August 29, 2025
Trump's Homicidal Hurricane Policy
This report summarizes how the Trump administration’s attacks on NOAA and FEMA are putting millions of Americans in mortal danger this hurricane season and beyond.
August 13, 2025 | Jacobin
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Heat Kills. Trump Has Ensured There Will Be More Victims
We should be slashing emissions and climate-proofing our cities. Instead, Republicans are turning up the carbon spew and stripping away heat protections — effectively condemning the poor to die under rising temperatures.
July 28, 2025 | The American Prospect
Elon Musk's Secret Army of Progressive Lobbyists
Why are the people being paid to fix the problems DOGE created also taking money from Musk?
July 07, 2025
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We Need the Federal Government to Protect Us from Climate Chaos
The deadly Texas floods will not be the last manifestation of extreme weather turbocharged by fossil fuel pollution. In an era of escalating climate threats, we need a stronger public sector with more resources to mitigate risks, help people weather storms, and adapt for the future.
July 02, 2025
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RELEASE: Tracking Trump's Disastrous Disaster Policy
“It’s only a matter of time before Trump and Musk’s reckless assault on disaster response and preparedness kills people in the United States.”
May 30, 2025
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Corruption Calendar Week 19: “We Reject Regulators.” Pardon Me?
This week the Trump administration deepened its wildly corrupt and lucrative crypto grift, sought to further enrich wealthy supporters at the direct expense of working households, and continued to pardon white-collar criminals who don the red MAGA cap.
May 09, 2025 | The American Prospect
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We Can’t Count on Trump’s SEC to Tell Us If He Is Manipulating the Market
The Musk-damaged agency is unlikely to investigate whether Trump and his allies are profiting from advance knowledge about tariff changes or meme coin shenanigans.
March 19, 2025 | The American Prospect
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DOGE Is Going to Kill a Lot of Americans
The Democratic Party could spell this out clearly and consistently for voters.
March 05, 2025 | The American Prospect
The Case for a Shadow Cabinet
High-energy progressives can provide a compelling daily account of everything going wrong and coordinate opposition to the Trump-Musk nightmare.
February 26, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
What Leverage Do Congressional Democrats Have?
Hearings, investigations, letters, and longshots: Four ways the Democrats can conduct Congressional Oversight as the minority party.
February 25, 2025 | The American Prospect
Why Haven't House Democrats Moved to Impeach Scott Bessent?
There’s mounting evidence that Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary is not telling the truth about DOGE’s infiltration of the federal payments system.
February 17, 2025
PODCAST: RDP's Kenny Stancil on Democrats' Muddled, Painful Response to Trump-Musk Coup
RDP senior researcher Kenny Stancil spoke with Counterpoint’s Scott Harris about his article, “Where Is the Democratic Opposition?”, and the need to organize an effective and aggressive national Trump opposition movement both inside the Democratic Party and across civil society.
February 13, 2025
Questioning Bessent on the DOGE Treasury Raid
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was asked about the Elon Musk-led DOGE team’s meddling in the Treasury Department’s payments system. His answers raise additional questions.
February 13, 2025
Tracking the DOGE Treasury Raid
Unelected billionaire Elon Musk and his DOGE demolition crew have infiltrated the Treasury Department’s payments system. We’re tracking this crisis as it unfolds.
February 03, 2025
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RELEASE: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s Support for Elon Musk Warrants Impeachment
Bessent’s decision to hand the unelected Musk and his covert, unaccountable DOGE wrecking crew the keys to the federal money spigot is a blatant attack on democracy that will harm working people.