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A thread follows one storyline — a specific investigation, policy fight, or pattern of conduct — across every entry that touches it, in the order it happened.

Ice Fatal Shootings 2 entries · updated Jul 13, 2026 Executive-order audits Phase H audits of the first-half-2025 executive orders most cited as authoritarian in public discourse: what each order directs, what its enforcement record shows, the court record, and how each was packaged. Selection rationale: agent-docs/eo-audit-selection.md. 6 entries · updated Jul 12, 2026 DOGE & the administrative state The Department of Government Efficiency's restructuring of federal agencies, workforce, contracts, and data access, and its statutory basis. 2 entries · updated Jul 12, 2026 Federal funding as leverage Use or withholding of federal grants, contracts, and appropriated funds tied to policy or political conditions. 2 entries · updated Jul 12, 2026 Voting rules by executive action Executive orders and directives changing voting mechanics (mail-ballot rules, eligibility documentation, absentee-voter lists) and the litigation that follows them. 2 entries · updated Jul 12, 2026 Immigration enforcement conduct Enforcement actions, detention practices, and due-process questions in federal immigration operations. 2 entries · updated Jul 12, 2026 Court orders & compliance Whether the executive branch complies with, appeals, or contests adverse federal court rulings. 1 entry · updated Jul 11, 2026 Election-legitimacy claims Statements by the president and official accounts on the legitimacy of past and future elections: 2020-result claims, fraud attribution, and mail-in-voting characterizations, measured against what courts and officials found. 1 entry · updated Jul 11, 2026 Inspector-general oversight Removals, vacancies, and statutory-notice compliance across the federal inspector-general system. 1 entry · updated Jul 11, 2026 January 6 clemency & political violence Clemency and pardon actions tied to January 6, and the administration's response to political violence more broadly, including any disparity in treatment by target. 1 entry · updated Jul 11, 2026 Election administration & personnel Federal actions on election-administration machinery and personnel: the EAC, election-security posture, and federal assertions of control over state-run administration. 1 entry · updated Jul 11, 2026 War powers & unauthorized force Military operations conducted without congressional authorization, the legal bases asserted, and Congress's responses, measured against the eighty-year bipartisan expansion of unilateral war-making. 1 entry · updated Jul 11, 2026