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Investigations

Transparency

DHS officials’ texts show unfiltered reaction to January 6

Take a look at Federal Protective Service senior officials' internal text messages as they prepped for and responded to January 6th.

Investigations

Corruption

Trump’s mounting court fines make him an even bigger threat to national security

Trump’s corruption has always brought a threat to national security because he viewed the office of the president as one of self-service.

Reports

Corruption

“Trump has called all patriots”: 210 Jan. 6th criminal defendants say Trump incited them

210 defendants from 40 states who were charged for their participation in the January 6th insurrection have said they were answering Donald Trump's calls when they traveled to Washington and joined the violent attack on the Capitol.

FOIA Requests

Transparency

CREW requests records on governors deploying their states’ National Guard to the southern border

The public should know about any private or public funds governors are using to send their state's National Guard to the southern border.

Reports

Corruption

Trump was disqualified for insurrection in the only three states that heard evidence

Donald Trump has been disqualified from the ballot in Colorado, Maine and Illinois—and it is no coincidence that those are the only three states that have substantively grappled with whether the Fourteenth Amendment bars Trump from the ballot.

Investigations

Money In Politics

Republicans said they spent millions at Trump’s DC hotel out of convenience. They’ve all but deserted its replacement.

Since becoming a Waldorf Astoria in 2022, GOP spending at the largely unchanged luxury hotel in the Old Post Office building has all but disappeared.

DHS officials’ texts show unfiltered reaction to January 6

Trump’s mounting court fines make him an even bigger threat to national security

“Trump has called all patriots”: 210 Jan. 6th criminal defendants say Trump incited them

CREW requests records on governors deploying their states’ National Guard to the southern border

Trump was disqualified for insurrection in the only three states that heard evidence

Republicans said they spent millions at Trump’s DC hotel out of convenience. They’ve all but deserted its replacement.

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