Internal DHS records show undercover agents infiltrated community meetings, penetrated Signal chats, and obtained financial records of unions and nonprofits opposing ICE operations in Minnesota. This is not a story about overreach — it is a description of how the system is now designed to work.
The DOJ has accused California's two women's prisons of failing to protect incarcerated women from staff sexual abuse — a direct challenge to the state's carefully constructed identity as a national model for criminal justice reform.
A $70 million AI industry super PAC is reshaping Democratic primaries with the same logic as AIPAC: fund the candidates least likely to regulate you, and make accountability expensive. Greg Casar wants his party to name what's happening before it's too late.
New Jersey has subpoenaed GEO Group, the private prison corporation operating Delaney Hall, after multiple detainee deaths and accounts of beatings in retaliation for hunger strikes. The state civil rights investigation is now the only functioning oversight of a facility the federal government has r
A bill framed around 'organized retail crime' would install ICE as the lead federal agency on commercial theft — giving the immigration enforcement agency a new statutory mandate to operate in communities where immigrant workers are concentrated.
The DNC's autopsy author found that Gaza policy cost Harris measurable votes in Michigan — then kept that chapter out of the official report. The omission tells you exactly who the document was written to protect.
ICE will deploy body cameras by the end of next month — under a policy that lets the agency's own director decide whether the public ever sees the footage. The cameras are real. The accountability is not.
Since 2020, more than two dozen bills to strengthen congressional stock trading rules have died without a vote. The reason is structural, not procedural: the people who would pay the cost of reform are the ones voting on it.
AIPAC has spent $30.6 million to defeat progressive Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan — the most it has ever directed at a single race. The shell PAC infrastructure behind that number is designed to make sure voters never see where the money came from.
Francesca Hong is running for Wisconsin governor on free childcare — and finding it lands across ideological lines. The deeper story is why a policy this popular took a pandemic to become politically viable, and who benefited from keeping it off the table.
Marc Rosenblum built the most transparent immigration enforcement data system in DHS history. It went dark in January 2025 — the same month arrests surged past 10,000 in five days. His resignation is not the story. The information blackout is.
A bipartisan group of former FCC officials filed a formal warning this week: the early license review targeting ABC's eight stations is designed to intimidate broadcasters, not adjudicate a legal violation. The chilling effect isn't a side consequence — it's the goal.
Kash Patel is suing The Atlantic for reporting on his conduct as FBI director. The lawsuit's legal merits will be decided by a court. Its political function — making coverage of the FBI director expensive enough to discourage — is already working.
Liz Oyer was fired for refusing to recommend restoring gun rights to Trump ally Mel Gibson. Her Senate testimony isn't just about one official — it's a documented account of how the DOJ is being rebuilt to punish independence and reward compliance.
The State Department's Cuba security report doesn't document a foreign threat — it names American activists, labor organizers, and journalists who criticized U.S. policy. That's not intelligence. It's a blacklist.
The CLARITY Act would curb Trump's crypto self-dealing. The moderate Democrats backing it are also cashing checks from the industry they'd constrain — exposing a donor dependency that makes the party's anti-corruption posture largely ceremonial.