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Accountability is the bane of the Trump administration’s shamelessly venal approach to governance. That’s why the administration has willfully attacked the civil servants and laws that exist to hold power accountable.

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.

On Monday, the Supreme Court held oral arguments in the climate deception case Suncor v. Boulder, a case we’ve covered extensively given its outsized stakes, the oil industry’s ties to the Supreme Court bench, and the glaring conflicts of interest that have now disqualified longtime oil investor Justice Alito from participating in the case.

The Trump regime is dismantling the federal government’s ability to protect you. Undoing the Vought-led onslaught is a matter of life-and-death, and it would be good politics.

Weber’s Anti-Fascist Economics and Owens’s Gouged help to flesh out a heterodox way of thinking about economic policy.

Federal unions can connect the dots to reveal the dangers of gutting government capacity.

Russell Vought’s attempt to control NIH grantmaking is another attack on Congress’ power of the purse and threatens unbiased scientific research.

The Office for Civil Rights’ Equity Assistance Centers and Technical Assistance Program are easy ways that schools can resolve civil rights issues…now McMahon and Trump are phasing them out.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has donated millions to Trump’s projects, and his companies have benefitted from the administration’s destruction of federal government.

The hiring of Jessica Schumer is another example of powerful people and families, regardless of party, who are deeply intertwined with the corporate behemoths that people are organizing against.

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.

Trump and company have decimated the federal government’s ability to protect Americans from Robber Barons running amok