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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...
Crowds on Demand surfaced in 2024 coverage as a player at the intersection of paid publicity, local political influence and national protest debates, most notably via reporting that the firm was hired...
Crowds on Demand bills itself as a publicity and advocacy firm that supplies hired participants for demonstrations, PR stunts and corporate events and says it has run campaigns ranging from airport gr...
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 set of documents provided offers background on the Next Generation Action Network (NGAN)—its mission, public actions, fundraising profiles and past controversies—but contains no recorded quote, ar...
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...
Local reporting and organization materials show Dallas Justice Now (DJN) presents itself as a grassroots advocate fighting institutional racism and education inequity, and that Ndure Cain joined as co...
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 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...
reported that its investigation tied to and to front groups like by publishing interviews, internal messages and emails, corporate filings, and pattern-of-coverage analysis that together suggest Benne...
Reporting by , , and local outlets ties ) into a larger pattern of astroturf projects created by and funded by , but the public record relies on interviews, internal messages cited by reporters, and p...
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 ...
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...
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...
The Dallas Observer did issue a formal correction to its July 27, 2021 story about flyers tied to a group called Dallas Justice Now, clarifying that Keep Dallas Safe had no relationship to Dallas Just...