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Musk-Linked Group Offered $5m for Proof of Voter Fraud – and Came up With Nothing
Fair Election Fund has yet to reveal evidence of voter fraud despite deep-pocketed backers – and has now gone silent
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Brendan Fischer
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Emma Steiner
Introducing Fieldnotes
Fieldnotes is a new watchdog group created by former Documented researchers that investigates the oil and gas industry.
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Nick Surgey
Trump-Linked Dark-Money Group Spent $90m on Racist and Transphobic Ads in 2022, Records Show
Revealed: Citizens for Sanity was one of top political spenders last election cycle and is back for 2024 with more extreme messaging
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Brendan Fischer
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Victoria Cadostin
Meet Michigan's Conspiracy-Driven Mass Voter Challenge Outfit
As part of its "Soles to the Rolls" program, the Michigan chapter of Cleta Mitchell’s Election Integrity Network is going door-to-door and flooding…
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Lekha Shupeck
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Brendan Fischer
Ranked-Choice Voting is MAGA’s Latest Target
Leonard Leo and other far-right power players are attacking a bipartisan election reform.
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Brendan Fischer
New Speaker of the House Equated Reproductive Rights with Holocaust
Editorial uncovered by Documented reveals Johnson's extreme views on abortion.
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Jamie Corey
‘Get the Right Cases to the Supreme Court’: Inside Charles Koch’s Network
Billionaire’s web of rightwing groups works to bring cases to court that could undermine core functionings of the US government
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Ed Pilkington
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Nick Surgey
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