The Shakedown

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 • 

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 • 

Brendan Fischer

 and 

Emma Steiner

December 2024

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 • 

Brendan Fischer

 and 

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 • 

Lekha Shupeck

 and 

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 • 

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 • 

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 • 

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 • 

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 • 

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 • 

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 • 

Brendan Fischer

 and 

Ed Pilkington