Still shaping the record
Updated reporting, durable evidence, and money trails that remain essential context for current decisions.
The first $14.5 million was only the beginning. Outside spending in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary exceeded $60 million, more than $50 million backed Haley Stevens, and AIPAC and its affiliates supplied more than $30 million. Abdul El-Sayed still won by 14,893 votes.
A pop-up super PAC spent $475,000 boosting a candidate who swore off AIPAC. The lobby’s $287,750 reached the network weeks earlier — and the donors stay secret until after the votes are counted.
An internal audit of BBC News headlines reveals a systemic double standard in how the broadcaster attributes military violence to Western allies versus geopolitical adversaries. By utilizing passive voice and doubt-casting language, the BBC effectively sanitizes the impact of regional strikes while maintaining a thin veneer of impartiality.
United Democracy Project (C00799031), the super PAC closely aligned with AIPAC, directed exactly $19,090,698 to oppose Rep. Jamaal Bowman in New York's 16th District. This investigation traces that money back to a handful of high-net-worth individuals, including Paul Singer and Haim Saban, and a $30 million infusion from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. While the filings prove the magnitude of the opposition, the precise coordination between these funds and local ground games remains an inference not yet documented in federal records. The scale of this spending represents a historic intervention in a congressional primary by a single-issue interest group. Understanding this trail requires distinguishing between the proven independent expenditures and the inferred political impact on the district's electorate.
The U.S. Air Force bypassed competitive bidding laws in January to hand Amazon a massive cloud contract. The deal followed a record-breaking lobbying spend, cementing 'vendor lock-in' at the highest levels of national security.
While defense contractors lobbied for emergency spending, major networks scrubbed US accountability from their coverage. We track the linguistic shifts that paved the way for billions in new military contracts.
Chronological public record
A Gen Us investigation reveals that the 'experts' pushing for war on Sunday news shows are the same people sitting on boards of firms profiting from those wars. We track the 12:1 pro-intervention bias networks didn't tell you about.
The U.S. Army bypassed standard competitive bidding to award a $5.5 billion modernization contract to Salesforce under an 'urgency' clause. This award followed a record $12.4 million lobbying surge and the hiring of a retired Army General who previously managed the procurement process.