Independent investigative journalism, focusing on government accountability, transparency, civil liberties, and the dangers of the administrative state.

Richard Moore’s investigations center around the dangers of the administrative state, protecting civil liberties and open government, property rights, and the growing authoritarianism in the west and in the corporate media.

His writing and essays have appeared in more than two dozen national and regional publications, including The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Washington Post, Charleston Magazine, The St. Petersburg Times, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and many more.

Richard is the author of Dark State: How Wisconsin Citizens Can Open the Doors to Wisconsin’s Closed Government; Journeys of Lightheartedness; The Clarity of Clay; How the DNR Stole Wisconsin; The New Bossism of the American Left; and the forthcoming books, The Bureaucratic Counter-Revolution and Edisto, A Story of Sea Island Survival.

Journeys of Lightheartedness is a Kirkus Reviews recommended book and also received a five-star Readers’ Review rating from Jack Magnus, who called his reading of the book “a remarkable and illuminating experience.” Of Dark State, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., wrote: “Forces of secrecy in every branch of government are dismantling transparency, open government, civil rights, and our opportunities to participate in decision making. In Dark State, Richard Moore shows how regular citizens can fight back against the rise of censorship and cast sunlight on a government that is increasingly operating in the shadows.”

In addition, I am the senior investigative reporter for The Lakeland Times in Minocqua, Wisconsin. Richard is a five-time first-place winner for investigative journalism (2019-2023) from the Wisconsin Newspaper Association. He also won the 2019, 2022, and 2023 first-place awards for editorial writing.

Richard’s writing has appeared in college texts (Social Problems, edited by Stanley Eitzen, Allyn & Bacon, Inc.). He was a contributor to The Reform of State Legislatures (University Press of America), which The Wall Street Journal called “powerful evidence for those who wish to return to the citizen legislatures envisioned by the Founding Fathers.”