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Voting rights advocates in Texas warn that spreading awareness of voter intimidation could become a self-fulfilling prophecy. https://theintercept.com/2026/11/02/texas-election-day-ice-voter-suppression

With Haley Stevens’s demand for an apology from the candidate who beat her, the party’s moderates are making clear they’d rather lose than empower a progressive wing critical of Israel. https://theintercept.com/2026/10/31/centrist-democrats-el-sayed-senate-israel

We tracked how much AIPAC and its super PAC spent on elections to put pro-Israel candidates on the ballot in this year’s midterms — including the money it tried to keep out of the public eye. https://theintercept.com/2026/10/29/aipac-israel-midterms-spending-elections-congress/

A new project by The Intercept reveals the hundreds of candidates still taking the pro-Israel lobby’s cash, and how AIPAC is obscuring its spending. https://theintercept.com/2026/10/29/aipac-israel-midterms-spending-elections-congress

Centrist Democrats’ calls to fall in line behind the party’s nominee only ever seem to cut one way — and fall apart when their candidate loses. https://theintercept.com/2026/10/24/centrist-democrats-dsa-el-sayed

“Almost all of the worst ideas in the United States have been intentionally exported to Brazil as a way to make Brazil a worse country that’s more in line with U.S. interests.” https://theintercept.com/2026/10/23/brazil-president-election-lula-bolsonaro-meta

Collins received tens of thousands from Lockheed during a two-month period surrounding a critical 2023 watchdog report. https://theintercept.com/2026/10/15/susan-collins-lockheed-martin-f35-fighter-jet

Unlike the raid on John Bolton, the targeting of Omar has elicited zero condemnation from NYT, WSJ, and Washington Post. https://theintercept.com/2026/10/15/ilhan-omar-raid-corporate-media-coverage

Cases in Arkansas and California show how desperately we need a federal law against lawsuits intended to chill free speech. https://theintercept.com/2026/10/13/google-data-center-slapp-lawsuit

Dana Joudeh was denied proper food and medical care throughout her pregnancy in an Israeli prison. She gave birth to a premature baby surrounded by armed guards. https://theintercept.com/2026/10/10/israel-palestine-prisoner-pregnancy-childbirth

A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in victim's car when ICE agents shot at it. https://theintercept.com/2026/10/08/ice-nyc-shooting-federal-agent

Authorities are taking unprecedented steps to charge protesters in a sleepy Vermont town that hosts an ICE intelligence and targeting center https://theintercept.com/2026/10/07/ice-protest-vermont-surveillance-charges

ICE briefly posted eight of its 2025 death reviews online. Most of them raised issues of substandard and “inappropriate” care of ill detainees. https://theintercept.com/2026/09/30/ice-custody-deaths-medical-neglect

“This is one of the singularly most distressing cases that I’ve seen in terms of public access to records. This is stonewalling on steroids.” https://theintercept.com/2026/09/29/intercept-sues-police-prairieland-ice-public-records

By threatening the filmmakers, Netanyahu lays bare how fragile the notion of what it means to be Israeli is in the age of its genocide in Gaza. https://theintercept.com/2026/09/25/naza-documentary-film-netanyahu-israel-revoke-citizenship

A security researcher’s map revealed more locations of Flock devices than any other. Flock is trying to take it down. https://theintercept.com/2026/09/24/how-many-flock-devices-in-united-states-300000

ICE-watchers-turned-poll-watchers are preparing for the worst, as the Trump administration hints at potential strategies to disrupt the midterm elections. https://theintercept.com/2026/09/22/ice-voting-midterm-election-polling-sites

Activists with Swifties Against Genocide want to impose a cost for trampling pro-Palestine voices. https://theintercept.com/2026/09/22/pink-macklemore-palestine-israel-unicef

Billionaire New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft wants you to know he has spent “decades” supporting the Palestinian people. But The Intercept dug into his claim and found that he actually has spent years donating to.... Friends of the IDF and AIPAC?

https://theintercept.com/2026/09/18/robert-kraft-macklemore-ed-sheeran-israel-donations/

