[1] Under the leadership of Mark Meadows, since 2017 the nonprofit has grown sixfold[2] to become the "nerve center" of the MAGA movement,[3] bolstering notable figures such as U.S.

[5] Planning for the protests of January 6, 2021, and the effort to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential election, were both centered at CPI’s headquarters according to Jonathan Blitzer.

On their way back to Washington, he and his now unemployed associates came up with the idea of founding a new organization, that unlike Heritage would not be a think tank developing policy proposals, but instead focus on where their expertise lay, i.e. the workings of the US Congress.

The Republican Party congressional leadership (DeMint's associates felt), always had an advantage of "better and more extensive staffing" over movement conservatives like themselves.

[5] Holding weekly meetings at the CPI headquarters are the hard right House Freedom Caucus, and the conservative Senate Republican Steering Committee, headed by Mike Lee.

This is made possible, according to Jonathan Blitzer of The New Yorker, by providing "an alternative, fully self-sufficient ecosystem" for anyone on the right who fears "financial ruin" and/or "pariah status" in Washington from taking "bold" action in the service of the Trump cause.

[5] Kloster's group, Courage Under Fire Legal Defense Fund, has spent approximately $3 million as of May 2024 defending John Eastman, Peter Navarro, Mike Roman.

CPI's aim, as expressed in its annual report, is to transform the swath of prime real estate into a campus it calls 'Patriot's Row'".

[12] Roughly a dozen congressional staff training events are held at the compound each year, including a "researcher bootcamp" and a "legislative director retreat".

[5] According to CPI tax filings in that year, Other large donors were A 2022 NPR investigation found CPI might be violating prohibitions on 501(c)(3) charities (as a nonprofit, it is prohibited from "partisan spending or certain kinds of lobbying") providing benefits to political parties by supporting candidates and groups aligned with the Republican Party.