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Proof: Trump is desperate for Republican wins — so he’s changing his mind on mail-in voting

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

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SHA-256

a0c88c2a03adc4943d06429dc20dd451f8db48edbc350b8c867e8a65709fc731

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970080, mined 2026-10-05 21:03 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-05 20:54 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-05 20:54 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-a0c88c2a03ad.json prints a0c88c2a03adc4943d06429dc20dd451f8db48edbc350b8c867e8a65709fc731. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-a0c88c2a03ad.json and headline-a0c88c2a03ad.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-a0c88c2a03ad.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, 1 min after it was first seen.