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September 03, 2026
Will The Food Borne Illness Epidemic Ever End?
Not unless BigAg and the Trump administration are held accountable.
August 26, 2026 | The American Prospect
Cracking Down on Big Insurance in … Oklahoma?
By challenging Allstate and State Farm’s allegedly unfair claims handling practices, Gentner Drummond is opening the door to a broader crackdown on Big Insurance. His counterparts in other states have no excuse to sit on the sidelines.
August 26, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption is a Two-Way Street
The Taylor Farms Cyclospora Outbreak Shows Why Congress Must Investigate Both Trump and His Corporate Accomplices
June 24, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Newsletter AbundanceClimate and EnvironmentCorporate CrackdownEducationEthics in GovernmentExecutive BranchJudiciaryTech
Elite Corruption, From Silicon Valley to the Supreme Court
Welcome back to Watchdog Weekly. We’ve been busy so far this hurricane season, tracking the literal and metaphorical storms gathering on the horizon as elite immunity spreads its shadow over the American landscape. Here are some of the projects we’ve been working on lately:
May 14, 2026 | 350.org
Kenny Stancil Risalat Khan, Insure Our Future
Op-Ed Climate and EnvironmentCorporate CrackdownFinancial RegulationHousing
Out of Pocket: Pollution Premiums - the real cost of fossil fuels on our insurance bills
Fossil fuels are making our insurance premiums unaffordable and exposing us to financial ruin. But momentum is building to ramp up clean energy and make polluters pay!
March 17, 2026
Mapping Home Insurance Regulation
Differences in state regulations play a major role in the growing crisis over home insurance, which is closely linked to the climate emergency propelled by fossil fuels.
March 17, 2026
Kenny Stancil Fletcher Calcagno Aya Dardari Xaver Clarke
Report Climate and EnvironmentCorporate CrackdownFinancial RegulationHousingRevolving Door
Tracking State Insurance Commissioners
State insurance commissioners cannot tackle the deeply intertwined crises of fossil fuel-driven climate change, insurance rate hikes and cancellations, and housing injustice on their own. But their role in aggravating or ameliorating problems deserves greater scrutiny.
March 17, 2026
RELEASE: Home Insurance Regulation Blunted by Revolving Door Activity and Insufficient Resources. New Tools Highlight Scale of Problems
It’s a lot easier to be an ambitious, pro-consumer and pro-climate regulator when you aren’t trying to preserve friendships with profit-maximizing insurance CEOs.
February 27, 2026
Righteous Incivility Trumps Silent Defiance
Voters are increasingly calling “bullshit” on opposition tactics that prioritize institutional norms over populist antagonism.
January 29, 2026
What We Mean When We Talk About Corporate Power
How should we define corporate power, and how should we attempt to understand its growth over time? Here’s some metrics.
January 23, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Newsletter Climate and EnvironmentCorporate CrackdownDOGEElon MuskExecutive BranchGovernment CapacityIndependent AgenciesRussell Vought
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 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.
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.
December 17, 2025
Newsletter Corporate CrackdownEthics in GovernmentExecutive BranchFinancial RegulationIndependent Agencies
Cutting Crooks Some Slack
The administrative state’s Kafkaesque transmogrification into the mafia state