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TPUSA launches project targeting school board members
The "School Board Watchlist" goes live as protests have turned increasingly violent and ugly. TPUSA CEO Charlie Kirk calls school board members…
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Nick Surgey
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Republican secretaries of state flew to D.C. this summer to scheme with voter suppression advocates
Materials obtained by Documented shine a light on late June 2021 meetings held at 5-Star luxury hotel
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Nick Surgey
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Jamie Corey
TPUSA is launching an "America-first education" program to indoctrinate 5 year olds
Turning Point Academy will launch later this year, training thousands of K-12 teachers to teach a TPUSA curriculum, bringing the culture war to the…
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Nick Surgey
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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
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Nick Surgey
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
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
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
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Nick Surgey
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
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…
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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
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
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