A nonprofit run by former Obama ambassador Norm Eisen secretly embedded its lawyers inside state attorneys general offices across the country to help prosecute Trump supporters involved in the 2020 alternate elector challenges, according to tax records and internal memos obtained through open records laws. This wasn't grassroots justice. This was a donor-funded prosecution machine operating in the shadows.

But sure, we're the "threat to democracy."

The organization at the center of this is the States United Democracy Center — SUDC for short — which describes itself as "a nonpartisan organization dedicated to the rule of law and free, fair, secure elections." Nonpartisan. Right. And I'm the Queen of England.

Here's what the memos actually show, in June 2023, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison — the former Deputy Chair of the Democratic National Committee, in case you needed a reminder of where his loyalties lie — formally swore in SUDC Senior Vice President of Legal Christine P. Sun as a "Special Attorney" serving "at the pleasure of the Attorney General." A private nonprofit lawyer, deputized with the power of the state, to go after political opponents.

Minnesota wasn't alone. Arizona Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes accepted an offer from SUDC to work pro bono advising on election-integrity legal strategy. And the money trail gets uglier: the Democratic Attorneys General Association — DAGA — paid $50,000 to Mayes' legal fund on September 5, 2023, followed by another $150,000 eighteen months later. SUDC operates as an initiative of the Progressive State Leaders Committee, which has funneled more than $11 million to DAGA over the years.

So let's connect the dots. Private donors fund a nonprofit. That nonprofit embeds its lawyers inside state AG offices. Those AG offices prosecute Trump supporters. And the same political network dumps $200,000 into the prosecuting AG's legal fund. That's not justice. That's a shakedown with a law degree.

Former Trump lawyer Christina Bobb, who was herself a defendant in Arizona's 2020 election prosecution, didn't mince words in a court filing: "Exchanging governmental authority for political access and funding is a surefire way to ensure everyday Americans lose their voice and end up in prison for disagreeing with those in power."

Bobb went further: "We have to stop pretending that this type of activity isn't happening. People are so overwhelmed by the corruption that many, elected officials included, want to bury their head in the sand and hope it goes away. It's not going away. It's getting worse."

She's right. And the paper trail proves it. A 47-page memorandum dated July 25, 2023, produced by States United, was actually attached to criminal search warrants. A nonprofit's legal memo — used to justify searching the homes and property of American citizens. When Arizona's criminal division chief Kimberly Hunley accidentally disclosed the document, she scrambled to clarify in a December 12, 2024, email that "the State did not intend to provide the July 25, 2023, memorandum." Oops.

SUDC's tentacles reach further than Arizona and Minnesota. Internal documents show the group coordinated with officials in Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin, and beyond. Tax filings from 2023 reveal SUDC paid more than $100,000 to Democrat superlawyer Mark Elias' law group. This is the same Norm Eisen who co-authored a New York Times essay titled "How to convict Trump." Subtle.

Mike Davis, founder of the Article III Project and a former GOP Senate Judiciary Committee lawyer, summed it up perfectly: "This is highly inappropriate for left-wing nonprofits to become the prosecutors against their political enemies."

There's a small silver lining: in May 2025, a Superior Court judge in Michigan tossed the fake electors indictments entirely. The legal house of cards is collapsing. But the fact that it was built at all — with dark money, secret deputizations, and a coordinated multi-state campaign — should terrify every American regardless of who they voted for.

They weren't just opposing Trump supporters. They were paying to put them in prison. And now we have the receipts.