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Dec 5, 2024 | documented.net | Nick Surgey

We wanted to tell you about Fieldnotes, an exciting new organization launched by some of our former Documented colleagues. Fieldnotes is a new watchdog group that investigates the oil and gas industry at a time when corporate interests and polluters are preparing an unprecedented attack on climate policy and U.S. regulatory agencies.

Nov 5, 2024 | documented.net | Alice Herman |Karen Goll

Leading figures on the Christian right have seized on an unlikely hero in their campaign against secular government: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, an antifascist theologian and pastor who resisted the Nazi regime before he was executed in 1945.

Jul 12, 2024 | documented.net | Andy Kroll |Nick Surgey

A network of ultrawealthy Christian donors is spending nearly $12 million to mobilize Republican-leaning voters and purge more than a million people from the rolls in key swing states, aiming to tilt the 2024 election in favor of former President Donald Trump.

Nov 7, 2023 | documented.net | Ed Pilkington |Nick Surgey

The Koch network, a web of rightwing groups cultivated by billionaire businessman Charles Koch and his late brother David Koch, is spearheading the attack on federal agencies and government regulations that dominates the US supreme court agenda this term. The network has been working behind the scenes to bring cases before the court that, if successful, could undermine many of the core functionings of the US government.

Oct 26, 2023 | documented.net | Jamie Corey

Newly-elected Speaker of the House Rep. Mike Johnson compared abortion to the Holocaust in 2005 and claimed “the prevailing judicial philosophy” that provided for a constitutional right to abortion “is no different than Hitler’s.” CBS News first reported on the op-ed uncovered by Documented. Johnson’s April 2005 opinion piece, published in Louisiana’s Shreveport Times, sought to tie abortion to a high profile legal battle over end of life care for Terri Schiavo.