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October 27, 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.
October 27, 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.
October 21, 2026
Democrats Shouldn’t Let Jay Carney Bring Back The Obama-Era Tech Friendship
Obama administration alum Jay Carney is tapped to mend Silicon Valley’s relationship with Team Blue as Dems seem poised to win big in the midterms, and possibly start to hold Big Tech accountable.
October 15, 2026
We Solved The Corruption Debate Before I Was Born. Don’t Bring It Back.
What To Do About Trump’s Corruption? The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Offers An Answer
October 13, 2026
Elites Influencing Democrats on AI Policy: Ron Conway
Venture capitalist Ron Conway founded Project Blueprint to influence AI policy. Conway’s firm SV Angel is invested in dozens of AI companies.
October 09, 2026
Corruption Calendar: No Budget for Accountability
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.
October 07, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Supreme Court Season Kicks Off With Big Oil’s Big Ask
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.
October 02, 2026 | Wall Street Journal
A Recusal Question Justice Alito Can’t Avoid
Your editorial “Justice Alito’s Climate Case Recusal” (Sept. 30) derided the successful calls for Justice Alito to recuse from the upcoming climate deception case Suncor v. Boulder as “specious” and “partisan,” while framing a refusal to recuse as an “honorable tradition.”
September 30, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
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Reversing Voughtism; or, Creating a Pro-Worker Government to Save Lives
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.
September 28, 2026 | The Sling
It’s the Economics, Stupid: A Review of Gouged and Anti-Fascist Economics
Weber’s Anti-Fascist Economics and Owens’s Gouged help to flesh out a heterodox way of thinking about economic policy.
September 25, 2026 | Can We Still Govern?
Kenny Stancil Chris Dols, Federal Unionists Network
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Unions Against Voughtism
Federal unions can connect the dots to reveal the dangers of gutting government capacity.
September 25, 2026 | Dissent Magazine
Death by Data Centers
I’m an oncology nurse in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. My patients and I breathe the same polluted air, and we can’t afford the toxic exposure from the gas-fired plants set to power the state’s proposed AI data centers.
September 23, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Russell Vought’s Continued War on Public Health
Russell Vought’s attempt to control NIH grantmaking is another attack on Congress’ power of the purse and threatens unbiased scientific research.
September 22, 2026
This Office Was the Best Defense Against Discrimination in Schools. Trump Destroyed It.
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.
September 21, 2026
Oligarchs and the Trump Admin: Jeff Bezos
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has donated millions to Trump’s projects, and his companies have benefitted from the administration’s destruction of federal government.