by jmerritt | Sep 17, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Washington, D.C. — A new tracking tool shows Trump has cut or frozen $177 billion in grants in every state in the country, the FBI has quietly built out a national center to police dissent under the guise of counterterrorism, and the top Democrat on House Oversight...
by jmerritt | Sep 14, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Washington, D.C. — Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish Bahamas wedding was secretly financed by a Russian oligarch with direct ties to Vladimir Putin, ProPublica revealed today. Umar Kremlev, a recent recipient of Putin’s Order of Friendship, covered hundreds of thousands of...
by jmerritt | Sep 10, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Washington, D.C. — A coordinated right-wing narrative attacking an AI researcher who warned that leading labs are “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives” is falling apart under even minimal fact-checking, even as Republican...
by jmerritt | Sep 10, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Washington, D.C. — Financial disclosures released this week show Trump gave $45,000 cash gifts to three young aides, roughly a third of their annual salaries, in a likely violation of federal law. Meanwhile, Democrats are building the case they’ll bring against...
by jmerritt | Sep 10, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Washington, D.C. — A former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher revealed this week that the people building AI privately believe it could end human civilization within years, with a current Anthropic researcher putting the odds above one-in-ten. In the face of this urgent...
