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The core membership. Fifteen dollars a month funds the reporting, and your address comes off our fundraising list the moment it clears. You keep getting every investigation we publish. You stop getting asked for money, permanently, even if you later cancel.
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For the people who want this operation to outlast the current news cycle. Your name goes on the Founding Members wall on this site, and you read every investigation before it publishes, while the lawyers are still arguing about it.
Founding Members vote on our next investigation target each quarter.
The Book
$100 once
A signed copy of Color the Crooks: Case File #001, Lauren Boebert, mailed to you. It is the whole case laid out in one place, illustrated. Comes with full Member status and everything that carries.
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