Research current through October 3, 2026.

THE RECEIPTS

Our work, in the open.

Sketch News is a satirical animated series. Episodes are short, so they compress. THE RECEIPTS is the place for what the episode left out: the fuller story, a link for every factual claim with a grade on it, what we couldn’t prove and where we looked, and every correction.

Episodes

• Episode 2: America’s Missing Receipts. A funeral home where you have to chase the price, an inaugural committee where you can see the payment but not what it purchased, and Senate money whose original payer you can’t see. Three stories, three pages, one hub.

How to read these pages

Every factual sentence has a source link, and every link has a grade: A for a primary record, B for two independent outlets, C for a single source or an interested party. Where we pair a donation with a later action, we label it “timing, not proof.” The full policy is on the episode hub.

Every page also has a section titled “What we couldn’t prove (and where we looked),” because the dead ends belong in the open too.

Corrections

If we get something wrong, we note it on the corrections page, with the date and the fix.