Reporter Joshua Kaplan’s earlier story reveals how American Patriots Three Percent, known as AP3, one of the largest U.S. militias, rose even as prosecutors pursued other paramilitary groups after the assault on the Capitol.

The group has already sought to shape American life through armed vigilante operations — at the Texas border, outside ballot boxes and during Black Lives Matter protests. AP3 also forged alliances with law enforcement around the U.S. The group’s internal files reveal its strategies for building these ties and where it has claimed success.

The number of orphaned oil and gas wells in New Mexico documented by the state. Orphaned wells are abandoned by their owners and left unplugged, potentially leaking contaminants like brine, methane and benzene into waterways, farmland and neighborhoods.

Reporter Mark Olade and illustrator Peter Arkle outline the “unmistakable pattern” of how companies offload their oldest and dirtiest assets, allowing them to avoid the costs to properly plug and clean up these wells, leaving the responsibility with taxpayers.