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*Christopher Bachelder
*[[Floyd G. Brown]]
*J.P. De Gance
*John Graves
*Donna Rice Hughes
*Daniel J. LaValley
*Roxanne Phillips
*David F. Pittman, Jr.
*Gerard Smith
*Donald Stoner
*[[Michael P. Farris]]
*Robert Hilarides
*Kielle C. Horton
*E.W. Jackson
*Gary A. Marx
*David McIntosh
*Amy D. Greene, director of programs
*Mary Margaret Hathway, director of conferences
*Diana L. Honsey, director of constituent services
*Randy J. Keefe, special assistant to the executive director
*Bob McEwen, executive director
*Jennifer Rutledge, director of finance and administration
*J. Kenneth Blackwell
*[[L. Brent Bozell III]]
*Jim DeMint
*Michael P. Farris
*Thomas Fitton
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==News and Controversies==
===CNP Received $210,000 From Political Committees FEC Records Show===
"Since 2004, political committees have disbursed $210,000 to the Council for National Policy," FEC records reviewed by Forbes detail.<ref>Zach Everson,[https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2022/04/05/checks--imbalances-the-billionaire-issue/?sh=9d2816d2648b Checks & Imbalances], ''Forbes'', April 5, 2022.</ref>
"The most-recent pay out came from the PAC that arose out of the congressional campaign of former Secretary of Health and Human Service Tom Price. It donated $5,000 to the CNP in February," Forbes reported.
===CMD Reveals Funders and Agenda of CNP's 40th Anniversary Celebration===
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In May 2021, CNP celebrated its 40th Anniversary at the Ritz-Carlton in Naples, Florida with a Black Tie Gala following its spring meeting.<ref name="damay">David Armiak, [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/11/02/revealed-council-for-national-policy-40th-anniversary-funders/ Revealed: Council for National Policy 40th Anniversary Funders], ''ExposedbyCMD'', November 2, 2021.</ref>
At the meeting, CNP awarded its “Lantern of Liberty” award to Republican lawyer [[Cleta Mitchell]], a Big Lie fueler and Trump legal advisor who lost her job following news that she participated in a January call in which Trump asked Georgia election officials to “find” votes to overturn the results and make him the winner of the state’s electoral votes.<ref name="damay"/>
Edwin Feulner, founder and former president of The [[Heritage Foundation]], delivered the keynote address that the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) obtained and published.<ref>Edwin Feulner, [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21091645-edwin-feulner-remarks-at-council-for-national-policys-40th-anniversary-celebration-may-21-2021 Edwin Feulner Remarks at Council for National Policy's 40th Anniversary Black Tie Gala, May 21, 2021], ''Edwin Feulner'', May 21, 2021.</ref>
The full agenda of CNP 40th Anniversary Meeting is available [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21057063-council-for-national-policy-may-2021-meeting-a here].
The Council for National Policy 40th Anniversary Funders are:<ref name="damay"/>
*Linda Bean, heiress to the L.L. Bean company
*Bob Burckle, president, Eastern European Mission
*Don Campion, founder and president, Banyan Air Service
*Peggy Dau, Iran Alive Ministries
*Diana Denman, president, The Reagan Legacy Forum
*Vivian Noble DuBose, president and CEO, Noble Properties Inc.
*Richard Hayes, partner, Hayes, Berry, White & Vanzant, LLP
*Allen Herbert, chairman, American-Chinese Fellowship of Houston
*George Hiller, president and CEO, George M. Hiller Companies, LLC
*J.C. Huizenga, chairman, Huizenga Group
*Alveda King, director of civil rights for Unborn Priests for Life
*Gary Krings, financial advisor, Ameriprise Advisors
*Joy Lamb, president and founder of Lamb’s Books
*Joan Holt Lindsey, founder and president, Lindsey Communications
*Barry Meguiar, president, Meguiar’s Car Wax
*William Morgan, president John Bouchard & Sons
*Steve Moxley, senior VP of Fifth Third Bank
*Richard Norman, founder, The Richard Norman Company
*Jack Park, Jack Park Law
*Ralph Rebandt, senior pastor, Oakland Hills Community Church
*John Slavic, founder and president Slavic401K
*John Stemberger, president and general counsel, Florida Family Policy Council
*Marcia Taylor, chairman and CEO, Bennett International Group
*Ray Thompson, founder, Semitool
*Gevie White, president and owner, GVSW, Inc.
