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  American Oversight · [email protected]
April 23, 2020 at 10:44 PM

Investigating Exploitation in States During Coronavirus

Investigating Exploitation in States During Coronavirus American Oversight has submitted 400+ open records requests to government entities to uncover how ideological goals are undermining public health. American Oversight’s investigation into the…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
April 17, 2020 at 5:04 PM

News Roundup: Who Stands to Gain?

News Roundup: Who Stands to Gain? To understand the mismanaged response to coronavirus, we need answers about agency officials’ industry ties and the president’s own conflicts. News Roundup: Who Stands to Gain? In this email: ‘I Think I’m…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
April 10, 2020 at 7:05 PM

News Roundup: Corruption and Coronavirus

News Roundup: Corruption and Coronavirus As the nation battles the coronavirus pandemic, President Trump continues his purges of government officials and brazen rejection of oversight.  News Roundup: Corruption and Coronavirus New Coronav…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
April 9, 2020 at 10:54 PM

State Accountability: Voting Rights Should Rank Supreme

State Accountability: Voting Rights Should Rank Supreme With the coronavirus continuing to impact primary elections, and access to ballots being debated by ideological, partisan courts, American Over...  In Wisconsin, Voting Rights Should Rank Su…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
April 3, 2020 at 4:13 PM

News Roundup: Whose Stockpile? And Which States?

News Roundup: Whose Stockpile? And Which States? State governments are experiencing the crisis at different speeds, and reports have indicated that states are receiving unequal treatment. Why? News Roundup: Whose Stockpile, and Which States? …
  Austin Evers · [email protected]
March 31, 2020 at 10:59 PM

Insights on Oversight: Leadership in Crisis

Insights on Oversight: Leadership in Crisis This semi-weekly report highlights how American Oversight is leading the way for improved accountability in government.  Insights on Oversight  Do you ever feel like there are more scandals than you ca…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
March 27, 2020 at 8:35 PM

News Roundup: Transparency and Oversight in Times of Crisis

News Roundup: Transparency and Oversight in Times of Crisis Government transparency and oversight is fundamental to a functioning democracy. During a crisis, oversight can also help to save lives. News Roundup: Transparency & Oversight Are More Import…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
March 24, 2020 at 4:56 PM

We'll Be the Oversight

We'll Be the Oversight We need to ensure that money from any stimulus package goes to the people and industries that need it the most. We need oversight and accountability. $500 billion stimulus package and no oversight? No. Sorry. Never going to…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
March 20, 2020 at 7:04 PM

News Roundup: COVID-19 and a Renewed Mandate for Oversight

News Roundup: COVID-19 and a Renewed Mandate for Oversight As we continue to investigate the alarming response to the coronavirus crisis, we're working on our most substantial caseload. "Holding the administration and state governments accountable ove…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
March 13, 2020 at 2:52 PM

News Roundup: Continuing Our Investigation of Coronavirus Response

News Roundup: Continuing Our Investigation of Coronavirus Response As we all take steps to mitigate the severity of the outbreak, we're continuing to investigate the troublingly inadequate response to the crisis. President Donald Trump’s primetime addres…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
March 6, 2020 at 9:08 PM

News Roundup: Rising Coronavirus Fears and Sinking Public Trust

News Roundup: Rising Coronavirus Fears and Sinking Public Trust The uncertainty and fear surrounding the coronavirus have laid bare the deadly consequences of President Donald Trump’s preferred method of leadership, summed up as a demand for obsequious lo…
  Austin Evers · [email protected]
March 2, 2020 at 10:22 PM

We Need to Talk About McGahn

We Need to Talk About McGahn While coronavirus is dominating the headlines, another illness is crippling the future of congressional oversight. On Friday, a panel of judges in DC fundamentally changed our system of checks and balances – for the worse. The D…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
February 28, 2020 at 9:07 PM

News Roundup: Launching Our Investigation of Trump’s Authoritarian Purges

News Roundup: Launching Our Investigation of Trump’s Authoritarian Purges This week, American Oversight launched its investigation of one of President Donald Trump’s most aggressive and worrying attacks yet on democracy — the purging of administration and…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
February 21, 2020 at 9:14 PM

