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Original accountability reporting. We pull the filings, court records, and government data behind layoffs, the H-1B program, and corporate power, then show our work. Every claim is sourced.

Investigation · June 10, 2026

Iowa Sold Its Workers

Gov. Reynolds handed the state's entire IT operation to Cognizant and AWS, laid off 192 workers, and sealed the contract cost. We pulled a decade of the vendor's Iowa visa filings.

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Investigation · June 2026

The Unicorn Investigation

India leads NFAP's 2026 list with 96 immigrant-founded US unicorns. We audited all 96: 17 marked down or laying off, 6 zombie valuations, 4 already off the list.

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Investigation · March 30, 2026

The System That Looked Away

Student visa oversight was supposed to stop fraud. 3,281 school audits backlogged, 38% of work permits with no employer on file, 1,135 schools vanished. We pulled the receipts.

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