*JC White, developer, builder, and real estate investor, Almont Homes and Ashton Management
===Ties to Hate===
As documented by the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] (SPLC) in 2016 and 2021, many CNP members hold white supremacist, anti-gay, anti-Muslim, and other racist, prejudiced, and extremist beliefs. Many former and current CNP members also have ties to hate groups.<ref name=cnpsplc/><ref name=cnpsplc2>Caleb Kieffer, [https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/05/27/shadowy-right-wing-strategy-group-embraces-islamophobic-figures-policies-presents-challenge "Shadowy Right-Wing Strategy Group Embraces Islamophobic Figures, Policies, Presents Challenge to Democracy"], [[Southern Poverty Law Center]]'s ''Hatewatch'', May 27, 2021, accessed June 8, 2021.</ref>
Former CNP Board of Governors member Michael Peroutka also served on the board of League of the South, a neo-Confederate, white supremacist hate group.<ref name=cnpsplc/>
Former CNP Board of Governors member Joseph Farah runs the online news platform WorldNetDaily, which has heavily promoted ''The Pink Swastika'', a book which argues that Adolph Hitler and other members of Nazi leadership were gay, and that homosexuality was a major cause of Nazi atrocities.<ref name=cnpsplc/>
CNP Board of Governors member [[Mathew Staver]], who is also the board chairman and founder of hate group [[Liberty Counsel]], which "has worked for the re-criminalization of gay sex, described the Boy Scouts as a 'playground for pedophiles', and likened LGBT activists to terrorists."<ref name=cnpsplc/>
CNP member Brigitte Gabriel has called Muslims a threat to the civilized world and claimed a practicing Muslim 'cannot be a loyal citizen of the United States.'" She is the the founder of ACT for America, "an anti-Muslim hate group that operates a network of chapters across the U.S. that disparage Islam and promote Islamophobic legislation at the state and national level."<ref name=cnpsplc2/>
As described by the SPLC, Gabriel and other CNP members "enjoyed unprecedented access to the White House under [[Donald Trump|Trump]], meeting with his staff on numerous occasions. The [[Donald Trump|Trump]] administration implemented policies long promoted by the anti-Muslim network, such as the Muslim ban and a low cap on refugees."<ref name=cnpsplc2/>
CNP member Tony Perkins, who is also president of the anti-LGBTQ hate group [[Family Research Council]], has falsely claimed that pedophilia is "a homosexual problem” and that gay people “recruit” children.<ref name=cnpsplc/> In 2001, he spoke for the white supremacist hate group Council of Conservative Citizens.<ref name=cnpsplc/> Perkins has also said "Islam is not a religion... it is a comprehensive system which is incompatible with the Constitution."<ref name=cnpsplc2/>
Perkins served as president of CNP in 2012 and from 2015-2019 and as vice president in 2013-2014. Like Gabriel, he "enjoyed extensive access to the [[Donald Trump|Trump]] administration."<ref name=cnpsplc2/>
===Former AG Bill Barr Criticizes "Secular-Progressive" Public School Climate at Council for National Policy Annual Meeting===
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On May 20, 2021, during CNP's Annual Meeting, former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr received the [[Alliance Defending Freedom]]'s annual [[Edwin Meese III]] Award for Originalism and Religious Liberty.<ref name=adfbb>Alliance Defending Freedom, [https://adflegal.org/william-barr-interview?sourcecode=10017157_r200 William Barr is a Friend of Freedom], organizational website, May 20, 2021, accessed May 24, 2021.</ref>
