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March 04, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly

Hannah Story Brown Toni Aguilar Rosenthal

Newsletter Climate and Environment Congressional Oversight Defense Executive 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

Julian Scoffield

Newsletter Congressional Oversight Corporate Crackdown Trump 2.0

Righteous Incivility Trumps Silent Defiance

Voters are increasingly calling “bullshit” on opposition tactics that prioritize institutional norms over populist antagonism.

February 20, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly

Timi Iwayemi

Newsletter Artificial Intelligence Corruption Calendar Cryptocurrency Ethics in Government Immigration

Corruption Calendar Weeks 55-57: Internal Revenue Service, Wire Me $10 billion, Pronto.

Trump’s shakedown state continues to weaponize federal government policy in service of friends and corporations.

February 18, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly

KJ Boyle

Newsletter Climate and Environment Government Capacity

Trump Already Decimated the EPA. It Wasn’t Enough for Big Business.

The repeal of the endangerment finding, supported by the Chamber of Commerce, is a final nail in the coffin for a debilitated EPA.

February 11, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly

Hannah Story Brown

Newsletter Climate and Environment

Endangered Toad Says “ICE OUT”

Bad Bunny, the most streamed artist in the world for the last four years, has elevated el sapo concho’s profile by transforming the toad into a symbol of Puerto Rico’s imperiled cultural and ecological heritage. At a time of historic institutional cowardice towards combating climate change, he reminds us what the fight is about: nothing less than preserving our treasured places in the world, and those we share them with.

February 05, 2026

Julian Scoffield

Newsletter Health Trump 2.0

Making Measles Endemic Again

Outbreaks across the South are just the “cost of doing business” for Trump 2.0.

January 30, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly

Xaver Clarke

Newsletter Climate and Environment Corruption Calendar Tech

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 28, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly

KJ Boyle

Newsletter DOGE Government Capacity Immigration

How DOGE Broke Social Security

A breakdown of how DOGE ruined the Social Security Administration’s customer service operations and turned the agency into a political tool.

January 23, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly

Julian Scoffield

Newsletter Climate and Environment Corporate Crackdown DOGE Elon Musk Executive Branch Government Capacity Independent 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 21, 2026

Kenny Stancil

Newsletter Anti-Monopoly Artificial Intelligence Climate and Environment Consumer Protection Economic Policy Governance Housing Tech Trump 2.0

AI Is Making Your Life More Expensive

Big Tech is driving up the costs of necessities—now and in the future.

January 14, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly

Hannah Story Brown

Newsletter 2026 Election Congressional Oversight Corporate Crackdown Economic Policy Ethics in Government Revolving 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 09, 2026

Toni Aguilar Rosenthal

Newsletter Corruption Calendar

Corruption Calendar Weeks 49-51: War Profiteers Take Center Stage

It’s weeks forty-nine through fifty-one of the Revolving Door Project’s Corruption Calendar, where we highlight the latest slate of corporate corruption that’s shaping the Trump Administration, its agenda, and the material impacts of that corruption on real people. Our first forty eight issues can be found here, and you can follow us on Bluesky and X for more updates on this work.