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Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers wears a red Save America baseball cap as she speaks.

Big Lie Proponents Are Creating Harsh Criminal Penalties for Elections Activity

by Ese Olumhense October 27, 2022November 5, 2022

The proliferation of election crime legislation is the most threatening front in voter suppression efforts in generations.

A split image with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on the left and True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht on the right.

Voting

Group Behind ‘2000 Mules’ Has Deep Ties to Ken Paxton

by Cassandra Jaramillo July 21, 2022July 26, 2022

The Texas attorney general would be the one to hold True the Vote accountable on allegations that it swindled a $2.5 million donor. But the nonprofit’s founder has been a friend and ally.

Accountability

A Family Divided Over Jan. 6: ‘Traitors Get Shot’

by Amy Mostafa, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Jess Alvarenga and Kevin Sullivan May 21, 2022May 27, 2022

Guy Reffitt is the first person to stand trial for taking part in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. His son secretly recorded him and gave the tapes to the FBI.

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Accountability

Behind the Tweet That Became the Rallying Cry for the Insurrection

by Stan Alcorn November 24, 2021December 3, 2021

“I underestimated how crazy certain people could get.”

An illustration shows a group of people from behind facing the U.S. Capitol. Among them are people holding up a cross, a Confederate flag and a sign that reads, “Stop the steal.”

Religion, Religion and Government

How the Christian right helped foment insurrection

by Sarah Posner January 30, 2021June 30, 2021

Christian-right activists inside and outside of government promoted the election fraud lie and claimed God told them to “let the church roar.”

Kamala Harris, in a long blue coat, smiles as she holds up her hand to be sworn in as Vice President. Behind her is the US Capitol, decorated with American flags. Justice Sonia Sotomayor stands several feet away, dressed in her judges robe and swearing Harris in.

Accountability

A transfer of power

by Kevin Sullivan, Taki Telonidis, Michael Montgomery, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Brett Simpson, Brett Myers, Najib Aminy, Elizabeth Shogren, Al Letson, Chris Harland-Dunaway, Jonathan Jones, Anjali Kamat, Amy Mostafa and Chris Jones January 23, 2021July 1, 2021

As the nation swears in President Joe Biden, we look at the long shadow cast by the forces that brought Donald Trump to power.

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A trump supporter wearing a gas mask and waving an american flag stands in an unruly crowd outside the Capitol building.

Hate

The evolution of all-American terrorism

by Kevin Sullivan, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Brett Myers, Brett Simpson, Najib Aminy, Amy Mostafa, Jen Chien, Priska Neely, Stan Alcorn, David Neiwert, Esther Kaplan, Taki Telonidis, Soo Oh and Al Letson January 16, 2021July 1, 2021

Long before the attempted coup by his supporters, Trump fanned the flames of white supremacy and domestic terrorism.

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Trump Supporters Hold "Stop The Steal" Rally In DC Amid Ratification Of Presidential Election

Accountability

Democracy under siege

by Kevin Sullivan, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Al Letson, Brett Simpson, Anjali Kamat, Katharine Mieszkowski, Najib Aminy, Chris Harland-Dunaway, Michael Montgomery, Jen Chien, Taki Telonidis and Amy Mostafa January 9, 2021July 1, 2021

A mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, aiming to block the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory. How did we get here?

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Accountability, Criminal Justice

Pardon me, President Trump

by Michael I Schiller and David Ritsher December 26, 2020June 30, 2021

Boxer Charles “Duke” Tanner, among the few to receive clemency from President Donald Trump, returns to his hometown after spending 16 years in prison.