U.S. Representative Van Hollen asks Lois Lerner to investigate Freedom’s Watch.
FEC asks IRS for information on tax-exempt applications
President Barack Obama jokes about having the IRS audit enemies at an Arizona State University commencement speech.
The Supreme Court rules in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
In an interview with Mother Jones, Representative Alan Grayson (D-FL) labels the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision “the worst Supreme Court decision since the Dred Scott case.
In his weekly radio address, President Obama harshly criticizes the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United.
Media Matters founder David Brock explains how it will use disclosure information to its political advantage
Obama criticizes the Supreme Court for its ruling in Citizens United
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announces his intention to introduce a proposal known as the DISCLOSE Act
IRS Exempt Organizations Division Director Lois Lerner and IRS official Nikole Flax speak at the 46th Annual Washington Non-Profit Legal & Tax Conference in Washington, D.C., where Flax announces the Agency’s new program to scrutinize applicants for tax-exempt status.
IRS starts targeting groups of a conservative political orientation applying for tax-exempt status.
Rep. Chris Van Hollen introduces the House version of the DISCLOSE Act
In his weekly address to the American public, President Barack Obama criticizes “groups with benign-seeming names sponsoring television commercials that make accusations and assertions designed to influence the public debate and sway voters’ minds.”
The DISCLOSE Act passes the House of Representatives 219-206
Multiple Executive agencies investigate True The Vote.
Senator Chuck Schumer formally introduces the DISCLOSE Act
In remarks to reporters on the eve of a vote in the Senate on the DISCLOSE Act, the President urges Senators to vote in favor of the DISCLOSE Act as a remedy to the protections for free speech guaranteed by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.
DISCLOSE Act fails its first vote in the Senate
Target Corp. donates $150,000 to MN Forward, a pro-business PAC running ads in support of Republican Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer, who has traditional views on marriage. The disclosure of the donation sparks pro-gay marriage groups to organize Target customers to boycott the chain.
President Barack Obama singles out Americans for Prosperity
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sends an e-mail warning
President Obama's radio address focuses on “attack ads run by shadowy groups"
The New York Times echoes White House Accusations, language
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) files a complaint with the IRS requesting an investigation into the tax status of the 501(c)(3) group, Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFPF).
White House economist Austan Goolsbee accuses Koch industries of not paying taxes
Exempt Organizations Division Director Lois Lerner e-mails IRS Tax Exempt and Government Entities Commissioner Sarah Hall Ingram in reference to a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee complaint to the IRS about the activities of Americans for Prosperity.
The DCCC warns on its website that the Koch’s have “funneled their money into right-wing shadow groups.”
Obama repeats that a “foreign-controlled entity” might be funding attack ads.
“Senior administration official” urges journalists to write on conservative organizations
Obama repeats claim that conservative organizations are "foreign-controlled"
David Axelrod calls conservative organizations “front groups for foreign-controlled companies.”
S. 3628 dies in the Senate
President Barack Obama says conservative groups are "posing" as non-profits
Senator Max Baucus asks IRS to investigate nonprofits, citing “recent media reports”
Campaign Legal Center, and Democracy 21 write first joint letter to the IRS.
IRS employees, including Exempt Organizations Division Director Lois Lerner, meet with Department of Justice Public Integrity Section personnel to discuss the “evolving legal landscape” of campaign finance law.
At a Democratic National Committee rally in Philadelphia, President Obama incorrectly accuses the Citizens United decision of permitting undisclosed foreign money into U.S. elections.
Sen. Dick Durbin asks the IRS to examine Crossroads GPS.
A staff member for Senator Dick Durbin e-mails IRS Chief of Staff Jonathan Davis, emphasizing that other members of Congress besides Senator Durbin had also requested an investigation of Crossroads GPS and other nonprofits.
Two organizations who advocate for greater regulation of political speech, Public Citizen and Protect our Elections, file a complaint with the FEC, alleging that Crossroads GPS is violating federal election law.
Mr. Obama calls conservative nonprofit groups “a problem for democracy.”
Then-Director of the IRS Exempt Organizations Division, Lois Lerner, acknowledges at a Duke University panel that “everybody is screaming at [the IRS] right now” to stop spending by nonprofit groups. Lerner informs the audience: “I won’t know until I look at their 990s next year whether they have done more than their primary activity as political or not. So I can’t do anything right now.”
Group demands IRS and FEC investigate of American Future Fund
The President slams those who “hide behind these front groups.”
The President calls these non-profits a “threat to our democracy.”
Mr. Obama decries groups engaged in “unsupervised spending.”
In an e-mail to senior members of her staff, IRS Director of Exempt Organizations, Lois Lerner, warns her staff that the “Tea Party Matter [is] very dangerous."
IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman responds to a letter from Senator Max Baucus requesting a survey of 501(c) organizations “to ensure that political campaign activity is not [an] organization’s primary activity.”
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee launches a new website, wikipocrisy.org, featuring a database of all Crossroads GPS' donors.
Obama mulling Executive Order requiring government contractors to disclose their donations to politically active organizations
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