The Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) is a United States national political advocacy group that focuses on electing Republicans as state attorneys general. Its Democratic counterpart is the Democratic Attorneys General Association .
7-625: RAGA operated as an arm of the Republican State Leadership Committee until 2014, when RAGA was split off. In 2023, the largest donations came from the Concord Fund , with total donations from Concord since 2014 coming to $ 16.8 million. Since 2020 the group has received about $ 5.8 million in donations from the oil and gas industry. The current chairman is Alan Wilson , Attorney General of South Carolina. RAGA operates The Rule of Law Defense Fund, which became
14-527: A week after the robocall and attack. Chairman Christopher M. Carr , Georgia's Attorney General, resigned in April 2021 as a result of the split within the group over the January 6 attack. Republican State Leadership Committee The Republican State Leadership Committee ( RSLC ) is a political organization designed to assist Republicans in capturing and holding control of state legislatures across
21-530: The Poarch Band of Creek Indians to Alabama Speaker Mike Hubbard and a group associated with Jack Abramoff . From January 2010 to January 2014 the RSLC paid Gillespie $ 654,000. Political activist campaigns founded or co-founded by the RSLC include the "Judicial Fairness Initiative", the "Future Majority Project", and the "Right Women, Right Now" initiative. As of the aftermath of the 2014 U.S. elections ,
28-715: The United States . The organization notably raised over $ 140 million from 2004 to 2014, working across the country. The RSLC's Democratic Party counterpart is the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC). The organization has stated that it "is the largest caucus of Republican state leaders in the country and the only national organization whose mission is to elect down-ballot, state-level Republican officeholders" with efforts focused on "the offices of lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state, state legislator,
35-559: The Republican Party controls 68 out of 98 partisan state legislative chambers in the country, with the RSLC a major part of the efforts to hold onto these chambers into the future. The RSLC is also the sponsoring organization of the .gop top-level Internet domain . The RSLC was established in 2002 with a leading Republican strategist Chris Jankowski as its "driving force". Through the RSLC Jankowski responded to
42-506: The center of controversy following revelations that it had sponsored mass robocalls urging recipients to support President Donald Trump 's rally in front of the Capitol on January 6; the rally resulted in the 2021 United States Capitol attack . The robocall did not advocate for violence or storming the Capitol complex. Following the January 6 attack, donations to RAGA dropped significantly. The executive director of RAGA, resigned less than
49-472: The judiciary and other down-ticket races." The RSLC has also asserted that they have "more than 150,000 donors in all 50 states." The RSLC President position is currently held by Matt Walter. The RSLC has functioned since 2002, while their rivals in the DLCC got started after the 1992 elections. After Ed Gillespie was announced chairman in January 2010, the RSLC is reported to have laundered $ 1.5 million from
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