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Credit: This article is co-published with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. Also, sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. LA GRULLA, Texas — The federal government said it needed Ociel Mendozas land on the outskirts of this tiny Texas town — and it couldnt wait any longer. Each additional day of delay...

NationofChange USPS releases calendar records for Postmaster General Louis DeJoy—but it’s almost entirely redacted “Shrouding his calendar in secrecy likely violates the letter of the law, and certainly violates its spirit.” On Tuesday of this week, the USPS finally released calendar records concealing who Postmaster General Louis DeJoy worked with when developing and implementing his controversial changes to the Postal Service.  This move comes after a lawsuit ...

“Haul Louis DeJoy in front of a criminal grand jury for his postal sabotage and subversion of our elections,” said Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. Nearly four months after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez first demanded that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy turn over his daily calendar, the U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday released documents rendered almost completely useless by heavy redactions concealing who DeJoy met with as he worked to implement his destructive overhaul of mail operations. “DeJ...

DeJoy’s past, as well as his sweeping policy changes, prompted calls for the release of his calendar to see who he had met with leading up to the election.  In September, American Oversight sued the Postal Service to see “to what extent the White House is interfering in the agency’s operations or undermining trust in absentee voting — either on behalf of private industry or to benefit the president’s reelection chances,” the group said at the time.  The Postal Service argued in A...

Months After AOC Demand and Federal Suit, USPS Releases Redacted DeJoy Calendar Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attends a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on October 22, 2019, in Washington, D.C. OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP via Getty Images By Nearly four months after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez first demanded that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy turn over his daily calendar, the U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday released documents rendered almost completely useless by heavy r...

Baseless, let us publish this closed channel correspondence starting from october 2016 till november 2017 so it would all become very clear to many people. however, regrettably, this administration refuses to do so. >> joining us is austin evers, the executive director of the organization of american oversight. he previously served as senior counsel in the state department and oversight and transparency matters. austin, its your lawsuit that is chasing the translators notes of the putin/trump co...

Expose it. >> austin evers, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you. when we come back, isabel bueso will be our last guest of this hour. she was issued a death sentence by donald trump when donald trump ordered her deportation, sent her a deportation notice. shes here getting life-saving medical treatment. isabel bueso will join us in tonights last word. ord. (music) if you have moderate to severe psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis, little things can be a big deal. thats why th...

We have breaking news. moments ago the state department released nearly 100 pages of records in response to american oversights lawsuit seeking a range of documents related to the trump administrations dealings with ukraine. you might have heard rachel talking about this on her show. those documents have just been released, and joining us now by phone is austin evers, the executive director of watchdog group american oversight. thank you for joining me. im just looking at your press release abou...

Ukraine funding and the aid being stopped and then the controversy thereafter. american oversight, the group that did file of freedom of information act request got these documents. this is the first tranche in the first round of the closures. they are planning to release more documents in the foreseeable future. austin evers is the executive director of american oversight. austin, an everyday, average weekend, huh, and here we are with 100 pages of documents you got your first tranche and then ...

Documents and now we have reporting of some in front of us. austin evers, scott wong, joyce vance, thank you. enjoy your sunday and have a great thanksgiving week ahead of you. all right. we do have some other big news this hour if this wasnt enough for you. former new york city mayor michael bloomberg says im in. y. when you shop with wayfair, you spend less and get way more. so you can bring your vision to life and save in more ways than one. for small prices, you can build big dreams, spend l...