Channel
@jamesokeefe
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26subscribers
+1 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001546990657 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @jamesokeefe |
| Created | Between 1 August 2021 and 28 February 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 11 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 10 November 2026 |
| Measurements held | 12 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 10 November 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/jamesokeefe |
Politics & activism — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 30 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 98% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and the other topics.
These are measurements, not verdicts. Each one below states something we counted, alongside the evidence it was counted from, so you can check it rather than take it. None of them is graded: every observation this register holds is recorded at severity 0, because the precision of the detectors behind them has not been measured yet, and a rating we cannot support is worse than none. Read each as a fact about the data, not as a judgement about the channel. How we measure.
Posts published here appear in near-verbatim form on 1 other registered channel. This entry also sits inside a group of 5 channels linked by matching posts, directly or through other channels in the group; two members of the group may share no posts with each other. The matching is on the text itself, not on Telegram’s forward marker, so it finds a copy whether or not it was labelled as one.
| Posted first | Then | Overlap | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| @OKeefeMediaGroup/33654 Aug 2026, 06:43 UTC | @jamesokeefe/389 · this entry4 Aug 2026, 06:44 UTC | 1.00 | under a minute |
| @jamesokeefe/390 · this entry4 Aug 2026, 06:48 UTC | @OKeefeMediaGroup/33664 Aug 2026, 07:09 UTC | 1.00 | 20 minutes |
| @OKeefeMediaGroup/33697 Aug 2026, 19:46 UTC | @jamesokeefe/393 · this entry7 Aug 2026, 19:46 UTC | 1.00 | under a minute |
| @jamesokeefe/379 · this entry29 Jul 2026, 21:03 UTC | @OKeefeMediaGroup/335429 Jul 2026, 21:18 UTC | 0.99 | 16 minutes |
| @jamesokeefe/387 · this entry2 Aug 2026, 20:59 UTC | @OKeefeMediaGroup/33622 Aug 2026, 21:06 UTC | 0.99 | 7 minutes |
| @jamesokeefe/388 · this entry2 Aug 2026, 21:02 UTC | @OKeefeMediaGroup/33632 Aug 2026, 21:37 UTC | 0.97 | 35 minutes |
| Channel | Matching posts | Text overlap | Typical gap | Published first |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| @OKeefeMediaGroup | 11 (8/8 hand-verifiable sample passed) | 0.98 | 5 minutes | this entry (8–3) |
Text overlap is the Jaccard coefficient over the set of distinct three-word phrases in the two bodies: 1.00 is identical wording, and the threshold for counting a pair at all is 0.70. Candidates are generated by simhash LSH (4 x 16-bit bands, exact Hamming <= 3) verified against the bodies with Jaccard over the SET of distinct 3-word shingles. Published first counts which side of each matching pair carries the earlier timestamp — in this corpus, which is the limitation directly below.
What this cannot establish
MEASURED, DOMINANT ERROR SOURCE: a post ingested before 2026-08-06 may have carried a forward header that was not recorded. A 45-pair hand-check against live t.me pages found 14 (31%) where the live page shows a forward header naming the other channel and the database has none, plus 4 more (9%) naming a third party. The text match itself was wrong 0 times out of 45. Read attribution_capture.items_in_trusted_window before treating the unattributed count as a claim.
Telegram lets a channel forward a post with a header naming the source, and we only began reliably recording that header on 2026-08-06. 2 of the 3 matches recorded here fall after that date and carried no header when we read them. The rest predate reliable capture and are not evidence either way.
“Published first” means first in this corpus. We hold 15 comparable posts for this entry, running 29 July 2026 to 11 August 2026. A channel we have read one page deep will look younger than a neighbour we have read in full, and the order would flip with no change in the underlying facts.
The detector’s own notes on this observation, as it recorded them. Names in this_style are fields of the underlying evidence record, which the plain-English paragraphs above read out for this entry.
Of the group of 5 channels, the one whose matching posts we hold earliest is @jamesokeefe — which is this entry. That is a statement about our reading window, not a claim of authorship.
Recorded under the key clone_source, last confirmed 11 November 2026. An observation that a later pass no longer finds is cleared, and a cleared observation is removed from this page rather than being shown struck through — we do not keep publishing a claim we have withdrawn. Dispute an observation.
This channel is in a group of 5 registered channels linked by matching posts, directly or through other channels in the group. This channel may share no posts with some of the channels listed below, and listed channels may share none with each other. Links are found by comparing text fingerprints across every channel on the register.
