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
DOGE Watch
Tracking the Trump administration's all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution
DOGE 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.
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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 MoreFebruary 13, 2026 | The American Prospect
Doug Burgum, the Regime Toady of Our Time
According to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Donald Trump is the “king of PEACE”—an odd position for a Lutheran like Burgum, as it would rank Trump above the “Prince of Peace,” Jesus Christ—and Europeans should be “cheering” for him to annex Greenland. It’s also odd for the Interior secretary, whose duties principally concern federal lands, to be commenting on European opinion.
February 13, 2026
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Map: Trump Has Often Delayed or Denied Disaster Aid
The Trump administration so far 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.
February 13, 2026
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Tracking Uses of AI in the Trump Administration
As the Trump administration continues to expand the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in its operations, we are cataloguing examples of how AI is being deployed by federal agencies to replace human workers and undermine transparency and due process.
February 12, 2026
The Technobabble Defense: The Tech “Industry”
What’s in a name??
February 12, 2026
Matthew Yglesias - (Substack) Slow Boring
Americans think everyone is corrupt
February 12, 2026
Emily Kennard - NOTUS
Democrats Are Field-Testing New Ways to Talk About the Epstein Scandal
February 11, 2026
Luke Goldstein and Katya Schwenk - The Lever
Empty Warehouses, Secret Deals: Insiders Poised To Profit From Trump’s Deportation Boom
February 11, 2026
Real Clear Politics
RealClearPolitics Afternoon Edition
February 9, 2026
Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
‘One More Billionaire Front Group’: Centrist Dems Mocked Over New Initiative Led by Corporate Lobbyist
February 8, 2026
Kenneth P. Vogel, Lisa Friedman, and David A. Fahrenthold - The New York Times
For $1 Million, Donors to U.S.A. Birthday Group Offered Access to Trump
RDP on Twitter
Now, congressional Democrats must "make the reclusive Vought's actions just as infamous as Musk's higher-profile DOGE blitz." Read more here: https://t.co/QkoJNEremO https://t.co/CxkFWcUvMX
As we argued, "DOGE's objective was never to save taxpayer dollars. Musk did not 'fail'... DOGE was—and remains, through Vought’s OMB—an effort to extinguish the existing government and create a new one in the image of oligarchs and far-right ideologues." https://t.co/QkoJNEremO
Musk was rightly villainized when the Trump regime shut down USAID (that move has already killed more than 600k people, w/ up to 14M additional deaths projected by 2030). It's telling that, before Trump permanently shutters USAID, Vought is spending the agency's $ on himself.
Our @aguilarosenthal is out in @thenation today looking at Donald Trump’s latest grift machine, and the slate of far-right agitators, Christian nationalists, book banners, and more he's partnering with to take over the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. More: https://t.co/HqIdTUgN2n