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Our Tweet Ended Kathleen Sgamma’s Bid to Lead Trump Public Lands Agency
Memo Revealed Sgamma Was 'Disgusted' by Trump's Role in Inciting Jan. 6 Violence
Apr 11
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Nick Surgey
February 2025
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
Feb 14
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Brendan Fischer
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Emma Steiner
December 2024
Introducing Fieldnotes
Fieldnotes is a new watchdog group created by former Documented researchers that investigates the oil and gas industry.
Dec 5, 2024
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Nick Surgey
May 2024
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
May 21, 2024
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Brendan Fischer
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Victoria Cadostin
March 2024
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…
Mar 16, 2024
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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.
Mar 1, 2024
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Brendan Fischer
October 2023
New Speaker of the House Equated Reproductive Rights with Holocaust
Editorial uncovered by Documented reveals Johnson's extreme views on abortion.
Oct 26, 2023
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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
Oct 26, 2023
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Ed Pilkington
and
Nick Surgey
The Legal Arm of the Christian Right Has a Plan to Sink the Public School System
Internal recordings and documents outlining the strategy of Alliance Defending Freedom were obtained by Documented
Oct 5, 2023
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Nick Surgey
August 2023
Meet "Eagle AI," the Cleta Mitchell-Backed MAGA Mass Voter Challenge Program
The former Trump attorney and her network of election conspiracy theorists are backing a dark money effort to generate thinly-sourced voter challenges…
Aug 21, 2023
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Brendan Fischer
April 2023
Dark Money Groups Push Election Denialism on US State Officials
Groups have created incubator of policies that would restrict ballot access and amplify election fraud claims.
Apr 10, 2023
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Ed Pilkington
and
Jamie Corey
January 2023
Rightwing group pours millions in ‘dark money’ into US voter suppression bid
Tax filings reveal advocacy arm of Heritage Foundation spent $5m on lobbying in 2021 as it worked to undermine voting rights
Jan 17, 2023
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Brendan Fischer
and
Ed Pilkington
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