I'm honored that my stories for @propublica.org on the erosion of democracy in North Carolina have won the top overall writing award from the 2026 Society of Professional Journalists’ Green Eyeshade Awards. They were praised as "hard-hitting journalism that holds truth to power."

1/ Wondering what the FBI has been doing with 2020 election materials it seized in a raid earlier this year, and how it figures into Trump’s plans for the midterm elections? Well, @ProPublica has been working to find out. 🧵👇

SCOOP: FBI Has Looked at Using Questionable AI Tech to Review Signatures on Seized Mail-In Ballots, by @jeremykohler.bsky.social @dougbockclark.bsky.social

FBI Has Looked at Using Questionable AI Tech to Review Signatures on Seized Mail-In Ballots

As part of President Trump’s continued push to discredit the results of the 2020 election, his administration has considered using AI technology to scrutinize tens of thousands of ballots seized in Fu...

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1/ Spurred by my reporting for @propublica.org, Democratic lawmakers in North Carolina have introduced a package of bills aimed at protecting traditional powers of the state’s governor and reforming oversight of its court system. #ncpol www.propublica.org/article/nort...

North Carolina Democrats Propose Changes to Block GOP Power Transfers and Secrecy

The legislation, prompted in part by ProPublica’s reporting, aims to protect traditional powers of the state’s governor and reform oversight of its court system.

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EXCLUSIVE: Behind the scenes, the Trump administration has been wielding its vast power to transform the midterm elections. This is the untold story of Trump’s efforts to, as he has called it, “take over” the midterms.

MUST READ with a lot of new info: Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections, by @dougbockclark.bsky.social @jenafifield.bsky.social

Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections

When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...

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Fair Contract Now for ProPublica Guild

We, the workers of ProPublica, provide our readers with deeply researched, unbiased news that holds power to account. This work is more important now than ever, but our staff can’t properly contribute...

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EXCLUSIVE: Top Department of Homeland Security official David Harvilicz has repeatedly questioned the validity of Democratic victories at the ballot box and pushed for Republicans to overhaul electoral systems to their advantage. www.propublica.org/article/davi...

This DHS Official Oversees the Security of Federal Elections. He Wants to Ban Voting Machines.

David Harvilicz, who co-founded a firm with a 2020 election denier, oversees voting machine security for the Department of Homeland Security while the Trump administration is relitigating the presiden...

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Honored that my reporting is a finalist for the 2026 Toner Award for Excellence in National Political Reporting. Thanks to all the ProPublicans and sources who supported it this last year: newhouse.syracuse.edu/centers/robi...

Toner Prizes

The Toner Prizes for Excellence in Political Reporting recognize the best U.S. national or local political reporting in any medium or on any platform—print, broadcast or online.

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Honored that my reporting is a finalist for the 2026 ABA Silver Gavel Award: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

ABA names 2026 finalists for Silver Gavel Awards for Media and the Arts

WASHINGTON, March 11, 2026 —The American Bar Association today announced the 31 finalists for the 2026 Silver Gavel Awards for Media and the Arts, which recognize outstanding work that fosters the Ame...

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A bill sponsored by several state reps seeks to prevent hospitals and doctors from questioning or interfering “in any manner” with a patient’s right to refuse treatments or vaccines. South Carolina hospitals aren't required to disclose measles-related admissions @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social

South Carolina Hospitals Aren’t Required to Disclose Measles-Related Admissions. That Leaves Doctors in the Dark.

Physicians across South Carolina, home to the largest measles outbreak in decades, are advising patients without the benefit of real-time data on hospitalizations due to measles-related pneumonia, bra...

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1/ SCOOP: The process that led to the FBI’s seizure of 2020 election materials from GA has been going on longer than previously known – with meetings among top Trump administration lawyers about election integrity dating back to at least last fall. www.propublica.org/article/thom...

What Meetings Among Trump Lawyers Reveal About the FBI’s Seizure of Election Records in Georgia

The federal prosecutor from Missouri, who is overseeing an investigation into the 2020 vote in Georgia, had several meetings set up with top administration lawyers last fall to discuss election integr...

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Great reporting from @jenafifield.bsky.social and @zachdespart.bsky.social on the SAVE program and how its errors could be making it harder for some people to vote. The most in-depth piece of reporting on this phenomenon that I've seen.

Jen Fifield@jenafifield.bsky.social · 6mo ago

NEW: A federal tool meant to find noncitizens on voter rolls is consistently marking citizens as noncitizens, especially if they were born outside the U.S., causing chaos as election clerks try not to disenfranchise voters, @zachdespart.bsky.social and I found. 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/save...

