Oakland Astroturf Map

The Oakland Astroturf Network Map lays bare how an interconnected group of mostly tech venture capital and real estate billionaires spent $6.1M on a small collection of political pressure groups and conservative democratic candidates in the Oakland and Alameda County November 2024 election.

1 May 2025

The Fentanyl Crisis, Bad Science and the Astroturf Network

Lea McGeever

It's a new day in San Francisco, according to Mayor Daniel Lurie, who recently touted the accomplishment from his first 100 days in office. Among them, was the new mayor’s abstinence-only agenda for substance-abuse treatment. This was a policy shift, not an accomplishment, but that nuance sometimes

Apr 23, 2025

Congresswoman Barbara Lee Beats Astroturf Candidate Loren Taylor in Oakland’s Mayor Race

Jaime Omar Yassin

Oakland’s West and flatlands neighborhoods overcame the power of big-money in the city’s Mayoral race as former Congresswoman Barbara Lee defeated former Oakland City Councilman Loren Taylor in the April 15th special election to appoint a mayor to finish the remainder of Sheng Thao's term, a