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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 ...
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...
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 ....
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...
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...
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...
Steven Monacelli has publicly identified and reported on individuals he says are tied to white supremacist and neo‑Nazi activity — most prominently tying an ICE prosecutor, James “Jim” Rodden, to a ra...
Steven Monacelli has publicly identified and reported on individuals and networks tied to white supremacist and neo‑Nazi activity, most prominently naming ICE assistant chief counsel James “Jim” Rodde...
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; ...