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An investigative watchdog + journalism project exploring the influence of power and money in politics. 🔍 Get our newsletter: https://t.co/QjWGWqmOI5
Joined December 2017
Thank you to @LastWeekTonight for covering @ItsDocumented's resources on noncitizen voting and mass voter challenges led by a well-funded network of MAGA conspiracy theorists. Watch the full segment here:
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Rep. Cory Mills, already under investigation by House Ethics for financial disclosure and conflict of interest issues, allegedly received "SACKS OF CASH" from the defense contractor that he founded—while also sitting on the House Foreign Affairs and Armed Services committees.
NEW: Florida GOP committeewoman Lindsey Langston has filed for a restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills, her ex, after filing a police report alleging harassment & threats to release sexual videos of her and harm future boyfriends. Me @DropSiteNews
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Last fall, @propublica and @ItsDocumented broke the story that @russvought, Trump’s current budget chief, said he wanted to put gov't bureaucrats “in trauma.” Now, we're investigating the full extent of his impact on the federal government. And we need your help… 🧵 1/
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Sugar giant Florida Crystals gave Trump's super PAC another $2 million earlier this year, right around the time that Trump began pushing Coca-Cola to replace high-fructose corn syrup with cane sugar.
Trump’s push for Coca-Cola to use cane sugar could be a windfall for one of his billionaire megadonors. Jose “Pepe” Fanjul and his sugar empire, Florida Crystals, have poured millions into Trump’s campaigns — and have been racking up wins since Trump's return to office. 🧵
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New FEC reports prove that Trump pardoned tax cheat Paul Walczak just weeks after his mother gave $1 million to Trump’s super PAC. Remind me again how donations to “independent” groups like super PACs cannot lead to corruption?
This is an astonishingly corrupt transaction involving a $1 million fundraiser for an “independent” entity that the Supreme Court promised us would not lead to corruption.
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Although the FEC has said former candidates cannot use leftover campaign funds for personal use, the Commissioners have divided when campaign funds have been transferred to a leadership PAC, where they say the personal use rules don't apply.
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Herschel Walker's old Senate campaign spent $20K to charter a private jet on January 20, the same day that Trump was inaugurated in DC. It looks like a striking example of "zombie campaign" funds being improperly used for personal benefit.
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“It is hard to see how Sinema can credibly argue that luxury hotels, meal expenses, and extensive air travel are connected to her candidacy or officeholder duties, given that she is no longer a candidate or officeholder,” I told @NOTUSreports. A few thoughts: 🧵
Kyrsten Sinema isn’t running for office, but her campaign committee spent more than $391,000 between March 31 and June 30, according to FEC filings. https://t.co/ZoNCXTXzm1
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Each move, in isolation, might be defensible. But taken together, they reveal a pattern: empower MAGA-aligned groups and donors, and disempower everyone else. This is not principled policymaking, but instead part of an effort to tilt the playing field. (end)
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— The Trump administration is refusing to defend a campaign finance law that limits how much parties can spend in coordination with candidates—after GOP committees sued to overturn it, and despite objections from Democratic committees. 6/
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The Trump admin’s move to let churches engage in partisan politics is part of a broader strategy to loosen the rules when it benefits MAGA allies, and tighten them when it hurts the opposition. 🧵 1/
NEW: IRS says that churches can now endorse candidates from the pulpit -- granting them an exemption from a 70 year-old ban on politicking by tax-exempt groups. https://t.co/ZkCtnKKxBw
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This does nothing to reduce the deficit—but it gives billionaire megadonors a sigh of relief.
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Susquehanna founder and TikTok investor Jeff Yass has avoided $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He’s now pouring his money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election...
RIP US Department of Justice Tax Division zeroed out in the new DOJ budget memo Cutting prosecutions of tax cheats is one of the most short-sighted and least efficient moves any government can make
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If the Trumps are serious about building these phones in the US, then Trump now has a personal financial stake in tariff and trade negotiations. It also means that China has a potentially new source of leverage over the president. Both raise major conflict of interests. 1/
"Now we're doing Trump Mobile. And Trump mobile is going to revolutionize cell phones" -- Eric Trump announces the new Trump phone
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One implication of Trump’s plan to sell green cards for $5 million is that it would allow foreign billionaires and oligarchs to start legally pouring money into U.S. elections (including into Trump’s political operation).
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Irony is not dead: Pennsylvania Rep. Tom Jones is asking people to fork over between $500-$2,000 for a June 25th fundraiser titled, "Surviving the Swamp." 🤔 Check out the invite in our Swamp Dollars database:
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Documented is an investigative watchdog and journalism project committed to holding the powerful interests that undermine our democracy accountable.
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SLOW BURN: Seven months after @propublica + @ItsDocumented revealed Russ Vought's plan to put federal workers "in trauma," he's still getting asked about it. This time on CNN's flagship Sunday show. He doesn't look comfortable responding to it:
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President Donald Trump’s budget chief got cornered for saying government workers deserve to be “in trauma.” “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” Office of Management and Budget...
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This is an astonishingly corrupt transaction involving a $1 million fundraiser for an “independent” entity that the Supreme Court promised us would not lead to corruption.
"A judge had justified the incarceration by declaring that there 'is not a get-out-of-jail-free card' for the rich. The pardon, however, indicated otherwise."
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The Elon Musk-backed, Trump-aligned dark money group Building America’s Future is behind the multi-million dollar “Make America Affordable Again” ad campaign pushing "lawsuit reform," FCC records show.
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The fundraising never stops: From golf outings to happy hours, politicians are schmoozing all around the Washington, DC area. You can see a whole list of political invites from Reps like Jefferson Shreve, Scott Fitzgerald, Blake Moore, John James and more:
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Documented is an investigative watchdog and journalism project committed to holding the powerful interests that undermine our democracy accountable.
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Reminder: ProPublica and @ItsDocumented obtained more than 14 hours of videos from Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy. You can watch them all here: https://t.co/NnjuPQnsBv
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The videos are part of an ongoing effort to recruit and train thousands of future conservative appointees. Despite Donald Trump’s efforts to disavow Project 2025, most of the speakers in the videos...
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In October, we published secret recordings of Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term. It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism. https://t.co/vZ1qYSx3Tp
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Historians have hindsight when they look into the past; journalists have the facts on the ground and context to help them look ahead. That means we can sometimes be surprised by how prescient a story...
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