawsuits challenging Ohio’s district maps.
By Matt Cohen - August 29, 2022
The Ohio Supreme Court has a 4-3 Republican majority, and three of the four conservative justices have deep ties to the Federalist Society.
By Matt Cohen - August 22, 2022
Justice Pat DeWine has refused to recuse himself from cases that directly involve his father, Republican Gov. Mike DeWine.
By Matt Cohen - July 05, 2022
Tennessee attorney G. Kline Preston IV said Russia is ‘much better’ at running elections than the United States.
By Matt Cohen - May 10, 2022
‘It’s a very organized, deliberate, well-backed campaign to push these three candidates,’ one Waukesha County parent said.
By Matt Cohen - March 30, 2022