Which channel, if either, published first is deliberately not shown in this list. “First” could only mean first in our own crawl, which depends on how deep we happened to reach into each channel’s history, not on when the content was actually first posted. Our one hand-check read 45 of the highest-confidence flagged pairs against the live Telegram pages. In 18 of them the live page showed a “Forwarded from” credit that our database had no record of, so reading that pair as an unattributed copy was wrong; the check did not measure who published first. This list is ordered by subscriber count, the same as every other listing on this site, never by which channel we think came first. Near-verbatim matching has several ordinary explanations besides copying — a channel mirroring itself, an unattributed repost, or two channels independently repeating the same wire story — and this measurement cannot tell those apart. How this is measured.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Nov 2026, 02:19 | 26 | -2 |
| 2 Nov 2026, 20:16 | 28 | +1 |
| 21 Oct 2026, 15:08 | 27 | -1 |
| 14 Oct 2026, 06:45 | 28 | +1 |
| 7 Oct 2026, 01:41 | 27 | -1 |
| 27 Sept 2026, 04:36 | 28 | -1 |
| 14 Sept 2026, 15:39 | 29 | +1 |
| 6 Sept 2026, 01:00 | 28 | -1 |
| 28 Aug 2026, 21:04 | 29 | +2 |
| 13 Aug 2026, 12:07 | 27 | +2 |
| 11 Aug 2026, 09:04 | 25 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 09:41 | 25 | first reading |
18 posts held, back to 29 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 18 posts for this entry, the most recent from 11 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Measured directly from 11 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
O’KEEFE INVESTIGATES DUPLICATE ABSENTEE BALLOT RETURN ENVELOPES IN DETROIT, MICHIGAN GOES DOOR TO DOOR INTERVIEWING AFFECTED VOTERS "That's illegal right? you couldn't... scrape one of them off?" “They probably sent her two ballots, and she just signed them, I guess.” "Keep them [cameras] pointed from my house... Do you want me to get the dog?" @JamesOKeefe
“Nothing ever happens to these people.” Something is going to happen. We’re going to make it happen by applying so much force through sunlight that it will be impossible for nothing to happen. Don’t believe it? Watch... @JamesOKeefe
Official Statement from DHS @JamesOKeefe
OMG's undercover journalists investigated two Michigan registered voters identified as non-U.S. citizens in federal court and DHS records. One of them, Afshin Masheli, is identified in federal court records as an Iranian national and non-U.S. citizen. DHS has previously featured Masheli on its publicly released "Worst of the Worst" list, which highlights noncitizens arrested by ICE for serious criminal offenses. Acco…
BOMBSHELL: Undercover Video Shows Non-U.S. Citizens from Iran Allowed to Vote in Michigan Primary Without ID The Non-Citizens Allowed to Vote Are Sex Offenders, on DHS's "Worst of the Worst" List, and Previously Arrested by ICE Iranian Subject Confirms With OMG He Voted in the Last Three Elections and Intends to Vote on Primary Day “All I know is you're [Afshin Masheli] registered to vote here. The rest of the inf…
New York City Councilman Frank Morano tells OMG Correspondent Michael Casey he plans to contact all 5 NYC District Attorneys, as well as the State Attorney General’s office to demand an investigation into OMG’s reporting on mass EBT fraud occurring in the city, calls for a task force to be created to investigate. Morano also invited James O’Keefe to come to Staten Island with him to search for potential EBT fraud
MICHIGAN ELECTIONS: My team is on the ground in Michigan catching voter election crimes on camera. Stay tuned as we're producing it now... Flashback: O'Keefe gets offered Eminem's ballot to vote, otherwise known as "Marshall Bruce Mathers III" @JamesOKeefe
They always seem to attack me while I’m exposing the fraud & corruption. @JamesOKeefe
Breanna Morello releases the body cam footage of when she pulled a gun on an intruder and conversations with police. Her full report…
🚨 Here is the truth from Ceuta, Spain: 60,000+ migrants from Morocco’s border stormed the small town and are now hiding in the mountains and city to reach mainland Europe. Moroccan migrants said Moroccan authorities let them through their border and Spain literally opened their gates upon arrival. Many migrants thank PM Pedro Sánchez for opening the border... Ceuta is now effectively shut down due to looting concern…
OMG Correspondent Michael Casey visited Lenox Convenience Store in Harlem. Lenox Convenience is the store we caught selling drugs through EBT benefits and using a cloned terminal to commit merchant identity fraud. The receipts helped us uncover this cloned terminal. THE STORE officially CLOSED DOWN and CLEARED OUT THE ENTIRE STORE two days after our video exposing them. @JamesOKeefe
Not only did we expose EBT benefits being used to buy drugs, like ‘kratom’, we also revealed the bodegas across New York City selling us beer with EBT cards. In Queens, we asked him to run the beer as "food." He agreed and we walked out with beer purchased using an EBT card. Federal law is clear: SNAP benefits are for eligible food items only under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 and 7 CFR 271.2. Alcohol cannot l…
Showing the 12 most recent of 18 posts we hold for @jamesokeefe. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Named by 8 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 10 November 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“James O'Keefe” (@jamesokeefe), 26 subscribers as measured 10 November 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/jamesokeefe.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.