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and behind it, five people and two thousand hours of tape.

Somebody built a machine that sits through the public meetings nobody covers. Borough assemblies. School boards. Tribal councils. Legislative sessions. The six hour ones no newsroom can spare a reporter for.

Here's the number that got me. Two thousand thirty three hours of audio, already processed. That's eighty four straight days of listening. No breaks, no sleep. Out of one thousand thirty three meetings.

They've turned that into more than twenty six hundred published stories. Anchorage, sure. But also the rural communities that almost never have anybody sitting in the room.

And this is the part I keep coming back to. Every article links back to the original transcript. Click any claim, and you hear the exact moment it was said. You're not taking anybody's word for it. You're listening to the tape.

And it doesn't stop. There's another assembly meeting tonight somewhere, another school board, another hearing, and the pile just keeps growing.

That's work that got silently skipped for decades. Not because it didn't matter. Because sitting through it doesn't scale, and nobody could afford to.

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