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.
Projects
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 24, 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 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
Tracker Climate and EnvironmentCriminal JusticeEconomic PolicyEducationExecutive BranchHealthImmigrationRussell VoughtTrump Watch
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 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
RT @nytimes: Breaking News: Federal officials acknowledged in court documents that they canceled grants to states that didn’t vote for Pres…
Read the full reporting from the New York Times ⬇️https://t.co/W2YbZ8xWpY
Vought does not respect Congress as a co-equal branch of government, repeatedly impounding appropriated funds and implementing the federal budget as he personally sees fit. It's time for Congress to stand up for itself and pursue impeachment. https://t.co/YDFmpftMu3
Vought isn't the only one—Energy Secretary Chris Wright testified to Congress that "no decisions were made on politics" calling the allegations "bullshit." The Energy Department's own filing now shows he lied to Congress. https://t.co/Jvx1AG2Wx7
In October 2025, Russell Vought unilaterally cancelled 284 grants. All but one grant recipient were in states that voted for Kamala Harris. Vought regularly denies that grant decisions and aid disbursements are politicized, but the administration has now admitted it. https://t.co/YonShxIj2B