AIPAC and its allies spent $8 million to take out a sitting Republican congressman who wouldn't fall in line. Here's how a lobby funded by a few billionaires came to own both parties' votes on war and peace.
A ProPublica investigation into MAGA influencer Nick Adams' civics charity found almost no evidence it teaches civics — and a $1,000,000 sweepstakes prize with no record of ever being paid. It fits a pattern.
A $10 million grant to clear dead trees in the Superior National Forest was frozen by DOGE. Now those woods are burning — and the congressman who cheered DOGE on is pointing at Canada.
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Connecticut rank #1 through #4 on the 17 measures we track. Between them they send 25 people to Congress — and not one is a Republican. The four worst states send 24 Republicans.
Florida's Greg Steube filed a bill to rename 4.3 million square miles of American ocean after Donald Trump, then a bill to cut off $150 million from a transit system his constituents will never ride. Neither has gone anywhere.
The Education Department and DOJ gave Ann Arbor schools until Aug. 10 to change its policy or face enforcement — using a student privacy law that experts say doesn't require what the government claims.
Agents' own texts, bodycam footage and depositions — obtained in discovery — show racial slurs used to pick who got stopped, and an ICE headquarters order to "turn the creativity knob up to 11."
Fifty-three grants canceled overnight, and the money redirected to abstinence, marriage promotion, and "fertility tracking" — an approach research shows produces more teen pregnancies, not fewer.
Two courts have already blocked the order, saying the Constitution gives states — not presidents — the power to run elections. Twelve Republican attorneys general are backing it anyway.
