Our FOIA litigation revealed that the Defense Department and the Army also deleted the text messages of top Trump administration officials from the day of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

“Call Secretary McCarthy… he has not released the DCNG to assist,” an official in the department’s national security division emailed senior leaders at 4:01 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021. American Oversight has updated its detailed, minute-by-minute timeline of the government’s response to the attack on the Capitol with newly obtained records.

Amid another week of somber headlines, American Oversight achieved a victory for accountability in the world of bogus election reviews.

It was another week of blockbuster Jan. 6 testimony and earth-shattering Supreme Court decisions.

It’s impossible to overstate the gravity of America’s current political situation.

Records form the Department of State in response to American Oversight's request for email communications of the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland containing key terms related to reported efforts of the president’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, to encourage the government of Ukraine to investigate President Trump’s perceived political opponents.

As the select committee examined Trump’s stolen election lies, a court imposed sanctions on the Wisconsin Assembly’s ongoing partisan inquiry into the 2020 election.

It’s not just faith in the last election that is being undermined.

In January, the National Archives and Records Administration retrieved 15 boxes of White House records from Mar-a-Lago. American Oversight has sued for the release of related communications.

As false claims about election fraud continue to reverberate around the country, a Wisconsin judge raised concerns that the state’s election inquiry is out of control.