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 MoreJune 04, 2026
RDP Condemns the Blockchain Association’s Deceitful Letter From “Law Enforcement Officials”
The letter, which touts supposed law enforcement support for the Clarity Act, omits that many of those listed as law enforcement professionals are actively employed by the cryptocurrency firms that stand to profit from the bill’s passage.
June 03, 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.
June 03, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Wreck-It Russ Risks Breaking the Public Health System
OMB Director Russell Vought is holding federal funds for essential programs like public health hostage in order to punish Trump’s political enemies, the consequences to people’s lives be damned.
June 02, 2026
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Democrats Can’t Let Trump Off the Hook When the Next Big Hurricane Hits
The White House has relentlessly undermined disaster readiness and response capacity. When things go wrong, the opposition should make the president and his GOP accomplices pay a political price.
June 2, 2026
Brad Reed - Common Dreams
New El Niño Warning Compounded by Trump’s Attacks on Climate, Disaster Preparedness
May 30, 2026
Lindsey Cormack - (Substack) DCinbox Insights
Weaponize is a Republican Word
May 29, 2026
Kyle Saunders - (Substack) Sacred Cow BBQ
AIPolitics 18: The Political Cleavage Rotated and AI Has Bisected It
May 29, 2026
Victor Reklaitis - MarketWatch
The company behind the White House’s UFC event says rivals ‘would kill’ for the opportunity. Critics say that’s a problem.
May 28, 2026
Dave Vorland - Chamber of Progress
Democrats' Techlash Trap
May 26, 2026
Matthew Yglesias - (Substack) Slow Boring
I’m sick of “affordability”
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The proposed rule effectively gives the Trump administration carte blanche to block discretionary awards to anyone not on board with its ghoulish agenda—an institutionalized scale-up of Vought’s fiscal retaliation campaign against Trump’s political opponents. https://t.co/oPXOvd9yHa
Just last week, Vought’s OMB proposed a rule that would completely overhaul the current framework for awarding federal grants, labeling past spending as “woke” and “wasteful.” https://t.co/06AWqC4oxW
OMB Director Russell Vought is waging a war on “wokeism” and “fraud” as a sham justification for freezing, cutting, or withholding federal funding for essential programs like public health to punish Trump’s political enemies, risking the collapse of the entire system. https://t.co/JtHrku2U91
Pulte ignored the actual duties of leading the FHFA in favor of scoring points with Trump. Now, Trump has rewarded him with even more power to abuse -- and it’s everyday Americans who will keep getting screwed over.