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Conservative newspaper in Dallas, Texas (established 2021)
The widely circulated claim that former Venezuelan intelligence chief Hugo Carvajal "released" a list naming U.S. senators who received kickbacks from the Maduro regime is unsupported by available rep...
There is no credible, publicly available evidence that named U.S. senators accepted cash kickbacks from Nicolás Maduro’s government; the explosive “Venezuela list” claim traces back to social‑media po...
The claim that Hugo Carvajal “officially released” a list naming every U.S. senator on a so‑called “Venezuela list” of politicians receiving millions of dollars is unsupported by available reporting: ...
Turning Point USA’s reported revenue rose to about $85 million in 2024 from roughly $82 million in 2023 and $81 million in 2022, and reporting in September 2025 shows a fresh post-Charlie Kirk surge o...
Fact‑checkers concluded that widely circulated claims that "released a list" naming politicians who took kickbacks from ’s government are unfounded or misleading because the primary document publicize...
was publicly accused of by groups amplified in the and by an organization calling itself ; those accusations were published in the Dallas Express and echoed by Dallas Justice Now leaders in 2023 and 2...
was publicly accused of racist harassment by Justice Now in articles published by and statements from DJN leadership . Monacelli’s own investigative reporting and subsequent coverage in and other outl...
Available reporting shows a pattern in which the Dallas Express repeatedly amplified organizations and narratives tied to Monty Bennett and to a publicity firm called Crowds on Demand, and that indepe...
The Dallas Express has been repeatedly flagged by independent analysts and local reporters for partisan tilts, opaque funding ties, and practices linked to “pink slime” networks, making it a problemat...
Steven Monacelli is an award‑winning investigative journalist based in Dallas who serves as the Texas Observer’s Special Investigative Correspondent and publishes reporting on extremism, disinformatio...
The record shows public accusations that Steven Monacelli committed “racist harassment,” made chiefly by Dallas Justice Now and reported in the Dallas Express, but available reporting contains no inde...
’s reporting for documented that was not an organic –aligned group but part of an astroturf network tied to the marketing firm , which the Observer reported had been hired to create and manage fake ac...
The record shows the Dallas Express published articles that repeated allegations about Steven Monacelli drawn from a group called Dallas Justice Now (DJN), and Monacelli and his supporters say those a...
The Dallas Express, a publication funded and published by hotelier Monty Bennett, ran articles that repeated allegations from a group called Dallas Justice Now accusing journalist Steven Monacelli of ...
Reporting from the Texas Observer, D Magazine, Dallas Weekly and other local outlets concludes that Monty Bennett funded and directed a coordinated local network of advocacy groups and that a for‑hire...
The Dallas Express began as a Black-owned weekly in the Jim Crow era, tracing origins to William E. King’s Dallas Bee (1892/1893) and positioning itself as “the South’s Oldest and Largest Negro Newspa...
Reporting from multiple local and national outlets establishes that Monty Bennett is widely reported as the publisher of the relaunched Dallas Express and that the Dallas Express repeatedly amplified ...
Reporting from D Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review/Tow Center and others found multiple signals tying the resurrected Dallas Express to the Metric Media “pink slime” network — including contemp...
Reporting from multiple investigations concludes that Monty Bennett, the publisher of the Dallas Express, financially engaged the Beverly Hills publicity firm Crowds on Demand to build and operate a n...
Publicly available U.S. court filings that feature Hugo Carvajal’s allegations center on his criminal case—his plea allocution and related court papers in the Southern District of New York—which docum...