James O'Keefe's Successes in Politico, Politico and Twitter

O'Keefe has had more misses than hits over the years. Most of his successes have followed this basic pattern: He puts out a video purporting to show something damning, it provokes a backlash, and then it's later revealed that large portions of what Project Veritas claimed were lies or distortions. O'Keefe also caused a sensation in the right-wing media when he and several of his reporters were able to get the ballots of other people in states with no voter ID laws. No one actually voted with fraudulent ballots, but Project Veritas succeeded in getting Democratic staffers to say things they later had to resign over.