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The DOGE deception
The official DOGE website says that its page detailing spending cuts was "last updated on April 20, 2025." In a technical sense, that is accurate.
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Judd Legum
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U.S. citizen wrongly detained by Border Patrol says government account is false
Jose Hermosillo was held in a detention facility for undocumented immigrants for 10 days.
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Judd Legum
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$3 billion yanked from schools to help pay for Trump’s tax cuts
At the end of March, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon sent a letter to state school officials across the country declaring that the federal…
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Rebecca Crosby
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Noel Sims
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Federal immigration authorities wrongfully detain U.S. citizens
Immigration law in the United States is based on the idea that all people, regardless of how they entered the country, have rights.
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Judd Legum
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UPDATE: Congressman demands Social Security reverse "potentially illegal" new policy
On March 20, Popular Information revealed that the Social Security Administration (SSA) secretly implemented a policy shift that could impose massive…
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Judd Legum
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UPDATE: North Carolina must restore wrongly invalidated ballots, election board rules
On Monday, Popular Information reported that at least 29 people had their ballots in the 2024 general election wrongly discarded by the North Carolina…
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Judd Legum
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Truth Social launches scheme to profit from Trump's tariff policies
A jaw-dropping conflict of interest.
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Judd Legum
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North Carolina Supreme Court throws out hundreds of ballots based on flawed data
This is a special collaboration between Popular Information and Anderson Alerts, a newsletter about North Carolina politics.
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Judd Legum
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Rebecca Crosby
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Noel Sims
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Trump administration cancels program to protect Alabamans from raw sewage
On January 20, President Trump's first day back in office, he issued an executive order requiring the federal government to terminate "all…
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Judd Legum
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UPDATE: After backlash, Social Security scraps plan to restrict phone service
On March 17, Popular Information published an internal Social Security Administration (SSA) memo exposing a scheme to end phone service for new claims…
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Judd Legum
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$1,000,000,000,000
President Trump and his allies have told Americans that the federal deficit is an existential threat to the country that necessitates immediate spending…
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Judd Legum
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The five-month campaign to steal a North Carolina Supreme Court seat
In November, Allison Riggs (D) won election to the North Carolina Supreme Court.
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Rebecca Crosby
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Noel Sims
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