As one who spends a lot of her time researching organizations like FreedomWorks, I'm incredibly grateful to Mother Jones and Andy Kroll for their latest, which includes a leaked post-Dick Armey departure board report.

The report confirms what we've said here all along: FreedomWorks is less grass roots and more astroturf than anything else, with the majority of its funding coming from corporate donors, foundations, and big money types. You may recall that Richard Stephenson of Cancer Centers of America is the sugar daddy who bought Dick Armey's $8 million retirement. There's more.

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