2/ “The Conservative Partnership Institute, as the nonprofit is known, now controls four commercial properties along a single Pennsylvania Avenue block, three adjoining rowhouses around the corner, and a garage and carriage house in the rear alley. CPI’s aim, as expressed in its annual report, is to transform the swath of prime real estate into a campus it calls “Patriots’ Row.”

3/ “On its 2021 tax returns, CPI reported $45 million in revenue, most of it generated through contributions and grants, and paid DeMint and Meadows compensation packages of $542,000 and $559,000, respectively. Its current offices, a three-story townhouse at the corner of Third Street and Independence Avenue SE, is a hub of GOP activity. During the chaotic lead-up to Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s election as House speaker, dissident Republican lawmakers were observed congregating at CPI.”

4/ “CPI also provides grants to a cluster of nonprofits headed by Trump allies. Stephen Miller, for ex, leads America First Legal, which received $1.3 mil from CPI in 2021 & bills itself as a check on “lawless exec actions & the Radical Left.”
Cleta Mitchell, an attorney who was on the call Trump made to Brad Raffensperger seeking to reverse votes…runs what the org bills as its “Election Integrity Network,” which has cast doubt on the validity of President Biden’s 2020 victory.”

5/ Rep. Jamie Raskin:

“It just seems like a massive real estate coming-out party for the extreme right wing of the Republican Party,” Raskin said. “This is a very explicit and well-financed statement of intent. They set out to take over the Republican Party and they’re very close to clenching the power.”
Instead of Patriots’ Row, Raskin suggested an alternative name: Seditionist Square.
“Maybe Marjorie Taylor Greene can be their advisory neighborhood commissioner,” he said.

6/6 “On Capitol Hill, several property owners who sold their buildings to CPI-linked companies were surprised to learn that the buyers were connected to a group led by Meadows and DeMint…”