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A cluster of February 2025 reports identifies a single, high-profile case in which an ICE assistant chief counsel in Dallas, , is alleged to have operated a white supremacist account on X (formerly Tw...
James “Jim” Joseph Rodden is controversial because multiple news outlets and an independent review linked him to a long-running X account, @GlomarResponder, that posted overtly racist, anti-immigrant ...
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...
James “Jim” Joseph Rodden has been identified by the Texas Observer as an ICE assistant chief counsel who prosecutes deportation cases in Dallas, where he represents the government in removal proceedi...
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...
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...
Steven Monacelli is an award‑winning investigative journalist based in Dallas who specializes in reporting on extremism, disinformation, social movements, and the influence of dark money in politics ....
The most detailed public reporting ties not to an explicit corporate membership in but to personnel and situational links uncovered by investigative reporting: the identified the company as one of fou...
’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 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 ...
James “Jim” Joseph Rodden is an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) assistant chief counsel who has been publicly identified by investigative reporting as the likely operator of an overtly racis...
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 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...
Since 2018, the public record compiled in the provided reporting shows no clear evidence that multiple major Pentecostal denominations issued new, formal policy statements specifically naming or defin...
The Texas Observer reported that it identified ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James “Jim” Joseph Rodden as the operator of the X account @GlomarResponder by assembling “an overwhelming number of biograph...
The available reporting identifies as a former Express reporter and says he “ about his former employer,” but the exact quotation that follows that introductory line is not present in the provided exc...