What’s driving religious fundamentalists, tech accelerationists, and anti-immigrant ethnonationalists to bring about the end of the world? https://theintercept.com/2026/09/18/naomi-klein-astra-taylor-ai-religious-apocalypse-doom

What kind of Christianity is being proclaimed when the language of Jesus is attached to military power? https://theintercept.com/2026/09/17/hegseth-christianity-jesus-iran-war

Ed Sheeran’s entire tour quitting in solidarity with Palestine and Macklemore proves the logic of BDS. https://theintercept.com/2026/09/16/ed-sheeran-israel-palestine-macklemore/

So far, settlement payouts under Mamdani are holdover cases. Without policy changes, however, they might keep growing toward a $1 billion total since 2018. https://theintercept.com/2026/09/16/nypd-mamdani-police-misconduct-settlement-payouts

Iran’s ability to overwhelm U.S. air defenses in the Middle East using attack drones and advanced ballistic missiles has left the U.S. military in a precarious state. The Trump administration failed to appreciate Iran’s military prowess, said the first official. The other pointed to a “complete lack of planning” for the war.

https://theintercept.com/2026/09/15/iran-war-us-military-bases/

Why would three multibillionaire tech CEOs all come together to agree that the technologies their companies are developing might be too dangerous? One thing is clear: Talk of existential risk is a highly convenient way to not address the already known harms produced by AI technologies overseen by fascist billionaires like Musk and Palantir CEO Alex Karp.

https://theintercept.com/2026/09/14/ai-doom-apocalypse-risk/

In case anyone was starting to feel that American democracy is just a little too secure, distaste for the common man is now finding purchase beyond the political right, with centrist liberals test-running their own brand of distaste for mass participation.

https://theintercept.com/2026/09/13/centrist-liberals-democracy-small-dollar-donors/

Flying United? Your checked bags may have an unwelcome neighbor in the cargo hold.

United has made thousands of shipments of war materiel to Israel, including parts for fighter jets and tanks — all onboard civilian passenger flights, according to a new report.

https://interc.pt/4ilcq4u

The cattle ranch at the center of the case demands strict drone regulations, saying legal flyovers threatened “food security.”

https://theintercept.com/2026/09/08/faa-drone-pilot-animal-abuse-cattle-farm/

Police scanned Flock cameras in a single town in Illinois more than 1,200 times to investigate cases of loitering.

https://theintercept.com/2026/09/09/flock-cameras-police-loitering-curfew-surveillance/

The Intercept sued to obtain records that reveal an intimate relationship between the military and OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI. https://theintercept.com/2026/09/08/military-ai-weapons-contracts-openai-anthropic-google

Marc Rowan, a Trump appointee overseeing Gaza’s redevelopment, has given $1.5 million to AIPAC’s super PAC this cycle. https://theintercept.com/2026/09/03/aipac-marc-rowan-donor-gaza-board-peace

“The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.” https://theintercept.com/2026/09/02/military-boat-strikes-killings-year

A settlement with the Christian Employers Alliance blocks the EEOC from ever investigating the group’s members for gender identity discrimination. https://theintercept.com/2026/09/01/christian-employers-settlement-gender-discrimination-eeoc

The Trump administration designated an Italian antifascist webhosting service as a terrorist organization. It could affect an anarchist radio show in Asheville, a blog documenting attacks “crisis pregnancy centers,” and the Seattle Anarchist Bookfair. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/28/trump-antifa-terrorist-websites-free-speech/

Trump designated an Italian web-hosting provider as a foreign “terror” group. It could take antifascist sites in the U.S. offline. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/28/trump-antifa-terrorist-websites-free-speech

For nearly a month, the key force standing in the way of Trump’s border wall project in southeast Arizona has been a person sitting in a 200-year-old tree.

https://interc.pt/4gAf7MS

A single tree sit harnessed a cross-border movement to defend the Arizona borderland ecology. So far, the activists are blocking Trump’s wall. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/27/trump-us-mexico-border-wall-tree-sit-arizona

In the besieged West Bank village of Qusra, the workers were building a fence for keeping settlers out. Soldiers allowed the settlers to trespass. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/26/settlers-israel-soldiers-west-bank-siege-qusra

