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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 Mendoza's land on the outskirts of this tiny Texas town — and it couldn't wait any longer. Each additional day of delay was costing the government $15,000 as contractors waited to begin construction on the border fenc...

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 in federal court and months of being pressed by Democratic lawmakers, like AOC, to hand over these d...

“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. “DeJoy works for the public, but you wouldn’t know it from his calendar. Even in the Trump era, this i...

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 August that DeJoy’s calendar counted as a personal record and was, therefore, not subject to releas...

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 redactions concealing who DeJoy met with as he worked to implement his destructive overhaul of mail o...