Buying Justice: How Silicon Valley Billionaires Poured Dark Money Into America’s District Attorney Races
County-level campaign finance disclosures and FEC records reveal that tech billionaires spent hundreds of millions on the 2024 election cycle — with a significant portion directed at local prosecutor races…
The Toxic Legacy of Clean Energy: How Millions of Dead Solar Panels Are Becoming America’s Next Environmental Crisis
Waste management filings and EPA regulatory documents reveal a growing environmental hazard hiding in plain sight: early-generation solar panels reaching end-of-life are filling desert landfills with cadmium, lead, and other…
Philanthrocapitalism’s Broken Promise: How the Gates Foundation Reshaped Global Health in Its Own Image
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation spends more on global health annually than most countries’ entire health ministries. With an endowment exceeding $67 billion and annual grant disbursements topping $7…
The Smuggler’s Subsidy: How Cartel Networks Exploit Taxpayer-Funded NGO Logistics to Move Migrants Into the American Interior
Border sector data, NGO expenditure records, and intelligence assessments reveal a disturbing convergence: Mexican cartels have effectively co-opted the logistics infrastructure of humanitarian aid organizations — much of it taxpayer-funded…
Use It or Lose It: How Blue Cities Scrambled to Blow $350 Billion in COVID Relief Before the Deadline
With the December 31, 2024 obligation deadline looming, municipalities across the country raced to commit billions in American Rescue Plan funds — some on legitimate projects, many on wish-list items…
Patriot Preppers and the Freeze-Dried Fraud: Inside the Survivalist Food Scam Industry
An investigation into how survivalist food companies exploit political fear to sell overpriced, nutritionally deficient products to Americans convinced that societal collapse is imminent. Marketing the Apocalypse The emergency food…
Freedom Coins and Empty Wallets: The Politically Themed Crypto Scams That Drained Conservative Investors
Blockchain ledger analysis and SEC enforcement records reveal how politically themed cryptocurrencies — marketed to conservative investors as patriotic alternatives to the financial establishment — functioned as textbook pump-and-dump schemes.…
The Great ESG Vanishing Act: How Wall Street Dropped the Label While Keeping the Agenda
A systematic analysis of corporate earnings calls and fund marketing reveals that the term “ESG” is disappearing from Wall Street’s vocabulary — even as the underlying investment practices it describes…
Follow the Money: The Foundation Grants and Dark Money Behind Spring 2024’s Campus Encampments
Grant databases, IRS 990 filings, and foundation records reveal a financial network connecting major progressive donors to the student organizations that orchestrated university disruptions across the country. The tents weren’t…
Tehran’s Phantom Armada: Inside Iran’s Expanding Ghost Fleet of Sanctions-Busting Oil Tankers
Maritime tracking data and Panamanian registry records reveal how Iran has assembled a shadow fleet of aging tankers — flying flags of convenience and switching identities at sea — to…