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.
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 MoreFebruary 23, 2026
Inconsistent Recusals Continue at Corrupt Supreme Court
On Monday the Supreme Court agreed to hear a petition from oil companies Suncor and ExxonMobil who want the Court to shut down the climate deception case being brought against the companies by Boulder County, San Miguel County, and the City of Boulder. This petition is one of the oil and gas industry’s many ongoing attempts to evade liability for concealing the harms of its product.
February 23, 2026
Memo Climate and EnvironmentDOGEElon MuskExecutive BranchFEMAGovernanceGovernment CapacityHousingTrump 2.0
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.
February 20, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Weeks 55-57: Internal Revenue Service, Wire Me $10 billion, Pronto.
Trump’s shakedown state continues to weaponize federal government policy in service of friends and corporations.
February 18, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Trump Already Decimated the EPA. It Wasn’t Enough for Big Business.
The repeal of the endangerment finding, supported by the Chamber of Commerce, is a final nail in the coffin for a debilitated EPA.
February 12, 2026
Matthew Yglesias - (Substack) Slow Boring
Americans think everyone is corrupt
February 12, 2026
Emily Kennard - NOTUS
Democrats Are Field-Testing New Ways to Talk About the Epstein Scandal
February 11, 2026
Luke Goldstein and Katya Schwenk - The Lever
Empty Warehouses, Secret Deals: Insiders Poised To Profit From Trump’s Deportation Boom
February 11, 2026
Real Clear Politics
RealClearPolitics Afternoon Edition
February 9, 2026
Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
‘One More Billionaire Front Group’: Centrist Dems Mocked Over New Initiative Led by Corporate Lobbyist
February 8, 2026
Kenneth P. Vogel, Lisa Friedman, and David A. Fahrenthold - The New York Times
For $1 Million, Donors to U.S.A. Birthday Group Offered Access to Trump
RDP on Twitter
AI companies, data centers, and other Big Tech firms stand to benefit greatly from the deregulatory Abundance Agenda. https://t.co/TMs1ylBZ3X
A true affordability agenda is not possible until corporate elites who have schemed against the American people are held accountable. https://t.co/dWK7F22aZO
Trump has set up his own organization to plaster MAGA-sanctioned messaging throughout America's semiquincentennial celebration. https://t.co/ZQze7TH0dH
The Trump administration is deploying artificial intelligence to analyze sensitive data about Americans, incorporating it into essential public services, and even replacing fired federal workers with AI. https://t.co/gT8gOcGFCc
Hakeem Jeffries and Democratic leadership are undermining the party's efforts to stand against Trump's corruption. https://t.co/BQOVvTp4cq
America cannot begin to heal itself until DOGE personnel are held accountable for their roles in destroying essential public services. Read more in our new report. https://t.co/1pdS59DiFk