The Lever

The Lever, which was previously called The Daily Poster, is a news outlet backed by its readers that investigates and holds accountable those in power, including individuals and corporations. Established in 2020 by David Sirota, an award-winning journalist and Oscar-nominated screenwriter, who previously worked as a speechwriter for Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign, The Lever aims to shed light on important issues. Their work includes articles, podcasts, videos, and live events that examine the intersections of politics, business, and corruption, particularly how financial influences can distort policies related to the economy and the environment.

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Whistleblower Lawsuit Exposes Trump’s Secret ICE Plot

1 day ago | levernews.com | Freddy Brewster

A new lawsuit accuses the Trump administration of using a secret subpoena to force Colorado officials to ignore state laws and hand over private financial information of residents sponsoring unaccompanied immigrant children. The state’s Democratic Gov. Jared Polis is allegedly demanding that those state officials comply under threat of termination, according to court documents reviewed by The Lever.
A Democratic Governor Lends A Hand To Loan Sharks

1 day ago | levernews.com | Veronica Riccobene

This is a web version of The Lever’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 Today’s Lever investigation (years in the making): Federal regulators have authorized hundreds of drugs without evidence they work, and many are dangerous. 👇 Spend three minutes reading this 998-word newsletter to learn about: How Republicans plan to sacrifice your life savings to crypto. Why loan sharks smell blood in the water in Maryland. A first-of-its-kind bill taking aim at corporate medicine.
AI Is Coming For Your Credit Union

2 days ago | levernews.com | Veronica Riccobene

This is a web version of The Lever’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 Today’s Lever essay: The resistance won’t succeed until it stops being a performance and starts challenging the system that got us here. 👇 Spend three minutes reading this 923-word newsletter to learn about: Elon’s return to office. Big Meat’s inauguration payoff. Which lawmaker didn’t bother to read the big beautiful bill. How AI became your new creditor. They can’t scam who they can’t find.
Meet Your Abundance Governor

3 days ago | levernews.com | Veronica Riccobene

This is a web version of The Lever’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 Today’s Lever story: One of the carveouts in the “Big, Beautiful Bill” would sell off 225,000 acres of protected federal land to a foreign mining company with close connections to the Trump family. 👇 Spend three minutes reading this 939-word newsletter to learn about: The bitter end of a half-century of environmental review. How much the Fed is running up in credit card fees. Project 2025’s presidential cabinet.
Wall Street’s At Home With Grandma

4 days ago | levernews.com | Veronica Riccobene

This is a web version of The Lever’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 Today’s Lever essay: Anti-oligarch politics are the only way to fight Trump. 👇 Spend three minutes reading this 934-word newsletter to learn about: The booming business behind presidential pardons. Palantir’s reported master list of Americans’ secrets. The landlord lobby’s push to keep California expensive. How private equity is taking over vital home care for millions of Americans. They can’t scam who they can’t find.
YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Climate Data Is Unscrubbed

1 week ago | levernews.com | Inci Sayki

Good things are happening! Farmers restore public climate change information, striking workers get covered, a court saves the Education Department, and wildfire prevention could save paradise. Following a lawsuit by farmers and environmental groups filed earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has agreed to reverse course and restore climate change-related information scrubbed from several of its websites when President Donald Trump took office.
Democratic Voters Know Who Their Real Enemy Is

1 week ago | levernews.com | Veronica Riccobene

This is a web version of The Lever’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 Today on Lever Time: Have we finally reached the end of DOGE? 👇 Spend three minutes reading this 954-word newsletter to learn about: How Democratic voters feel about the “Abundance” agenda. The industry ties of the federal government’s new top cryptocurrency regulator. Why CVS wants to close all of its pharmacies in one state. How Elon Musk recruited the Trump administration to help silence his shareholders.
Is This The End Of DOGE?

1 week ago | levernews.com | Arjun Singh

He came in with a bang but is going out with a whimper. After his 24/7 role on Trump’s election stage and his high-profile rampage through the federal government, billionaire Elon Musk says he’s scaling back his work for the administration and ramping down his political spending. With his image tarnished and businesses facing turbulence, is Musk down for the count — or planning his return as America’s most infamous oligarch?
How To Combat America’s Culture-Warrior-In-Chief

1 week ago | levernews.com | David Sirota

President Donald Trump is often perceived as an ideological paradox — at once populist and plutocratic, pro-working-class and anti-labor, pro-growth and anti-trade, maverick conservative and Old Guard Republican. But for all of what looks like impulsive zig-zagging, there is a consistent throughline: He’s always focused on finding, spotlighting, and exacerbating the country’s most divisive cultural flashpoints. So far, the strategy is working.
Tesla’s Great Shareholder Muzzling Of 2025

1 week ago | levernews.com | Freddy Brewster

As Tesla sales slump amid CEO Elon Musk’s divisive work at the White House, the Trump administration just allowed the electric vehicle company to block nearly all shareholder proposals issued by its investors ahead of its annual meeting. The blocked proposals would have demanded that Tesla not interfere with union efforts and meet global climate goals, among other initiatives.