News Roundup: The Post-Impeachment Purge and the Knock of Authoritarianism

News Roundup: The Post-Impeachment Purge and the Knock of Authoritarianism The Russians are working to interfere in the 2020 elections on behalf of President Donald Trump, and according to the New York Times, the president is worried the Democrats will do…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
February 19, 2020 at 9:44 PM

No Holds Barr-ed...We Need Answers

No Holds Barr-ed...We Need Answers AG Barr may resign, but his legacy of manipulating the justice system has shaken the foundation of our country... View this email in your browser Last week, AG Bill Barr said he wouldn't "be influenced …
  American Oversight · [email protected]
February 14, 2020 at 10:39 PM

News Roundup: Trump Has Learned His ‘Lesson’

News Roundup: Trump Has Learned His ‘Lesson’ Trump's sights appear to be trained on making the Justice Department his personal political arm for helping allies and punishing perceived enemies. Was his impeachment, in the now-infamous words of Sen. Susan …
  American Oversight · [email protected]
February 7, 2020 at 9:30 PM

News Roundup: Acquittal Isn’t the End

News Roundup: Acquittal Isn’t the End More questions remain. More answers are coming. Wednesday’s Senate vote to acquit President Donald Trump of impeachment charges appears to have been interpreted by the White House as a signal that it need not fear co…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
January 31, 2020 at 10:13 PM

News Roundup: Hear no evil, see no evil

News Roundup: Hear no evil, see no evil The White House’s stonewall is crumbling and the truth will come out. No witnesses, no documents. For many senators, that’s the recipe for a quick acquittal. It’s an astonishing abdication of responsibility that wi…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
January 24, 2020 at 9:56 PM

News Roundup: Evidence of Obstruction

News Roundup: Evidence of Obstruction We uncovered emails revealing new details about the Ukraine scandal, and the next day, they were on the Senate floor in the impeachment trial. Just before midnight on Tuesday night, the White House budget office rele…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
January 22, 2020 at 8:46 PM

IMPORTANT: American Oversight uncovered documents from Trump’s Ukraine scheme

IMPORTANT: American Oversight uncovered documents from Trump’s Ukraine scheme American Oversights continues to work to uncover documents that have been withheld from Congress. Help us to keep the pressure up... American Oversight has proven again and aga…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
January 17, 2020 at 8:57 PM

News Roundup: The Evidence Continues to Mount

News Roundup: The Evidence Continues to Mount No matter how much the administration stonewalls, new evidence in the Ukraine investigation continues to emerge. No matter how much the administration stonewalls, new evidence in the Ukraine investigation con…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
January 10, 2020 at 11:25 PM

News Roundup: Presidential War Powers and New Impeachment Documents

News Roundup: Presidential War Powers and New Impeachment Documents It’s been a week since the drone strike that killed Iran’s Maj. Gen Qasem Soleimani, but the justifications provided by the administration have still not satisfied those concerned about t…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
January 9, 2020 at 3:20 AM

BREAKING: American Oversight just uncovered more documents from Trump’s Ukraine scheme

BREAKING: American Oversight just uncovered more documents from Trump’s Ukraine scheme American Oversight just uncovered more documents from President Donald Trump’s Ukraine scheme. You can see the documents here. The pages are heavily redacted, but they …
  American Oversight · [email protected]
December 20, 2019 at 9:45 PM

News Roundup: Beyond Impeachment — The Investigations Continue

News Roundup: Beyond Impeachment — The Investigations Continue On Wednesday night, the House voted to impeach President Donald Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.  The obstruction charge, which was the second article of impeachment, pas…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
December 17, 2019 at 7:54 PM

We Deserve to Know: American Oversight Seeks Seized Trump-Putin Meeting Notes

We Deserve to Know: American Oversight Seeks Seized Trump-Putin Meeting Notes The administration has done everything it can to hide what Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump discussed in Hamburg. Last week's ruling is an important... American Oversigh…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
December 13, 2019 at 8:54 PM

