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AuditAugust 2026

Confronting the Scourge — 14 November 2023

What did the 14 November 2023 subcommittee hearing establish about campus antisemitism three weeks after October 7th, what witnesses testified about DEI offices and Title VI enforcement, and what remained contested?

AuditAugust 2026

Speech or Silence — 29 April 2026

What did the 29 April 2026 House Education and Workforce hearing establish about First Amendment protections, student association rights, and campus speech restrictions at public universities, and what remained contested?

AuditAugust 2026

Bad Medicine — 20 May 2026

What did the 20 May 2026 House HELP subcommittee hearing establish about antisemitism in health care and medical unions, and what remained contested?

AuditAugust 2026

Training Activists, Not Physicians — 14 July 2026

What did the 14 July 2026 House Education and Workforce hearing establish about DEI, antisemitism, and medical-school training at UCLA, UCSF, and the University of Illinois, and what remained contested?

AuditAugust 2026

From Playground to Classroom — 10 September 2025

What did the 10 September 2025 House Early Childhood subcommittee hearing establish about antisemitism in K-12 schools, and what remained contested?

AuditAugust 2026

How Campuses Became Hotbeds — 17 March 2026

What does the Republican staff report on the rise of radical antisemitism establish about institutional, ideological, and financial forces on campus, and what claims remained contested?

AuditAugust 2026

Faculty, Funding, and Ideology — 15 July 2025

What did the 15 July 2025 House Education and the Workforce hearing establish about Georgetown, CUNY, and UC Berkeley responses to antisemitism, and what remained contested about faculty conduct, foreign funding transparency, and DEI policy impacts?

AuditAugust 2026

Beyond the Ivy League — 7 May 2025

What did the 7 May 2025 House Education and Workforce hearing establish about Haverford, DePaul, and Cal Poly responses to campus antisemitism, and what remained contested?

AuditAugust 2026

Antisemitism on College Campuses Exposed — 31 October 2024

What does the Republican staff report on campus antisemitism establish from a year-long investigation, and what institutional questions remained contested?

AuditAugust 2026

Calling for Accountability — 23 May 2024

What did the 23 May 2024 House Education and the Workforce hearing establish about Northwestern, Rutgers, and UCLA responses to campus antisemitism and encampments, and what remained contested?

AuditAugust 2026

Columbia in Crisis — 17 April 2024

What did the 17 April 2024 House Education and the Workforce hearing establish about Columbia's response to campus antisemitism after October 7, and what remained contested?

AuditAugust 2026

Confronting Union Antisemitism — 9 July 2024

What the 9 July 2024 House hearing established about labor union conduct toward Jewish workers post-October 7, and what institutional questions remained unresolved.

AuditAugust 2026

Unmasking Union Antisemitism — 9 September 2025

What the 9 September 2025 House hearing established about labor unions and workplace antisemitism, and what claims remained contested.

AuditAugust 2026

Holding Campus Leaders Accountable — 5 December 2023

The 5 December 2023 House hearing on campus antisemitism — what the testimony established about university responses to October 7th aftermath, what the widely reported exchange about genocide revealed, and what remained unresolved. A reconstruction from public record, not a transcript repository.

AuditAugust 2026

Campus antisemitism — Senate HELP, 27 March 2025

What did the 27 March 2025 Senate HELP Committee hearing establish about campus antisemitism post-October 7, and what remained contested?

AuditAugust 2026

CISA and misinformation governance

What the public congressional record establishes about the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's engagement with election-related misinformation and disinformation governance, and what remains contested between security framing and speech-control framing.

AuditAugust 2026

Critical race theory and the schools

What does the public congressional and state-oversight record establish about CRT in K-12, and what remains a naming fight? Curriculum debates 2020-2023, the evidence documented in hearings, and where both sides diverge without resolution.

AuditAugust 2026

Daszak and EcoHealth oversight

What does the public congressional record establish about Peter Daszak, EcoHealth Alliance, and NIH-funded coronavirus research, and what remains contested? A signed reconstruction from widely documented House and Senate hearings on COVID origins and research oversight.

