While Windsor has operated The Undercurrent as an online video outlet since 2012, she decided to start using more undercover video last year because of the Republican embrace of the baseless idea that Joe Biden stole the election.

“I think there’s just been an unprecedented ongoing threat to our democracy that undercover work helps to expose real intentions and motivations that you wouldn’t be able to otherwise capture,” Windsor told The Daily Beast. “I think that threat merits doing that methodology more frequently.”

In December, Windsor scored one of her first major hidden-camera victories when she recorded then-Sen.-elect Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) suggesting that he would oppose certifying the presidential election results in the Senate. The video was one of the first indications of a legislative Republican groundswell against acknowledging Donald Trump’s defeat that would ultimately culminate in the Jan. 6 riot.

“She smiles and acts like a friend, and they blurt out all this bullshit to her,” said Democratic consultant Mike Lux, another Democracy Partners co-founder.