{"generatedAt":"2026-10-26T13:00:31.273Z","investigations":[{"slug":"mitchell-orbit","title":"Cleta Mitchell's Compass and Election Integrity Orbit","subtitle":"One operative at the controlling end of CPI's three Compass vendor entities, the Election Integrity Network, the Valid Vote / EagleAI counsel relationship, and the Public Interest Legal Foundation. The network is documented in the entity filings of every node.","tldr":"Cleta Mitchell is the Senior Legal Fellow at the Conservative Partnership Institute and the founder and Chair of the Election Integrity Network, a CPI-affiliated initiative. She is listed in formation paperwork as Officer / co-founder of Compass Professional Inc. (2021), Managing Member / beneficial owner of Compass Legal Group LLC (2021), and Principal / Manager of Compass Property Management LLC (2022). All three Compass entities share CPI's operating address. Documented.net reporting from March 2024 establishes that Compass Legal represents Valid Vote, the nonprofit that manages the EagleAI NETwork voter-roll-challenge software. Mitchell is also a Bradley Foundation board member, a co-founder of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, and a host of the Who's Counting? podcast at whoscounting.us.","publishedAt":"2026-05-21T00:00:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-17T10:50:25.706Z","url":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/mitchell-orbit","detailUrl":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/mitchell-orbit/data.json","embedUrl":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/mitchell-orbit/embed","ogImage":"https://codyhall.site/og/investigations/mitchell-orbit.png","topics":["Cleta Mitchell","Conservative Partnership Institute","Election Integrity Network","Compass Legal Group","EagleAI NETwork","Valid Vote","Bradley Foundation","Public Interest Legal Foundation"],"featured":false},{"slug":"datwyler-treasurer-network","title":"The Super-Treasurer and the FEC Chairman","subtitle":"Thomas Datwyler, Sean Cooksey, and the 2024 canvassing rule","tldr":"One treasurer files for 676 federal committees; the FEC chairman who advanced a rule benefiting Trump-aligned Super PACs left to join the Vance office.","publishedAt":"2026-05-21T00:00:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-17T01:39:35.193Z","url":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/datwyler-treasurer-network","detailUrl":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/datwyler-treasurer-network/data.json","embedUrl":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/datwyler-treasurer-network/embed","ogImage":"https://codyhall.site/og/investigations/datwyler-treasurer-network.png","topics":["Sean Cooksey","Thomas Datwyler","Federal Election Commission","Conservative Partnership Institute","regulatory capture","2024 canvassing rule","America PAC","campaign finance"],"featured":false},{"slug":"cpi-hub","title":"The CPI Hub","subtitle":"One Washington address, eleven entities, and a self-dealing pattern flagged by the NYT and POLITICO. The Conservative Partnership Institute is built on a ring of vendors it pays for services, all controlled by its own senior legal fellow.","tldr":"The Conservative Partnership Institute is a 501(c)(3) operating from 300 Independence Avenue SE in Washington DC, with a 2024 annual budget of approximately $36 million. The same address houses three Delaware Compass entities (Compass Professional Inc., Compass Legal Group LLC, Compass Property Management LLC), all founded in 2021 or 2022, and all with Cleta Mitchell, CPI's Senior Legal Fellow, listed as officer, managing member, or principal. CPI pays the Compass entities for services. NYT and POLITICO have both flagged the arrangement as a self-dealing pattern, with combined CPI payments to the affiliated vendors exceeding $2.4 million in a single year. The same address is also the formal home of America First Legal (Stephen Miller) and the Center for Renewing America (Russell Vought), both classified as CPI affiliates in CPI's own filings.","publishedAt":"2026-05-21T00:00:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-22T23:35:00.516Z","url":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/cpi-hub","detailUrl":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/cpi-hub/data.json","embedUrl":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/cpi-hub/embed","ogImage":"https://codyhall.site/og/investigations/cpi-hub.png","topics":["Conservative Partnership Institute","shared