Investigations

The GOP candidate for Iowa’s open Senate seat tapped the co-founder of a consulting firm with a $9.9 million Israel contract.

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Voters in Maine, Michigan, and Texas said they want to see Democrats deliver Medicare for All, social welfare spending, and lower prices. And fewer campaign mailers.

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As the Michigan Senate race finishes with a focus on the Democratic primary loser’s gripes over Israel, the party nominee has endured a barrage of anti-Muslim attacks.

The Intercept reviewed more than two dozen incidents of ICE using its army of unmarked cars to attack immigrants and American activists alike.

The refusal of two pro-Palestine protesters to testify before a grand jury could hamper the left-wing donor’s extradition from Spain.

Sign up here to receive Bellingcat’s biggest investigations by email as soon as they are published. Become a member and support our work here. An online ad for Ben McAdams, the Democratic candidate for Congress in Utah, emphasised that he could be trusted because he “fought back against MAGA”.

By endorsing Abdul El-Sayed’s opponent for Israel’s sake, Stevens shows how the real threat to progress comes from centrists.

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Voting rights advocates in Texas warn that spreading awareness of voter intimidation could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

With Marco Rubio’s public plea for Cubans to work with the CIA, the administration is eyeing its next imperial conquest.

With Haley Stevens’s demand for an apology from the candidate who beat her, the party’s moderates are making clear they’d rather lose than empower a progressive wing critical of Israel.

In South Africa, home to the world’s largest population of people living with HIV, efforts to contain the virus have been upended.

James Talarico, Frederick D. Haynes, and Gina Hinojosa are all Christians running for public office — as Democrats — in Texas.

Intercept staff take stock of the big spenders this election cycle.

Sign up here to receive Bellingcat’s biggest investigations by email as soon as they are published. Become a member and support our work here. Imagery captured by the European Space Agency’s freely available Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 satellites appears to be delayed over Gaza and parts of the West Bank, a Bellingcat analysis has found.

A new project by The Intercept reveals the hundreds of candidates still taking the pro-Israel lobby’s cash, and how AIPAC is obscuring its spending.

Facing bipartisan backlash and a decaying reputation, AI super PACs are changing tactics. We tracked their election spending so far.

As right-wing Trump allies fearmongered about Somali American voter fraud, Maine trained local law enforcement officers on keeping armed federal agents out.