News Roundup: Stephen Miller’s Extremist Network

News Roundup: Stephen Miller’s Extremist Network White House Senior Adviser Stephen Miller has been behind some of the administration’s harshest anti-immigration policies. White House Senior Adviser Stephen Miller has been behind some of the administrati…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
December 6, 2019 at 10:37 PM

News Roundup: Impeachment Report, Border Wall Contracts, and Pompeo’s Meeting with GOP Donors

News Roundup: Impeachment Report, Border Wall Contracts, and Pompeo’s Meeting with GOP Donors On Tuesday, the House Intelligence Committee released its report on the impeachment inquiry, detailing evidence of President Donald Trump’s abuse of office and o…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
December 3, 2019 at 9:51 PM

Big News on Giving Tuesday

Big News on Giving Tuesday While we were in court this morning, the House Intelligence Committee was preparing to publish its impeachment inquiry report.  While we were in court this morning, pressing the State Department to release additional documents …
  American Oversight · [email protected]
November 27, 2019 at 6:09 PM

News Roundup: Thankful for FOIA

News Roundup: Thankful for FOIA Late on Friday evening, the State Department released nearly 100 pages of documents to American Oversight, the first batch of records in our first lawsuit against the administration for Ukraine-related records. The documen…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
November 22, 2019 at 9:01 PM

Fiona Hill's warnings, Nikki Haley's emails, and Matt Bevin's stay at Trump's hotel

Fiona Hill's warnings, Nikki Haley's emails, and Matt Bevin's stay at Trump's hotel Plus, we're waiting for the State Department to produce documents in our lawsuit for Ukraine-related records. The Trump administration has stubbornly refused to provide r…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
November 15, 2019 at 8:57 PM

News Roundup: Impeachment Inquiry Goes Public

News Roundup: Impeachment Inquiry Goes Public This week, the House’s impeachment inquiry went public, with Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent, and acting Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor appearing before the Hou…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
November 8, 2019 at 9:47 PM

News Roundup: Ukraine-Related Documents, Hurdles for Asylum-Seekers, and Chad Wolf’s Involvement in Family Separation

News Roundup: Ukraine-Related Documents, Hurdles for Asylum-Seekers, and Chad Wolf’s Involvement in Family Separation The latest on impeachment and on our investigations into the administration's immigration policies. We’re exactly two weeks away from th…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
November 1, 2019 at 6:38 PM

News Roundup: Impeachment Votes and Sonny Perdue's Georgia Connections

News Roundup: Impeachment Votes and Sonny Perdue's Georgia Connections The impeachment inquiry got some big jolts this week — the House voted on Thursday for a resolution outlining the rules for the impeachment process. And on Wednesday, the State Departm…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
October 25, 2019 at 9:47 PM

News Roundup: Chipping Away at Obstruction

News Roundup: Chipping Away at Obstruction It hasn’t been a very good week for President Donald Trump’s weakening barricades against the impeachment investigation. On Friday, a federal judge ordered the State Department to begin producing Ukraine-related …
  American Oversight · [email protected]
October 23, 2019 at 9:53 PM

Federal Judge Directs State Department to Begin Turning Over Ukraine Documents

Federal Judge Directs State Department to Begin Turning Over Ukraine Documents Our fight to uncover the truth about Trump’s dealings with Ukraine took a major step forward today. American Oversight’s fight to uncover the truth about President Trump’s dea…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
October 18, 2019 at 7:53 PM

News Roundup: Corruption, Plain and Simple

News Roundup: Corruption, Plain and Simple It all comes down to one word: Corruption. Emoluments, conflicts of interest, quid pro quo, undue influence, ethics violations — many words and phrases have swirled around the past few years to describe the Trum…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
October 11, 2019 at 7:03 PM

News Roundup: Impeachment, Obstruction, and More Questions About Rick Perry

News Roundup: Impeachment, Obstruction, and More Questions About Rick Perry In its latest bid to slow down the fast-moving impeachment inquiry, the Trump White House has sent House Speaker Nancy Pelosi an extraordinary letter, stating that it was refusing…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
October 4, 2019 at 8:39 PM