address","self-dealing","501(c)(3) compliance","Cleta Mitchell","Compass Professional","Compass Legal Group","FEC treasurers","Thomas Datwyler","9Seven Consulting"],"featured":false},{"slug":"alliance-defending-freedom","title":"Alliance Defending Freedom: The Legal Capture Layer","subtitle":"The litigation engine that turned dark money into Dobbs.","tldr":"Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF, EIN 54-1660459) is the most consequential legal organization in the Christian-nationalist network, founded in 1994 by James Dobson and 25+ Christian Right leaders as a counter to the ACLU. With $154M in documented spending, 16 Supreme Court victories since 2011 (including Dobbs), and a 4,800-attorney network, ADF is the machine's litigation division. SPLC designates it a hate group.","publishedAt":null,"updatedAt":"2026-10-20T02:01:09.020Z","url":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/alliance-defending-freedom","detailUrl":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/alliance-defending-freedom/data.json","embedUrl":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/alliance-defending-freedom/embed","ogImage":"https://codyhall.site/og/investigations/alliance-defending-freedom.png","topics":["Alliance Defending Freedom","Christian nationalism","Supreme Court","Dobbs","Project 2025"],"featured":false},{"slug":"arctic-frost-jan6","title":"Arctic Frost: The Jan 6 Subpoena Map","subtitle":"How Jack Smith's grand jury treated the CPI ecosystem as one criminal-enterprise infrastructure.","tldr":"Jack Smith's 'Arctic Frost' investigation issued 197 grand-jury subpoenas covering 430+ Republican individuals and entities. The Conservative Partnership Institute was directly subpoenaed at least four times, and a single Paychex subpoena grouped CPI, CRA, AFL Foundation, and Compass Legal as one payroll system, federal prosecutors treating the network as a single integrated infrastructure for the 2020 election-overturn effort.","publishedAt":null,"updatedAt":"2026-10-26T02:02:27.417Z","url":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/arctic-frost-jan6","detailUrl":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/arctic-frost-jan6/data.json","embedUrl":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/arctic-frost-jan6/embed","ogImage":"https://codyhall.site/og/investigations/arctic-frost-jan6.png","topics":["Arctic Frost","January 6","Jack Smith","CPI","grand jury"],"featured":false},{"slug":"dark-money-nexus-leonard-leo","title":"The Dark Money Nexus: Leonard Leo's $1.6B Machine","subtitle":"How a one-time $1.6B gift became a perpetual, donor-proof private fund.","tldr":"Marble Freedom Trust's own 2021 IRS Schedule O admits its trust agreement was amended to eliminate donor Barre Seid's right to remove the trustee, converting his $1.6B gift into a self-perpetuating fund controlled by Leonard Leo. This investigation maps the nexus: MFT, the 85 Fund, the Concord Fund, and the for-profit CRC Advisors that the c4 grant-maker's own filing admits 'is' its staff.","publishedAt":null,"updatedAt":"2026-10-26T02:02:25.554Z","url":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/dark-money-nexus-leonard-leo","detailUrl":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/dark-money-nexus-leonard-leo/data.json","embedUrl":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/dark-money-nexus-leonard-leo/embed","ogImage":"https://codyhall.site/og/investigations/dark-money-nexus-leonard-leo.png","topics":["Leonard Leo","Marble Freedom Trust","CRC Advisors","dark money","judiciary"],"featured":false},{"slug":"ziklag-eagleai-pipeline","title":"Ziklag and the EagleAI Voter-Challenge Pipeline","subtitle":"A Christian-nationalist charity, a Delaware LLC, and an AI tool for purging voter rolls.","tldr":"Ziklag (legal name USATransForm, EIN 82-4819179) is a Southlake, TX 501(c)(3) whose revenue grew 753% in five years ($1.3M → $11.1M). This investigation traces how Ziklag-aligned dark money flows, via Donors Trust and the Compass Legal Group-created nonprofit 'Valid Vote', into EagleAI, an AI-powered voter-roll challenge system.","publishedAt":null,"updatedAt":"2026-10-17T01:39:32.031Z","url":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/ziklag-eagleai-pipeline","detailUrl":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/ziklag-eagleai-pipeline/data.json","embedUrl":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/ziklag-eagleai-pipeline/embed","ogImage":"https://codyhall.site/og/investigations/ziklag-eagleai-pipeline.png","topics":["Ziklag","EagleAI","voter