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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...
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...
Yes — is quoted saying “” in reporting about and the Express in the piece titled “The GOP Megadonor Behind the Bid to Break Dallas City Government,” and that quotation is reproduced across multiple ou...
The reported that retained to seed a network of right-leaning astroturf groups in ; in response Bennett largely did not engage with the Observer’s inquiries, though later accounts say his company ackn...
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...
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...
Evidence collected in local reporting shows Monty Bennett has financially supported conservative causes, founded or funded media and nonprofits, and been connected to a cluster of groups active in Nor...
Public records portals exist in Dallas County for court and civil filings and are the first place to look for financial or organizational documents, but the reporting assembled here shows that publicl...
Monty Bennett, identified in multiple local investigations as the publisher of the Dallas Express, has been reported as a self-admitted donor and backer of Keep Dallas Safe and related “astroturf” gro...
The Dallas Express has consistently amplified public-safety concerns—reporting rising downtown crime, response-time spikes, and resident unease—which it frames as a driver for policy shifts like the c...
Reporting by local investigators and the Texas Observer ties Monty Bennett to a campaign that used Crowds on Demand to seed and amplify a network of right‑leaning astroturf groups in Dallas through a ...
Reporting from the Texas Observer, D Magazine, Dallas Weekly and others presents a web of documentary and testimonial evidence tying Monty Bennett to both the Dallas Express (which he publishes) and t...