News Roundup: We Need Answers — Urgently

News Roundup: We Need Answers — Urgently The pressure on the president has been even further intensified thanks to Thursday’s public release of damaging text messages.  The news surrounding the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump has been unf…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
September 27, 2019 at 9:17 PM

News Roundup: From the Top Down

News Roundup: From the Top Down It’s been just over a week since the Washington Post reported that President Donald Trump’s communications with the Ukrainian government were the subject of an intelligence whistleblower complaint being withheld from Congre…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
September 20, 2019 at 10:17 PM

News Roundup: Trump, Giuliani, and Ukraine

News Roundup: Trump, Giuliani, and Ukraine “Unprecedented” is a word that has been used a lot in the past few years. “Unprecedented” is a word that has been used a lot in the past few years. It describes President Donald Trump’s financial conflicts of in…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
September 13, 2019 at 8:04 PM

News Roundup: Photos of Detention Centers for Migrant Children; Stephen Miller’s Hand in Immigration Policy

News Roundup: Photos of Detention Centers for Migrant Children; Stephen Miller’s Hand in Immigration Policy This week, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can enforce its toughest asylum restriction yet, which prohibits migrants from see…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
September 6, 2019 at 4:58 PM

News Roundup: Trump’s Enthusiastic Support for New Drug Raises Questions

News Roundup: Trump’s Enthusiastic Support for New Drug Raises Questions President Donald Trump has been outspoken in his support for a controversial new drug called Spravato, approved this past spring by the Food and Drug Administration for treatment of …
  American Oversight · [email protected]
August 30, 2019 at 4:49 PM

News Roundup: Remain in Mexico’s Harmful Effects and Trump’s Dangerous Impatience

News Roundup: Remain in Mexico’s Harmful Effects and Trump’s Dangerous Impatience Immigration officials frequently don't offer language assistance to asylum-seekers forced to return to Mexico. This week, the Los Angeles Times published a searing look at …
  American Oversight · [email protected]
August 23, 2019 at 7:07 PM

News Roundup: Political Appointees, Lobbyists and Those In Between

News Roundup: Political Appointees, Lobbyists and Those In Between This week, American Oversight joined Democracy Forward in suing Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie and the National Archives and Records Administration for failing to recover and pre…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
August 16, 2019 at 8:12 PM

News Roundup: The Hatch Act and Freedom of Speech

News Roundup: The Hatch Act and Freedom of Speech Last year, the agency charged with protecting whistleblowers sent a chill across the federal workforce, warning public employees not to use terms like “#resist” while at work and admonishing them that they…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
August 9, 2019 at 5:10 PM

News Roundup: Investigating the Administration’s Response to Domestic Terrorism

News Roundup: Investigating the Administration’s Response to Domestic Terrorism Recent years have seen a significant rise in violent right-wing extremism in the United States According to numerous analyses and official reports, recent years have seen a s…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
August 2, 2019 at 8:11 PM

News Roundup: "Remain in Mexico," New Lawsuits, and Trump's Friend Tom Barrack

News Roundup: "Remain in Mexico," New Lawsuits, and Trump's Friend Tom Barrack Documents that American Oversight has uncovered show that some Department of Homeland Security officials had wanted to ask asylum-seekers whether they would be afraid for their…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
July 26, 2019 at 7:39 PM

News Roundup: Mueller Speaks

News Roundup: Mueller Speaks Special Counsel Robert Mueller made his long-awaited and much-anticipated appearance before Congress on Wednesday, first testifying at a House Judiciary Committee hearing and in the afternoon at a House Intelligence Committee …
  American Oversight · [email protected]
July 19, 2019 at 7:21 PM

News Roundup: Investigating the Fallout from Spring’s DHS Shakeup

News Roundup: Investigating the Fallout from Spring’s DHS Shakeup Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform this week, with lawmakers confronting him about the poor conditions at migran…
  American Oversight · [email protected]
July 12, 2019 at 7:46 PM

News Roundup: Acosta Resigns and White House Admits Census Defeat

News Roundup: Acosta Resigns and White House Admits Census Defeat Labor Secretary Alex Acosta became at least the fourth member of President Donald Trump's cabinet to resign in disgrace – joining the former heads of Health and Human Services, Veterans Aff…