A newspaper covers a county. One man with a grudge covers his enemies list. The difference is measurable, so TROH measured it.
The Olympic Herald's own author page states the total: "Anthony Tomashefsky's Work. 425 Articles." The site's sitemap confirms the count. And TROH's archive of the site, 424 preserved articles, confirms the byline on every single one: Anthony Tomashefsky. The archive spans January 7, 2026 to October 21, 2026, matching the site's own description of its age in an October 21, 2026 piece titled "Nine Months of Independent Journalism, Built by Our Readers."
Four hundred twenty-five articles in roughly nine months is close to eleven articles a week, prolific by any standard. But volume is not the story. The subjects are.
The census
TROH ran a name census across the preserved archive. The results, verified October 24, 2026:
- Judge Brent Basden: 109 articles. Basden is the Clallam County Superior Court judge who on October 21, 2025 denied Tomashefsky's motion to revise a stalking and harassment protection order, writing that the record "amply supports" the findings against him.
- Commissioner Brian Parker: 58 articles. Parker, the court's family-law commissioner, signed the August 27, 2025 order rejecting Tomashefsky's attempt to throw out the protection case under Washington's anti-SLAPP law.
- Ben Mavy: 17 articles. Mavy is the petitioner a Clallam County court protected from Tomashefsky, a one-year stalking and harassment order granted August 26, 2025, after Tomashefsky failed to appear. Tomashefsky dates Mavy's ex-wife.
- Dr. Steve Tutty: 6 articles. Dr. William Singer: 5 articles. Two psychologists whose professional work intersected with family-court matters.
Five people, referenced across 109, 58, 17, 6, and 5 articles respectively. In a nine-month archive of 425 posts, no other local individuals come close, and the census measures only name mentions; the campaign's spine is visible without any arithmetic at all. Add the slug-level counts and the pattern sharpens: 83 article slugs contain the word "court," 46 contain the word "judge."
How the site describes itself
The Olympic Herald's own retrospective pieces frame this output as watchdog journalism. "Since our launch, the Olympic Herald has committed to fearless, independent investigative journalism in Washington state, holding power accountable," reads a March 7, 2026 piece titled "The First Months on the Record: Our Ongoing Battle for Transparency." "Without corporate backing, we follow the paper trails and ask the uncomfortable questions that others ignore."
The census tells a different story about which paper trails get followed. The judge referenced in 109 articles, one every two to three days across the site's entire existence, is the one who signed an adverse opinion two months before the site launched. The commissioner referenced in 58, one every four to five days, is the one who kept the protection-order case on track. The site's most-covered private citizen is the man that order protects. The uncomfortable questions run in exactly one direction: toward the people its author holds responsible for losing in court.
What a real census would show
For contrast, consider what a census of a genuine Clallam County newspaper would surface: city councils and school boards, high school sports, business openings, obituaries, courts in general, dozens of named individuals across hundreds of stories, with no single person appearing in a quarter of the coverage.
The Olympic Herald's archive does contain routine court news, arrests, sentencings, filings. That is the costume. But no real newspaper in America has devoted 109 articles in nine months to one judge, or 58 to one court commissioner, while employing one writer. That distribution does not reflect the news of a county. It reflects the litigation history of Anthony Tomashefsky.
The overlap between the two men's histories makes the Mavy coverage still more pointed. Per his public professional profile, Mavy co-founded Advice Chaser, the company whose collapse left Tomashefsky with a $42,128 default judgment and a creditor lien on his assets, and today is managing partner at Off Ball Services. The site that covers Mavy 17 times is run by the man who claims roles at the same two companies, dates Mavy's ex-wife, and was found by a court to have stalked and harassed him.
The site's own ethics page says it plainly: "One person: founder Anthony Tomashefsky." The census shows what one person chose to do with a printing press no one else controls: 425 articles, one author, and a target list that a Clallam County courtroom supplied.
This article relies on public court records and public complaints. TROH welcomes a response from Mr. Tomashefsky and will publish it in full.