Right-leaning and libertarian groups told the court that ICE engaged in illegal “ideological targeting” of the left in the Minneapolis 15 case. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/25/minneapolis-ice-protesters-undercover-agents

When pressed about the Iran war, a CENTCOM press official threatened to put an Intercept reporter on a “list of people to disregard.” https://theintercept.com/2026/08/24/pentagon-military-journalist-blacklist-press-media

Internal emails indicate immigration agents complied with an Iranian request to hand over specific nationals — and accidentally sent the wrong person to Iran. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/18/iran-trump-deportation-flights-ice

With the case of Carlitos Ricardo Parias, the U.S. has broken its own record for holding a journalist in custody. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/16/ricardo-parias-ice-detention-journalist-los-angeles

Documents from ICE’s investigation into the Sunrise Movement show an agent volunteered to build tools for “direct-action” protests. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/15/undercover-ice-agents-minneapolis-sunrise-movement

Benjamin Netanyahu shocked the world with violence in Gaza — then took an unhinged Israel to the mainstream. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/13/israel-palestine-benjamin-netanyahu-likud-crazy

A lawsuit filed with the Freedom of the Press Foundation argues the president is restricting First Amendment-protected information in a scheme to enrich himself. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/12/trump-media-truthsocial-premium-first-amendment

The WNBA star has become the latest symbol in the right’s campaign to define which women deserve protecting—and which do not. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/09/sophie-cunningham-wnba-trans-athletes

A new State Department policy about “far-left terrorism” could spark a crackdown on Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions activists. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/08/state-department-rubio-leftists-visas-terrorism

The Trump administration tapped a surveillance giant with a record of attacking the press to advise the State Department on free speech.

Bari Weiss’s latest hire for “60 Minutes,” whose major journalistic output includes smearing genocide victims and putting a target on the backs of reporters in Gaza, shows that the full-blown right-wing tabloidification of the television news program is charging ahead.

Read more: https://theintercept.com/2026/08/04/60-minutes-bari-weiss-cbs-news-israel-gaza/

New York Police Department investigators deployed an extensive array of high-tech surveillance and investigative tools to identify the alleged vandal, according to documents from the court case provided exclusively to The Intercept. The documents also detail how NYPD investigators appeared to have abandoned the case, before being spurred to reopen it by federal officials.

Read more: https://theintercept.com/2026/08/03/nypd-surveillance-gaza-protest-columbia/

The report, which covers enforcement actions over a six-month period, highlights the obvious: Corporations — not small immigrant-oriented healthcare providers, or undocumented immigrants illegally taking benefits — are responsible for the vast majority of alleged fraud in the American health care system. Released earlier this month, the report highlights billions of dollars’ worth of healthcare fraud from corporate executives.

Rand Paul is trying to put Anthony Fauci in prison for not confirming a conspiracy theory, but the key to blunting the next pandemic is universal healthcare. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/29/covid-fauci-diary-rand-paul-healthcare-pandemic

As the U.S. runs short of interceptor missiles, Iran is carrying out strikes with a mix of attack drones and advanced ballistic missiles. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/28/iran-missiles-drones-us-air-defenses

Did Cuba foment Black Lives Matter and anti-ICE protests? The State Department seems to think so. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/26/cuba-marco-rubio-state-department-report

“Men who take testosterone will have a reduction in their sperm counts,” one medical professor said. There’s no stated plan for continuing care. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/24/hegseth-testosterone-hormone-therapy-veterans-affairs

Google purges reviews of ICE detention facilities and blocks the ability to write new ones, according to newly published research shared with The Intercept.

