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A new watchdog investigation has ripped the veil off CAIR Action, the political arm of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, alleging it has been operating without the licenses or registrations required in 22 states. The Washington Free Beacon’s reporting on the Network Contagion Research Institute and Intelligent Advocacy Network findings makes clear this is not garden-variety bureaucratic sloppiness — it’s an organized political operation raising money and mobilizing voters while allegedly dodging state rules.
Investigators say CAIR Action doesn’t even hold the basic business license in Washington, D.C., and that in key states like California it’s only registered as an out-of-state nonprofit — a status that does not permit the extensive fundraising and political activity it appears to conduct. The Intelligent Advocacy Network, which helped expose the scheme, lays out how a national 501(c)(4) can’t lawfully run a cross-state political-solicitation enterprise without the proper filing and local registration. That kind of structural evasion should set off alarms in every attorney general’s office.
Beyond paperwork, the report warns of real criminal exposure: potential wire fraud, deceptive solicitation, and false statements to the IRS if the allegations are borne out. Mainstream outlets have summarized how the pattern described by the watchdogs — coordinated fundraising no state can account for — could amount to serious federal offenses, not mere compliance gaps. If you give to a group that claims to be a charity or civic organization, you have a right to know where your money goes and whether those handling it are operating inside the law.
The probe also flags troubling foreign-state entanglements, pointing to sponsorships linked to Turkish state-affiliated entities, programming at the Turkish government’s Diyanet Center, and appearances on Turkey’s TRT World by CAIR figures. These are the sorts of cross-border relationships that merit far more than a press release response; they demand recorded explanations and, if warranted, subpoenas. Washington can’t have shadowy political influence machines quietly routing through foreign channels while pretending to be grassroots American advocacy.
Patriots who love this country should not shrink from demanding full accountability. The watchdog groups themselves urged referrals to the Department of Justice, the FBI, the Federal Trade Commission, and the IRS — and Trump’s people in the DOJ and White House should answer that call immediately if they’re serious about defending the rule of law and protecting American institutions. If you’re running a political operation in this country, you play by American rules or you face consequences, plain and simple.
This isn’t happening in a vacuum: CAIR has long been a controversial actor, once being named on a prosecutorial unindicted co-conspirator list during the Holy Land Foundation litigation in 2007 — a label that, while not a criminal conviction, has never entirely disappeared from the public record. Given that history and the new, detailed allegations of unlicensed national political activity, there is no excuse for timidity from law enforcement or from conservative leaders who demand transparency and security. The country deserves answers, and those answers should come fast, openly, and with teeth.
