Axios
Our investigations stand on Axios' reporting. This page collects every story of theirs we cite, every page on this site that uses it, and how we graded each claim built on it.
The reporting we cite
12 stories, each opening at its source.
- Axios — 'New Mexico sues Todd Blanche, DOJ over Epstein files tied to Zorro Ranch investigation' (Aug 5, 2026)
- Axios — 'Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan and BofA enabled Epstein, Wyden report alleges' (bank responses)
- Axios — Blanche won't rule out federal agents at polling places ('follow the law'), July 15, 2026
- Axios — Musk: 'I'm dark MAGA' (Oct 2024)
- Axios — Musk sweepstakes 'not a lottery,' PAC tells court (Nov 4, 2024)
- Axios — SEC wants to end the pay-to-play prohibition for private equity
- Axios — Dominion v. Fox and the $787.5M settlement
- Axios — 'What we know about the Putin ally who allegedly funded Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding'
- Axios — 'Tribune Media breaks off $3.9 billion merger with Sinclair' (Aug 9, 2018)
- Axios — Dennis Hastert, former House speaker who admitted sexual abuse, dies at 84
- Axios — Reid Hoffman apologizes for role in Epstein-linked donations to MIT
- Axios — Amodei's warning on entry-level white-collar job losses (2025)
Where their work appears on this site
- An Epstein Cover-Up? →
- The Illusion of Local News →
- Manufactured Sides →
- A Million a Day →
- A Hacker at the Voting-Rights Desk →
- Pay to Play With Your Pension →
- The Most Blackmailable Man in Washington →
- The Oligarch's Wedding Gift →
- The Philanthropist of the Future →
- The pre-arranged bailout: AI, data centers, and socialized risk →
- They Published the Plan →
- How Wall Street Ignored Its Own Rules for Epstein & Black →
- The Epstein Class →
- Media Ownership →
- Return on Investment →
- Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
- The Corporate State →
- The Cover Story →
- The Outrage & Apathy Economy →
- The Real Voter Fraud? →
- What did we get for $40 trillion? →
How we graded the claims built on their work
13 FACT · 1 PROBABLY TRUE · 2 SOME SMOKE. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.
- An Epstein Cover-Up? →
A state Attorney General sued the DOJ for the unredacted files — August 5, 2026.
FACT - How Wall Street Ignored Its Own Rules for Epstein & Black →
Bank of America: allegedly failed to report $170 million in Black-to-Epstein payments until 2020.
FACT - A Hacker at the Voting-Rights Desk →
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche declined to rule out deploying federal agents at polling places.
FACT - How Wall Street Ignored Its Own Rules for Epstein & Black →
Deutsche Bank: new details on suspicious activity — some reported only after Epstein's death.
FACT - They Published the Plan →
Elon Musk — the self-described 'dark MAGA' who was handed the wrecking crew.
FACT - A Million a Day →
In court, America PAC's own lawyer and director said the 'random' winners were not chosen by chance but vetted in advance as paid spokespeople under NDA.
FACT - Pay to Play With Your Pension →
Rescinding an anti-pay-to-play rule reopens the pay-to-play channel — the 'legalize corruption' read, graded.
PROBABLY TRUE - Manufactured Sides →
Right — a network that aired a divisive lie it privately knew was false, to keep its audience.
FACT - The Oligarch's Wedding Gift →
The man who paid is a Kremlin-aligned figure funded by a sanctioned Russian state company — not a private citizen at arm's length from Moscow.
FACT - The Illusion of Local News →
The merger that would have reached most of America — killed by a Trump FCC.
FACT - The Oligarch's Wedding Gift →
The money moved through an offshore corporate entity — and Trump Jr. could easily have paid for the wedding himself.
FACT - The Most Blackmailable Man in Washington →
The secret, proven: a serial child molester who paid to bury it.
FACT - The Philanthropist of the Future →
The tech money: Reid Hoffman and the valley's embrace.
FACT - The pre-arranged bailout: AI, data centers, and socialized risk →
They are telling us, out loud, that the point is to eliminate the jobs.
FACT - The Oligarch's Wedding Gift →
What did the oligarch get — or expect — for the money? That is the real question, and it is not yet answered.
SOME SMOKE - A Million a Day →
Whether Musk 'broke election law' in 2024.
SOME SMOKE