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nicksurgey.bsky.social
Executive director of @Documented.net, an investigative watchdog project 🔎 | Bylines at places like @propublica.org, @theguardian.com, @theintercept.com | Dad to 6yr old 🤟 | Tips: [email protected] or Signal: Nick.25
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"Musk-Linked Group Offered $5m for Proof of Voter Fraud – and Came up With Nothing" Check out this great new investigative piece by my colleagues @emmasteiner.bsky.social and @brendanfischer.bsky.social for the @us.theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The Heritage Foundation - the lead org behind Project 2025 - is promoting a new state model bill that would criminalize orgs providing legal or financial assistance to people without legal status to be in the US. Under the act, any org found guilty would lose all state and city licenses to operate.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Last week @allinwithchris.bsky.social cited @propublica.org and @documented.net's reporting that revealed Russ Vought promised donors in a private speech to put civil servants "in trauma," a plan that's clearly already underway.

submitted 25 days ago • 90 comments

Documented partnered with @propublica.org on multiple investigations last year. We were happy to see some featured on their most read stories of 2024, including our reporting on Ziklag and Project 2025's training videos. Find the full list, with many great pieces, here: bit.ly/3Pvndcx

submitted 49 days ago • 4 comments

Utilities partnering with RGA for a fundraiser for Donald Trump's inauguration next month. Someone send me one of those $7,500 koozies! documented.net/swamp-dollar...

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

With support from a secretive network of Christian nationalist donors known as Ziklag, Jenny Donnelly and her "mama bears" are organizing prayer hubs to rally against LGBTQ+ inclusion. NEW: from @aliceraeherman.bsky.social + @us.theguardian.com + @documented.bsky.social here:

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Kudos to @documented.bsky.social for their tremendous work here (and elsewhere!)

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Documented research featured in this important new WPost story about the Koch network's 40-year effort to dismantle the regulatory state. I am quoted in the piece talking about the State Policy Network, an important recipient of Koch funding in this effort. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Long-form investigations on the climate crisis have never been more important. Here's a non-exhaustive list of investigative journalists who cover climate. Tell us who to add. go.bsky.app/5Wp1U58

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

The American Legislative Exchange Council is holding its winter meeting in DC this week. In front of a large crowd of state legislators, Newt Gingrich is suggesting all states create a DOGE to massively cut state public spending.

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Tomorrow’s Supreme Court case obviously has huge stakes for transgender Americans. But it also affects all our rights—because the big question is really whether the constitutional guarantee of gender equality can survive this conservative supermajority. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 87 days ago • 15 comments

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are set to meet privately with Republican members of the House and Senate next week to discuss their plans to slash federal spending (ie cuts to social spending). Invitation obtained by documented.bsky.social

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Reposting this about the junior and senior democracy research positions we are hiring for. We have a fantastic team and we are doubling down on exposing threats to democracy under Trump. Please share with anyone who might be a good fit. Documented.net/work-with-us

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote about the handful of Trump cabinet appointees that keep me up at night www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...

submitted 94 days ago • 204 comments

If you are an investigative researcher or reporter, and want to help the team at Documented do more breakthrough reporting like this...well, we are hiring. Both senior and more junior positions. Check them out: documented.net/work-with-us

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

This is an incredibly useful tool for democracy researchers.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Hey Bluesky. I run Documented.net, the investigative watchdog and reporting project. We are hiring a bunch of positions to help us expand our investigations, both senior and more junior researchers. Competitive pay, good benefits and a fantastic team. Check them out: documented.net/work-with-us

submitted 95 days ago • 6 comments