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 26, 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 26, 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.
June 26, 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.
June 25, 2026
Administration must stop targeting LGBTQ kids
McMahon, Trump, and Republicans are targeting LGBTQ kids.
June 25, 2026
Jordan Smith and Emily Hopkins - IndyStar
A month after leaving top city role, former Hogsett deputy took job at major city contractor
June 25, 2026
Frances Sawyer - (Substack) Transition Finance Weekly
Transition Finance Weekly - June 25, 2026
June 24, 2026
Bill McKibben - (Substack) The Crucial Years
How about Free? Is that affordable enough for you?
June 24, 2026
Dean Baker - (Substack) Dean Baker
The Abundance Bandwagon Jumps the Shark in Vancouver
June 22, 2026
Ian Masters - Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing: June 22, 2026
June 22, 2026
Jesse Hamilton - CoinDesk
Crypto's second U.S. lobbying front — tax policy — sees industry push on mining, staking
RDP on Twitter
Our @ColdChrisFiles1 gets a little personal in explaining why changing Title IX to exclude LGBTQ kids is so deeply harmful. https://t.co/dGea1DC7gQ
@HannahStoryB @TheProspect Read the piece here: https://t.co/27jZ33Zr0j
Faced with a slow-motion ecological crisis at an Alaska-sized scale, politicians from Juneau to Washington are stuck in the mud of an old idea: Alaska LNG. @HannahStoryB writes for @TheProspect about the failure of imagination—and billions in subsidies—buoying this pipe dream. https://t.co/bOwzq1W5ZZ
Read the full newsletter here: https://t.co/AedzwAdjKN
This week's newsletter takes us from Silicon Valley to Trump's July 4th "vanity cringefest" to the halls of the Supreme Court. The common thread across these disparate stories is elite impunity: powerful people rigging the game without fear of consequences. https://t.co/k20XKdp25O
Dangerous heat is blanketing the United States. People are at greater risk of heat-related illness and death due to the cruel actions of Donald Trump, Russell Vought, and other officials in the administration. https://t.co/iNtIE2OaDM