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06/20/2021

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06/13/2021

in 1971, the New York Times published its first exposé about the Pentagon Papers, 7,000 pages of classified documents that, among other revelations, exposed U.S. government lies about the Vietnam War. The GroundTruth Project podcast series 'The Whistleblower' reveals the story of Daniel Ellsberg, the government insider who risked everything to leak the papers in order to end the war.

04/30/2021

Overview Inspired by Daniel Ellsberg’s vast collection of personal papers, recently acquired by University of Massachusetts Special Collections and University…

04/20/2021

In the podcast series premiere of “The Whistleblower," Daniel Ellsberg takes us inside the Pentagon’s “Lying Machine” as the Vietnam War heats up. on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3naLQfF

In the series premiere of “The Whistleblower," Daniel Ellsberg takes us inside the Pentagon’s “Lying Machine” as the Vietnam War heats up.

on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3naLQfF

01/07/2021

Employing violence, the mob of Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol may have disrupted the peaceful transition of power, a hallmark of American democracy for centuries, but they failed to overthrow the system, writes GroundTruth co-founder Kevin Grant.

WASHINGTON — Once they got inside, they were everywhere. A mob carrying bats, knives, chemical spray and handcuffs stormed the U.S. Capitol building Wednesday, interrupting the peaceful transition of power for the first time since the precedent was set when President John Adams yielded to Presiden...

01/07/2021

We are thankful for the journalists bringing us news from the nation’s capital (and statehouses nationwide) tonight. Stay safe. Your work shines a light on and safeguards our democracy when it needs you most.

10/18/2020

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10/03/2020

Story by GroundTruth Preserving Democracy and Voting Rights Fellow Iliana Hagenah.

A new law further restricting felony voting rights in Tennessee targets young Black protestors on the precipice of a historic national election.

08/18/2020

In collaboration with PBS’ American Experience, GroundTruth is sharing stories about the expansion of voting rights in communities across the U.S. as the centennial of the 19th Amendment approaches. These On the Ground dispatches come from corps members with GroundTruth’s Report for America init...