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18 investigations · updated continuously
One Year In, Trump's Data Center Order Is Costing Communities Dearly
Since Trump Took Office: Beef Up 24%, Diesel Up 41%, Debt Up $3.7 Trillion
A line-by-line ledger of what has changed since January 20, 2025. Every figure is linked, most of them to the government's own servers, and the ones that cut against the argument are printed too.
Trump's Regulator Just Approved Trump's Bank. The Paperwork Says That's Fine.
A Trump-appointed regulator approved a bank charter for a company the president's family owns a stake in, and ruled that every question about the conflict fell outside its jurisdiction.
Never Big on Facts, Ted Cruz Pushes a Debunked Miscarriage Stat
Ted Cruz claimed COVID vaccines caused an 82% miscarriage rate, then deleted the post. The real rate among vaccinated women was 12.6%. Among unvaccinated women, it was about the same. The thing that did raise pregnancy loss was catching COVID.
DOJ Plans Record 1,000 Election Monitors as Its Voter Fraud Cases Collapse
The Justice Department says it will deploy about 1,000 election monitors in November. The Civil Rights Division running the program is a fraction of that size, and its voter-fraud litigation has lost every case decided so far.
Vance Says Young People Can Buy Homes Again. Census Data Says Otherwise
Vice President JD Vance told an Ohio crowd that homeownership is "accessible again to our young people." Federal data released three weeks earlier shows the under-35 ownership rate falling to 35.2 percent.
She Pocketed a Slain Officer's Statue Fund. Trump Pardoned Her
Michele Fiore raised $70,000 for a slain officer's statue and spent it on herself, prosecutors proved. Trump's pardon wiped her conviction, and joins a long roster of fraud clemencies.
He Called the Bidens Corrupt. Then He Made $2.2 Billion in One Year.
Republicans spent four years calling the Bidens a crime family over foreign payments they never proved were illegal. Trump reported $2.2 billion in 2025 revenues, much of it from the same foreign interests he regulates.
The People Rewriting Your Child's Vaccine Schedule Admit They Have No Evidence
Trump signed an order to overhaul childhood vaccines, called the MMR shot "quite lethal," then admitted on camera he had no evidence — a one-word confession of unqualified policymaking.
Five Felonies, Thirty Months Later: The Boebert Case and the Retribution Question
Tyler Boebert's charges describe a video made when he was 18 and the girl was 17. The case sat for thirty months, then came alive after Lauren Boebert defied Trump on the Epstein files and mocked his defunding of Colorado. Coincidence deserves proof.
The GOP's Problem With The Constitution
Nancy Mace's call to bar Muslims from office joins a documented pattern: courts have repeatedly found Trump-era actions violating the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Sworn In Saturday, Breaking Promises by Monday: Todd Blanche's First Days as AG
Hours after being sworn in, AG Todd Blanche's DOJ issued a memo expanding Trump's executive privilege — after senators confirmed him on promises of restraint. His record with Ghislaine Maxwell suggested this all along.
Trump's Defense Lawyer Runs the DOJ — and He's the One Who Moved Ghislaine Maxwell
Todd Blanche, Trump's former criminal defense attorney and now attorney general, personally interviewed Ghislaine Maxwell — and days later she was moved to a cushy prison camp, against BOP policy.
The Fauci Texts Show Science Working. The NIH Director Calls That 'Shocking'
The GOP's release of 11 Fauci texts shows a scientist weighing evidence in real time. The Trump-appointed NIH director's "shocking" framing is the real story.
Meghan McCain Wants Fauci Jailed Over a Text That Shows Science Working
Meghan McCain demanded Fauci be jailed over a 2021 text flagging a theoretical miscarriage risk. In 2021 she wanted him fired for delivering the vaccine too slowly, got both doses while not pregnant, then pivoted to selling an $89.99 vaccine "detox."
Trump Won't Rule Out 'National Security Emergency' to Restrict Voting in Midterms
Trump declined to rule out declaring a "national security emergency for elections" to impose voter ID and mail-in ballot limits without Congress — a power no president has ever claimed.
Hegseth Cut the Flu Shot Mandate for "Readiness." The Military Just Restored It.
Hegseth made the military flu shot optional in April, calling mandates a threat to readiness. By June 24, the services reinstated it for all recruits after a Lackland outbreak hit 275 cases.
Rep. Gary Palmer Voted Against the Infrastructure Law, Then Took Credit for Its Funding
Rep. Gary Palmer voted against the 2021 infrastructure law, then issued a release on signing day taking credit for $369 million it directed to a highway in his Alabama district.