AuditAugust 2026

Ending illegal DEI discrimination — 23 July 2025

The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution hearing of 23 July 2025 examining DEI programs and civil-rights enforcement — what the hearing established about discrimination claims, enforcement actions, and what remained contested.

AuditAugust 2026

The Disinformation Governance Board

What the public record establishes about the Department of Homeland Security's Disinformation Governance Board—its creation, stated mission, leadership, pause, and termination—and what remained contested between defenders and critics of the initiative.

AuditAugust 2026

Erdman hearing

What does the public congressional record establish about the Erdman hearing, and what remains contested? A signed reconstruction from the widely documented May 13, 2026 Senate Homeland Security hearing on CIA whistleblower testimony regarding COVID-19 origins.

AuditAugust 2026

Fauci before the House — 3 June 2024

The House hearing of 3 June 2024 examining Dr. Anthony Fauci's testimony on COVID-19 origins, public health guidance, and pandemic response — what the public record establishes, what remained contested between majority and minority, and where the evidence runs out. A signed reconstruction from widely reported proceedings.

AuditAugust 2026

FBI whistleblowers — 18 May 2023

The House Weaponization Subcommittee hearing of 18 May 2023 examining FBI whistleblower testimony about alleged retaliation, politicization, and internal bureau practices — what the public record establishes, what remained contested between majority and minority, and where the evidence runs out. A signed reconstruction from widely reported proceedings.

AuditAugust 2026

Financial surveillance oversight

What does the public congressional record establish about financial-surveillance and bank-records oversight, and what remains contested? A signed reconstruction from widely documented House Judiciary testimony on FinCEN and FBI access to private financial data following January 6, 2021.

AuditAugust 2026

Garland, the NSBA letter, and school-board parents — 21 October 2021

The House Judiciary hearing of 21 October 2021 examining Attorney General Merrick Garland's 4 October memo directing DOJ and FBI coordination on school-board threats — what the hearing record established about the NSBA letter, the memo's scope and basis, and what remained contested between majority and minority readings.

AuditAugust 2026

Gender medicine and minors

What the public congressional and oversight record establishes about medical transition for minors—clinical practices, evidence standards, international policy shifts, and contested claims about benefits and risks—and what remains unresolved in the institutional debate.

AuditAugust 2026

Hegseth and Iran oversight

What does the public congressional record establish about Hegseth, Iran policy, and the oversight claims, and what remains contested? A signed reconstruction from the widely documented April 29, 2026 House Armed Services Committee hearing.

AuditAugust 2026

The Intelligence Community 51 letter — 25 June 2024

The joint House report of 25 June 2024 examining the October 2020 public statement by 51 former intelligence officials characterizing Hunter Biden's laptop as bearing 'classic earmarks of Russian disinformation' — what the majority staff report established about coordination, what remains the minority reading, and where claims exceed the documented record.

AuditAugust 2026

IRS whistleblowers — 2023

The 2023 IRS whistleblower hearings examining Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler testimony about the Hunter Biden tax investigation — what the public record establishes about investigative handling, prosecutorial decisions, and alleged interference, what remained contested between majority and minority, and where the evidence runs out. A signed reconstruction from widely reported proceedings.

AuditAugust 2026

Mayorkas impeachment hearings — January 2024

The January 2024 House Homeland Security Committee impeachment hearings examining Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas's handling of border security — what the public record establishes about the constitutional standard, the allegations, the majority and minority cases, and where the evidence and legal questions remained contested. A signed reconstruction from widely reported proceedings.

AuditAugust 2026

NGOs gone wild

What does the public congressional record establish about NGO funding, migration, and government partnership, and what remains contested?

AuditAugust 2026

Progressive prosecutors

What does the public oversight record establish about progressive prosecutors, crime, and charging policy, and what remains contested?

AuditAugust 2026

2020 riots and the double-standard claim

What does the public congressional record establish about 2020 riot enforcement versus later protest cases, and what remains a partisan comparison?

