Reports

The Rise and Fall of the San Francisco Doom Loop

An Astroturf Network channeled anxiety created by the COVID-19 pandemic to ratchet up fears surrounding crime. The narrative was a ruse: San Francisco crime had been on a downward trajectory for decades. What the Astroturf Network wanted were candidates sympathetic to their narrow and selfish interests. They spent vast amounts of money to further this false narrative, blaming progressives for the city’s “deteriorating condition.” Download the report to learn how this narrative was used to move San Francisco dangerously to the right.

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The Phoenix Papers: Volume 3

Volume III explores the impact the “Astroturf Network” — a group that includes GrowSF, TogetherSF and Neighbors for a Better San Francisco — has had on local politics, how it operates, and its plans for the immediate future.

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The Phoenix Papers: Volume 2

Volume II exposes the biggest donors behind San Francisco's conservative right-wing network and examines their motives for pouring millions into local elections, most of it in the form of dark money. The rightward trend in politics, fueled by vast amounts of money, is a national trend. In a city that boasts 52 billionaires, that swing has greater potential for success.

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The Phoenix Papers: Volume 1

Right-wing billionaires are trying to buy San Francisco and the Phoenix Project’s got the receipts. Read Volume I of The Phoenix Papers and find out how the city’s wealthiest are using loopholes in tax and campaign finance law to hide millions of dollars in campaign contributions.

The Phoenix Papers spell out:

How “dark money” is infecting city elections, allowing a network of the San Francisco’s wealthiest to hide their identities and their intentions;
How these would-be political players have bankrolled conservative candidates and causes in San Francisco and Republican campaigns across the country;
How their conservative agenda places at risk public education and transportation, and affordable housing and rent control.

Right-wing billionaires are trying to buy San Francisco and the Phoenix Project’s got the receipts. Find out how the city’s wealthiest are using loopholes in tax and campaign finance law to hide millions of dollars in campaign contributions.

Volume 1 of the Phoenix Papers spells out:

How “dark money” is infecting city elections, allowing a network of the San Francisco’s wealthiest to hide their identities and their intentions;
How these would-be political players have bankrolled conservative candidates and causes in San Francisco and Republican campaigns across the country;
How their conservative agenda places at risk public education and transportation, and affordable housing and rent control.

* You'll receive an email with the download link shortly after requesting access.