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Trans People Build Power Despite Ballot Losses
Reminiscent of an earlier era, connections and influence grow.
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Trans People Build Power Despite Ballot Losses
Reminiscent of an earlier era, connections and influence grow.
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MAHA’s Future Uncertain Following Midterm Blowout and Kennedy “Betrayal”
Robert Kennedy Jr. hemorrhages MAHA support from inside and outside of HHS.
False Protection: Trump Fails Women in Title IX Assault Cases
Rules put survivors on trial. Education department abandons investigations. Bogus anti-trans cases are pursued instead.
Dark Money
Anti-Vaxxers Target Doctors to Deny Measles Deaths in Widening Outbreak
Children’s Health Defense boasts that it sparked malpractice inquiries into two doctors who treated deceased unvaccinated measles patients.
Dark Money
Exxon Heiress Aims to Regenerate the Earth With Spirituality
The great-granddaughter of one of America’s wealthiest oilmen has teamed up with an anti-vax doctor.
Trump Administration
The U.S. “Campaign of Interference and Destabilization” in Brazil's Election
The Trump administration is working to elect its ally in Brazil.
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Trump Administration
Trump Administration
MAHA’s Future Uncertain Following Midterm Blowout and Kennedy “Betrayal”
Robert Kennedy Jr. hemorrhages MAHA support from inside and outside of HHS.
Trump Administration
The U.S. “Campaign of Interference and Destabilization” in Brazil's Election
The Trump administration is working to elect its ally in Brazil.
HHS Releases Another Report Attacking Transgender Americans and Their Allies
“In my opinion, all the authors have done in this farce of a survey is measured political affiliation.”
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Dark Money
Dark Money
Anti-Vaxxers Target Doctors to Deny Measles Deaths in Widening Outbreak
Children’s Health Defense boasts that it sparked malpractice inquiries into two doctors who treated deceased unvaccinated measles patients.
Dark Money
Exxon Heiress Aims to Regenerate the Earth With Spirituality
The great-granddaughter of one of America’s wealthiest oilmen has teamed up with an anti-vax doctor.
Dark Money
Children’s Health Defense ‘Expert’ Who Blamed Measles Deaths on Medical Malpractice Found to Have Caused Patient Death
A federal appeals court granted Dr. Pierre Kory immunity under a law anti-vaxxers have railed against.
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Education Under Attack
How a Free Speech Group Helped Right-Wing Dark Money Undermine Protections for Trans and Nonbinary Students
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression weighed in on a case brought by Parents Defending Education in Ohio.
“A New Academic Publishing Model”: Right-Wing Dark Money Group Launches Fringe Medical Journal
The right-wing RealClear Foundation’s foray into public health has been called “a mockery of scientific process.”
The Invisible Hand: How Dark Money Is Inventing Prestige for Right-Wing Academics
The American Academy of Sciences and Letters sounds prestigious, but is it really?
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Secretive Influence
Secretive Influence
Trans People Build Power Despite Ballot Losses
Reminiscent of an earlier era, connections and influence grow.
Secretive Influence
Democrats Lose by Punching Down on Trans Issues, Strategists Say
Insiders, including at centrist think tank Third Way, are cautioning Democratic candidates against echoing Republican talking points on trans rights.
Transphobic Ballot Questions Reveal the Right's Anti-Girl, Anti-Kid Agenda
Seven initiatives in five states would exploit trans people to promote a gender-policing surveillance state.