Patriots Fight Corruption exposes abuses of power in every town, city, county and state. We investigate. We document. We rally citizens to act on what they learn.
Founded by ordinary Americans, our work has helped surface waste, ethics violations, and self-dealing across all levels of government.
Educate citizens
Patriots Fight Corruption exposes abuses of power in every town, city, county and state. We investigate. We document. We rally citizens to act on what they learn.
Watch communities
Track local meetings, contracts, and ethics filings the press misses.
Rally citizens
Turn evidence into organized civic pressure that wins real reform.
Join the Fight
Get the briefing. Take action this week.
One email, every Tuesday. The case we are watching, the records request you can file in five minutes, and the local meeting that matters most.
48,000+ patriots already on the list · No spam, no asks for money up front.
By the numbers
What citizen watching looks like.
Every figure here represents a public record we pulled, a meeting we sat through, or a neighbor we trained. No marketing math.
$2.3B
Public waste exposed
$2.3B
Public waste exposed
$2.3B
Public waste exposed
$2.3B
Public waste exposed
Outcomes, not slogans
18,400
people directly affected by a closed PFC case.
Counted as residents of jurisdictions where corrupt practices were stopped, recovered, or reversed thanks to PFC-supported work.
Top closed cases · 2024–2026
01
School board fraud reversed
Henrico County, VA
8,200
01
School board fraud reversed
Henrico County, VA
8,200
01
School board fraud reversed
Henrico County, VA
8,200
Outcomes, not slogans
The work shows up in the public ledger.
01 / Outcome
$340M
Reclaimed for taxpayers
After three years of records work, three counties returned overpaid contractor fees.
01 / Outcome
$340M
Reclaimed for taxpayers
After three years of records work, three counties returned overpaid contractor fees.
01 / Outcome
$340M
Reclaimed for taxpayers
After three years of records work, three counties returned overpaid contractor fees.
Issue No. 014 · The Investigation
Followingthe paper.
Most corruption is not hidden — it is boring. It lives in 400-page meeting minutes no one reads, in line items buried inside thousand-page budgets, in contractor names that quietly recur on five years of invoices.
“The work is dull. That is exactly why it gets ignored — and exactly why it works.”
— Founder's note, 2024
Our volunteers learn to read those documents — then teach their neighbors to do the same. That is the entire model. Patient citizens, public records, sunlight.
