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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About the Revolving Door Project
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 MoreFebruary 19, 2026
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Map: Trump Has Often Delayed or Denied Disaster Aid
The Trump administration so far has refused to allocate federal disaster aid in a timely manner. Check out our interactive map for more details on the White House’s careless approach to major disaster declarations.
February 18, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Trump Already Decimated the EPA. It Wasn’t Enough for Big Business.
The repeal of the endangerment finding, supported by the Chamber of Commerce, is a final nail in the coffin for a debilitated EPA.
February 13, 2026 | The American Prospect
Doug Burgum, the Regime Toady of Our Time
According to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Donald Trump is the “king of PEACE”—an odd position for a Lutheran like Burgum, as it would rank Trump above the “Prince of Peace,” Jesus Christ—and Europeans should be “cheering” for him to annex Greenland. It’s also odd for the Interior secretary, whose duties principally concern federal lands, to be commenting on European opinion.
February 13, 2026
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Tracking Uses of AI in the Trump Administration
As the Trump administration continues to expand the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in its operations, we are cataloguing examples of how AI is being deployed by federal agencies to replace human workers and undermine transparency and due process.
February 12, 2026
Matthew Yglesias - (Substack) Slow Boring
Americans think everyone is corrupt
February 12, 2026
Emily Kennard - NOTUS
Democrats Are Field-Testing New Ways to Talk About the Epstein Scandal
February 11, 2026
Luke Goldstein and Katya Schwenk - The Lever
Empty Warehouses, Secret Deals: Insiders Poised To Profit From Trump’s Deportation Boom
February 11, 2026
Real Clear Politics
RealClearPolitics Afternoon Edition
February 9, 2026
Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
‘One More Billionaire Front Group’: Centrist Dems Mocked Over New Initiative Led by Corporate Lobbyist
February 8, 2026
Kenneth P. Vogel, Lisa Friedman, and David A. Fahrenthold - The New York Times
For $1 Million, Donors to U.S.A. Birthday Group Offered Access to Trump
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Nearly two years after the quid pro quo between Trump and the oil industry, its clear the industry's investment has paid off handsomely. https://t.co/NLi5jGEwpx
While the Chamber does include industry giants, it also includes companies like Microsoft, Meta, Goldman Sachs, and Pfizer, among others. Each of these corporations is cosigning the administration's climate denialism. https://t.co/BrVrGlxqUM
The oil and gas industry wasn't the only one pushing Trump's EPA to repeal the endangerment finding. The Chamber of Commerce—the "world's largest business association"—even asked the EPA to prevent states from "impos[ing] liability for the effects of global climate change.” https://t.co/QV84CnlFmn
Trump and his lackeys spent the past year gutting the EPA—minimal enforcement actions, slashed grants, lifelines for coal. It wasn't enough for industry. The repeal of the endangerment finding, supported by industry and business groups alike, is icing on the whole rotten cake. https://t.co/KZXVHzN6Zk
Americans do not read detailed policy platforms. They interpret what you stand for by the enemies you make. We think this offers an opportunity for Democrats to build a winning coalition. But shrinking from the fight will result in further losses. https://t.co/zke5cPKdoK