In his acceptance speech, Barr criticized the "increasingly militant and extreme secular-progressive climate of our state-run education system", which he called the "greatest threat to religious liberty in America today." He described how some schools teach children they can express whichever gender identity (or lack thereof) they wish, without anyone else having a say. A lesson such as this, he said, "does not just contradict particular religious teachings on gender and the authority of parents; it is a broadside attack on the very idea of natural law, which is integral to the moral doctrines of a number of religious denominations."<ref name=adfbb/>
Barr also criticized Critical Race Theory (CRT), which he called "nothing more than the materialist philosophy of Marxism substituting racial antagonism for class antagonism." CRT, according to Barr "is fundamentally incompatible with Christianity" and "antithetical to the Christian view."<ref name=adfbb/>
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==Membership==
===Gold Circle Members===
As of September 2020February 2022:<ref name="cnpf22">Council for National Policy, [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/featured-documents/council-for-national-policy-meeting-program-february-24-26-2022/ Council for National Policy Meeting Program, February 24-26, 2022], ''Council for National Policy'', February 2022.</ref>
*Arthur Ally
*Tony Amaradio
*Philip F. Anschutz
*Michael Baller
*Gary L. Bauer
*Lee A. Bearman
*Lina Linda L. Bean
*John Bedrosian, board chairman, Center for Urban Renewal and Education
*Dale E. Bellis
*[[Brent Bozell]], founder and president of the [[Media Research Center]]
*[[Elsa Prince Broekhuizen]], board member [[Acton Institute]], former board member, [[Family Research Council]], [[Focus on the Family]]
*Spencer N. Brown
*Bob Burckle
*Ken Campbell
*LaRue ColemanCarlos Campo, president [[Ashland University]]
*Jeffrey Coors
*Anne Cori, chairman, [[Eagle Forum]]
*[[Marjorie Dannenfelser]]
*Cullen Davis
*Todd Dexter
*David A. Durell
*Melissa Emery
*Paavo Ensio
*[[Michael P. Farris]], CEO and general counsel for [[Alliance Defending Freedom]]
*Seymour H. Fein
*Tom Fitton, president, [[Judicial Watch]]
*Fostor Lynn Friess*Brant Frost IV, president First Liberty Building & Loan
*[[Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.]], founder and president of [[Center for Security Policy]]
*Jon Gibson
*Kent Glesener
*Rob Gluskin
*Joe Gregory
*Millie Hallow, managing director, [[National Rifle Association]]
*Ken Harrison
*H. Preston Hawkins
*Kristan Hawkins, president, [[Student for Life of America]]
*Ryan Helfenbein, executive director of the Standing for Freedom Center and the vice president of communications and public engagement at [[Liberty University]]
*Charles W. Herbster
*[[Heather Higgins]], chairman, [[Independent Women’s Forum]]
*Roland S. Hinz
*Robert Hilarides
*Valerie Foster Hoffman
*Kielle Horton, president of The Lindsey Foundation
*Ralph Hudgens
*J.C. Huizenga
*Bishop E.W. Jackson, Sr., founder STAND Foundation
*Jerry Johnson
*Bob Knapp
*Joy Lamb
*Tim LeFever
*Charlie Lewis
*Jenny Beth Martin
*Rod D. Martin
*Gary Marx,
*Lynette Mathis
*Colby M. May, Esq.
*Thomas McAuley*David McIntosh*[[Mark Meckler]], president and CEO, [[Citizens for Self-Governance]], [[Convention of States Action]], [[CSG Action]]*Barry Meguiar*Ann Martin MeyerCory Mills
*William P. Mills
*Lee Roy Mitchell
*Richard Norman
*Star Parker (CURE)
*Herman Pirchner, Jr.
