Research Director
Research Director Michael Beckel joined Issue One in March 2017. He previously spent eight years working as an award-winning journalist at the Center for Public Integrity and Center for Responsive Politics. He has uncovered donors to secretive dark money groups and has exposed shady political operations, including a purportedly pro-Bernie Sanders super PAC that collected nearly $50,000 from “James Bond” actor Daniel Craig in 2015. Michael is a 2005 graduate of Colorado College.
Analysis
Since being taken over by prominent election deniers, one of the country’s oldest conservative nonprofit groups has been bleeding cash, while paying its leaders hefty sums, an Issue One review…
Analysis
Meta, ByteDance, X, Snap, and Discord combined to spend a staggering $30 million on lobbying last year — and employed one lobbyist for roughly every four members of Congress...
As social media executives prepare to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday about how their companies are failing to protect children on their platforms, federal lobbying filings show…
Analysis
Florida Republican talks about his love of running elections, tackling cybersecurity challenges, and solving Rubik’s Cubes...
Editor’s note: More than 10,000 officials across the country run U.S. elections. This interview is part of a series highlighting the election heroes who are the faces of democracy. Wesley…
