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Records: Fringe Election Deniers Leverage White House Access, Enlist Commerce Department to Target Voting Machines

Internal Emails Show Susie Wiles Connecting Election Deniers — One Now Facing Charges for Violating State Election Laws — with Top Admin Officials

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September 10, 2026

American Oversight Investigating CDC’s Apparent Manipulation of Measles Death Data At Kennedy’s Command

We’re seeking CDC and HHS records on the decision to alter data on Pennsylvania measles deaths, including one involving a newborn.

September 3, 2026

Bombshell: DHS Memo Lays Out Dubious Legal Roadmap for Sidestepping Posse Comitatus Act to Deploy National Guard

Records we obtained raise alarm as consequential midterm election approaches.

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August 28, 2026

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IRS sued by watchdog group for records on Trump’s attacks on Harvard

NPR

A nonprofit watchdog group sued the Trump administration on Monday for “unlawfully withholding records” regarding President Trump’s actions against…

Mistaken ID: Did a gang database error help send the wrong man to a Salvadoran prison?

USA Today

The database entry was part of a slide presentation by Texas law enforcement officials obtained through records requests by American Oversight, a n…

IRS Can Only Give Tax Data to ICE in Deportation, Criminal Cases

Bloomberg

A federal judge on Monday ordered the mostly redacted IRS-ICE agreement to be “almost entirely unsealed” in response to a request from the watchdog…

What Was on Mike Waltz’s Phone?

The Columbia Journalism Review

Upon learning this, the watchdog group American Oversight sued the administration and sought to recover the deleted messages.

Mike Waltz Is Out as National Security Adviser

The National Interest

“It speaks volumes that President Trump views the original sin as the addition of a reporter to the Signal chat, rather than the reckless and illeg…

Judge Boasberg Keeps Getting Assigned Trump Cases. Lawmakers Want to Know Why.

Townhall

The congressmen request of Caesar the following information from the cases of: Project on Government Oversight v. Trump from February 21, 2025; J. …

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