Democracy Defenders Fund is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to stopping democratic backsliding and restoring American democracy.
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“We will continue to expose grift, demand accountability, and defend our democracy. And we will fully cooperate with any legitimate oversight request while making clear what this is: a political attack masquerading as an investigation.”
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The Trump White House spent a year holding secret Situation Room meetings about Epstein, not to help survivors, but to protect Trump.
The man deeply involved with that strategy: Todd Blanche, Trump's former defense attorney, has now been nominated to be Attorney General.
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EXCERPT from Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, by @jonathanvswan and me, in NYT Magazine today. How the Epstein files crisis paralyzed the Trump White House for the better part of a year nytimes.com/2026/06/10/magaz…
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Blanche personally interviewed Maxwell — a key figure in Epstein's network. Shortly after, she was moved to a minimum-security prison, despite government policies that prohibit transferring sex offenders to those facilities.
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We called for Blanche to recuse himself from the Epstein investigation in April due to his glaring conflict of interest, and called for an independent OIG audit of the file release that still hasn't happened.
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The Trump family continues to enrich itself, trading on their name and power to net hundreds of millions while investors and others lose big.
An investigation is in order.
DDF’s Ginny Canter: “What happened to all that money?”
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We're calling on CFTC to investigate Polymarket for violating its 2022 settlement agreement — and question whether Trump family ties are shaping enforcement decisions. democracydefendersfund.org/p…
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One investor’s $2k Trump memecoin is now $120. Another lost $60k in retirement savings via a Trump crypto venture.
Meanwhile, Trump and his family risk $0 of their own money and rake in BILLIONS off their name and proximity to power.
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From burying Epstein files to attacking Trump's political enemies to a $1.8B slush fund, Todd Blanche has spent his time at DOJ demonstrating his loyalty to Trump, not the American people.
We should all be alarmed.
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Congress told DOJ to release names of Epstein suspects and protect survivors. DOJ got it backwards.
Now survivors live in fear and are subject to harassment as a direct consequence of DOJ’s failures.
We’re committed to accountability, for Epstein's network and the DOJ.
Nearly two dozen Epstein accusers told Reuters that speaking out sparked threats and relentless harassment, in some cases after Justice Department files exposed their identities. Some now carry weapons and live in constant fear reut.rs/4axSPZS
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For over a decade, Karen Attiah covered race, human rights, and democracy at The Washington Post before being fired for a social media post about Charlie Kirk. Yesterday she took her fight to arbitration, and we were proud to be in that room with her.
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Attiah’s termination is part of a pattern we have been tracking closely: mass layoffs, gutted newsrooms, and escalating pressure on journalists to stay silent.
We stand with Karen because her fight is the peoples fight, and democracy cannot survive without a free press.
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Our panel is live at Netroots Nation in Philadelphia!
Federal interference in elections is a five-alarm threat.
We're here with partners @LULAC and @VotingIsLocal to talk about how communities fight back and keep voting power where it belongs.
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BREAKING: @DDFund_ is calling on the UK's Competition & Markets Authority urging a full probe into the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger
Higher prices, fewer projects, gutted news archives, silenced voices
Opposition is growing on both sides of the Atlantic #BlockTheMerger
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Kash Patel took a taxpayer-funded trip to the Winter Olympics. While the FBI Director was busy chugging beer in the U.S. hockey team's locker room: an armed breach at Mar-a-Lago ended in a fatal shooting, and Trump was weighing military strikes on Iran.
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3 months ago, we requested Patel's travel records, expense reports, and ethics filings to find out if he used government resources for a personal trip. The FBI produced nothing.
Today we’re suing them in federal court to compel the release.
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Two former prosecutors from the DOJ's Capitol Siege Section held Jan. 6 rioters accountable.
Our lawsuit representing 2 former DOJ prosecutors explains how Trump & DOJ are trying to rewrite history and make it out like the prosecutors did something wrong. democracydefendersfund.org/p…
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Alabama wants to change its congressional maps on an impossible timeline. Among a myriad of challenges, election officials would only have a day to complete a process that normally takes three to four months.
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We filed an amicus brief with SCOTUS laying out why this is not only a logistical nightmare but could do further harm to silence Alabama voters.
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BREAKING: U.S. judge temporarily blocks Trump DOJ's wildly unpopular $1.8B slush fund.
The fund was created after Trump circumvented courts to settle his personal lawsuit against the IRS.
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The partisan slush fund would funnel tax dollars to MAGA allies & J6 rioters. Pro-democracy orgs, a former federal prosecutor, former Capitol police officers, & elected officials have brought multiple lawsuits to stop it.
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