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.
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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.
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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.
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 MoreJuly 09, 2026
AI Villains and The Trump Admin: Greg Brockman
Greg Brockman is the current President of OpenAI—a tech firm he co-founded in 2015 with Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Ilya Sutskever.
July 09, 2026
AI Villains and the Trump Administration: Chris Lehane
Chris Lehane is OpenAI’s Chief Government Affairs Officer.
July 09, 2026
AI Villains and the Trump Administration: David Sacks
David Sacks, a venture capitalist with extensive AI and crypto investments, has been steering Trump’s AI policy to the benefit of industry.
July 09, 2026
AI Villains and the Trump Administration: Elon Musk
Musk is the founder and CEO of xAI, CEO of Tesla, and Chairman of X Corp.
July 7, 2026
Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
Big Oil Takeover ‘Now Complete,’ Watchdog Warns as Exxon Lawyer Joins Trump DOJ
July 6, 2026
Andrew Christie - Sierra Club
What Price, Abundance?
July 6, 2026
Aaron Regunberg - Boston Review
Why Climate Politics Can’t Wait
July 3, 2026
Amy Green - Inside Climate News
As America Celebrates 250th, Murkiness Surrounds Trump-Backed Planning Fund
July 3, 2026
Dave Levinthal - NOTUS
Big Lobbying Spenders Are Going All Out at the Great American State Fair
July 3, 2026
Brett Heinz - The American Prospect
Who Is Running America’s 250th Anniversary?
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Trump mega-donor and techno-fascist Marc Andreessen sits on the president's tech advisory council and stands to benefit handsomely from Trump's AI policy: his venture capital firm Andreessen-Horowitz is invested in over 100 AI companies, including OpenAI and xAI.
Chris Lehane, OpenAI's head political mind, has led the company’s efforts to kill state resistance to White House AI policy. He also helped create the pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future, which is spending millions in elections nationwide.
OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman donated $1 million to Trump's inaugural fund. Now he’s scored massive Pentagon deals to make ChatGPT available for military purposes and advised Trump on his disastrous data center push.
Musk: Trump mega-donor and the public face of DOGE. He spent his time in government slashing the federal workforce and pushing AI into federal agencies with devastating consequences. Even after retiring from DOGE, he lobbies the president to minimize regulation of his companies.
Larry Ellison, Oracle co-founder and longtime Trump ally, sits on the president's tech advisory board and gained a major stake in TikTok after its forced sale. Ellison wants his company to power an AI-powered surveillance state to keep Americans on their “best behavior.”