Common Dreams

The reporting we cite

14 stories, each opening at its source.

• Common Dreams — 'Corporate-Funded Third Way Plans to Spend $15 Million Waging War on Progressives' (Amgen, CVS, Baxter; the anti-DSA campaign)
• Common Dreams — 'Scale of Trump's Raid on National Parks Funds for White House Vanity Projects' (~$323M, per Scott MacFarlane's review of NPS records)
• Common Dreams: 'Indefensible' — Chuck Todd Under Fire for Reciting Quote Comparing Sanders Supporters to Nazis
• Common Dreams — Clear Majority of US Voters, Including 3 in 4 Democrats, Want to End Weapons Support to Israel (Quinnipiac, Aug 2025)
• Haaretz (via Common Dreams) — Israeli newspaper confirms the IDF employed the 'Hannibal Directive' on October 7
• Common Dreams: MSNBC in 'Full-Blown Freakout' Mode as Bernie Sanders Cements Status as Frontrunner
• Common Dreams — research warns of a surge in cancer-linked forever chemicals from the AI data-center build-out
• Common Dreams: WelcomeFest’s Billionaire Backers Reveal Its True Mission
• Common Dreams: Who Is Funding the Democrats Who Say ‘We’re Capitalists, Not Socialists’?
• Common Dreams — 'Deep State Grift': Rogers's wealth soared as wife's firm won billion-dollar contracts
• Common Dreams — DOJ considering scenarios in which it would block states from certifying elections
• Common Dreams — Musk becomes Senate Leadership Fund's main donor (and his 2024 spending)
• Common Dreams — 'Killing Is Normalized': IDF soldier speaks out about orders to shoot civilians in Gaza
• Common Dreams — watchdog: the proposal 'makes buying politicians great again'

Where their work appears on this site

• Big Money Fighting for Control of the US Government →
• The Hannibal Directive on October 7 →
• The Freakout →
• Pay to Play With Your Pension →
• Seven Terrorists Eliminated →
• The Data Center Next Door →
• The Doomsday Memo →
• The Fake Middle →
• The Gavel and the Contract →
• The Only Donor →
• The Parks Raid →
• The Billionaires' Big Tent →
• Israeli Influence on the United States →
• Looting the American Public →
• Fake Opposition →
• Media Ownership →
• Return on Investment →
• Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
• The Real Voter Fraud? →
• Who Controls What You Get to Know →

How we graded the claims built on their work

14 FACT. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.

1. 'Centrist / moderate': corporate, pharma, finance, and tech — and increasingly open about it.

   FACT
   Big Money Fighting for Control of the US Government →

2. A broader review of NPS records put total money rerouted to White House-grounds projects at about $323 million this year.

   FACT
   The Parks Raid →

3. Chuck Todd approvingly read out a ‘digital brownshirt brigade’ description of Sanders’s online supporters.

   FACT
   The Freakout →

4. Independent, non-advocacy pollsters find the same shift across the Democratic base.

   FACT
   The Fake Middle →

5. It was used on October 7: 'not a single vehicle' back to Gaza.

   FACT
   The Hannibal Directive on October 7 →

6. Nicolle Wallace called Sanders’s coalition a ‘squeaky, angry minority’ and invoked the ‘dark arts.’

   FACT
   The Freakout →

7. PFAS: the AI boom is driving a surge in 'forever chemicals' — in the cooling fluid and in the chips themselves.

   FACT
   The Data Center Next Door →

8. Roughly three-quarters of its individual money comes from billionaires and finance executives; small donors are under 2%.

   FACT
   The Billionaires' Big Tent →

9. The 2025 ‘WelcomeFest’ gathering put the billionaire backing on display.

   FACT
   The Billionaires' Big Tent →

10. The campaign's answer — and the deflection in it.

    FACT
    The Gavel and the Contract →

11. The DOJ is drawing up 'doomsday' plans to intervene in the midterms — and has already sued to block a certification.

    FACT
    The Doomsday Memo →

12. The pattern: the richest man, buying races.

    FACT
    The Only Donor →

13. The procedure: the 'straw widow.'

    FACT
    Seven Terrorists Eliminated →

14. Watchdogs say the rule suppressed corruption, not speech — and the timing sharpens the worry.

    FACT
    Pay to Play With Your Pension →