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2016 U.S. presidential election

The 2016 US presidential election and its various controversies.

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Jan 22, 2026
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What did the Podesta emails published by WikiLeaks actually contain, and how were they verified?

published by WikiLeaks were a large trove—over 20,000 pages released in serialized batches—that exposed internal communications from and illuminated , fundraising and speech excerpts, and political ma...

Jan 15, 2026
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What did conservative think tanks allege about Podesta’s influence and how have independent fact‑checks evaluated those claims?

Conservative outlets and social-media aligned actors circulated a range of allegations that John Podesta used his Clinton-era access and email correspondence to exert improper influence over media, po...

Jan 22, 2026
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US Presidential vote totals

A concise inventory of U.S. presidential vote totals requires two parallel tallies: the nationwide popular vote and the state-by-state counts that actually decide the presidency, both of which are tra...

Jan 10, 2026

Which U.S. political campaigns have documented use of paid crowd services and how were they disclosed?

Paid crowd services — most prominently the firm Crowds on Demand — have verifiable ties to at least one named political effort and alleged ties to a few others; public documentation is sparse because ...

Jan 5, 2026

what was the outcome in the Katie Johnson vs Donald Trump case?

The lawsuit filed under the pseudonym "Katie Johnson" accusing Donald J. Trump (and Jeffrey Epstein) of raping a 13-year-old in 1994 was brought in federal court in 2016, but the matter did not result...