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
Trump Watch
Tracking the Trump administration's all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution
Trump 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 MoreJuly 29, 2026
AI Villains and the Trump Administration: Jay Obernolte
July 29, 2026
AI Villains and the Trump Administration: Lori Trahan
July 29, 2026
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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.
July 29, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Trump is the Cause of Our Problems
Nate Silver thinks Trump is no longer central to US politics because Trump-related stories are “boring and dumb.” Here’s why he’s wrong.
July 16, 2026
Robert McCoy - The New Republic
Clarence Thomas Pal Harlan Crow Maxed Out Donations to John Fetterman
July 16, 2026
Bastien Bouchaud - Les Echos
De parias à prophètes : comment les marchés de prédiction imposent leur loi de Wall Street à la Maison-Blanche
July 16, 2026
Ryan Cooper - The American Prospect
How Donald Trump Created the Worst Diarrhea Outbreak This Century
July 14, 2026
Nate Silver - (Substack) Silver Bulletin
12 questions for the center-left
July 14, 2026
Anat Shenker-Osorio - (Substack) Words to Win By
Don't Make the Argument
July 13, 2026
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Senate Budget Committee Votes on OMB Deputy Nominee
RDP on Twitter
Zillow and Compass are snatching up the savings would-be homeowners SHOULD be getting after a 2024 antitrust settlement about NAR’s real estate listings. @TheSlingUtah explains: https://t.co/S7xRTN4gCU
Read the full thing here: https://t.co/DmezdmqT78
Trump's plan to sell early access to his Truth Social posts to hedge funds follows his administration's embrace of insider trading. When you've made a bunch of money off of non-public information, why not start franchising the operation out to Wall Street? https://t.co/p73y0CLnP3 https://t.co/xQs9mKpLbJ
Read the full piece here: https://t.co/gU0cI0Dqki https://t.co/CqSW2RkBHY
From cyclosporiasis, to the weaponization of federal funds, to climate change-induced wildfires, to ICE killings, Trump is at the center of it all. We've been connecting these dots for a long time. The media, elected officials, and pundits with massive platforms should too. https://t.co/SJJYrteh9d
.@NateSilver538 thinks Trump is no longer the central figure in US politics because Trump-related stories are "boring and dumb." He's wrong, but it's indicative of a larger problem: centrists and elected officials often fail to connect Trump to the harms he is causing. https://t.co/sib9z5pnhR