Dan Petty
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Director of Audience Strategy @ProPublica. Past @MediaNewsGroup @denverpost. Dad, journalist, runner.
Denver, CO
Joined June 2009
"The Strategy Group’s ad work is the first known example of money flowing from [DHS Secretary Kristi] Noem’s agency to businesses controlled by her allies and friends."
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The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding...
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New: Agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter in a massive show of force. Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. But after the cameras were gone, federal prosecutors did not charge anyone.
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Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans...
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In recent years, FDA inspectors have uncovered disturbing lapses in facilities producing food bound for American supermarkets. Now, under the second Trump administration, inspections are their lowest since 2011, excluding the pandemic. https://t.co/RjaBZWA2wB
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The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s seafood and more than half its fresh...
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After Russ Vought experienced the chaotic failures of Trump’s first term, he made it his mission to ensure that a reelected Trump would not “lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.” https://t.co/WoKHXgy7gB
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From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that...
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We wanted to know something simple: Where a widely used generic drug was made and whether that factory had any quality problems. It was more complicated than you'd expect:
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We wanted to know where a widely used prescription drug that treats high cholesterol was manufactured and whether the factory had quality issues. The search led to a labyrinth of company names and...
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Medill’s 2025 State of Local News report tracked 136 newspaper closures over the past year — most of which affected smaller, independent owners. In total, the country has lost nearly 3,500 newspapers and 270K newspaper jobs over the past two decades.
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The United States has lost nearly 3,500 newspapers and more than 270,000 newspaper jobs since 2005, the report found
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🧵Hi, I'm the @propublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.
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The government doesn’t track how many citizens are held by immigration agents. We found more than 170 cases this year where citizens were detained at raids and protests.
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The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And...
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX has taken money directly from Chinese investors, according to previously sealed testimony, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of the United States’ most important military contractors.
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The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most...
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It's a journalist's job to ask questions of government officials, no matter which party is in power. That often means respectfully knocking on doors to get answers people deserve to know. Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work:
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Our job is to hold people and institutions accountable. To do that, we need evidence.
.@ProPublica is an extreme liberal news outlet that will do anything to make the Trump Administration look bad. But this week, the far-left editors there reached a new low by sending @VernalColeman to stalk @DeptVetAffairs employees at their homes. This creepy behavior will
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In July, the FBI investigated social media accounts connected to the 16-year-old who shot two students and then himself at Evergreen High School in Colorado last week, but did not identify the boy or take any further action before the attack:
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The FBI “opened an assessment into a social media account user whose identity was unknown and who was discussing the planning of a mass shooting with threats non-specific in nature.”
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The former acting head of the Social Security Administration sat for 15 hours of candid interviews with @propublica. The irony of the DOGE efforts — which prioritized quick flashy wins for X posts — is that the agency actually needs help and reform. Link in the replies 👇
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1/ The documents are clear: Lee Zeldin and his wife have two principal-residence mortgages, for properties in Long Island and Washington, D.C. We’ve got the records 👇 Long Island: https://t.co/r79K43eYxd D.C.:
ProPublica’s headline is the definition of fake news. I have NEVER claimed more than one primary residence! In 2007, I acquired a primary residence in NY upon leaving active duty. That was my primary residence for the next 17.5 years. My primary residence then changed
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“The U.S. has added just 598,000 jobs so far in 2025. Outside of 2020, when the pandemic hit, that is the fewest for the first eight months of the year since 2009, when the economy was buckled by the financial crisis.”
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The U.S. added 22,000 jobs in August, the Labor Department reported Friday, below the gain of 75,000 jobs economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had expected.
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New from @propublica: The White House has targeted opponents, including Fed governor Lisa Cook, for having more than one primary residence on loan papers. We found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two such mortgages in quick succession.
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The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got...
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Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U.S.-funded nonprofit.
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Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a...
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RFK Jr. promised to identify the causes of autism but has eliminated parts of his agency actively investigating them while cutting millions in funding for autism research:
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While touting a $50 million initiative to identify the causes of autism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is helping lead an administration that is rolling back protections against pollution and toxic chemica...
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Greystar, America’s largest landlord with nearly 950,000 apartments, makes deal with DOJ to settle price-fixing claims in RealPage case. @propublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents:
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Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents. ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in...
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Some of the country’s largest law firms have declined to represent clients challenging the Trump administration, multiple attorneys and nonprofit leaders told @propublica. Others have sought to avoid any clients that Trump might perceive as his enemies.
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Some of America’s largest law firms are refusing to take pro bono and paid legal work from groups that seek to hold the government to account on issues like environmental protection, LGBTQ+ rights...
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