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 MoreJune 12, 2026
Tracker Climate and EnvironmentDOGEElon MuskExecutive BranchFEMAGovernanceGovernment CapacityHousingRussell VoughtTrump Watch
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 12, 2026 | The American Prospect
New Documents Detail Nine-Figure, Silicon Valley–Funded Abundance Movement
The Prospect has obtained a fundraising pitch and historical manifesto from inside the movement.
June 11, 2026 | Public Citizen
MAGA 250!
$103M in Federal Contracts Flow to Trumpified “Freedom 250” Events as Trump and Political Allies Turn Anniversary Celebration into Corporate-Sponsored Vanity Cringefest
June 11, 2026 | Public Citizen
Trump’s MAGA 250: Administration Awards More than $100 Million in Federal Contracts to Politicized Network
The Trump administration has awarded nearly $103 million in federal contracts and grants for the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations to a network of politicized entities under the control of Trump administration officials and political allies, according to a new report released today by Public Citizen and the Revolving Door Project.
June 11, 2026
Tyler Spence - NOTUS
Top Jon Husted Senate Aide Kept Working for Ohio Lobbying Firm
June 9, 2026
Senator Tina Smith - Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development Minority Report
Bold Solutions tothe HomeInsurance Crisis
June 7, 2026
NeverEverAgain - Daily Kos
Peter Thiel Part 1: The President Bought Palantir Stock, Then Publicly Endorsed the Company
June 5, 2026
News Desk - SSBCrack News
Senate’s Digital Asset Market Clarity Act Faces Challenges Despite Lobbying Efforts by Blockchain Association
June 4, 2026
Jesse Hamilton - CoinDesk
Crypto Clarity Act in spotlight for bad-actor provisions as Senate process grinds forward
June 2, 2026
Brad Reed - Common Dreams
New El Niño Warning Compounded by Trump’s Attacks on Climate, Disaster Preparedness
RDP on Twitter
the author boasts about having “Flipped San Francisco Democratic Party, Flipped San Francisco Board of Supervisors … [and] Flipped Santa Monica City Council.” "We helped organize the Moderate faction that has taken power" (2/2) https://t.co/etv7MZmoby
In new reporting for @TheProspect, we detail internal documents from Bay Area abundance groups pitch the movement to tech elites as a way to take control of Democratic politics and describe a 9-figure funding stream from billionaires. (1/2) https://t.co/fgmlwi4JcU
RT @ddayen: We obtained documents detailing the abundance movement's "capital stack." It's $260 million/year, including $100 million from f…
Read the full thing here: https://t.co/RzJ8KhMQCK
America's 250th was going to be nonpartisan. Then Trump took over. Now it's being run by Trump loyalists & funded by $100+ million in federal contracts sent to MAGA-fied events. New report from us + @Public_Citizen (link below) https://t.co/5f9TJIgI2L
For more DOGE agency breakdowns, see our report DOGE: From Meme to Government Erosion Machine. https://t.co/1pdS59DiFk