*Reince Priebus
*Ann Quest
*John E. Reese, III
*Clive Roberson
*Richard Rounsavelle
*Charles R. Saulsbury
*John Slavic
*[[Bradley A. Smith]], founder and board chairman, [[Institute for Free Speech]]; board chairman, [[Buckeye Institute]]; recipient, [https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lynde_and_Harry_Bradley_Foundation#Prize_Recipients 2010 Bradley Prize]
*Robert T. Smith
*Christine Soule
*Glenn P. Story
*Mark S. Stuhlreyer
*Ray Thompson
*George Uribe
*Patrick Vollmer
*William L. Walton
*Rebecca Weber
*JC White
*Jerry C. Wilson
*Richard Wright
*Debbie Wuthnow
*Brent Yates
*Brandon Zehm
'''Former Gold Circle Members'''
*William Ames
*Adam Brandon, president, [[FreedomWorks]]; advisory council, [[Turning Point USA]]
*Christopher Bachelder
*[[Floyd G. Brown]]
*Jim Clymer
*LaRue Coleman
*J.P. De Gance
*Fostor Friess (deceased)
*Debbie Georgatos
*George Gersema
*John Graves
*Donna Rice Hughes
*Jeff Hunt (different from [[GCI]] Executive [[Jeff Hunt]])
*Darrel Johnson
*Daniel J. LaValley
*Jaci Leitgeb
*Ann Martin Meyer
*Barry Meguiar
*Will Mills
*Jim O’Hickey
*Roxanne Phillips
*David F. Pittman, Jr.
*Gerard Smith
*Donald Stoner
*[[Frank Wright]]
===Board of Governors Members===
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*J. Christian Adams, president [[Public Interest Legal Foundation]]
*John F. Ankerberg
*Karen S. England
*Stuart W. Epperson
*Kathleen B. Flynn
*Steve Forbes
*Margaret H. Hartshom
*Richard D. Hayes
*Donald P. Hodel
*David A. Hodson
*Eaton Hopkins
*Jeffrey G. Hunt
*Judy Ikard
*Kay Cole James
*Joe Knott
*Robert H. Maclellan
*Haley E. Martin
*Bradley J. Mattes
*Daniel McCarthy
*Brandon McCrary
*[[Cleta Mitchell]]
*Stephen Moore
===Members===
As of September 2020:<ref name="cnp920"/>
*J. Christian Adams, president and general counsel, [[Public Interest Legal Foundation]]
*Nick Adams, [[Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness]]
* Alberto Gonzales (2001)<ref name=cnpabc>Marc J. Ambinder, [https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121170&page=1 "Inside the Council for National Policy"], January 6, 2006 (original publication on May 2, 2002), accessed September 18, 2020.</ref>
* Ben Carson (2015)<ref name=cnpsplc/>
* Bill Barr (2021)<ref name=adfbb/>
* Chris Cannon (2007)<ref name=cnp2007/>
* [[Clarence Thomas]] (2001)<ref name=cnpabc/>
==Meetings==
===2022===
CNP met February 24-26 at The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel, Dana Point, California. A copy of the meeting program obtained and published by the Center for Media and Democracy is available [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21409776-council-for-national-policy-meeting-program-february-24-26-2022 here.]
===2021===
====May====
CNP met May 19-21 at the Ritz-Carlton in Naples, Florida. A copy of the agenda obtained and published by the Center for Media and Democracy is available [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21057063-council-for-national-policy-may-2021-meeting-a here].
====September====
CNP met September 23-25 at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
===2020===
====August====
CNP met August 19-21 at the Ritz -Carlton in Arlington, Virginia. A copy of the agenda is available [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7276284-Council-for-National-Policy-Meeting-Program-Aug.html here.]
