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U.S. Right to Know
Nonprofit investigative newsroom — FOIA-driven documentation of industry influence
U.S. Right to Know is a nonprofit investigative newsroom that documents industry influence over food and agriculture policy through public-records law — 315 FOI requests and 46 FOIA lawsuits filed to date. Its people include co-founder Gary Ruskin and Carey Gillam, the ex-Reuters reporter whose book Whitewash is the deepest independent documentation of the glyphosate fight.
Coverage status — October 2026: The newsroom was publishing new investigations and document drops Oct. 9–16, 2026. Its named people are Gary Ruskin (co-founder), Carey Gillam (ex-Reuters investigative reporter; author of Whitewash), and Stacy Malkan. Its audience size is not publicly disclosed.
Its documentation is best-in-class primary source work: documents it obtains are posted publicly, including internal FDA emails showing glyphosate detected in granola and crackers. It also publishes its donors and IRS filings voluntarily — transparency it demands of others, applied to itself.
Its stance is that of a nonpartisan watchdog: structurally aligned with MAHA’s anti-corporate-capture and transparency rhetoric, but adversarial to whoever holds power. In 2026 alone it filed FOIA suits against this administration’s State Department (Aug. 18), Department of Energy (Apr. 28), and ODNI.
Why tracked here: it owns the agency-capture paper trail — when this chronicle needs the underlying documents behind a pesticide or lobbying story, U.S. Right to Know is usually where they surfaced first.
Sources (Oct 2026): U.S. Right to Know (usrtk.org) investigations, FOIA litigation record, and posted document collections.