NEW: Gov. Greg Abbott spent years trying to make school vouchers a reality in Texas, even pushing to unseat rural Republicans who stood in the way.
Some lawmakers believe the effort contributed to his party's historic demise in the midterms.
#News #Texas #TX #Education #Congress #TXPol #USPolitics #Schools #Teaching #Parenting
NEW: On the Ground in the Final Days Before Trump’s Midterm Debacle
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From rallies in Ohio to a Pennsylvania voting site on Election Day, the tone had noticeably changed among voters in some of the regions that were crucial to electing Donald Trump.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-movement-rally-voters-appeal?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Midterms #Election #Elections #Vote #Voting #Trump #Ohio #Pennsylvania
NEW: The Interior Department may open tens of millions of acres of public lands for AI data centers.
ProPublica found Trump officials who oversee these lands stand to profit from the growth of the industry.
https://www.propublica.org/article/burgum-public-land-data-centers-investments?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #PublicLands #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Government #Ethics #Utah #Nevada
NEW: Missouri Voters Just Made It Much Harder for Lawmakers to Overturn Citizen-Led Initiatives
For years, Missouri Republicans worked to undo or restrict voter-approved laws and amendments. In passing Amendment 6, voters have not only protected the ballot initiative process but also dramatically strengthened their power over the legislature.
https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-voter-ballot-initiatives-amendment-6?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Missouri #Government #Democracy #Election #Elections #Midterms #Law
NEW: The U.S. Center for SafeSport is taking new steps to protect children from athletic coaches banned over abuse allegations.
The move follows a ProPublica-Washington Post investigation that found several sanctioned coaches continued to work with kids.
https://www.propublica.org/article/safesport-child-abuse-notification-system-impact?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Sports #Children #Abuse #Volleyball #Basketball #Gymnastics
NEW: Trump’s State Department Is Giving $1 Million to Controversial Group to Study Crimes Against White South Africans
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The new award, the administration’s latest show of support for the Afrikaner cause, comes after it cut human rights funding to nations in crisis. One former diplomat called the move “offensive.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/afriforum-grant-trump-white-south-africans?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
NEW: Despite a legal requirement to do so, Vermont never audited a water project that’s cost nearly a billion.
“I find it amazing that they haven’t done the audit and that somebody in the legislature did not hold them to account,” said a former lawmaker.
https://www.propublica.org/article/vermont-clean-water-act-champlain-audit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Vermont Has Spent Nearly a Billion Dollars to Clean Up Lake Champlain. But the Green Slime Keeps Coming Back.
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The state kicked off an ambitious effort in 2015 to clean up waterways and meet tougher EPA restrictions. But after a decade and nearly a billion dollars spent, potentially toxic algae still lingers in Lake Champlain. What happened?
https://www.propublica.org/article/lake-champlain-algae-bloom-cyanobacteria-water-pollution-vermont?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Vermont: Has pollution in Lake Champlain negatively impacted you? Are you concerned about the quality of your drinking water?
If so, we’d like to hear from you. Your story could help guide our accountability reporting on state cleanup efforts.
https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/lake-champlain-vermont-algae-bloom-pollution-callout?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
I Was There to Document the Aftermath of Deadly Flooding. Then, It Started Raining.
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Three people died in Ruidoso, New Mexico, last year when floods swept through the area. As the mayor prioritized tourism after the flood recovery, first responders said they weren’t equipped. Our visual journalist documented the unfolding story.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ruidoso-new-mexico-floods-fire?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #NewMexico #Flood #Emergency #Fire #Disaster #Recovery #Photography #Photo
NEW: Over the past year, we’ve tried to use the techniques of accountability journalism to add new facts to this pivotal moment in American history.
We’ll keep that focus on Election Day — and beyond.
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-approach-2026-midterm-elections?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Election #Elections #Midterms #USPolitics #History #Journalism
NEW: ProPublica found that over 500 U.S. citizens have been detained by immigration agents.
Forty Democratic lawmakers are now asking the Department of Homeland Security to explain why Americans have been held against their will.
https://www.propublica.org/article/american-citizens-ice-detention-congress-impact?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Immigration #ICE #DHS #Immigrant #USPolitics #Congress #Government #Law
NEW: In August, a tribe elder warned reporters. The Trump administration was racing to build a second border wall near her ancestors’ final resting place.
The construction was bound to disturb Native American remains.
#News #Indigenous #NativeAmericans #Arizona #Trump #NationalParks #DHS
NEW: The Trump administration has initiated a string of unprecedented actions to assert more federal control over elections.
While courts have thwarted most of the plans, voting experts remain concerned about potential problems at the polls.
https://www.propublica.org/article/five-voting-disruptions-midterm-election?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Election #Midterms #Elections #Vote #Voting #Trump #USPolitics #Democracy
NEW: Ahead of next week’s midterm elections, President Donald Trump has systematically demolished institutional guardrails that prevented him from overturning the 2020 presidential election.
Here’s what to know.
https://www.propublica.org/article/midterm-election-propublica-reporting-findings?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #Elections #Midterms #Vote #Voting #Democracy #USPolitics #MidtermElections
Federal and State Officials Ramp Up Scrutiny of DraftKings, Other Sports Betting Apps
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Amid investigations by ProPublica and others, officials across the country are demanding information about how online sportsbooks entice customers to keep betting — and proposing new rules to help protect consumers.
https://www.propublica.org/article/sports-betting-impact-louisiana-ohio-congress?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Sports #Gambling #Law #Louisiana #Ohio #Congress #Tech #Technology
How a Secret Vote by U.N. Scientists Legitimized Carbon Capture and Skewed Decades of Climate Policy
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A U.N. report concluded carbon capture could offset fossil fuels’ effect on climate change. Two decades later, the process has failed to meaningfully scale up, and it’s proving hard to take the promises back.
https://www.propublica.org/article/carbon-capture-storage-fossil-fuel-sally-benson?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Oil #FossilFuels #UnitedNations #Science #Research
Search More Than 500 Cases of U.S. Citizens Detained by Immigration Agents
ProPublica has cataloged every case we can find of an immigration agent detaining a citizen during the current Trump administration. Explore our database to learn more about each incident.
https://projects.propublica.org/american-citizens-detained-dhs-civil-rights/list?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #ICE #DHS #Immigration #Trump #Law #Data #Research #Journalism #Minnesota #Texas #California #Illinois #Chicago #Minneapolis
NEW: Two new bills in Congress, backed by the plastics industry, promote misleading claims about recycling.
One environmental expert called the legislation “peak greenwashing.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/plastics-industry-recycling-legislation-congress?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Congress #Plastic #Environment #Recycling #Law #Consumer #Greenwashing
NEW on “Paper Trail”: President Trump claims hundreds of thousands of people who are not U.S. citizens have been illegally voting in our elections.
His own unprecedented efforts to root out these voters show otherwise, our investigation found.
Listen to our latest episode: https://www.propublica.org/podcast/homeland-security-investigations-noncitizen-voter-fraud-cases?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Elections #Vote #Voting #Midterms #USPolitics #Immigration #Immigrants