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Earlier this year we investigated the electoral influence of Ziklag, a secretive charity funded by wealthy conservative, Christian donors whose members include the families behind Hobby Lobby and Jockey apparel. Our latest reporting with Wisconsin Watch and Documented found that Ziklag also funds the Courage Tour, a group hosting a series of swing-state rallies that combine prayer, public speakers, tutorials on how to become a poll worker and get-out-the-vote programming.
On Sept. 28, Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance held an official campaign event in partnership with the Courage Tour. Experts say the Vance event raises red flags about whether a tax-exempt charity had improperly benefited the Trump-Vance campaign. Ziklag and the campaign did not respond to requests for comment. |
📺 Watch on Instagram: Learn more about our investigation into Ziklag’s potential tax and election law violations by watching our video with ProPublica reporter Andy Kroll.
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Missouri law bans nearly all abortions except in cases of medical emergencies, with no exceptions for rape or incest. However, an amendment Missouri residents will vote on this November challenges that ban: Amendment 3 would enshrine reproductive freedom in the state constitution, nullifying any law that restricts abortion before fetal viability, typically around the 24th week of pregnancy. Polls show the measure is likely to pass — a recent survey showed 52% in favor and 34% opposed. To undermine support for that abortion rights amendment, Republican opponents have turned to a billboard campaign across the state, ProPublica reporter Jeremy Kohler revealed. Kohler found that those billboards are littered with misinformation about the amendment, and that some billboards instead focus on anti-transgender messaging. |
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That’s the number of enslaved people who were put up for sale in 1835 by an auction firm in Charleston, South Carolina, on behalf of a wealthy plantation operator. ProPublica previously reported that a graduate student, Lauren Davila, had uncovered that number, which is now the largest known slave auction in the U.S., while looking through digitized old newspapers for slave auction ads as part of an internship.
This week, Charleston residents, including a descendent of those who were sold, unveiled a new historical marker at the site of the former auction firm. “The new marker is notable,” ProPublica reporter Jennifer Berry Hawes wrote, “because these streets, once bustling with businesses critical to the slave trade, yield little of that story to the average passerby.”
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