Alerts and Updates

Today is the last day of Sunshine Week, when a coalition of our peers call attention to the importance of a transparent government and the role of public records in exposing corruption and abuses of power.

Following a damning hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee where she faced bipartisan ire — and where your senators pressed the (then-)Homeland Security secretary on POGO’s investigative findings — Kristi Noem was fired by President Donald Trump himself.

A confirmation of what we have been seeing play out on the streets.

Congress is learning the hard way what it should have seen coming: If this White House can get away with something, it will keep doing it.

A whistleblower disclosure sent to Congress and obtained by the Associated Press alleges the existence of an internal ICE memo that authorizes agents to forcibly enter homes without a judicial warrant, in stunning violation of constitutional law

Federal agents are using increasingly aggressive tactics against protestors in Minnesota, where a woman was fatally shot in the head by an ICE agent last week

The military right-to-repair provisions you advocated fiercely for all year were excised in their entirety from the final text of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) earlier this week.

In response to a shooting that killed a National Guard member and left another one in critical condition, President Trump has committed to sending 500 additional troops into Washington, DC.

Editor’s Note: There will be no Weekly Spotlight next weekend. We will be back in your inbox on December 6. Happy holidays! 

“Operation Midway Blitz” is reportedly being wound down — but the administration is already eyeing its next targets.