Saturday, February 15, 2025

Molly Redden, Andy Kroll and Nick Surgey

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Molly Redden is a ProPublica reporter covering politics. Andy Kroll is a ProPublica reporter covering voting, elections and democracy. Nick Surgey is the Documented Executive Director and an investigative reporter. His work examines the relationship between right-wing groups, corporate money in politics, and our increasingly poisonous and dysfunctional political system. He is an occasional contributor to various publications including ProPublica, The Intercept, and The Guardian. His research has been featured in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post, plus a whole bunch of other places, including (since it was pretty hilarious) on the Colbert Report. Nick was previously Director of Research for the Center for Media and Democracy, and before that was Staff Counsel for Common Cause in Washington DC.

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