DOGE: From Meme to Government Erosion Machine
A record of DOGE's first year of destruction
DOGE: From Meme to Government Erosion Machine
A record of DOGE's first year of destruction
DOGE Watch
Tracking the Trump administration's all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution
DOGE Watch
Tracking the Trump administration's all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution
Trump's Disastrous Disaster Policy
Documenting the Trump administration's pre-disaster recklessness and post-disaster cruelty
Trump's Disastrous Disaster Policy
Documenting the Trump administration's pre-disaster recklessness and post-disaster cruelty
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The Revolving Door Project (RDP) scrutinizes executive branch appointees to ensure they use their office to serve the broad public interest, rather than to entrench corporate power or seek personal advancement.
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The Agency Spotlight
The Agency Spotlight tracks appointments to leadership positions at thirty-nine independent federal agencies through the confirmation process and beyond.
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Hackwatch is where we monitor the mainstream media’s favorite Democratic-leaning economic analysts for conflicts of interest, perverse incentives, and just flat-out erroneous reasoning. We identify who the bad actors are, explain why they’re compromised and wrong, and demand that outlets stop poisoning the information ecosystem with discredited neoliberal orthodoxy and start giving people access to other, better-informed perspectives.
Learn MoreSupreme Transparency
Supreme Transparency—a project of Take Back the Court, True North Research, and the Revolving Door Project—sheds light on an oft-overlooked way that the U.S. Supreme Court’s billionaire benefactors peddle influence: amicus briefs. The Supreme Transparency site exposes the more subtle yet no less destructive ways that right-wing amicus filers and oligarchic court-whisperers hold sway over SCOTUS.
Learn MoreMarch 18, 2026
RELEASE: If Mullin Is Confirmed as DHS Secretary, Congress Must Ensure He Revokes Noem’s $100,000 Grant Approval Rule. If Not, Vought-Led Destruction of FEMA Will Continue
The driving force behind Noem’s unilateral austerity directive is Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought.
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
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.
March 17, 2026
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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 9, 2026
Jonathan Larsen - (Substack) Jonathan Larsen’s Substack
Gas Prices Really Are Trump's Fault, Just Not for the Reason People Think
March 5, 2026
Katya Schwenk - The Lever
The Spy-Tech Insider Running Homeland Security’s Biometric Dragnet
March 3, 2026
Scott Schindledecker - The Western News
Lincoln County plays waiting game on federal storm funds
February 27, 2026
Jerusalem Demsas - (Substack) The Argument
Stop calling housing regulations “small-bore.”
February 26, 2026
Matthew Yglesias - (Substack) Slow Boring
I’m not convinced the “A.I. backlash” is real
February 23, 2026
Hannah Levintova and Dan Friedman - Mother Jones
What Was Bill Pulte’s Charity Really Funding With This Mystery Donation?
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To that end, add your signature to letter urging Congress to move to impeach Vought. ⬇️ https://t.co/mPuiqkBLMx
The opposition also needs to be clear: DOGE is not dead. OMB Director Russell Vought is still carrying its mantle: terrorizing federal employees, gutting government capacity, and impounding appropriated funds. It's time for to call for his impeachment. https://t.co/JnJZwA1xst
But Cavanaugh and Fox were only deposed on their actions at the National Endowment for the Humanities. We need similar testimony from every DOGE bro, for every agency they undermined, and it needs to be a spectacle. https://t.co/iNqW66QH6F
It's clear the administration viewed this testimony as damning. It's easy to see why. While they successfully forced the plaintiffs to remove the videos from their YouTube page, the videos were already widely shared and archived. https://t.co/Pdt0jlA8WF
The DOGE Depos were revealing: DOGE used ChatGPT to cut grants, discriminated based on race and gender, and used Signal to evade federal records laws. Imagine what we'd learn if a Democratic Congress subpoenaed every member of DOGE, from Musk down, to testify before Congress. https://t.co/vvtiIgBXX8