Who we are.

Civic Intelligence is an accountability-journalism project. We write long-form, primary-source stories about federal fraud, pandemic-era waste, state and local governance failure, and the officials responsible. Every figure we publish traces to an agency Inspector General, a Government Accountability Office audit, a Justice Department press release, a court filing, a state auditor, or a congressional committee release.

The site’s editorial lens is right-of-center and its primary focus is on failures of Democratic governance — federal agencies, Democratic-run states, Democratic-run cities. That is the lane, by design. We do this because the mainstream press under-covers these failures, and because the public record — the part that actually carries the argument — is clear enough that it deserves a careful, sourced reading.

What we will not do: fabricate, rage-bait, drop the sourcing floor, or substitute volume for evidence. When a claim can’t be traced to a primary document, we either omit it or flag it. When a pending case is unresolved, defendants are presumed innocent. When we make a mistake, we retract on the page, not quietly in the background.

For how we actually source and verify, see Methodology. For corrections, news tips, and press, see Contact.