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2,600 Emails of Organized Anti-Trans Hate

CleverNews.Net — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 15:05:44 -0400

Learn how the anti-LGBTQ groups organize and write legislation. These 2,600 emails show how nonprofit 501c3 organizations are violating IRS rules by engaging in politics. You can see how anti-transgender hate and legislation is being organized by a small group of people.

Download: 2600-emails-of-organized-anti-trans-hate.pdf

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CleverNews.Net — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 16:42:05 -0400

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Data hack reveals right-wing Liberty Counsel pushed Trump in apparent violation of IRS rules

CleverNews.Net — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 16:28:47 -0400

A data hack reveals the right-wing Liberty Counsel may have violated IRS rules against political activity. The hacktivist site Enlace Hacktivista released a 25-gigabyte Liberty Counsel database containing nearly seven years of donor records, which show that 501c3 nonprofit organizations controlled by the evangelical organization encouraged supporters to vote for Donald Trump -- an apparent violation of IRS rules prohibiting those entities from endorsing political candidates

Read the full article at RawStory with this link.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.rawstory.com/liberty-counsel-trump/

Liberty Counsel’s Donor Records and Pro-Trump Election Messaging Exposed in Data Breach

CleverNews.Net — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 16:19:47 -0400

Liberty Counsel, an evangelical Christian nonprofit that provided a brief cited by the Supreme Court in its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, has been hacked, revealing a 25-gigabyte internal database that contains nearly seven years’ worth of donor records. The hacker, who identifies with the Anonymous movement, released the data on the hacktivist site Enlace Hacktivista, and the transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets is providing it to journalists who request access.

Read the entire article at The Intercept with this link.

Address of the Bookmark: https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/liberty-counsel-data-breach/

Liberty Counsel Used Documents From Gab, ADF for Its Anti-COVID Vaccine Campaign

CleverNews.Net — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 16:13:01 -0400

The Liberty Counsel took documents from outside hate groups and hard-right figures to craft religious-based vaccine exemption requests during the COVID-19 pandemic, leaked documents reviewed by Hatewatch appear to show.

Read the entire article from SPLC Hate Watch with this link.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/liberty-counsel-used-documents-gab-adf-its-anti-covid-...

SCOTUS Justices 'Prayed with Her' - Then Cited Her Bosses to Overturn Roe v. Wade

CleverNews.Net — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 16:06:13 -0400

A right-wing evangelical activist was caught on tape bragging that she prayed with Supreme Court justices. The court’s majority cited a legal brief that her group filed while overturning Roe v. Wade. If true, this is a major conflict of interest!

Read the full article at this link.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/roe-supreme-court-justices-1378046/

Liberty Counsel's hacked files from censored site Distributed Denial of Secrets

CleverNews.Net — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 15:59:00 -0400

The Distributed Denial of Secrets URL is censored by most social media sites, so links can not be shared. DDOSecrets.org is a site where hackers and whistle-blowers leak important information, so for privacy it is recommended to use the Tor web browser for this site. This is a link to the hacked files from Liberty Counsel and other evangelical web sites that was leaked by an Anonymous hacker:

Liberty Counsel helped overturn Roe v. Wade, and claim to have prayed with Supreme Court justices. This release also includes more than 100 internal databases from mostly Christian missionary groups that use the same software for customer relationship management (CRM), called Site Stacker. WMTEK develops software like Site Stacker exclusively for non-profits that are supposedly Christian.

This collection includes about 450GB of databases once uncompressed, as well a git repositories and files found in the webroots of web servers. The data spans from 2015 to 2022 and includes PII for donors and supporters of these groups, as well as details about financial transactions. All together, these databases track hundreds of millions of dollars in donations to Christian groups.

The Liberty Counsel database is 25GB uncompressed, and includes 262,000 people, 44,000 who are donors.

Address of the Bookmark: https://ddosecrets.org/article/liberty-counsel

Enlace Hacktivista provides a space for hackers to publish their hacks, leaks, and communiques.

CleverNews.Net — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 15:46:31 -0400

Enlace Hacktivista received the Liberty Counsel files from an Anonymous hacker:

Jul 21, 2022: Motivated by Liberty Counsel's legal attacks against LGBTQ and abortion rights, anonymous hackers hacked Liberty Counsel and a host of other evangelical and right-wing groups who used the same web developer.

Their website has a link to the torrent of the hacked files. See also DDOSecrets.org

Address of the Bookmark: https://enlacehacktivista.org/

Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver Blames Marriage Equality Ruling for Charlie Kirk’s Murder

CleverNews.Net — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 15:35:41 -0400

Religious-right activist Mat Staver sent followers an email blaming Charlie Kirk’s murder on the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 pro-marriage-equality ruling in Obergefell. Staver is founder and chairman of the anti-LGBTQ religious-right organization Liberty Counsel, which is pushing the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell.

Read the entire article at this link.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/liberty-counsels-mat-staver-blames-marriage-equality-ruling...

Liberty Counsel profile on Right Wing Watch

CleverNews.Net — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 15:29:52 -0400

Founded by lawyer and former pastor Mat Staver and his wife Anita in 1989, Liberty Counsel has been designated an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for the extreme views and public policy positions it supports. Liberty Counsel is closely affiliated with Liberty University, founded by the late Jerry Falwell, where Staver served as dean of the law school until 2014.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/organizations/liberty-counsel

Mat Staver profile on Right Wing Watch

CleverNews.Net — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 15:23:15 -0400

Mat Staver is the founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, a Religious Right legal group that is associated with Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University. Until 2014, Staver served as the dean of Liberty University School of Law. This is a link to Mat Staver's profile on Right Wing Watch.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.peoplefor.org/people/mat-staver/

Liberty Counsel extremist profile at SPLC

CleverNews.Net — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 15:13:49 -0400

Liberty Counsel is a legal organization advocating for extreme right-wing legislation and bringing court cases under the guise of religious liberty. This is a link to their profile at the Southern Poverty Law Center that has designated them as an anti-gay hate group.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/liberty-counsel/