DOGE: From Meme to Government Erosion Machine
A record of DOGE's first year of destruction
DOGE: From Meme to Government Erosion Machine
A record of DOGE's first year of destruction
DOGE Watch
Tracking the Trump administration's all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution
DOGE Watch
Tracking the Trump administration's all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution
Trump's Disastrous Disaster Policy
Documenting the Trump administration's pre-disaster recklessness and post-disaster cruelty
Trump's Disastrous Disaster Policy
Documenting the Trump administration's pre-disaster recklessness and post-disaster cruelty
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About the Revolving Door Project
The Revolving Door Project (RDP) scrutinizes executive branch appointees to ensure they use their office to serve the broad public interest, rather than to entrench corporate power or seek personal advancement.
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The Agency Spotlight
The Agency Spotlight tracks appointments to leadership positions at thirty-nine independent federal agencies through the confirmation process and beyond.
Learn MoreHackwatch
Hackwatch is where we monitor the mainstream media’s favorite Democratic-leaning economic analysts for conflicts of interest, perverse incentives, and just flat-out erroneous reasoning. We identify who the bad actors are, explain why they’re compromised and wrong, and demand that outlets stop poisoning the information ecosystem with discredited neoliberal orthodoxy and start giving people access to other, better-informed perspectives.
Learn MoreSupreme Transparency
Supreme Transparency—a project of Take Back the Court, True North Research, and the Revolving Door Project—sheds light on an oft-overlooked way that the U.S. Supreme Court’s billionaire benefactors peddle influence: amicus briefs. The Supreme Transparency site exposes the more subtle yet no less destructive ways that right-wing amicus filers and oligarchic court-whisperers hold sway over SCOTUS.
Learn MoreMarch 12, 2026
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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.
March 11, 2026
An Argument with The Argument
Responding to Jerusalem Demsas Responding to us
March 11, 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.
March 06, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
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Corruption Calendar Weeks 58-59: Scandals Trump Safety
The consequences of the Trump administration’s unending depravity will be far reaching
March 9, 2026
Jonathan Larsen - (Substack) Jonathan Larsen’s Substack
Gas Prices Really Are Trump's Fault, Just Not for the Reason People Think
March 5, 2026
Katya Schwenk - The Lever
The Spy-Tech Insider Running Homeland Security’s Biometric Dragnet
March 3, 2026
Scott Schindledecker - The Western News
Lincoln County plays waiting game on federal storm funds
February 27, 2026
Jerusalem Demsas - (Substack) The Argument
Stop calling housing regulations “small-bore.”
February 26, 2026
Matthew Yglesias - (Substack) Slow Boring
I’m not convinced the “A.I. backlash” is real
February 23, 2026
Hannah Levintova and Dan Friedman - Mother Jones
What Was Bill Pulte’s Charity Really Funding With This Mystery Donation?
RDP on Twitter
Read it here: https://t.co/BOwmExrBZs
When @DylanGyauchL wrote about the AI industry's close ties to Abundance for The New Republic, The Argument's Jerusalem Demsas leapt to defend the movement and her "magazine" from a supposed attack. This defense is perhaps more revealing than anything we wrote. Full piece below https://t.co/BPrAQhWhk6
Read the full reporting from the Washington Post here: https://t.co/IeuKBTf45L
Our DOGE report highlighted the countless harms that DOGE's rampage caused, but we don't know the full story. To rebuild the government, Congress must conduct a forceful, large-scale investigation into DOGE's conduct that holds lawbreakers accountable. https://t.co/1pdS59DiFk
It's clear that this rampant mishandling of sensitive data was not merely an isolated accident—it was a core part of the DOGE ethos.
This is becoming a pattern: in January, two DOGE employees at the Social Security Administration were referred by the DOJ for Hatch Act violations after they intended to share Social Security data with a group seeking to "overturn election results." https://t.co/xrEiFllZHq