1/ UPDATE: The affidavit underlying the FBI raid to seize 2020 election materials in GA has been unsealed. It cited allegations conservative researcher Kevin Moncla told @ProPublica he had briefed investigators on. Witness names are redacted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Doug Bock Clark@dougbockclark.bsky.social · 6mo ago

EXCLUSIVE: Since the FBI seized 2020 election materials from GA, questions have abounded as to what evidence justified the raid. @ProPublica has obtained audio of conservative activists discussing providing files and exhibits to the Department of Justice… www.propublica.org/article/kevi...

EXCLUSIVE: Since the FBI seized 2020 election materials from GA, questions have abounded as to what evidence justified the raid. @ProPublica has obtained audio of conservative activists discussing providing files and exhibits to the Department of Justice… www.propublica.org/article/kevi...

The Conservative Researcher Being Linked to the FBI’s Seizure of Election Records in Georgia

Kevin Moncla has tried repeatedly to prove that the 2020 vote in Fulton County, Georgia, was tainted by fraud. While state election overseers have rejected his claims, his work may be fueling the fede...

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“I’m not aware of something like this happening ever before.” FBI’s Search of Georgia Election Center Is “Dangerous,” Experts Warn, by @dougbockclark.bsky.social @jenafifield.bsky.social

FBI’s Search of Georgia Election Center Is “Dangerous,” Experts Warn

The search warrant, which sought 2020 election ballots, tabulator tapes, digital data and voter rolls from Fulton County, marked what experts described as a significant escalation in President Donald ...

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1/ NEW: @propublica.org has obtained a search warrant that the FBI is executing for records related to the contested 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., which has not yet been widely shared. It’s an extraordinary document. Link: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

1-28-26 Fulton Warrant

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1/ For nearly a decade, GOP lawmakers in NC have relentlessly stripped powers from the state’s Democratic governors – not just weakening their political opponents, but also harming everyday North Carolinians, advocates argue. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/nort...

How GOP Lawmakers’ Power Transfers Are Reshaping Everything From Utilities to Environmental Regulation in North Carolina

The GOP-led North Carolina legislature spent nearly 10 years trying to control the elections board. But it’s also taken aim at other commissions in the state by shifting who has power to appoint membe...

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I wrote this column about the aggressive pushback our reporters have received for doing their jobs. Our Reporters Reached Out for Comment. They Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation.

Our Reporters Reached Out for Comment. They Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation.

Our journalists reach out to people they’re writing about to ensure fairness. But in this environment, they’ve found their efforts to do so are more likely to be vilified than appreciated.

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1/ Just weeks after a Democrat was elected governor of NC in 2024 by an overwhelming margin, the state’s GOP-controlled legislature set out to strip him of powers. What happened next illuminates the breakdown in the separation of powers throughout the nation. THREAD 👇 tinyurl.com/y3v6np59

Inside the North Carolina GOP’s Decade-Long Push to Seize Power From the State’s Democratic Governors

For almost a decade, North Carolina’s majority-Republican legislature tried six times to strip Democratic governors of control over the board overseeing the swing state’s elections. This year, it fina...

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Really important story by @dougbockclark.bsky.social: The Shrinking Governor Inside the North Carolina GOP’s Decade-Long Push to Seize Power From the State’s Democratic Governors

Inside the North Carolina GOP’s Decade-Long Push to Seize Power From the State’s Democratic Governors

For almost a decade, North Carolina’s majority-Republican legislature tried six times to strip Democratic governors of control over the board overseeing the swing state’s elections. This year, it fina...

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NEW: Billions of pounds of food are imported to the U.S. each year. The FDA inspects foreign producers to ensure what we're eating is safe from pathogens and dangerous manufacturing practices. But now, after Trump's drastic staff cuts, these inspections have plummeted to a historic low. 🧵/

Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts

The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s seafood and more than half its fresh fru...

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Until now, Social Security disability benefits got easier to qualify for as a person reached 50 and above. The Trump plan would end that. www.propublica.org/article/soci...

Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibility Rules

Planned changes to Social Security’s disability program could leave hundreds of thousands of older blue-collar workers ineligible for aid. These changes would fall disproportionately on some of Presid...

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North Carolina GOP spox tried to get @dougbockclark.bsky.social to kill a story, citing “connections” to the Trump administration. It’s unclear how Trump would retaliate against @propublica.org, a nonprofit newsroom that does not receive government funding & relies on private grants & donations.

N.C. GOP spokesman urges reporter to drop news story, citing Trump ties

Communications director Matt Mercer later said in a social media post that Trump should “feed ProPublica to the USAID wood chipper.”

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Must-read story by @dougbockclark.bsky.social. God's Chief Justice: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America

“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America

Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...

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Few people outside North Carolina have heard of Paul Newby, the chief justice of the state’s Supreme Court. But Newby has had a huge impact on America and his state. He’s done this with the goal of delivering what he’s called “biblical justice, equal justice, for all.” THREAD 👇

NEW: Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social

“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America

Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...

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