CTE clause not able to be used in final ORDER BY statement

Trying to order by distance using an input geometry t(x), while comparing to geometries from a JOINed table.

WITH "nearest_groups" as (    SELECT groups.id, ST_Distance(t.x, locations.center) AS nearest    FROM (SELECT ST_GeographyFromText('SRID=4326;POINT(-121.0611 39.2191)')    ) AS t(x), groups    INNER JOIN locations ON groups.location_id = locations.id    WHERE ST_DWithin(t.x, locations.center, 300000)) SELECT *FROM "groups"INNER JOIN "nearest_groups" ON "groups"."id" = "nearest_groups"."id" ORDER BY "nearest_groups"."nearest" asc

Error: column "nearest_groups.nearest" must appear in the GROUP BY clause or be used in an aggregate function*

I don't understand what the error measure needs me to do to make this query work. Does it make sense to throw an GROUP BY in there? I'm not familiar with aggregate functions either.

(!!!) The query seems to work fine in PSQL but not in our ORM env (bookshelfjs/Knex). I find this alarming; ORMs give me the ever present fear that I will have to arm-wrestle them into doing what I want

UPDATE: We are using GraphQL and a common pattern is to fetch items that can be paged by tacking on a hasMore boolean and total count. SOSomewhere else, 'hasMore' and 'total' are being compiled, and it is THERE that this error is being throw, since those are using an aggregate function