If Eric Murphy loses his primary election on June 9, he believes he already knows one reason why: Last year, the North Dakota state representative, a Republican, tried to reform the state’s abortion ban. Via @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social of @propublica.org

NEW: At least four Republican state lawmakers who challenged severe abortion restrictions lost support from anti-abortion groups and key party allies and went on to lose primary elections, ProPublica found. By @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social

After years of diversity promises and amid increased safety risks, journalists of color face an industry that still fails to culturally and financially value their labor. objectivejournalism.org/2026/06/joc-...

NWS *and* H5? What a week for Texas cattle 👎

1/ ProPublica is a nonpartisan, nonprofit newsroom that hopes to inspire real-world change. That means we are free from meddling owners, free from corporate interests, and free from political pressure.

Realizing it's very zillennial of me to consistently respond to my editors with 💯 instead of the dry ✅ emoji and that they may not know I'm trying to articulate that I'm 100% with them on their response or that they kept it 100 with me and I appreciate it.

Really hope the Board will step up and help us get to a fair contract. We've been fighting for a contract for 2+ years and it really shouldn't take that long.

I'm impressed by my @propublica.org colleagues every day, but omg the new Paper Trail podcast is so good. Amazing work from @jlussenhop.bsky.social + team. Take a listen: www.propublica.org/podcast/what...

1/ Last fall, as we were interviewing immigrants detained during a dramatic immigration raid at an apartment complex in Chicago, we kept hearing about a Nigerian man whose leg was mauled by a police dog. 🧵:

Congrats to our friends at TIME Union. ProPublica Guild members are fighting for similar AI guardrails. If TIME management can agree to it then why can’t ProPublica?

@propublica.org is expanding our regional coverage to CALIFORNIA, a hub for many of the issues we care most about: technology, climate change, immigration, homelessness, affordable housing & water! Now hiring a California-based investigative editor who will lead a team of 4 reporters + 1 fellow.

ProPublica identified 155 counties in the Deep South with private schools that opened as likely segregation academies. One in Amite County, Mississippi, has never — over nearly 30 years of surveys — reported enrolling more than one Black student. (Published Dec. 2024)

It was really disappointing that ProPublica’s board chair Paul Sagan told our union that they are entirely on management’s side and seemed indifferent to the workplace concerns my colleagues and I have. Help us get thousands of letters to Mr. Sagan so he understands his response is unacceptable.

There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.

NEW: Hours after ProPublica reported on how a federal probe of a drugs-for-votes scheme in Puerto Rico's prisons got quashed after the 2024 elections, some of the territory’s political leaders made public calls for investigations into the allegations.

“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.

To slightly adapt Orwell: The Supreme Court told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was its final, most essential command.

A lot of blame following last year's TX Hill Country floods focused on the camps where many victims died. But TX lawmakers for decades rejected laws that could have saved lives. Read more from Lexi Churchill, @emfoxhall.bsky.social & @pratheekrebala.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/texa...

The newsrooms reviewed nearly 60 years of legislation and identified over five dozen flood safety bills rejected by lawmakers. Must read reporting from Lexi Churchill, Emily Foxhall and Pratheek Rebala. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

@deldeib.bsky.social "spoke with 5 of those families, but none of them wanted to be identified publicly. The obituaries, social media posts and GoFundMe pages capture the utter despair... though none of them reckon with the decision not to get the vitamin K shot." www.propublica.org/article/more...

So proud of data reporters @sophiechou.bsky.social and @harucoryne.bsky.social, who are Pulitzer Prize winners today. They made sense of tens of thousands of scanned, hand written forms to uncover how the Connecticut DMV allows tow companies to sell people’s cars www.propublica.org/article/prop...

My colleagues who worked on this did a tremendous job. The most iconic redesign a news organization has ever done imo. And while we are on the topic of iconic things, it would also be iconic to finalize the @propublicaguild.org contract. Even people in the comments agree!

Yeah that's great but I'm more interested in y'all signing a contract with the union.

That's great! Have you signed a contract with your union yet?

Gorgeous. Now, make a deal with your union @propublicaguild.org

Yesterday, our members chanted and marched through @propublica.org’s NYC office demanding a fair contract now. We delivered a stack of more than 4,000 petition signatures and 300 comments from our supporters to management.

Huge congratulations to all our current and former members who won or were finalists for Pulitzer Prizes today! All journalists deserve a fair contract that provides the job security necessary to do this work. www.pulitzer.org/prize-winner...

Sebastian Gorka accused a ProPublica reporter of writing a “putrid piece of hackery” about him. Here’s how basic beat reporting led to a broader story about the state of the U.S. counterterrorism mission at a critical moment. www.propublica.org/article/seba...

1/ Happy International Workers' Day to all our fellow workers and unions! ✊ ICYMI, our bargaining unit exercised our collective power to walk out on a one-day strike last month, as we fight for a fair contract.

"Why are all the journalists laid off now" this is why. Pretty simple.

What happened after conservative justices first shivved the Voting Rights Act? The turnout gap between Blacks and whites grew. That “translated to hundreds of thousands of uncast ballots by voters of color.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u...

None of us take pleasure in being right: But we are in the Second Nadir. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

Justice Kagan referred to the ruling as amounting to the “demolition of the Voting Rights Act" www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

NEW: Complaints of immigration scams have doubled in Trump's second term, and countless victims don't report that they've been conned. Sophisticated predators now use AI and targeted ads to profit off of immigrants' anxieties about mass deportations.

It stresses me out when Pete Delkus takes off his suit jacket cause that means trouble 🥲#2019tornadosurvivor

NEW: He Died in a Florida Jail. The Company in Charge Should Have Sent Him to the Hospital, Experts Say. By partner @nicholemanna.bsky.social @thefloridatrib.bsky.social

I’d rather hear details about this incident from legitimate law enforcement than from the most notorious liar in American politics.

*Beyonce voice* Texas

I am a novice bird watcher but I think I may have spotted an eagle in Texas for the first time in my life 😮😮😮

1/ We’re honored to announce “The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram,” an investigative documentary by ProPublica and @frontlinepbs.bsky.social, is a 2026 Peabody Award winner: propub.li/4cuPT1O

The Texas legislature rammed through a gerrymandering bill at the request of Trump. Virginia actually voted in favor of redistricting to counterbalance what Texas and other Republican-controlled states have done. Yet only one is considered a "power grab." Oligarch-owned media in a nutshell.

For the first time since ProPublica reported on preventable deaths of pregnant women under Texas’ abortion ban, the state’s medical board has disciplined doctors in those cases.

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

We just updated our Trump Admin financial disclosures database with 27 new appointees/nominees including Kevin Warsh, Markwayne Mullin and Steven Witkoff. We also added a feature to sort names in our database by most recently added. 👉 projects.propublica.org/trump-team-f...

Yesterday we spent time going down memory lane reliving the happiest day of our lives. Two years married and forever to go ❤️

A great dispatch from the Texas border, where Texas Republicans, led by AG Ken Paxton, have targeted a key nemesis of the far right and Christian nationalists: Catholic Charities.

NEW: “We see, just, use of excessive force after use of excess force,” said Christy Lopez, who spent years investigating law enforcement misconduct at the DOJ. “In no scenario is it OK to be pepper-spraying people as you're leaving the scene.” w/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

John Cornyn holds a significant fund-raising edge over Ken Paxton, with four weeks to go before early voting begins in the U.S. Senate runoff. But both fell short of the campaign cash amassed this year by James Talarico. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...