Sherafy’s 2026 California Voter Guide brings our election research into one place, with clear recommendations and links to the full evidence behind each one.
Research and commentary on government, elections, political influence, public institutions, civic life, lobbying, accountability, and how policy decisions are made.
Flock Forward went viral because journalists were excluded and cybersecurity researcher Benn Jordan turned surveillance back on the event from outside. The bigger story is
Was the Civil War really about slavery, states’ rights, tariffs, or preserving the Union? The primary documents make the central cause unusually clear, while also
An authentic FBI memo warned that women were allegedly using fake “tradwife” dating profiles to lure and expose immigration-enforcement officers. Public posts confirm that dating
ICE’s rapid hiring expansion allowed some recruits to advance before basic vetting was finished. Now some are being fired. But viral claims about 200 background-check
Major Medicaid provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill really do take effect around January 2027, after the 2026 midterms, while several highly visible tax
Robert Kraft’s Blue Square Alliance runs a large social-media monitoring operation from Gillette Stadium, identifies high-impact posts and authors for universities and government leaders, and
JD Vance reportedly tried to help Hillary Clinton stop Donald Trump in 2016. By 2022, Peter Thiel had put $15 million into a super PAC
James Brass and two petition circulators are accused of using real California voters’ identities to manufacture initiative signatures on Skid Row. Prosecutors now say Brass’s
Some of the strangest claims about 9/11 are false. Others are based on facts more troubling than many conventional explanations acknowledge. Twenty-five years later, we
ICE asked the IRS to process roughly 1.28 million requests for taxpayer address information. Most produced no IRS match, while the procedure that disclosed 47,289