CNP published four speeches from the event on its [https://cfnp.org/policy-counsel/august-2020/ website], including:<ref>Council for National Policy, [https://web.archive.org/web/20200920050908/https://cfnp.org/policy-counsel/august-2020/ August 2020 Policy Council Speeches], ''CNP'', accessed and archived September 20, 2020.</ref>
*George Edward Durell Foundation: $30,000 (2017-2018)
*Guilford Foundation: $5,000 (2015)
*[[Heritage Foundation]]: $22,500 (2016)
*Holman Foundation: $50,000 (2014-2018)
*In His Steps Foundation: $45,000 (2015-2017)
*It Takes a Family Foundation: $30,000 (2015, 2017)
*[[John William Pope Foundation]]: $522,500 (1994-2000)
*[[Judicial Watch]]: $95145,000 500 (2013-20172020)
*[[League of American Voters]]: $30,000 (2011)
*[[Let Freedom Ring]]: $42,700 (2012, 2014-2015)
*Marguerite A. Scribante Foundation: $45,000 (2012-2014)
*Masters Table: $50,000 (2011, 2013)
*[[Mercer Family Foundation]]: $75,000 (2013-2014)
*National Philanthropic Trust: $15,000 (2018)
*National Christian Charitable Foundation: $146,360 (2012-2017)
==Core Financials==
<big>'''2022'''</big><ref name="IRS2022">, Council for National Policy, [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24168643-council-for-national-policy-2022-990#document/p2/a2406790 2022 IRS Form 990], annual organizational tax filing, October 17, 2023.</ref>
*Total Revenue: $3,537,747
*Total Expenses: $3,347,664
*Net Assets: $2,776,111
<big>'''2021'''</big><ref name="IRS2021">, Council for National Policy, [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23346549-council-for-national-policy-2021-990 2021 IRS Form 990], annual organizational tax filing, October 12, 2022.</ref>
*Total Revenue: $3,587,318
*Total Expenses: $3,384,139
*Net Assets: $3,010,858
<big>'''2020'''</big><ref name="IRS2020">, Council for National Policy, [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21154297-council-for-national-policy-2020-990 2020 IRS Form 990], annual organizational tax filing, November 10, 2021.</ref>
*Total Revenue: $3,018,919
*Total Expenses: $2,787,676
*Net Assets: $2,559,361
<big>'''2019'''</big><ref name="IRS2019">, Council for National Policy, [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20791406-council-for-national-policy-2019-990 2019 IRS Form 990], annual organizational tax filing, October 22, 2020.</ref>
*Total Revenue: $3,310,081
*Total Expenses: $3,098,641
*Net Assets: $1,892,900
<big>'''2018'''</big><ref name="IRS2018">, Council for National Policy, [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7206576-Council-for-National-Policy-2018-990.html 2018 IRS Form 990], annual organizational tax filing, October 17, 2019, accessed September 14, 2020.</ref>
*Total Revenue: $3,240,418
*Total Expenses: $1,971,123
*Net Assets: $972,343
==Personnel==
As of September 2020December 2022:<ref name="cnp920IRS2022"/>
===Staff===
*Bob McEwen, Executive Director*Nancy Austin, Constituent Services*Geneva Cole, director Director of membershipMembership*Ethan G. Davis, Staff Assistant*Amy D. Greene, Director of Programs*Mary Margaret Hathway, Director of Conferences*Diana L. Honsey, Director of Constituent Services*Randy J. Keefe, Director of Special Projects, CNP; Managing Director, CNP Action*Jennifer Rutledge, Director of Finance and Administration*Alex R. Tokie, Special Assistant to the Executive Director*Timothy J. Ward, Security Specialist '''Former Staffers'''
*Sherri D. Francescon, Managing Director at CNP Action
*Thomas Olson, staff assistant
===CNP Executive Committee===
*William WaltonThomas Fitton, President*Kelly J. Shackelford, Esq.Kenneth Blackwell, Vice President
*Jenny Beth Martin, Secretary
*Morton CJerry A. BlackwellJohnson, Treasurer
*Arthur Ally
*Millie Hallow
*Jerry AWilliam G. JohnsonBoykin, LTG(R) US Army*Tim LefeverColby May
*Joan Holt Lindsey
*Barry Meguiar*William MillsMichael P. Farris
*Penny Y. Nance
*Roxanne PhillipsChad Connelly*T. Kenneth Cribb, JR.
