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 22, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Talking About A World on Fire
Last week, well over 100 million people across the United States and Canada were forced to breathe dangerously unhealthy air, as smoke from hundreds of wildfires in Canada blanketed much of North America.
July 21, 2026
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Personal Information at Risk
The United States federal government knows a lot about you. If you’ve ever applied for federal student aid, the Department of Education has records of your income and assets. The Social Security Administration begins collecting information from the moment your parents apply for your Social Security number at birth, adds new data every time Social Security taxes are deducted from your paychecks, and continues to monitor you until the day you die.
July 21, 2026
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Trump’s War on Public Data
Trump’s antagonistic relationship with facts is well documented. His most egregious attacks on reality aren’t just rhetorical. They threaten physical safety and American democracy. They target the ways we define what we know about the country and ourselves. Trump’s assault on public data is not a side project, it’s a core feature of his authoritarian approach to governance. By hollowing out federal statistics, limiting information gathering, and redacting inconvenient reports, the Trump administration is warping reality to suit its political narrative. The goal isn’t just to obscure the effects of the president’s policies, it’s to prevent the public from seeing them at all.
July 20, 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 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
"The groups argue that Gillibrand's son's involvement in the crypto industry leaves Democrats vulnerable to the very charge they are trying to level against President Trump." https://t.co/TKDQrPm26i
Check out this week's newsletter for our ideas about how electeds could have met the moment last week, as toxic smoke immiserated over 100 million people. https://t.co/dXFE4F4AKz
While Trump and other Republicans threatened Canada with tariffs and sanctions over the wildfire smoke, "climate hushing" Dems offered no counter-narrative, letting Trump's blame game define the moment. We have some ideas for what they could have done instead: https://t.co/9k8rWr4Zos
No state can handle disasters alone. "Devolution is a bad idea likely to exacerbate existing injustices," said our Kenny Stancil. "It probably means slashing school budgets and taking funding away from other essential public services." Great reporting from @gurleygg. https://t.co/D0lXeUI8rJ
ICE is sharing improperly obtained Medicaid data with Palantir to fuel Trump's immigration crackdown, and former DOGE staffers are bypassing privacy laws to funnel Americans' sensitive data to the White House through several government websites. https://t.co/2V6y5bIenf
RT @DylanGyauchL: Shot, chaser https://t.co/8hZPsCj3g4