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Keep Dallas Safe? How a shadowy political group is trying to manipulate Dallas elections You won’t know who is funding it. A mailer from the group Keep Dallas Safe attacks District 11 City Council candidate Jaynie Schultz.(Jaynie Schultz campaign) 2:00 AM on Apr 29, 2021 CDT If you live in Dallas and you have a mailbox, chances are you’ve gotten some scary mail recently about council candidates from a group calling itself “Keep Dallas Safe.” The material the group is sending is targeting both incumbent council members and other candidates with a false and inflammatory message that gr...

A shadowy campaign known only as “Keep Dallas Safe” has been playing politics in Dallas for the past half-year. No one knows who funds the organization, a nonprofit group that can conceal its donors thanks to a rule introduced by the Trump administration in 2020. The people who run the day-to-day operations say their wealthy clients don’t want their names revealed. The group’s donors may be secret, but its stances are clear: City Manager T.C. Broadnax has to go; Mayor Eric Johnson is OK; and a City Council decision to trim the police department’s overtime budget last year is just on...