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Proof: Congressional candidate who says she was raped while fixing campaign signs believes attack was ‘crime of opportunity,’ not political

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7de3081f8c531d5ba59096926859d86470190fe4b60a61284fa1ef2765197ad5

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970582, mined 2026-10-09 04:29 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-09 03:48 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-09 02:54 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-7de3081f8c53.json prints 7de3081f8c531d5ba59096926859d86470190fe4b60a61284fa1ef2765197ad5. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-7de3081f8c53.json and headline-7de3081f8c53.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-7de3081f8c53.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, 4 min after it was first seen.