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.
Learn MoreHackwatch
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 MoreMay 01, 2026
Tracker Climate and EnvironmentDOGEElon MuskExecutive BranchFEMAGovernanceGovernment CapacityHousingRussell VoughtTrump 2.0
Map: Trump Has Often Delayed or Denied Disaster Aid
The Trump administration 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.
April 29, 2026
Vought-Force Trauma: the War on the Federal Civil Service
On April 1st, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) updated the Federal Workforce Data (FWD) page to include data up until February 2026. The new data gives us the most complete picture yet as to how the Trump administration, led by Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought, has torn asunder the capacity of the federal government.
April 24, 2026
MAGA Reaffirms Allegiance To Crypto
The bitcoin conference in late April is a chance for Republicans to show their commitment to the crypto industry. Here’s a who is attending:
April 23, 2026
Oligarchs and the Trump Admin: Chris Wright
Secretary of Energy Chris Wright. Net worth: $170 million
April 30, 2026
Saqib Rahim - E&E News
States are demanding property insurance records to study climate change
April 29, 2026
Maurizio Guerrero - PRISM Reports
DHS is buying access to real-time location data—the latest expansion of its “invasive” surveillance technology
April 29, 2026
Aaron Regunberg - Jacobin
Stop the AI Build-Out, Start the Fight
April 22, 2026
Sarah Todd - STAT News
Former tobacco executive joins CDC senior leadership, raising concerns over industry influence
April 10, 2026
Morgan Chalfant - Semafor
Debatable: AI titans influencing regulation
April 10, 2026
Talik Evans - Coin Insider
Securitize Names Ex-SEC Chief Ahead of Nasdaq Plan
RDP on Twitter
HAPPENING NOW: Celebrate May Day by supporting federal workers and protesting Russell Vought. https://t.co/q8A85N5HZ5
In Watchdog Weekly: We breakdown the wider degradation of American state capacity. Using new employment data and survey results, we track how Vought’s reforms have caused a complete collapse in morale. https://t.co/xJIqd8z5U8
Worse yet, political appointees are exempt from the new system; while career civil servants are going to be pit against one another, MAGA’s partisan hacks are going to be let off the hook for any and all incompetence.
In @TheProspect : Vought and Kupor proposed a system that would effectively rank employees for the sake of "efficiency," but experts on management and public administration agree this system would do anything but. https://t.co/ByaOn0Ysob
NEW: Russ Vought and Scott Kupor are changing the performance review process to politicize the civil service and eliminate workers’ rights to challenge unfair ratings. In The American Prospect and today’s Watchdog Weekly we unpack a new stage in this war on federal capacity.
Update: it appears as though Senator Jim Justice, previously listed as a speaker at the event has pulled out. He is no longer listed on the speakers page