challenges","Christian nationalism","Donors Trust"],"featured":false},{"slug":"conservative-influence-in-america","title":"Conservative Influence in America","subtitle":"A fifty-year reconstruction: from Goldwater's defeat to Project 2025.","tldr":"A chronicle of how the modern conservative movement built durable institutional power across five decades, from the 1964 Goldwater crucible and the 1971 Powell Memo, through the think-tank and dark-money build-out (Heritage, AEI, DonorsTrust), the Federalist Society's capture of the judiciary under Leonard Leo, Citizens United, and McConnell's procedural warfare.","publishedAt":null,"updatedAt":"2026-10-17T01:39:49.546Z","url":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/conservative-influence-in-america","detailUrl":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/conservative-influence-in-america/data.json","embedUrl":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/conservative-influence-in-america/embed","ogImage":"https://codyhall.site/og/investigations/conservative-influence-in-america.png","topics":["conservative movement","dark money","judiciary","Federalist Society","Project 2025"],"featured":false},{"slug":"the-caging-loop","title":"The Caging Loop","subtitle":"How returned campaign mail at 300 Independence Ave becomes voter-challenge ammunition.","tldr":"At 300 Independence Ave SE, the CPI 'Patriot's Row' hub, Compass Professional Inc. processes 'undeliverable' fundraising mail for committees like the Mike Johnson Leadership Fund. This investigation traces the closed loop: fundraising generates names, caging identifies who moved, and Cleta Mitchell's Election Integrity Network / EagleAI a few desks away can turn that data into voter-roll challenges.","publishedAt":null,"updatedAt":"2026-10-17T01:39:32.990Z","url":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/the-caging-loop","detailUrl":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/the-caging-loop/data.json","embedUrl":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/the-caging-loop/embed","ogImage":"https://codyhall.site/og/investigations/the-caging-loop.png","topics":["voter caging","Compass","Cleta Mitchell","EagleAI","300 Independence Ave"],"featured":false},{"slug":"america-first-legal","title":"America First Legal","subtitle":"Stephen Miller's litigation arm, and the $27.1M gift that dwarfs its own reported revenue.","tldr":"America First Legal (AFL, EIN 86-2190372) is Stephen Miller's post-administration litigation vehicle. The Bradley Foundation reported a single $27.1M gift to AFL in 2022, nearly 3x AFL's own reported 2023 revenue ($9.6M), a discrepancy that suggests money flowed through additional vehicles. AFL was also named in Jack Smith's Arctic Frost grand-jury subpoenas as part of the CPI infrastructure.","publishedAt":null,"updatedAt":"2026-10-17T01:39:27.321Z","url":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/america-first-legal","detailUrl":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/america-first-legal/data.json","embedUrl":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/america-first-legal/embed","ogImage":"https://codyhall.site/og/investigations/america-first-legal.png","topics":["America First Legal","Stephen Miller","Bradley Foundation","dark money","Arctic Frost"],"featured":false},{"slug":"seven-mountains-mandate","title":"The Seven Mountains Mandate","subtitle":"Dominionist theology as an operating manual for capturing seven 'mountains' of culture.","tldr":"The Seven Mountains Mandate is the New Apostolic Reformation's blueprint for taking 'dominion' over seven spheres of society, religion, government, media, education, family, business, and arts. This investigation maps how that theology connects to concrete dark-money and voter-suppression infrastructure: Leonard Leo's $580M judiciary machine operating under alias names, and the Election Integrity Network's EagleAI challenge system.","publishedAt":null,"updatedAt":"2026-10-17T01:39:33.614Z","url":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/seven-mountains-mandate","detailUrl":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/seven-mountains-mandate/data.json","embedUrl":"https://codyhall.site/investigations/seven-mountains-mandate/embed","ogImage":"https://codyhall.site/og/investigations/seven-mountains-mandate.png","topics":["Christian nationalism","Seven Mountains","dark money","voter challenges","Leonard Leo"],"featured":false}]}