DOGE: From Meme to Government Erosion Machine

A record of DOGE's first year of destruction

Tracking the Trump administration's all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution

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DOGE Watch

Tracking the Trump administration's all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution

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Corruption Calendar

A Weekly Chronicle of the Trump Favor Machine

Documenting the Trump administration's pre-disaster recklessness and post-disaster cruelty

Ethics Rules To Restore Public Trust

Bloated Government? The Problem Is the Opposite

Enforcement: The Untapped Resource

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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.

Projects

The Agency Spotlight

The Agency Spotlight tracks appointments to leadership positions at thirty-nine independent federal agencies through the confirmation process and beyond.

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Hackwatch

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.

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Supreme 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.

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Our Blog

April 10, 2026 | Talking Points Memo

Xaver Clarke

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DOGE’s Ransacking of SSA Has Left Us All to Float in a Data Security Vacuum

Artificial intelligence and crypto are supercharging identity theft and financial fraud as the Trump administration is making sensitive personal data less secure.

April 10, 2026

Kenny Stancil

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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.

April 06, 2026

Dylan Gyauch-Lewis

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Don’t Bring Larry Summers Back

We don’t need the disgraced Treasury Secretary’s thoughts

April 06, 2026 | The Sling

Dylan Gyauch-Lewis

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The First Amendment Does Not Grant Carte Blanche to Social Media: A Reply to David French

Social media platforms should be held responsible for the legal consequences of design functions in the same way that other parties are held responsible for editorial decisions.

RDP in the News

March 25, 2026

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