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Corruption is Driving Up Your Electricity Bill

A massive bribery and corruption scheme is fueling skyrocketing electric bills in Appalachia. Rates in West Virginia have gone up 90% in the last 15…

Ted Cruz Rakes in Finance Industry Donations While Cosplaying as a Populist

By Donald Shaw and David Moore, Sludge Heading into a re-election contest next year, Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz is trying to position himself as…

SVB Executives May Have Delayed Action for Maximum Bonus Payments, New Evidence Suggests

As the dust clears after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), things are starting to look more and more suspicious to even the most…

Did Sam Bankman-Fried Destroy The Crypto Industry?

MuneCat: Did Sam Bankman-Fried accidentally KILL…Crypto? Let’s find out. Right now, SBF is wearing a GPS ankle tag at his parents’ Palo Alto residence as…

Kevin McCarthy Vowed To Take On Congressional Stock Trading. Now He’s Gone Silent.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has a difficult fight on his hands to win the 218 votes needed to become the next Speaker of…

Schumer Freezes Antitrust Bills After Big Tech Lobbyists Bundled Millions

By Donald Shaw and David Moore, Sludge Several bills to curb the market power of the world's largest tech companies are being stalled to death…

Before Her Party Switch, Sinema Was Flooded With Donations From Wall Street, Private Equity

By Donald Shaw and David Moore, Sludge Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is leaving the Democratic Party to register as an independent, again complicating the ambitions…

Why Energy Bills Are Sky-Rocketing in Florida

Video produced and edited by Jordan Zakarin and Josh Hirschfeld-Kroen Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is at the center of yet another major political scandal. DeSantis…

TV Networks Caught Airing Fake “Interviews” Scripted By Major Corporate Lobby

A More Perfect Union investigation found that local NBC and ABC affiliates have been airing fake "interview" segments that look like news, but are actually…

EXPOSED: The Major Corporations Funding Voter Suppression Efforts in Georgia

We looked into the Georgia Republicans spearheading voter suppression bills and discovered that they get financial backing from some of America’s largest companies.