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January 30, 2026
Tracking the Environmental Harms of Trump Actions
Trump’s second term began with drastic announcements on Day One and has been chaotic every day since. It can be overwhelming to try to keep up with the cuts to environmental funding, rollbacks to critical regulations, and track the thousands of staff across agencies who have been fired from their roles. The purpose of this tracker is to monitor some of the most important tangible increases in pollution and environmental and health harms caused by the Trump administration’s actions.
January 30, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Weeks 52-54: It's Big Techs World, We're Just Living In It
Trump administration sets up protection plans for Big Tech and Polluters at the public’s expense.
January 30, 2026
Memo Climate and EnvironmentDOGEElon MuskExecutive BranchFEMAGovernanceGovernment CapacityHousingTrump 2.0
Map: Trump Has Often Delayed or Denied Disaster Aid
The Trump administration so far 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.
January 23, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Newsletter Climate and EnvironmentCorporate CrackdownDOGEElon MuskExecutive BranchIndependent Agencies
RDP Audits DOGE Destruction In New Report
In case you missed it, RDP just released a new report on the Department of Government Efficiency.
January 22, 2026 | Dollars & Sense Debrief
PODCAST: RDP's Kenny Stancil Discusses Home Insurance Profiteering on the D&S Debrief
Revolving Door Project senior researcher Kenny Stancil joined Economics for the People to discuss his recently published article, “Forsake Some, Fleece the Rest,” with Dollars & Sense editor Chris Sturr.
January 21, 2026
Newsletter Anti-MonopolyArtificial IntelligenceClimate and EnvironmentConsumer ProtectionEconomic PolicyGovernanceHousingTechTrump 2.0
AI Is Making Your Life More Expensive
Big Tech is driving up the costs of necessities—now and in the future.
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.
January 20, 2026
Chris Lewis Xaver Clarke Hannah Story Brown Emma Marsano Toni Aguilar Rosenthal KJ Boyle
Blog Post Artificial IntelligenceClimate and EnvironmentExecutive BranchTech
Tracking Uses of AI in the Trump Administration
As the Trump administration continues to expand the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in its operations, we are cataloguing examples of how AI is being deployed by federal agencies to replace human workers and undermine transparency and due process.
January 09, 2026 | The American Prospect
The Trump Regime Is Making Disasters Worse
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem sat atop millions of dollars in flood prevention grants while the West Coast was being inundated. Now she’s slashing FEMA disaster response staff.
January 09, 2026
Memo Climate and EnvironmentDOGEElon MuskExecutive BranchFEMAGovernanceGovernment CapacityHousingTrump 2.0
TRACKER: Trump's Disastrous Disaster Policy
We are tracking how the Trump administration’s callous policy choices, before and after bouts of extreme weather, exacerbate avoidable suffering and death.
January 06, 2026
Memo Climate and EnvironmentDOGEElon MuskExecutive BranchFEMAGovernanceGovernment CapacityHousingTrump 2.0
Timeline: Trump's Attacks on Disaster Preparedness and Response
The Trump administration has been criminally negligent when it comes to disaster mitigation and response. Check out our interactive timelines documenting the White House’s pre-disaster recklessness and post-disaster cruelty.
December 31, 2025 | Dollars & Sense
Forsake Some, Fleece the Rest
How U.S. Home Insurers Are Responding to Climate Change
December 11, 2025
Trump Has Already Shattered FEMA Without Eliminating It
The Trump administration doesn’t need to formally eradicate FEMA to destroy it.
December 10, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
The Lobbying Behemoth Vying to Pollute the Air and Scam the Public
The National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) has spent millions opposing emissions regulations, consumer protections, and more.
December 05, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Newsletter Artificial IntelligenceClimate and EnvironmentCongressional OversightCorruption CalendarRevolving Door
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.