President Donald Trump is trying to whitewash America’s past. Could rebellion offer a brighter future? https://theintercept.com/2026/07/04/july-4-america-250-trump

“ICE continues to flagrantly violate the law by arresting immigrants who are attending their mandatory court hearings,” said Rep. Dan Goldman. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/01/ice-court-order-arrests

A new report demonstrates the patterns by compiling accounts detailing rape by soldiers using bottles, batons, and other sharp objects — even trained dogs. https://theintercept.com/2026/06/30/sexual-violence-rape-israel-palestinians-prison

A House bill ostensibly aimed at protecting children will raise the risk for journalists, dissidents, and whistleblowers. https://theintercept.com/2026/06/28/age-verification-privacy-surveillance-journalists-whistleblowers

Daniel Sanchez Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for transporting a box of zines he didn’t even write. The prosecution’s theory was that Sanchez moved zines, which discussed anti-government ideas, to conceal evidence in the case against his wife, Maricela Rueda.

https://theintercept.com/2026/06/26/daniel-sanchez-estrada-zines-prairieland-free-speech/

Cops warned corporate bodyguards that “challenges faced by the middle and lower classes” might spur attacks on wealthy CEOS. https://theintercept.com/2026/06/25/police-luigi-mangione-wealthy-ceos-threat

The Department of Homeland Security refuses to comply with FOIA requests over its unlawful efforts to stifle the First Amendment. https://theintercept.com/2026/06/24/intercept-lawsuit-ice-protesters-surveillance-travel

Anti-ICE activists received lengthy prison terms — including a 100-year sentence — in the first major trial of the NSPM-7 era. https://theintercept.com/2026/06/23/prairieland-texas-ice-protest-prison-sentences

“They were asking me to inform,” said a protester, one of dozens contacted by the feds, who was arrested while playing the cello. https://theintercept.com/2026/06/20/fbi-ice-delaney-hall-protest-informants

As Iran and the U.S. reach a deal to supposedly end this cycle of war, Tariq Kenney-Shawa and Jonah Valdez discuss what’s happened since Israel’s October 2025 “pseudo-ceasefire” in Gaza. https://theintercept.com/2026/06/19/israel-gaza-ceasefire-tariq-kenney-shawa

Israel’s government asked Meta to censor social media content about its ongoing war against Iran, according to internal documents viewed by The Intercept. Company records show that Israel petitioned Meta to take down Facebook and Instagram posts expressing support for Iran, opposition to Israel, and depictions of Iranian missile impacts.

https://theintercept.com/2026/06/18/israel-facebook-censor-content-moderation-iran-war/

Pearson challenged the last Tennessee Democrat in the House. Now he’s up against the threat of total GOP control. https://theintercept.com/2026/06/16/justin-pearson-sanders-tennessee-house-redistricting

In a series of interviews with The Intercept, Amanda Feindt, a U.S. Army major and former whistleblower, described a grueling pattern of obfuscation in which military officials refused to answer questions about her child’s treatment, directed her to file public records requests, and claimed not to have the attendant evidence — then produced it months later.

https://theintercept.com/2026/06/15/child-abuse-army-daycare-military-pete-hegseth/

To end his war on Iran, Trump was forced to return to the status quo with the Strait of Hormuz open and no nuclear deal in place. https://theintercept.com/2026/06/15/trump-us-iran-war

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Scott Pelley describes Weiss’s horrific pro-Trump meddling, but he also shows how “both sides” journalism was already dooming our country. https://theintercept.com/2026/06/11/bari-weiss-scott-pelley-60-minutes-cbs-news

A judge rebuked the government’s unlawful detention of the infirm 77-year-old. Then ICE seized him again. https://theintercept.com/2026/06/10/ice-deport-elderly-palestinian-immigrant

Anthropic wants to keep AI away from repressive regimes. But what about its part-owner, the repressive dictatorship of Abu Dhabi? https://theintercept.com/2026/06/06/anthropic-ai-investor-abu-dhabi-china

The U.S. is feeding Pentagon propaganda to internet users in Latin America through a content mill bearing telltale signs of AI generation — like an image of a newspaper whose sloppily rendered headline reads “SO THEE HOUTIERRER TO TO GHAHOBATEE.” https://interc.pt/4u5IN9j

How many acts of war must occur before the mainstream media accepts there is no ceasefire between the U.S., Israel, and Iran? https://theintercept.com/2026/06/03/ceasefire-iran-war-trump

A law enforcement document obtained by The Intercept shows police scan social media looking for posts opposing AI data centers. https://theintercept.com/2026/06/01/ai-data-center-protest-police-surveillance

