Pancakes, Bed Bath & Arrest Warrants: A Muckrakers Week in Review

American Muckrakers · Weekly Dispatch

By David B. Wheeler · President & Co‑Founder, American Muckrakers PAC and Co-Host, MUCK YOU! podcast

If politics is a circus, this week we ran the ring. We filed complaints, dropped FOIAs, and served up satire like it was Sunday brunch. Here’s the blow‑by‑blow and a few jokes to keep us all sane.

🛟Noem’s Love Shack

We filed a FOIA request with the U.S. Coast Guard asking whether DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is living in taxpayer‑funded Coast Guard housing—and whether Cory Lewandowski is an approved occupant. If true, it’s less homeland security and more home, land’s yours?

🧾ActBlue turns into ActBlackHole

After years of silence and denial, we filed an FEC complaint over ActBlue’s secret blacklist. Picking winners and losers behind the scenes smells like an in‑kind contribution to everyone but us—and that’s not how democracy or conduits are supposed to work. Either reinstate us or explain it under oath. Now, we know ActBlue pretends they care. We beg to differ and have tried for three year…