AuditAugust 2026

Title IX and Riley Gaines

What the public congressional record establishes about Title IX, women's sports, and Riley Gaines's testimony regarding transgender athlete participation, and what remains contested between competing interpretations of fairness and inclusion.

AuditAugust 2026

The Twitter Files, one year later — 30 November 2023

The House Weaponization Subcommittee hearing of 30 November 2023 — what the one-year follow-on to the Twitter Files hearing established, what remained contested between majority and minority, and where the record stops. A signed reconstruction from public proceedings, not an archived transcript.

AuditAugust 2026

The Twitter Files hearing — 9 March 2023

The House Weaponization Select Subcommittee hearing of 9 March 2023 — what the public record establishes about federal content flagging, what remains contested between majority and minority, and where the evidence runs out. A reconstruction from publicly documented exchanges, not a transcript archive.

AuditAugust 2026

USAID, foreign aid, and speech control — 13 February 2025

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing of 13 February 2025 examining foreign aid spending and speech-control programs — what the hearing established about USAID activities, witness testimony, and what remained contested.

AuditAugust 2026

Weaponization subcommittee opens — 9 February 2023

The opening hearing of the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on 9 February 2023 — what the inaugural session established about scope, jurisdiction, and investigative intent, what remained contested between majority and minority, and where the public record stops. A signed reconstruction from widely reported proceedings.

AuditAugust 2026

The WPATH Files, oversight record

What does the public oversight record establish about the WPATH Files, and what remains contested? Leaked internal communications as reported 2024, the institutional response, and where both sides diverge without resolution.

AuditMay 2026

The Rhetoric of Preemption — Operation Epic Fury, audited

The rhetorical architecture managing the gap between the stated justifications for Operation Epic Fury and the documented evidentiary record — audited symmetrically across all eight actors: the administration, Israel, Iran, congressional Democrats and Republicans, NATO, the Gulf states, and China. Not the war's wisdom. The discourse object that manages its justification.

AuditMay 2026

Jerome Powell's 'transitory' inflation framing (April–December 2021) — a modality-shift audit

Powell's 'transitory' inflation framing across five 2021 FOMC press conferences, audited as a modality shift in public FOMC record. Four transformation steps from April baseline through November definitional retreat to December past-tense reframing, with per-statement Admiralty grading. The *why* (forecast-tracking vs. communication-choice) filed as an open hypothesis pair pending Fed archival release. Records evidentiary grades, open hypotheses, and the limits of analysis.

AuditMay 2026

Race-Based Politics — the bipartisan discourse object, audited

The use of racial framing as a political instrument across the full ideological spectrum — progressive, conservative, centrist, corporate — audited as a coordinated discourse object. Not race. Not racial inequality. The machinery that routinely captures both.

AuditMay 2026

The eight-second attention span — a discourse object, audited

The eight-second attention-span claim — shorter than a goldfish's nine — audited as a propagation chain under Prosoche discipline. The chain terminates at a content-mill aggregator; the figures predate the Microsoft Canada report by 15 months; and that Microsoft report contradicts itself, with page 6's slide refuted by primary EEG data on pages 20-22. Three failure modes — provenance collapse, construct conflation, and internal contradiction — each demolish the claim under charity.

AuditMay 2026

Hillsborough — the institutional case against Liverpool fans, audited

The 1989 fan-blame narrative — drunk, ticketless, late, gate-storming — treated as an evidence apparatus and audited under Prosoche discipline. Source quality, contradictions against the public record, propagation through the press and Parliament, and what survives charitable interpretation before reaching a verdict.

AuditMay 2026

Ofcom's fraud risk profile — a citation provenance audit at the verification floor

Section 11 of Ofcom's Register of Risks (16 December 2024), the fraud and financial services profile, audited as a citation provenance object. 15 load-bearing citations were sampled from 140 footnotes; 4 were primary-source verified. Per-citation Admiralty grading surfaces one citation with three structural distortions (qualifier-, scope-, and chain-dropping). The audit also documents a ~25–30% verification floor for AI-augmented audits of regulator documents without institutional access.