Originals

A collection of 10 posts

Originals

Indigenous Women March for Their Rights in Brazil

Indigenous Women March for Their Rights in Brazil

This piece was done in collaboration with Yes! sound of singing and maracas echoes from all sides of the camp as groups of women from all corners of Brazil approach the main tent, where they will gather for the Third March of Indigenous Women. It is 8 a.m. and the already extremely hot sun in Brasília, the country’s capital, highlights...

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Blood Money: How America’s Biggest Charities Are Bankrolling Hate Groups Without Anyone Noticing

Blood Money: How America’s Biggest Charities Are Bankrolling Hate Groups Without Anyone Noticing

This piece was written in partnership with The New last few years have seen a wave of anti-trans Republican legislation introduced across the country, and much of it has become law. To name just a few examples: In 2016, North Carolina and South Dakota banned transgender kids from using public bathrooms that correspond with their gender...

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Chinese Dissident Secretly Recruited Rightwing Writers to Publish Flattering Articles

Chinese Dissident Secretly Recruited Rightwing Writers to Publish Flattering Articles

This article was written in partnership with the Important newsletter. Operatives representing rightwing Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui, who was charged in March for orchestrating a vast financial fraud scheme, have been secretly recruiting prominent conservatives—including the head of the New York Young Republicans Club—to write opinion

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OptOut Special: An Interview With Journalist Matt Binder On Twitter's Shake-Up

OptOut Special: An Interview With Journalist Matt Binder On Twitter's Shake-Up

This is the newsletter of OptOut, a free news aggregation app for exclusively independent media that's available for Apple and Android devices. Find out more about the app at optout.news eyes were on Twitter last week as the social media platform underwent a significant change to how it handles content. Owner Elon Musk, who purchased...

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Peter Thiel’s Secretive Spending

Peter Thiel’s Secretive Spending

This report was written in partnership with Important Thiel Foundation, the nonprofit charity of billionaire and rightwing megadonor Peter Thiel, gave millions of dollars in 2021 to a secretive donor-advised fund that has funneled money into groups that spread COVID denial as well as hate groups, federal tax records reveal. The founder...

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‘Grassroots’ Parents’ Rights Group Gets Big Mystery Money

‘Grassroots’ Parents’ Rights Group Gets Big Mystery Money

This report was written in partnership with Important Research contributed by Alex Kotch. A prominent conservative parents’ rights group working to reshape school boards across the country is mostly bankrolled by a handful of large contributions, federal tax records reveal. In the two years since its inception, Moms for Liberty (MFL) has

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New Scientist Group Calling For Pandemic Answers Is Tied to Rightwing Dark Money

New Scientist Group Calling For Pandemic Answers Is Tied to Rightwing Dark Money

This original report was written in partnership with the Important Context newsletter new medical group behind an 80-page “blueprint” for a potential congressional commission to investigate the harms of the U.S. government's COVID-19 response has ties to the political right and dark money. The Norfolk Group purports to be eight...

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Big Mystery Donors Fund COVID Conspiracy Nonprofit

Big Mystery Donors Fund COVID Conspiracy Nonprofit

This original report was produced by Important and the OptOut Media Foundation Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported roughly 3,900 American deaths from COVID-19 in the week ending on Jan. 11—more than died in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. The number, which represented a 44% increase from the previous...

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Candace Owens’ ‘Blexit’ Operation Bankrolled by Wealthy White Conservatives

Candace Owens’ ‘Blexit’ Operation Bankrolled by Wealthy White Conservatives

This original reporting from the OptOut Media Foundation was produced in partnership with the newsletter and the Center for Media and Owens promised big things in October 2018 when she launched her Blexit Foundation. “Today, in this room, I’m so excited because we’re going to launch in front of the world a movement—a movement that will...

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Corporate Media Must Stop Making Ads for Fossil Fuel Companies

Corporate Media Must Stop Making Ads for Fossil Fuel Companies

This is the newsletter of OptOut, a free news aggregation app for exclusively independent media that's available for iPhone and iPad. Find out more about the app at optout.news Alex Kotch (OptOut and Maria Bustillos (Popula by Amy Westervelt production and editing by Spencer this video! WHO’S TO BLAME FOR A LACK OF ACTION ON CLIMATE...

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