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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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 modern Dallas Express exhibits clear signs of a right-leaning editorial project: independent assessments classify it as “Right Biased” with mixed factuality, critics link its relaunch to conservat...
N’Dure (Dante “Ndure”) Cain provided the Texas Observer with internal emails that he said show an intermediary, identified as Salahuddin, forwarding content and instructions from Jason Swart, the CEO ...
Reporting reviewed does not substantiate the core claim as phrased: there is no sourced evidence in the provided materials that a specific news outlet disciplined Steven Monacelli and then later cited...
Steven Monacelli is an investigative journalist whose reporting has documented that Dallas Justice Now (DJN) behaved like an astroturf or “hoax” group tied to conservative PR operations; mainstream an...
Steven Monacelli has been the target of public accusations from at least one local activist grouping and conservative outlets alleging racist harassment and conspiracy-mongering, and those allegations...
Steven Monacelli is primarily presented in available reporting as an investigative journalist who covers extremism, disinformation and social movements, not as a lifelong promoter of fringe theories; ...
The Texas Observer’s Oct. 22, 2024 investigation reported that Keep Dallas Safe, Dallas Justice Now (DJN), and the Dallas Express are intertwined parts of a right‑wing influence network in Dallas that...