DOGE: From Meme to Government Erosion Machine

A record of DOGE's first year of destruction

Tracking the Trump administration's all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution

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DOGE Watch

Tracking the Trump administration's all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution

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Corruption Calendar

A Weekly Chronicle of the Trump Favor Machine

Documenting the Trump administration's pre-disaster recklessness and post-disaster cruelty

Ethics Rules To Restore Public Trust

Bloated Government? The Problem Is the Opposite

Enforcement: The Untapped Resource

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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

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

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.

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March 04, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly

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Department of Global War and Warming

Even before we had Trump as Commander in Chief committing unconstitutional strikes on the leaders of foreign nations, and Pete Hegseth as Secretary of War ordering apparent war crimes in the Caribbean, we wrote about the military-industrial complex as a “disaster multiplier” in our era of climate change and interlocking crises.

March 04, 2026

Kenny Stancil

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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.

March 03, 2026

Xaver Clarke

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Personal Information at Risk

The United States federal government knows a lot about you. If you’ve ever applied for federal student aid, the Department of Education has records of your income and assets. The Social Security Administration begins collecting information from the moment your parents apply for your Social Security number at birth, adds new data every time Social Security taxes are deducted from your paychecks, and continues to monitor you until the day you die.

February 27, 2026

Julian Scoffield

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