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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. 

March 03, 2026

Xaver Clarke

Blog Post 2026 ElectionDepartment of Homeland SecurityDOGEExecutive BranchImmigrationTech

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.

February 13, 2026 | The American Prospect

Toni Aguilar Rosenthal Hannah Story Brown

Op-Ed Climate and EnvironmentExecutive Branch

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 10, 2026

Xaver Clarke

Blog Post Climate and EnvironmentCriminal JusticeEconomic PolicyEducationExecutive BranchHealthImmigrationTrump 2.0

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.

January 20, 2026

KJ Boyle Xaver Clarke Julian Scoffield Chris Lewis

Report Climate and EnvironmentCorporate CrackdownDOGEElon MuskExecutive BranchIndependent Agencies

DOGE: From Meme to Government Erosion Machine

DOGE: From Meme to Government Erosion Machine serves as a recounting of DOGE’s first year. We outline DOGE’s operational takeover and systemic demolition of the federal government. We hope this effort to record the scale of DOGE’s destruction engenders much needed accountability for all who enacted and cheered the initiative’s irrational actions.