In the last month, Popular Information has uncovered a network of fake news sites run by GOP operatives, revealed the dangers of Elon Musk’s votesafe.org, and caught Trump’s nominee for Labor Secretary selling access to American welfare to Chinese nationals. That’s our mission: we investigate, uncover new facts, and reshape the national debate. Right now, we are doing a paid membership drive to fund even more ambitious journalism in the run-up to the midterm elections. We set a goal of 150 new paid subscribers — and we need 31 more to hit it. As a special incentive we are offering a 20% discount that expires today. That means you can support independent journalism that rattles the cages of the powerful for just $40 per year or $4.80 per month. Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, is funding an aggressive advertising campaign encouraging people in key states to check their registration status on votesafe.org. Musk’s website collects extensive personal information from users, profiles them and tracks their internet use. It then shares this data with X, Meta, Google, and other online advertising companies. This week, in the lead-up to the 25th anniversary of 9/11, President Trump pushed a false personal narrative of the attack. Most notably, he claimed to have sent 100 of his own construction workers to Ground Zero to help clear rubble. However, the Trump Organization had only around a dozen employees at the time, and Trump’s construction projects were being run by contractors. American workers are taking home a historically low share of the value they produce, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). In the second quarter of 2026, the labor share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) hit its lowest level since the BLS first began tracking it in 1947. But while labor’s share of GDP is plummeting, U.S. corporate profits are ballooning. Actions by the Trump administration could drop the labor share even further. |