{"id":32897,"date":"2025-02-09T14:05:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T14:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/revealed-how-a-shadowy-group-of-far-right-donors-is-funding-federal-employee-watchlists\/"},"modified":"2025-02-09T14:05:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T14:05:49","slug":"revealed-how-a-shadowy-group-of-far-right-donors-is-funding-federal-employee-watchlists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/revealed-how-a-shadowy-group-of-far-right-donors-is-funding-federal-employee-watchlists\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: how a shadowy group of far-right donors is funding federal employee watchlists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Project 2025 architects are among those behind the American Accountability Foundation and their blacklists targeting people of color <\/p>\n<p>A rightwing non-profit group that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/06\/project-2025-federal-worker-blacklist\">has published a \u201cDEI Watch List\u201d<\/a> identifying federal employees allegedly \u201cdriving radical Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives\u201d is bankrolled by wealthy family foundations and rightwing groups whose origins are often cloaked in a web of financial arrangements that obscure the original donors.<\/p>\n<p>One recent list created by the American Accountability Foundation (AAF) includes the names of mostly Black people with roles in government health alleged to have some ties to diversity initiatives. Another targets education department employees, and another calls out the \u201cmost subversive immigration bureaucrats\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/09\/american-accountability-foundation-project-2025\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project 2025 architects are among those behind the American Accountability Foundation and their blacklists targeting people of color A rightwing non-profit group that has published a \u201cDEI Watch List\u201d identifying federal employees allegedly \u201cdriving radical Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives\u201d is bankrolled by wealthy family foundations and rightwing groups whose origins are often cloaked &#8230; <a title=\"Revealed: how a shadowy group of far-right donors is funding federal employee watchlists\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/revealed-how-a-shadowy-group-of-far-right-donors-is-funding-federal-employee-watchlists\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Revealed: how a shadowy group of far-right donors is funding federal employee watchlists\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}