Detainees told a visiting member of Congress that the attacks were “retribution for the ongoing hunger strike.” https://theintercept.com/2026/05/29/ice-pepper-spray-nj-newark-delaney

Texas’s response to school shootings was as predictable as it was doomed to produce only more violence in schools — violence by cops. https://theintercept.com/2026/05/29/uvalde-texas-schools-police-violence

From Utah to Georgia, communities are demanding data center moratoriums as concerns move from local zoning fights into national politics. https://theintercept.com/2026/05/29/ai-data-centers-water

Many institutions, including NYU Langone, have already complied and stopped providing such care. http://theintercept.com/2026/05/14/nyu-langone-subpoena-transgender-health-care/

"God help you if you’re an ordinary voter trying to track all this money.” https://theintercept.com/2026/05/22/aipac-ai-crypto-and-gambling-are-hiding-their-big-election-spends/

"With his popularity at historic lows, Trump can only turn to these kinds of payouts for his allies and dwindling base," writes Natasha Lennard. https://theintercept.com/2026/05/19/trump-anti-weaponization-fund-jan-6/

The analysts show how the social posts were quickly gaining traction among white supremacists, who were encouraging each other to sign up as immigration agents. https://theintercept.com/2026/05/21/ice-dhs-social-media-white-supremacist-violence/

Preserving racial hierarchy remains one of most animating impulses in American political life. https://theintercept.com/2026/05/20/supreme-court-gerrymandering-voting-rights-act-black

Forget the far-off future: Tech companies are enlisting AI to kill today. https://theintercept.com/2026/05/01/elon-musk-openai-lawsuit-trial/

These are the statistical findings that prove the U.S. media’s bias against Palestinians. https://theintercept.com/2026/05/12/gaza-media-coverage-israel-bias/

Fidelity, Charles Schwab, and Vanguard are tamping down on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s donations, acting as the government’s de facto censors. https://theintercept.com/2026/05/08/splc-donations-banks-censorship

Sightline Intelligence, a firm focused on AI video processing, has made at least 10 shipments of hardware to the Israeli weapons giant Elbit Systems since 2024, according to investigators with the Movement Research Unit. https://theintercept.com/2026/05/05/portland-sightline-ai-surveillance-drones-israel/

The U.S. has killed more than 2,000 civilians across the world during Trump’s second term from Latin America to Africa to the Middle East. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/29/hegseth-war-military-civilian-deaths/

The company’s right-wing politics and eagerness to facilitate U.S. and Israeli military aggression abroad, NSA global surveillance, and ICE deportations has also made many weary of its access to incredibly sensitive personal data. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/24/palantir-irs-contract-data/

Twenty donors to the Southern Poverty Law Center said the alleged “fraud” being prosecuted in their name was exactly how they hoped the group would spend their money. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/24/splc-donors-fraud-doj-kash-patel

Amid periodic threats from the Trump administration to target so-called sanctuary cities like New York, the threat of a large-scale surge remains on the minds of immigrants and their supporters. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/21/ice-new-york-cars-parking/

In Lebanon, an unprecedented campaign of DNA tests is being used to identify mangled bodies left trapped under rubble by Israel’s blitz. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/17/lebanon-israel-black-wednesday-bombing-id-dna

When the U.S. and Israel launched their war on Iran, it put as many as 1 million Americans living in the Middle East at risk. Thanks to Elon Musk, it's been harder to get them out of harm's way. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/12/americans-stranded-middle-east-iran-war-doge-cuts/

“This judge is effectively doing the investigation that the United States has turned its back on.” https://theintercept.com/2026/04/09/renee-good-killing-minneapolis-jonathan-ross-videos/

Polls show that Democratic Party members are increasingly skeptical of Israel and supportive of Palestinians — a shift that hasn’t been reflected in the party’s official position. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/09/democrats-dnc-israel-aipac-resolution/

An ICE summons to get the user’s identity failed. Advocates worry the move to a grand jury signals an escalation of the war on dissent. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/10/reddit-ice-protest-grand-jury