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
Trump Watch
Tracking the Trump administration's all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution
Trump 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.
Projects
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 MoreJune 02, 2026
Blog Post Climate and EnvironmentDOGEElon MuskExecutive BranchFEMAGovernanceGovernment CapacityHousingRussell VoughtTrump 2.0
How Trump Undermined Our Hurricane Readiness and Response Capacity
The White House’s reactionary policy choices are leaving our society ill-equipped to plan for, withstand, and bounce back from worsening extreme weather, including hurricanes.
June 02, 2026
Tracker Climate and EnvironmentDOGEElon MuskExecutive BranchFEMAGovernanceGovernment CapacityHousingRussell VoughtTrump 2.0
TRACKER: Trump's Disastrous Disaster Policy
We are tracking how the Trump administration’s callous policy choices, before and after bouts of extreme weather, exacerbate avoidable suffering and death.
June 01, 2026
Press Release Climate and EnvironmentDOGEElon MuskExecutive BranchFEMAGovernanceGovernment CapacityHousingRussell VoughtTrump 2.0
RELEASE: Trump Has Left the United States Grossly Ill-Prepared for Hurricane Season
The policy storm before (and after) the physical storm must not be ignored.
May 29, 2026
Tracker Climate and EnvironmentDOGEElon MuskExecutive BranchFEMAGovernanceGovernment CapacityHousingRussell VoughtTrump 2.0
Map: Trump Has Often Delayed or Denied Disaster Aid
The Trump administration 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.
May 30, 2026
Lindsey Cormack - (Substack) DCinbox Insights
Weaponize is a Republican Word
May 29, 2026
Kyle Saunders - (Substack) Sacred Cow BBQ
AIPolitics 18: The Political Cleavage Rotated and AI Has Bisected It
May 29, 2026
Victor Reklaitis - MarketWatch
The company behind the White House’s UFC event says rivals ‘would kill’ for the opportunity. Critics say that’s a problem.
May 28, 2026
Dave Vorland - Chamber of Progress
Democrats' Techlash Trap
May 26, 2026
Matthew Yglesias - (Substack) Slow Boring
I’m sick of “affordability”
May 22, 2026
Jonah Valdez - The Intercept
Corporate Interests Paid for Haley Stevens’s Trip to Portugal — and Her Campaign Ads
RDP on Twitter
Trump has joined the War on Cancer — on the side of cancer. https://t.co/ZgerzJsqjF
This is the true story of an ex-reality TV star picked by corporate lobbyists to go on a taped cross-country road trip. Find out what happens when one transportation secretary stops being polite and starts getting real corrupt. https://t.co/RfVwSR4gfj
The next Democratic president should consider who they want staffing their administration: those who will serve in government with one eye on future consulting gigs, or those for whom policy commitments come first. https://t.co/CZzV55tFwl
Third Way’s only consistent belief: moral clarity only matters when it can be a bludgeon against the left. https://t.co/fXzur7wFQ3
It's time for Democrats to make Russell Vought as infamous as his DOGE predecessor Elon Musk. Read more from our Julian Scoffield in Common Dreams. https://t.co/mULRCV58Z9
Learn more about members of the "Epstein Class" — like billionaire Reid Hoffman — on our new site https://t.co/WD5iYoIFeQ.