administration media matters held weekly strategy discussions with the white house about how to hurt its political enemies. media matters kept an enemies list of republicans to destroy, including steve king of iowa. this is a violation of federal tax law. tax exempt nonprofits cannot function as an arm of a political party. media matters clearly does. according to a piece in the new republic a liberal magazine, media matters changed mission during the 2016 democratic primaries to campaign for hillary clinton. we were, quote. running defense for clinton when media matters staff said quote defending hillary from every blogger in their mother s basement. a leaked 2015 memo from inside clinton s campaign staff discussed corroborating, mainstream media to attack republicans and accuse the press of biased coverage of hillary. in an email from january 5th of 2016, hillary staff discussed working with media matters to counter vanity fair piece on huma abedin.