The American Prospect
Our investigations stand on The American Prospect's 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
7 stories, each opening at its source.
- The American Prospect — Anthropic is building a predictive surveillance system to monitor activists (Sept 9, 2026)
- American Prospect: 50 Years of Union Busting in Cleveland
- American Prospect / Revolving Door Project — 'reconciliation with the Silicon Valley oligarchs,' Gottheimer's openness to preemption, Jeffries's 2025 Silicon Valley trip
- Whitney Webb interviews, The American Prospect — Making America Epstein Again (August 1, 2025)
- The American Prospect — 'The Pro-Israel Super PAC Cinematic Universe' (shell-PAC routing)
- The American Prospect: WelcomeFest Wants Politicians Who Choose to Believe in Nothing
- American Prospect — Wyden report: banks systematically ignored Epstein's crimes (Aug 2026)
Where their work appears on this site
- The Self-Styled AI Safety Company Is Watching Its Critics →
- The Treasury Is Sitting on Epstein's Bank Records →
- Big Money Fighting for Control of the US Government →
- The Roy Cohn Method →
- The Billionaires' Big Tent →
- Who's Writing the Democrats' AI Plan? →
- Fake Opposition →
- Media Ownership →
- Return on Investment →
- Surveillance State(s) and the Criminalization of Dissent →
- The Club →
- Who Controls What You Get to Know →
How we graded the claims built on their work
10 FACT · 2 PROBABLY TRUE · 2 SOME SMOKE. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.
- The Self-Styled AI Safety Company Is Watching Its Critics →
A job posting lists 'activism' among the global threats Anthropic's security team tracks.
FACT - Media Ownership →
Advance / Newhouse local: extraction, not ideology
FACT - The Self-Styled AI Safety Company Is Watching Its Critics →
Anthropic did not comment.
FACT - Who's Writing the Democrats' AI Plan? →
Manufactured opposition: the party 'response' looks built to fold.
SOME SMOKE - The Roy Cohn Method →
Roy Cohn's 'favor bank': trading favors, leverage, and blackmail
FACT - Big Money Fighting for Control of the US Government →
Single-issue: the pro-Israel super PACs that reshaped Democratic primaries.
FACT - The Billionaires' Big Tent →
The 2025 ‘WelcomeFest’ gathering put the billionaire backing on display.
FACT - Who's Writing the Democrats' AI Plan? →
The Democratic base wants AI regulation — and just won elections on it.
FACT - Who's Writing the Democrats' AI Plan? →
The five are among the House Democrats closest to Big Tech and AI money.
FACT - The Self-Styled AI Safety Company Is Watching Its Critics →
The program monitors activists and protests near executives — and even Claude users who make concerning statements.
PROBABLY TRUE - The Self-Styled AI Safety Company Is Watching Its Critics →
The report says Anthropic flags people to police before a crime — on one cited example.
SOME SMOKE - The Treasury Is Sitting on Epstein's Bank Records →
The Treasury holds thousands of flagged Epstein transactions — a map of the money.
FACT - The Billionaires' Big Tent →
WelcomePAC is a billionaire-funded operation moving Democrats rightward under an ‘electability’ banner.
PROBABLY TRUE - The Treasury Is Sitting on Epstein's Bank Records →
Wyden called the Secretary 'a willing participant in a cover-up.'
FACT