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While DOGE claimed to cut federal spending, SpaceX, Tesla, and Neuralink affiliates quietly secured over $10 billion in new federal contracts. Here is the full pipeline.
The STOCK Act of 2012 was supposed to end congressional insider trading. Twenty years later, the exemptions are so broad that nearly every trade is legal.
Americans for Prosperity, the JDavis Fund, and a web of LLCs form the largest donor network in American politics. Here's exactly where the money goes.
The Trump family's crypto portfolio is now larger than the public ethics disclosure filings. Here's the gap, and what it implies about federal crypto policy.
In the first quarter of 2026, members of Congress bought hundreds of millions in stocks during a market dip. Two weeks later, federal actions moved the market. The timing is not a coincidence.
Five legal structures that turn a $5,000 contribution into millions in political influence. None of them technically violate federal election law.
Federal procurement fraud rarely makes the news. When it does, the numbers are almost unbelievable. Inside the largest single-vendor defense fraud case of the decade.
Lockheed, Raytheon, Boeing, Northrop, General Dynamics: the names are familiar, the dollar figures are not. Five companies absorb 30% of the entire defense budget.
Pre-sale tokens sold to foreign investors before retail. Token unlocks timed with executive actions. The pattern is too clean to be coincidence.
Every member of the Armed Services Committee. Every donation. Every contract. Cross-referenced and charted.
Sole-source awards bypass the competitive process entirely. We pulled every one in the last two years and ranked the worst offenders.
Five LLCs, $1B in contributions, zero public accountability. The 16-year-old funding network Democrats pretend does not exist.
$200M raised. $0 to candidates. $200M to a "get out the vote" operation that targeted exactly the swing states the Trump campaign needed.
NVIDIA, Palantir, Microsoft, Oracle. 47 members of Congress bought into AI while their committees drafted the rules that would govern it.
Fed officials disclosed 380+ trades in 2025. Several intersected with FOMC decisions on interest rates, bank oversight, and emergency facilities.
OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Palantir. Same funding sources. Same contractors. Same oversight gaps. We tracked every federal AI award in 2025.
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