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GOP Senate candidate spent $400,000 of taxpayer money on campaign-style ads

Georgia Congressman Mike Collins is using public funds to pay a political ad firm — the same firm that makes his Senate campaign ads.

2 hrs ago • Judd Legum

June 2026

Trump’s smear campaign against E. Jean Carroll ends in failure

President Donald Trump has hit the end of the line.

Jun 30 • Judd Legum and Rebecca Crosby

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is making kids go hungry

Hundreds of thousands of children in Arizona have been pushed off nutrition assistance.

Jun 29 • Judd Legum

PopInfo Weekly: PACs, pumps, and pursuits

Newly filed FEC documents reveal that three PACs that claim to oppose Trump and Republican policies — Lead Left PAC, Real Change PAC, and California…

Jun 26 • Noel Sims

Trump changed the rules for Park Police. Now an innocent man is dead.

It was played for laughs during an August 2025 cabinet meeting. Since then, things have turned deadly.

Jun 25 • Judd Legum

A citizen’s guide to Ken Paxton

Last month, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won the state’s Republican runoff for US Senate by nearly 30 points, delivering a resounding defeat to…

Jun 24 • Noel Sims

Gas stations are using AI to inflate prices, new lawsuit alleges

A new federal lawsuit alleges that gas station companies across California are engaged in an illegal conspiracy, powered by AI software, to raise…

Jun 23 • Judd Legum

UPDATE: The money behind a network of sham “progressive” super PACs

A network of purportedly progressive super PACs, spending millions in Democratic primaries across the country, is funded by a Republican dark money…

Jun 22 • Judd Legum

Progressive Champions PAC is a GOP front

Progressive Champions PAC, a super PAC created last month, says on its website that its mission is to “elect bold, progressive candidates up and down…

Jun 13 • Judd Legum

PopInfo Weekly: Bombs, babies, and busted budgets

As communities across the country are fighting new data center projects, states are not only allowing data centers to be built, but many are also…

Jun 12 • Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims

UPDATE: Polymarket ends sponsorship of election misinformation

On Monday, Popular Information revealed that a network of at least 16 online influencers was pushing election misinformation in posts on X sponsored by…

Jun 11 • Judd Legum

How data centers are blowing a hole in state budgets

States are paying billions to subsidize the AI boom

Jun 10 • Rebecca Crosby