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➡️Safe from trying to publicly shame, LEAH for a mistake she made and corrected! Why exactly did Drey insert herself? Leah corrected her mistake as soon as she realized it. That shows character. Nobody is infallible, and I have far more respect for someone who owns an error and corrects it than someone who turns another person’s mistake into an opportunity for a public takedown. I was subscribed to Drey, and the moment I saw this, I pulled my support. And yes, I believe the timing and manner of this were intended to publicly shame Leah. There’s a difference between holding someone accountable and exploiting a mistake for public humiliation. Pretending those are automatically the same thing is intellectually dishonest. If Drey wants to get involved in this instead of minding that’s her damn business that ok! But she doesn’t get to insert herself into the drama, put Leah under a microscope, and then expect nobody to examine her own conduct. You don’t get to appoint yourself the accountability police while acting as though your own motives and methods are beyond scrutiny. Leah made a mistake and corrected it. What, exactly, does Drey accomplish by turning that into a public spectacle? If the objective was genuinely accountability, the correction should matter. If the objective was to embarrass Leah, then let’s stop pretending it was some noble exercise in integrity. Accountability is not a weapon you get to wield against everyone else while keeping yourself above examination. I’m perfectly capable of recognizing a mistake without blindly defending the person who made it, and I’m equally capable of recognizing when someone’s approach deserves scrutiny. My support is earned, not owed, and I’m not handing it over to anyone who mistakes public humiliation for moral superiority.

I believe in independent media. We need more independent researchers and more independent voices, which is why I’ll always root for people doing this work outside the big outlets. That being said, the people doing this work have to genuinely care about the information they put out and about the people receiving it. Otherwise we’re no better than the media conglomerates people come to us to escape. The Leah Files just sent her midterm predictions to more than 41,000 subscribers, and I’m one of them. As I read through the post, I couldn’t help but notice her numbers were dramatically different from what I’d seen in the FEC filings this week. Her post is missing more than half of James Talarico’s fundraising. It ends by telling readers to look up everything on their ballot at her funding guide before they vote, and that guide says Maine’s Democratic Senate nominee “has reported raising nothing” when the FEC shows he’s raised $26.9 million. On top of that, her maps are missing states. New York and Rhode Island are gone, and “RC” isn’t a real state. They also list people who aren’t on the ballot. Oklahoma says “Nuzzell,” who isn’t running, and Florida says DeSantis, who’s term-limited. Indiana doesn’t even have a governor’s race this year, and it says “Britzker.” That’s especially dangerous with early voting already underway. When I asked her about it, she said it was published a few weeks ago, even though the post was only two hours old at the time. Then my note correcting her numbers was gone. And look, nobody expects any of us to be perfect. Digging through all of these files and keeping everything straight in your head is a really tough job, and I get that more than anyone. But telling your readers to use a website you made before they vote, when it’s full of outdated and wrong numbers, is where I draw the line. If independent media is going to be better than the outlets we’re pushing against, we have to get the facts right. FEC, Talarico fec.gov/data/candidate/S6TX0… FEC, Jackson fec.gov/data/candidate/S6ME0…