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Proof: Republican says Trump’s support of Paxton in Texas primary was ‘colossal mistake’

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-09-27T18:31:25Z","headline":"Republican says Trump’s support of Paxton in Texas primary was ‘colossal mistake’","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"guardian","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/27/republican-tillis-trump-paxton","v":1}

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602f2d0b2186e3c706d1ded54b4c094d7ed7a07587f7410672a7f9c5bb082f2e

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 968896, mined 2026-09-27 21:31 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 02:38 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-28 01:04 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-602f2d0b2186.json prints 602f2d0b2186e3c706d1ded54b4c094d7ed7a07587f7410672a7f9c5bb082f2e. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-602f2d0b2186.json and headline-602f2d0b2186.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-602f2d0b2186.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 2 h 45 min after it was first seen.