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Crowds on Demand is the best-documented commercial operator that organizes paid protesters and related theatrical crowds for clients across U.S. cities, a practice reported in multiple outlets and tie...
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 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 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...
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 D Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review/Tow Center and others found multiple signals tying the resurrected Dallas Express to the Metric Media “pink slime” network — including contemp...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
The only named “activist” organization in the supplied reporting that accused Steven Monacelli of racism is Dallas Justice Now (DJN), and those accusations were published in the Dallas Express and oth...
Yes. Steven Monacelli has been publicly accused by at least one activist group—Dallas Justice Now—of racist harassment and related misconduct, and those accusations were amplified in the Dallas Expres...
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...