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Proof: Trump using Homeland Security funds to pay for TV ads before midterms

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-09-30T00:22:39Z","headline":"Trump using Homeland Security funds to pay for TV ads before midterms","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"usatoday","url":"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/09/29/trump-taxpayer-tv-ads-funding-homeland-security-midterms/92009441007/","v":1}

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SHA-256

110ba51cb890a201c93616cfaa1054fb9ff04819efc60b803cda30eecddab434

OpenTimestamps

Submitted to the OpenTimestamps calendars 2026-09-30 00:27 UTC; waiting for a Bitcoin block (usually a few hours).

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-30 00:35 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-29 21:54 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-110ba51cb890.json prints 110ba51cb890a201c93616cfaa1054fb9ff04819efc60b803cda30eecddab434. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-110ba51cb890.json and headline-110ba51cb890.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-110ba51cb890.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.