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.
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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.
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 04, 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 24, 2026
94.1 KPFA
The KPFA Evening News (Saturday) – January 24, 2026
January 23, 2026
Alex Trembath - (Substack) The Ecomodernist
Who Watches the Watchdogs?
January 22, 2026
Economics for the People- 90.1 KKFI Kansas City
Political Economy of Voting Behavior, Insurance Markets
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If the Senate wants to know about the competitive impact of an $83 billion merger, they should ask antitrust experts and affected parties to talk about how it will impact consumers and workers. These execs are not neutral witnesses to these questions. https://t.co/q0fbI525BJ
But it should be done in the context of real congressional investigations, not as a corporate PR or partisan hackery. https://t.co/liOW3eWvRk
To be clear, getting testimony from corporate executives is an extremely important part of congressional oversight. CEOs should be made to testify before Congress far more often!
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