Cross-referenced public records reporting that surfaces what single-source coverage misses: donor-vote overlap, LLC owner unmasking, pay-to-play patterns, board-network analysis.
The Watchdog is our cross-reference engine made readable. We join primary public records — FEC donations, council votes, USAspending federal contracts, IRS Form 990 board rosters, Maricopa Recorder deeds, SEC EDGAR filings — and surface patterns that no single record can show. Every Watchdog story leads with the joined-records methodology and links to the source documents.
What we cover
- Donor → council-vote correlation analysis
- LLC ownership unmasking via Recorder × SEC × ProPublica
- Donation → federal contract pay-to-play patterns
- Nonprofit board overlap detection (3+ boards, same beat)
- Property-assemblage detection (developer land-banking)
- Tax-delinquency unmasking on high-value parcels
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