The Nexus is a news-intelligence platform. It monitors more than230+ news outlets and 48 government data feeds (federal court dockets, SEC filings, GAO oversight reports, the Federal Register, lobbying disclosures, and more), makes sense of what’s happening across them, and surfaces signal you’d otherwise miss in the noise.
What you get on the public site
- Daily briefings. Structured reports synthesizing the day’s reporting across geopolitics, security, technology, business, and crypto.
- China Watch. A dedicated dashboard tracking PRC-linked activity across 13 categories. Weekly synthesis, full archive, and its own RSS feed.
- Vector trackers. Four specialized beats inside Vector: China Watch (PRC-linked activity), Underground (ransomware leak-site postings), Graft (public-corruption cases at the federal, state, and local level), and Grift (private-fraud enforcement, BEC to crypto to Ponzi to pandemic-relief fraud).
- Conflict detection. When two sources contradict each other on the same story, it’s flagged without choosing a side.
- Entity profiles. Every recurring person, organization, and place has its own dossier with timeline and source breakdown.
- Claim checker. Paste any viral social-media claim. The Nexus reads it, searches our 230+ news-outlet corpus for coverage that actually addresses it, and writes a descriptive summary of what each outlet said. Inline citations on every claim. We do NOT label claims true or false, that’s your call. Every check has a permanent shareable URL. Free: 5 per day.
- Search. Find any article in the last 30 days. Pro extends this to the last 90 days; Pro+ opens the full archive back to launch.
- Free RSS feeds for the daily briefing and for China Watch.
Nexus Pro · $4.99 / month or $49 / year
For readers who want to actively follow specific subjects rather than scan the firehose:
- Watchlist alerts. Daily email when new articles mention people, orgs, keywords, China Watch categories, or US states you’ve flagged. Up to 10 watchlists.
- 90-day archive search. Search the corpus across the last 90 days, well past the 30-day free cap.
- Weekly state digests. Pick up to 3 US states; get a Sunday-morning email covering the week’s China-linked activity in each.
- On-demand briefings. Request a structured intelligence report on any specific topic. 5 per month. Cited sources, no hedging.
- Unlimited claim checks. No daily cap.
- Bookmarks and PDF export. Save articles with private notes. Export any briefing to PDF.
Nexus Pro+ · $9.99 / month or $99 / year
For serious readers who hit the Pro caps and want everything The Nexus knows:
- Full archive search. Every article back to launch, no date cap.
- 25 watchlists, each with up to 100 tracked entities (vs Pro’s 10 watchlists / 25 entities).
- 20 on-demand briefings per month (vs Pro’s 5).
- 5 weekly state digests (vs Pro’s 3).
- 1,000 bookmarks (vs Pro’s 500).
- Shareable single-article reports. Branded PDFs with a cover page and citation appendix, watermarked to your account, built for circulating findings to colleagues without exposing your account.
Sources
Newswires, regional press, local TV affiliates in eight major metros, technology, security, government, and think-tank publications across 230+ news outlets. On top of those, 48government data feeds: federal court opinions, district court dockets via CM/ECF, SEC 8-K material events, GAO accountability reports and Inspector General audits, the Federal Register, state Attorney General actions, CFPB consumer complaints, CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, Senate Lobbying Disclosure filings, FEC campaign-finance filings, and the US government consolidated sanctions screening list (Treasury OFAC + Commerce BIS + State Department). The source index lists every outlet and feed currently in the corpus along with coverage volume and recency.
Grift methodology
Grift covers private-fraud enforcement, cases where the victim is a consumer, investor, employer, business, or a government program defrauded as a contracting party. Public corruption (bribery of officials, kickbacks, abuse of office) is a separate beat, covered by Graft.
Federal cases are pulled from DOJ press feeds (firehose plus the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section), FBI national press releases, SEC litigation releases, CFTC enforcement, FTC press releases, USPIS, and IRS Criminal Investigation. Each press release runs through a deterministic keyword filter, then a structured extraction step that pulls case title, defendants, jurisdiction, charge types (BEC, romance scam, crypto fraud, investment fraud, healthcare fraud, pandemic fraud, wire fraud, identity theft, elder fraud, tax fraud, securities fraud, mortgage fraud, insurance fraud, bank fraud, money laundering, counterfeiting, Ponzi, and other), case status, and the alleged loss in US dollars when stated.
State and local cases are detected from coverage across The Nexus’s 230+ news-outlet network. Editorial framing is non-negotiable: criminal defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law, and civil enforcement actions describe allegations that have not been adjudicated. Status labels distinguish charged, indicted, civil action, plea, conviction, settlement, acquittal, dismissal, sentence, appeal, and vacated outcomes; the page updates as new information surfaces.
Federal enforcement skews toward easier-to-prosecute cases. Categories like wage theft, statistically the largest dollar volume of fraud in the United States by some measures, see comparatively few federal indictments because they are typically pursued through state labor agencies or civil litigation. The tracker reflects what gets charged, not what happens.
Philosophy
The Nexus does not generate opinions. It analyzes, summarizes, and cross-references. When two sources contradict each other, the conflict is flagged without choosing a side. The goal is signal, not noise.
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