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The Guardian newspaper has laundered a progressive dark money group’s talking points in an effort to undermine an expected U.S. House of Representatives impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, the National Pulse can reveal.

Citing a shadowy pop-up ground known as the “Congressional Integrity Project,” the Guardian argues that Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), who chairs the House Oversight Committee, “has repeatedly overhyped allegations of bribery and corruption against Biden without once producing hard evidence.”

The Congressional Integrity Project, however, is far from a non-partisan public interest watchdog.

Kyle Herrig, who serves as the organizations executive director, is also a former executive director for the powerful progressive dark money clearing house, the New Venture Fund (NVF). The NVF, and its subsidiary organizations, spread millions of donor dollars among radical progressive activist organizations in an effort to influence U.S. politics and elections – and helping to conceal the actual donor sources such as billionaire George Soros.

The New Venture Fund was also linked with 2020’s election rigging processes, partnering with Mark Zuckerberg’s Center for Tech and Civic Life and founding the Center for Secure and Modern Elections, which has lobbied for elections changes that would make voter fraud even easier.

Herrig is also deeply entangled in the NVF network – serving as a senior adviser to Accountable.US, a far-left organization that discourages corporations and individual donors from contributing to center-right non-profits. He also serves on the board of American Oversight, a progressive pressure group that is behind the witch-hunt to force Justice Clarence Thomas off of the Supreme Court. American Oversight, like the Congressional Integrity Project, launders its talking points through the corporate media.

Brad Woodhouse, a former DNC spokesman, also serves on the Congressional Integrity Projects board; while Leslie Dach, a former VP of corporate affairs for Walmart and advisor to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, serves as a senior advisor.

The two most recently available IRS 990 forms for the Congressional Integrity Project show the organization received just two major donations in 2020 and 2021 for $1 million and $500,000 respectively. Public records suggest both donations came from the SixteenThirty Fund which is managed, in turn, by NVF.

At no point did the Guardian reveal any of this information to its readers before publishing its article claiming boosting the work of the Congressional Integrity Project.