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March 20, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly

Aya Dardari Fletcher Calcagno

Newsletter Anti-MonopolyCongressional OversightCorruption CalendarDefenseExecutive BranchImmigrationPrivate EquityTechTrump Watch

Corruption Calendar Weeks 60-61: A New Mask for the Trump Administration’s Cruelty

This edition marks almost three weeks since the U.S. and Israel began their unlawful war of aggression against Iran, which 55% of American voters disapprove of, according to a recent Data for Progress poll conducted for Drop Site News and Zeteo. The first six days of the war alone cost $11.3 billion, a sum that could have wiped out federal student loan debt for roughly 300,000 people, reduced homelessness, helped low-income families pay their heating bills for two to three years, and more.

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 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.

January 20, 2026

KJ Boyle Xaver Clarke Julian Scoffield Chris Lewis

Report Climate and EnvironmentCorporate CrackdownDOGEElon MuskExecutive BranchGovernanceGovernment CapacityIndependent AgenciesProject 2025Russell Vought

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. 

November 19, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly

Hannah Story Brown

Newsletter Corporate CrackdownDepartment of JusticeEthics in GovernmentExecutive BranchRevolving Door

Introducing “Watchdog Weekly”

Welcome back to the Revolving Door Project’s weekly newsletter, which is getting a new name: Watchdog Weekly. We’ve been writing this newsletter since the end of 2018, through three presidential administrations, two general elections, and an ongoing crisis of corporate accountability. Since the beginning, we’ve scrutinized the subtle ways in which corporate wealth shapes our politics: not only through direct spending and lobbying, but via the revolving door between industry and government, through interest groups and formal and informal networks, media influence, and more. We exist to help fill the vacuum of knowledge about who holds power and how power is wielded. We are watchdogs, and we wanted a name for this newsletter that reflects our mission to shed light on the ways that money corrupts politics which may otherwise evade scrutiny.