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September 17, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Newsletter Climate and EnvironmentCorporate CrackdownExecutive BranchFinancial RegulationHousingIndependent AgenciesTrump Watch
The Current Capacity Crisis
Trump and company have decimated the federal government’s ability to protect Americans from Robber Barons running amok
September 16, 2026
TRACKER: Cuts to Corporate Enforcement Capacity
This tracker records cuts made by the Trump-Musk administration to enforcement capacity at agencies responsible for overseeing corporations’ activities and identifying wrongdoing.
“Enforcement capacity” refers to staffing and funding dedicated to monitoring, oversight, investigation, and preparation of cases against corporations for breaking the law. Cuts to and attacks on enforcement capacity can include firings, buyout offers, funding cuts, reorganizations, and other steps the Trump administration has taken to date.
September 03, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Will The Food Borne Illness Epidemic Ever End?
Not unless BigAg and the Trump administration are held accountable.
August 26, 2026 | The American Prospect
Cracking Down on Big Insurance in … Oklahoma?
By challenging Allstate and State Farm’s allegedly unfair claims handling practices, Gentner Drummond is opening the door to a broader crackdown on Big Insurance. His counterparts in other states have no excuse to sit on the sidelines.
August 26, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption is a Two-Way Street
The Taylor Farms Cyclospora Outbreak Shows Why Congress Must Investigate Both Trump and His Corporate Accomplices
June 24, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Newsletter AbundanceClimate and EnvironmentCorporate CrackdownEducationEthics in GovernmentExecutive BranchJudiciaryTech
Elite Corruption, From Silicon Valley to the Supreme Court
Welcome back to Watchdog Weekly. We’ve been busy so far this hurricane season, tracking the literal and metaphorical storms gathering on the horizon as elite immunity spreads its shadow over the American landscape. Here are some of the projects we’ve been working on lately:
May 14, 2026 | 350.org
Kenny Stancil Risalat Khan, Insure Our Future
Op-Ed Climate and EnvironmentCorporate CrackdownFinancial RegulationHousing
Out of Pocket: Pollution Premiums - the real cost of fossil fuels on our insurance bills
Fossil fuels are making our insurance premiums unaffordable and exposing us to financial ruin. But momentum is building to ramp up clean energy and make polluters pay!
March 17, 2026
Mapping Home Insurance Regulation
Differences in state regulations play a major role in the growing crisis over home insurance, which is closely linked to the climate emergency propelled by fossil fuels.
March 17, 2026
Kenny Stancil Fletcher Calcagno Aya Dardari Xaver Clarke
Report Climate and EnvironmentCorporate CrackdownFinancial RegulationHousingRevolving Door
Tracking State Insurance Commissioners
State insurance commissioners cannot tackle the deeply intertwined crises of fossil fuel-driven climate change, insurance rate hikes and cancellations, and housing injustice on their own. But their role in aggravating or ameliorating problems deserves greater scrutiny.
March 17, 2026
RELEASE: Home Insurance Regulation Blunted by Revolving Door Activity and Insufficient Resources. New Tools Highlight Scale of Problems
It’s a lot easier to be an ambitious, pro-consumer and pro-climate regulator when you aren’t trying to preserve friendships with profit-maximizing insurance CEOs.
February 27, 2026
Righteous Incivility Trumps Silent Defiance
Voters are increasingly calling “bullshit” on opposition tactics that prioritize institutional norms over populist antagonism.
January 29, 2026
What We Mean When We Talk About Corporate Power
How should we define corporate power, and how should we attempt to understand its growth over time? Here’s some metrics.
January 23, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Newsletter Climate and EnvironmentCorporate CrackdownDOGEElon MuskExecutive BranchGovernment CapacityIndependent AgenciesRussell Vought
RDP Audits DOGE Destruction In New Report
In case you missed it, RDP just released a new report on the Department of Government Efficiency.
January 20, 2026
KJ Boyle Xaver Clarke Julian Scoffield Chris Lewis
Report Climate and EnvironmentCorporate CrackdownDOGEElon MuskExecutive BranchGovernanceGovernment CapacityIndependent AgenciesProject 2025Russell Vought
DOGE: From Meme to Government Erosion Machine
DOGE: From Meme to Government Erosion Machine serves as a recounting of DOGE’s first year. We outline DOGE’s operational takeover and systemic demolition of the federal government. We hope this effort to record the scale of DOGE’s destruction engenders much needed accountability for all who enacted and cheered the initiative’s irrational actions.