On September 22 President Donald Trump issued an executive order designating “antifa” as a “domestic terrorist organization.” Three days later, Trump issued a National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM-7), squarely taking aim at the political ideologies of anti-fascism, placing any so-called threads of anti-American, anti-fascist, anti-capitalist, anti-Christianity, and “hostility to those

Israeli official Yossi Dagan helped to operate a get out the vote campaign inside Israel in support of Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign. However, his Israeli influence operations did not stop at the 2024 elections. At the same time, he says he was pushing the incoming Trump administration

Roger Wright was 19 years old when he stepped outside his house to make a quick run to the grocery store in October 2004. Outside the store, his life was changed forever. Wright was suddenly grabbed by Seattle Police Department (SPD) officers and, he told Real Change, choked unconscious, handcuffed

During the heat of the 2024 presidential campaign, then-Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Michael Whatley, along with his senior adviser, left the U.S. on a trip to Israel, hosted by the Israel Heritage Foundation (IHF). There, Whatley had a private meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli news

Thirteen years and at least $129 million spent on Seattle’s federal consent decree ended like a flap of air out of a Whoopee cushion on Wednesday.  After Judge James Robart ordered the termination of the consent decree, a gaggle of Seattle Police Department (SPD) brass and Mayor Bruce Harrell

My latest with Seattle Gay News (SGN) shows that an Israeli training provider for American police (including Seattle PD), the Advanced Security Training Institute (ASTI), has liked numerous anti-LGBT, anti-immigrant, and conspiracy content posts on X (Twitter). Over decades, the founder of ASTI has cultivated a network of connections among

I've spent five years, two lawsuits, and countless public records requests trying to piece this story together. Buy a Real Change paper on the street in Seattle or click the link to get the full report: https://www.realchangenews.org/news/2025/05/28/fbi-and-spd-infiltrated-seattle-2020-protests-used-informants-and-surveillance

My latest with Prism reveals connections between Eric Adams and NYPD leadership with the Israel Heritage Foundation (IHF); a group that has hosted events at a settler hilltop outpost in the Occupied West Bank immediately uphill from where UW grad Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi was shot in the head by an

Nationally recognized civil rights attorney Alec Karakatsanis has published a new book, copaganda, dissecting the subtle, overt and sinister ways that big media across the United States push for the expansion of the for-profit "punishment bureaucracy." Karakatsanis shows how big outlets like the New York Times have flat

The Seattle Police Department’s (SPD) federal consent decree Monitor, Antonio Oftelie, has not posted a single update to the monitoring team’s website since December 2023, despite receiving numerous payments from the U.S. District Court in Seattle. That might not be the only area of his oversight that’

HardPressed has found a private business relationship between the Seattle Police Department’s (SPD) Chief Operating Officer Brian Maxey and SPD’s federal consent decree monitor, Antonio Oftelie. As the federal monitor, Oftelie is tasked with leading oversight of police reform at the SPD. The personal financial ties raise major

The Israeli military has kidnapped, tortured and imprisoned Hussam Abu Safiya, a pediatrician and director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, since December 27 2024. Human rights organizations, governments and millions of people around the world have called for his release and accountability for his kidnapping and torture.  However, just

In May 2024, the president of the Religious Zionists of America, Martin Oliner, spoke directly to an Israeli government official at a private dinner event in Manhattan. The scope of his statements must be watched. Read the full story published today in Prism: ‘Maybe we need to kill more civilians’

On April 29, 2020, a Seattle Police Department (SPD) officer fatally shot Shaun Fuhr as he held his daughter. However, at the time, the circumstances and use of force remained unclear to the public because Fuhr and his daughter’s bodies were completely blurred in an SPD produced video of

Tune in to Northwest Now on KBTC PBS Tacoma for their 13th annual Open Government 2025 episode: Northwest NowNoneKBTC Thanks to Tom Layson, Steve Kiggins and the entire PBS KBTC team for highlighting the issues of transparency, public records and accountability. Check out my longer conversation with Steve Kiggins here:

Yes, he actually wrote that in a text. Other texts raise significant concerns from multiple community members and accountability orgs. You can read the full story published today with Prism: Seattle federal monitor’s communications with police raise questions over impartial oversightMessages obtained by Prism reveal backchannel coordination with the

The city of Seattle has admitted to violating the Washington State Public Records Act (PRA) within their February 18 response to a lawsuit filed by myself in King County Superior Court. The initial lawsuit alleged that the city violated the PRA in processing two separate public disclosure requests made to