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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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—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 MoreFebruary 03, 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.
January 30, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
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 30, 2026
RELEASE: Trump’s New Fed Chair Nominee Kevin Warsh Is a Hack with Ties to Would-Be Greenland Profiteer
Warsh’s record suggests commitment to class and personal self-interest, not a broader dedication to an intellectually consistent view of the public interest.
January 30, 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.
January 28, 2026
Matthew Yglesias - (Substack) Slow Boring
“Corporate power” doesn’t mean anything
January 27, 2026
Eric Galatas - The Wisconsin Independent
American Petroleum Institute targets pollution ‘superfund’ laws
January 24, 2026
Maurice T. Cunningham - The Boston Globe
Centrists are set to battle for the soul of the Democratic Party
January 23, 2026
Alex Trembath - (Substack) The Ecomodernist
Who Watches the Watchdogs?
January 22, 2026
Caroline Nagy - House Oversight Committee
Testimony of Caroline Nagy
January 20, 2026
Dave Levinthal - NOTUS
A Convicted Armed Robber’s Plan to Get Out of Jail: Hire a Trump Lobbyist
RDP on Twitter
In our report, DOGE: From Meme to Government Erosion Machine, we took a deep dive into the consequences of DOGE's run through government, including at the Dept of Education. This includes Title IX protections, DEI initiatives, sensitive data safety & more https://t.co/1pdS59DQuS https://t.co/fa6Vie8Gus
3,400 discrimination complaints were dismissed from March to June 2025, but gutting OCR means more than fewer remedies. Our own @ColdChrisFile1 has noted how attacks on OCR, per Project 2025's white nationalist agenda, risks re-segregating public schools. https://t.co/O3e9kg92Di
The figure comes from a Government Accountability Office report reexamining the financial impact of the layoffs. About half of OCR's 575 staff were placed on leave during DOGE's broader Reduction-in-Force, weakening enforcement of civil rights protections https://t.co/WT3q1643W8
Skyrocketing electricity bills. Automated health insurance denials. Algorithmic price-gouging. The AI "revolution" is here — and making your life more expensive. https://t.co/gW3tUq6fEb
Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement has officially taken effect. Follow the Trump administration's ongoing assault on the environment through our tracker. https://t.co/iglp3EiiP8