*John Scribante, executive committee finance chairman
*Nancy Schulze*Alan Sears*Becky Norton Dunlop*Stuart W. Epperson*Donald P. Hodel*Edwin Meese III*James C. Miller III*Tony Perkins*Richard Viguerie, senior executive committee member
'''Former Members'''
*Jim DeMint
*William Mills
*Roxanne Phillips
*William Walton, President
*Kelly J. Shackelford, Esq., Vice President
*Morton C. Blackwell, Treasurer
*[[L. Brent Bozell III]]
*Tim Lefever
*Barry Meguiar
*J. Keet Lewis III
*Anthony Perkins, president
===CNP Action Board of Directors===
*Kelly J. ShackelfordKenneth Blackwell, chairmanChairman*Michael W. Thompson, Jr., secretary Secretary and treasurerTreasurer
*Bob McEwen, President
*Rachel A. Bovard
*Adam BrandonThomas Fitton
*Gary A. Marx
*Virginia Thomas
'''Former Directors'''
*Kelly J. Shackelford, chairman
*Adam Brandon
*William L. Walton
444 N Capitol Street NW Suite 830 <br>
Washington, DC 20001<br>
Website: [https://cfnp.org CNFP.org]<br>
Journal website: [https://cfnp.org/policy-counsel/ ''Policy Counsel'']<br>
Phone: (202) 207-0165<br>
Email: cnp@cfnp.org
==Articles and Resources==
===IRS Form 990s===
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*[[Wayne LaPierre]]
*[[William G. Boykin]]
===Books===
*Anne Nelson, ''Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right'', October 29, 2019.
===Articles===
*Sean Beckner-Carmitchel, [https://knock-la.com/sheriff-villanueva-far-right-supporters/ Why Does ‘Democrat’ Sheriff Villanueva Have So Many Far-Right Supporters?], ''Knock LA'', June 28, 2022.
*Emma Brown, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/05/20/ginni-thomas-arizona-election-emails/ Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice, pressed Ariz. lawmakers to help reverse Trump’s loss, emails show], ''The Washington Post'', May 20, 2022.
*David Armiak, [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/04/14/christian-right-redeploy-astroturf-strategy-used-virginia-win-midterms/ Christian Right to Redeploy Astroturf Strategy Used in Virginia to Win Midterms], ''ExposedbyCMD'', April 14, 2022.
*David Armiak, [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/03/24/dont-say-roe/ Don't Say Roe], ''ExposedbyCMD'', March 24, 2022.
*David Armiak, [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/03/11/revealed-new-leaders-of-council-for-national-policy-set-extremist-agenda/ Revealed: New Leaders of Council for National Policy Set Extremist Agenda], ''ExposedbyCMD'', March 11, 2022.
*David Armiak, [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/11/02/revealed-council-for-national-policy-40th-anniversary-funders/ Revealed: Council for National Policy 40th Anniversary Funders], ''ExposedbyCMD'', November 2, 2021.
*Robert O'Harrow, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/10/25/god-trump-closed-door-world-council-national-policy/ God, Trump and the Closed-Door World of a Major Conservative Group], ''The Washington Post Magazine'', October 25, 2021.
*Jason Wilson, [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/25/secretive-group-influence-trumps-tax-cuts How a secretive conservative group influenced ‘populist’ Trump’s tax cuts], ''The Guardian'', October 25, 2021.
*David Armiak, [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/09/07/alec-claims-credit-for-voter-suppression-and-anti-critical-race-theory-laws-at-secret-meeting/ ALEC Claims Credit for Voter Suppression and Anti-Critical Race Theory Laws at Secret Meeting], ''ExposedbyCMD'', September 7, 2021.
*David Armiak, [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/09/01/alec-lied-about-its-work-on-election-suppression-bills/ ALEC Lied About Its Work on Election Suppression Bills], ''ExposedbyCMD'', September 1, 2021.
*Anne Nelson, [https://billmoyers.com/story/the-shadow-network-council-for-national-policy-is-not-going-away/ The Shadow Network (Council for National Policy) Is Not Going Away], ''Bill Moyers'', March 24, 2021.
*Anne Nelson, [https://washingtonspectator.org/nelson-cnp/ How the CNP, a Republican Powerhouse, Helped Spawn Trumpism, Disrupted the Transfer of Power, and Stoked the Assault on the Capitol], ''Washington Spectator'', February 22, 2021.
*David Armiak, [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/01/08/christian-right-council-national-policy-tied-violent-insurrection-u-s-capitol/ Christian Right Council for National Policy Tied to Violent Insurrection at U.S. Capitol], ''ExposedbyCMD'', January 8, 2021.
