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Newsletter: Who Deleted the CIA Director’s Signal Messages?

The revelations that Signal messages were likely deleted despite a court order for their preservation comes as the Trump administration is in a con…

April 18, 2025

Newsletter: Investigating Threats to Crucial Social Services

American Oversight is investigating the Trump administration’s efforts to gut the Social Security Administration. Plus, an update on our efforts to…

April 11, 2025

Newsletter: Signalgate Scandal Fallout Continues and New Details About the Trump Administration’s Record-Keeping Practices Emerge

New revelations about the Trump administration’s records retention policies emerged this week, as American Oversight’s public records law litigatio…

April 4, 2025

Newsletter: The Latest on Our Signalgate Lawsuit

After American Oversight filed suit against top Trump administration officials for their problematic use of a self-deleting messaging system, a jud…

March 28, 2025

Newsletter: Celebrating Sunshine Week and Fighting the Trump Administration’s War on Transparency

On the 20th anniversary of Sunshine Week, American Oversight emphasizes the need for government accountability as it fights for transparency from t…

March 21, 2025

Newsletter: Destruction at the Highest Level

Secrecy is central to President Trump and Elon Musk’s sweeping dismantling of the U.S. government, as was demonstrated once again this week through…

March 14, 2025

Newsletter: DOGE Must Not Operate in Secret

American Oversight amended its lawsuit against the “Department of Government Efficiency” this week, demanding the release of additional public reco…

March 7, 2025

Newsletter: Ongoing USAID Fallout

American Oversight launched an investigation into Trump’s illegal dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development earlier this month.

February 28, 2025

Newsletter: Chaos by Design

If it feels like there are too many news stories to keep up with, you are not alone.

February 21, 2025

Newsletter: DOGE’s Evasion of FOIA, and Far-Right Attacks on Education

Trump and Musk are upending the federal government — and want to hide records detailing that destruction. American Oversight is fighting back, suin…

February 14, 2025

Newsletter: Destruction Masked as ‘Innovation’

The Trump administration’s radical plans to overhaul the federal government have taken on alarming proportions with the targeting of civil servants…

February 7, 2025

Newsletter: (Another) Friday Night Massacre

American Oversight is investigating the lead-up to Trump’s late-night firings of more than a dozen federal watchdogs to discover what — if any — at…

January 31, 2025

Newsletter: An Executive Assault on Democracy

Donald Trump returned to the White House — and to attacking core pillars of our democracy, signing executive orders that roll back civil rights pro…

January 24, 2025

Newsletter: The Senate’s Confirmation Hearing Blitz

As the Senate held a dozen confirmation hearings for Donald Trump’s cabinet picks this week, the American people still deserve a thorough vetting o…

January 17, 2025

Newsletter: Investigating Trump FBI Nominee Kash Patel

The public deserves to know whether and to what extent Trump’s FBI nominee was involved in efforts to politicize and abuse the Office of the Direct…

January 10, 2025

Newsletter: American Oversight’s 2024 in Review

As American Oversight prepares to combat the corruption and abuses of power that President-elect Trump has promised, we’re taking a look back at so…

December 20, 2024

Newsletter: Tracking Donald Trump’s Nominees

President-elect Donald Trump has continued to fill his incoming administration with allies and loyalists, an indication of his desire to be surroun…

December 13, 2024

Newsletter: The Latest on Congress’ Efforts to Hide Communications from 2017

Congress is fighting to withhold records related to Republicans’ 2017 attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

December 6, 2024

Newsletter: Matt Gaetz Will Not Be Attorney General

Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration for attorney general this week, just days after American Oversight accelerated its lawsuit for documents rel…

November 22, 2024

Newsletter: A Cabinet of Loyalists and Extremists

Donald Trump’s first announcements of nominations for key administration posts offer a glimpse of his second-term agenda: reward political allies a…

November 15, 2024

Newsletter: A Second Trump Administration and the Threat to Our Democracy

American Oversight is prepared to fight the corruption and abuses of power that Donald Trump has promised, and to hold the incoming administration …

November 8, 2024

Newsletter: The Latest Anti-Democratic Tactics Threatening Voter Access and Fair Elections

American Oversight is tracking the last-minute legal maneuvers, voter challenges, and misinformation that anti-democratic actors are deploying in t…

November 1, 2024

Newsletter: Tracking Anti-Democratic Tactics Across the Country

In the final weeks before the 2024 election, anti-democratic activists and political leaders have ramped up efforts to suppress votes and exacerbat…

October 25, 2024

Newsletter: How Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Is Fueling the Election Denial Movement

American Oversight is investigating how the anti-democracy movement has promulgated the nonexistent threat of widespread illegal voting to sow doub…

October 18, 2024

Newsletter: Fighting for the Public’s Right to Information

On Thursday, American Oversight filed a brief in the Texas Supreme Court opposing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s and Attorney General Ken Paxton’s petiti…

October 11, 2024

Newsletter: Affirming the Public’s Right to Records in Arizona

American Oversight reached a settlement agreement in our lawsuit in Cochise County, Ariz., after the county turned over thousands of pages of reque…

October 4, 2024

Newsletter: Secrecy and Partisanship in the Georgia State Election Board

Anti-voting activists continue seeking to disrupt voting and certification processes in Georgia. In Florida, a court ruled that Gov. Ron DeSantis m…

September 27, 2024

Newsletter: Abortion Ballot Measure Showdown in Missouri

An attempt in Missouri to block an abortion rights measure from appearing on the November ballot is the latest example of conservative efforts to s…

September 13, 2024

Newsletter: Investigating Attacks on Public Education in Oklahoma

American Oversight this week sent a letter demanding that the Oklahoma State Department of Education release multiple sets of public records.

September 4, 2024

Newsletter: Georgia Election Board Walks Back Illegal Rules

The Georgia State Election Board this week withdrew rules it had approved in an illegal meeting, after American Oversight sued the board for violat…

September 2, 2024

Newsletter: The Anti-Democratic Push to Allow Officials to Refuse to Certify Elections

August 22, 2024

Newsletter: The Push for Hand Counts

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August 22, 2024

Newsletter: The Staggering Number of Preventable Deaths in ICE Detention

August 22, 2024

Newsletter: Demand for Records from Wisconsin Fake Elector; Book Removals in Georgia County

August 22, 2024

Newsletter: The Georgia Election Board’s Illegal Meeting

August 22, 2024

Newsletter: Project 2025’s Anti-Democracy Guidebook

August 22, 2024

Newsletter: Georgia Election Board Walks Back Illegal Rules

August 22, 2024

Newsletter: Scrutiny over Georgia Election Board

August 22, 2024

Newsletter: Investigating Attacks on Public Education in Oklahoma

August 21, 2024

Newsletter: Scrutiny over Georgia Election Board

The Georgia State Election Board met this week and advanced several anti-democratic measures.

August 9, 2024

Newsletter: Demand for Records from Wisconsin Fake Elector; Book Removals in Georgia County

Records obtained by American Oversight show that dozens of titles were removed from a Georgia county’s school library shelves for including LGBTQ+ …

July 12, 2024

Newsletter: The Staggering Number of Preventable Deaths in ICE Detention

American Oversight, the ACLU, and Physicians for Human Rights this week published the most comprehensive and rigorous study to date on deaths in U….

June 28, 2024