It Was John Wayne’s Political Club. Now It’s Spending Millions on Online Influence

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. By Colin Lecher, CalMatters

A conservative organization with decades of influence in California has quietly turned attention, and millions of dollars, to a national initiative of right-leaning news operations, records show. 

The Lincoln Club was established in the early 1960s by a group of California business leaders. Since then, it’s been a quiet but formidable force in state and local politics, pushing right-leaning causes and candidates. 

But in the past few years, an affiliated organization, the Lincoln Media Foundation, has massively increased its incoming revenue as it

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