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March 18, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
The DOGE Depos: A Blueprint for Congressional DOGE Hearings
The DOGE depos and their virality should serve as a blueprint for congressional oversight efforts by the next Democratic Congress.
March 04, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Hannah Story Brown Toni Aguilar Rosenthal
Newsletter Climate and EnvironmentCongressional OversightDefenseExecutive Branch
Department of Global War and Warming
Even before we had Trump as Commander in Chief committing unconstitutional strikes on the leaders of foreign nations, and Pete Hegseth as Secretary of War ordering apparent war crimes in the Caribbean, we wrote about the military-industrial complex as a “disaster multiplier” in our era of climate change and interlocking crises.
February 27, 2026
Righteous Incivility Trumps Silent Defiance
Voters are increasingly calling “bullshit” on opposition tactics that prioritize institutional norms over populist antagonism.
February 05, 2026 | The American Prospect
Kenny Stancil Julian Scoffield Chris Lewis
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DOGE Lives On Through Russell Vought
Trump’s White House OMB director has quietly institutionalized the government demolition agenda set in motion by Elon Musk’s wrecking crew.
January 14, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Newsletter 2026 ElectionCongressional OversightCorporate CrackdownEconomic PolicyEthics in GovernmentRevolving Door
Now Is The Time For Fighters
On Monday, Senator Elizabeth Warren gave a speech at the National Press Club about how Democrats can rebuild durable trust with voters, win elections, and enact systemic change. She spoke with energy about how Democrats cannot win back a lasting majority by watering down their economic vision, and how candidates in future elections must “credibly demonstrate that they will take on a rigged system in order to fix it.” In other words, she called for the members of her party to refashion themselves as willing fighters.
January 08, 2026
Letter to House Democratic Leader Jeffries on New AI Commission
Revolving Door Project and eleven other organizations sent a letter expressing concern to House Democratic Leader Jeffries with regard to his selection of co-chairs with ties to Big Tech for the new House Democratic Commission on AI and the Innovation Economy.
December 23, 2025 | The American Prospect
House Democrats Squander the Opportunity of Trumpian Corruption
Democrats have a golden opportunity to be the anti-corruption party, but the House caucus is not seizing it.
December 19, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Today: Renaming the Kennedy Center. Tomorrow: Renaming The Moon
Corruption Calendar Week 47-48: Trump’s giveaways to corporations continue to pile on as Americans suffer from an affordability crisis.
December 05, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
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Corruption Calendar Week 46: Whose Life is Precious?
It’s a cruel irony that the presumed technology of our future is forcing us to go back in time and prop up coal power generation. It’s even more unconscionable that so many people will be stricken by illness and death as a result.
November 13, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
8 Ways Senate Dems Should Have Been Holding the Line With Oversight
Here’s a congressional oversight target for each of the eight Senate Democrat that caved to end the government shutdown.
October 31, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Weeks 40-41: Belle of the Ballroom
Crypto interests and White House ballroom donors are the biggest beneficiaries of the administration’s latest rounds of corruption.
October 03, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Weeks 36-37: Put an End to the Vought Show
Russell Vought has systematically orchestrated a shutdown of critical government services as budget chief. It’s time to end that.
August 20, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
During Back to School, Send Team Trump to the Principal’s Office
Trump’s enablers must pay a political price for increased costs of back-to-school essentials, cuts to public education, and embracing child-endangering AI.
August 11, 2025
The Democrats Were Designed For An America That No Longer Exists
If the Democratic Party, and the country, want to survive, they need to wake up and choose what they want the next world to look like. Then they need to start fighting for it.
July 18, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week 26: Crypto Week Marks Washington’s Insatiable Appetite For Grift
While the House of Representatives was busy passing three industry-written pieces of legislation which all but ensure crypto’s complete capture of the federal government, Trump netted close to $100 million from sales of his crypto memecoin. There’s no doubt that the favor machine will keep whirring as long as the zeroes keep adding up for Trump and his family.