*Alex Kotch, [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2020/12/11/conservative-activist-leaders-call-for-an-end-to-democracy/ Conservative Activist Leaders Call For an End to Democracy], ''ExposedbyCMD'', December 11, 2020.
*David Armiak, [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2020/11/06/operatives-tied-to-council-for-national-policy-organizing-protests-alleging-voter-fraud/ Operatives tied to Council for National Policy Organizing Protests Alleging Voter Fraud], ''ExposedbyCMD'', November 6, 2020.
*David Armiak, [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2020/10/27/secretive-council-for-national-policy-closely-tied-to-trump/ Secretive Council for National Policy Closely Tied to Trump], ''ExposedbyCMD'', October 27, 2020.
*Jamie Corey, [https://documented.net/reporting/alec-and-gop-election-attorneys-working-with-state-legislators-to-question-validity-of-election "Newly Surfaced Recording Reveals ALEC and GOP Election Attorneys Working with State Legislators to Question Validity of Election"], Documented, October 26, 2020.
*Robert O'Harrow, [https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:MZg8XqRgznwJ:https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/council-national-policy-video/2020/10/14/367f24c2-f793-11ea-a510-f57d8ce76e11_story.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us Videos show closed-door sessions of leading conservative activists: ‘Be not afraid of the accusations that you’re a voter suppressor’], ''Washington Post'', October 14, 2020.
*Anne Nelson, [https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/ "Anatomy of Deceit: Team Trump Deploys Doctors with Dubious Qualifications to Push Fake Cure for Covid-19"], ''Washington Spectator'', September 20, 2020.
*[[Max Blumenthal]], [https://thegrayzone.com/2020/08/30/membership-list-powerful-secretive-christian-right-america/ "This is the Full Membership List of the Christian Right's Secretive and Powerful Council for National Policy"], ''Grayzone'', August 30, 2020.
*Alex Kotch, [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2020/05/19/coalition-pro-trump-doctors-will-defend-presidents-covid-19-blunders/ Coalition of Pro-Trump Doctors Will Defend the President’s COVID-19 Blunders], ''ExposedbyCMD'', May 19, 2020.
*Lee Fang and Nick Surgey, [https://documented.net/reporting/conservative-operatives-float-plan-to-place-retired-military-police-officers-as-gop-poll-watchers-on-election-day "Conservative Operatives Float Plan to Place Retired Military, Police Officers as GOP Poll Watchers on Election Day"], The Intercept and Documented, April 12, 2020.
*Anne Nelson, [https://www.salon.com/2019/10/25/mike-pence-trump-impeachment-council-national-policy/ "This powerful group groomed Mike Pence for the White House. Impeachment could complicate their plans"], ''Salon'', October 25, 2019.
*Lee Fang and Nick Surgey, [https://documented.net/reporting/ginni-thomas-plans-new-conservative-supergroup-to-protect-president-trump "Ginni Thomas Plans New Conservative Supergroup to “Protect President Trump”"], The Intercept and Documented, June 4, 2019.
*Lee Fang and Nick Surgey, [https://documented.net/reporting/conservative-expert-privately-warned-gop-donors-that-a-voting-rights-bill-would-help-democrats "Conservative Expert Privately Warned GOP Donors That a Voting Rights Bill Would Help Democrats"], The Intercept and Documented, February 27, 2019.
*Lee Fang and Nick Surgey, [https://documented.net/reporting/provocateur-james-okeefe-has-more-ambush-videos-on-key-senate-races-he-tells-secretive-gop-donor-confab "Provocateur James O'Keefe Has More Ambush Videos On Key Senate Races, He Tells Secretive GOP Donor Confab"], The Intercept and Documented, October 18, 2018.
*Lee Fang, [https://theintercept.com/2018/10/07/brett-kavanaugh-evangelicals-council-for-national-policy/ "At Secretive Retreat, Evangelicals Celebrate Brett Kavanaugh's Confirmation"], ''Intercept'', October 7, 2018.
*Heidi Beirich and Mark Potok, [https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/05/17/council-national-policy-behind-curtain "The Council for National Policy: Behind the Curtain"], Southern Poverty Law Center's ''Hatewatch'', May 17, 2016.
