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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Local outlets responded to the Dallas Justice Now (DJN) controversy with a mix of corrections, deep-dive investigations, and ongoing coverage that both exposed astroturf tactics and — in some cases — ...
Steven Monacelli was publicly accused of racist harassment by individuals tied to a group called Dallas Justice Now in articles published on the Dallas Express, and those accusations became the center...
The available reporting shows that many of the loudest controversies tied to Steven Monacelli were driven by targeted attacks—most notably a libel suit brought by conservative hotelier Monty Bennett t...
Steven Monacelli has publicly documented a multi-pronged campaign of harassment and disinformation tied to a network of right‑wing actors: he reports being targeted by a propaganda website that used f...
Dallas Justice Now (DJN) is widely reported as a likely hoax or “astroturf” operation rather than a conventional, transparent social‑justice organization: multiple local investigations found no clear ...
Multiple local and national reporters and researchers documented that a Dallas-based social justice organization publicly branded Dallas Justice Now (DJN) a fake or astroturf operation; in particular,...
There is no evidence in the provided reporting that Dominique Alexander, president of the Dallas-based Next Generation Action Network, described Dallas Justice Now as a "fake social justice group"; no...