The Weekly Leaks Historical Archive

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The Living Timeline of Corrupt Power & Resistance

Weekly Leaks is news told on the historical timeline of power movement and corruption. Every current case sits beside the older case that used the same mechanism, and beside whatever the institutions did about it. The circumstances are always different. The mechanism is what recurs.

Records on the rail: 26
Years spanned: 1887 to 2026
Connections: 12

Current caseHistorical EchoInstitutional responseContested or unresolvedAntagonist named

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Interstate Commerce Act, 1887, through abolition in 1996
Historical Echo / The Dupe State / The Capture
Verified record
1904 campaign, Armstrong investigation of 1905
Historical Echo / The Vertical Divide / The Blindfold
Verified record
Tillman Act, enacted 1907
Institutional response / The Vertical Divide / The Resistance
Verified record
Leases 1921–1922; conviction 1929
Historical Echo / The Dupe State / The Immunity
Verified record
Payola investigations, 1959 and 1960
Historical Echo / MediaMundo / The Blindfold
Verified record
Sponsorship identification amendments, 1960
Institutional response / MediaMundo / The Resistance
Verified record
November 13, 1968
Historical Echo / The Vertical Divide / The Immunity
Verified record
House precedents, 1981 and 1988
Historical Echo / The Dupe State / The Exception
Verified record
Convened 1982; reported January 1984
Historical Echo / The Dupe State / The Immunity
Verified record
Post-1996 radio consolidation
Historical Echo / MediaMundo / The Consolidation
Verified record
June 2026
Current case / The Dupe State / The Blindfold
Unresolved
March 2026
Current case / The Vertical Divide / The Exception
Verified record
July 2026
Current case / The Vertical Divide / The Blindfold
Verified record
March 11, 2026
Current case / NEWS-US / The Blindfold
Contested
March 13, 2026
Current case / The Dupe State / The Blindfold
Unresolved
Findings March 2026; resignation April 21, 2026
Current case / The Dupe State / The Exception
Unresolved
July 8, 2026
Institutional response / The Dupe State / The Resistance
Verified record
Reported July 9, 2026. Carried in Weekly Leaks Issue 2, July 13, 2026
Current case / The Dupe State / The Capture
Verified record
Reported July 9, 2026. Carried in Weekly Leaks Issue 2, July 13, 2026
Current case / NEWS-US / The Consolidation
Verified record
July 15, 2026
Current case / NEWS-US / The Diversion
Unresolved
Reported July 16, 2026. Carried in Weekly Leaks Issue 3, July 23, 2026
Current case / The Dupe State / The Exception
Contested
GAO report August 6, 2026; published September 3, 2026
Current case / The Dupe State / The Immunity
Unresolved
Reported August 2025; subpoena issued May 2026; published August 20, 2026
Current case / MediaMundo / The Blindfold
Contested
Analysis covering January 2025 through June 2026; published August 20, 2026
Current case / The Vertical Divide / The Blindfold
Unresolved
Gala December 7, 2025; disclosures and complaints 2026; published September 3, 2026
Current case / The Dupe State / The Immunity
Unresolved
Inspector general report July 9, 2026; published September 3, 2026
Current case / The Vertical Divide / The Immunity
Verified record

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The first federal regulator learns to depend on the railroads

Insurance money reaches a campaign without reaching the record

Congress bans corporate contributions outright

An Interior Secretary is convicted of accepting a bribe; the man who paid it is acquitted of offering it

Paid airplay arrives sounding like editorial judgment

Disclosure law is strengthened for broadcast sponsorship

A cost analyst discloses the C-5A overrun and loses his position; Lockheed does not lose its standing

Two members resign and the House loses its case

A headline savings figure survives an independent review that produces a different number

Ownership limits fall and local desks follow

Pennsylvania aging-department watchdog report withheld

Feinberg Cerberus services exception extended without endpoint

PennTerra fee and subsequent data-center legislation

DHS civil-rights oversight figures disputed by former staff

DHS election-security official’s stated opposition to voting machines

A member resigns minutes before the sanctions hearing

The Pentagon formally halts the decade old program

Microsoft ran Pentagon tech support through China and called it digital escorting

A Puerto Rico tax agency left one million Social Security numbers in the open

FBI exploration of AI signature review in Fulton County

The attorney general voted six times from an address he had left

A federal audit could not verify the published savings, and the page stayed up

Organized advocacy arrives wearing the face of an independent creator

Nearly $198 million reached leadership super PACs from nonprofits that name no donors

Two commissioners disclosed $12,390 gifts and stayed on the giver’s business

An artillery plant produced no compliant parts, and the contracts continued