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.
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 MoreJune 11, 2026 | Public Citizen
MAGA 250!
$103M in Federal Contracts Flow to Trumpified “Freedom 250” Events as Trump and Political Allies Turn Anniversary Celebration into Corporate-Sponsored Vanity Cringefest
June 11, 2026
Tracker Climate and EnvironmentDOGEElon MuskExecutive BranchFEMAGovernanceGovernment CapacityHousingRussell VoughtTrump Watch
Map: Trump Has Often Delayed or Denied Disaster Aid
The Trump administration 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.
June 11, 2026 | Public Citizen
Trump’s MAGA 250: Administration Awards More than $100 Million in Federal Contracts to Politicized Network
The Trump administration has awarded nearly $103 million in federal contracts and grants for the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations to a network of politicized entities under the control of Trump administration officials and political allies, according to a new report released today by Public Citizen and the Revolving Door Project.
June 10, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
The Perils of Vought's Climate Purge
OMB Director Russell Vought is playing political games with people’s lives and homes as the climate crisis continues to wreak havoc on communities.
June 2, 2026
Brad Reed - Common Dreams
New El Niño Warning Compounded by Trump’s Attacks on Climate, Disaster Preparedness
May 30, 2026
Lindsey Cormack - (Substack) DCinbox Insights
Weaponize is a Republican Word
May 29, 2026
Kyle Saunders - (Substack) Sacred Cow BBQ
AIPolitics 18: The Political Cleavage Rotated and AI Has Bisected It
May 29, 2026
Victor Reklaitis - MarketWatch
The company behind the White House’s UFC event says rivals ‘would kill’ for the opportunity. Critics say that’s a problem.
May 28, 2026
Dave Vorland - Chamber of Progress
Democrats' Techlash Trap
May 26, 2026
Matthew Yglesias - (Substack) Slow Boring
I’m sick of “affordability”
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For more DOGE agency breakdowns, see our report DOGE: From Meme to Government Erosion Machine. https://t.co/1pdS59DiFk
See below for a PDF version of our breakdown ⬇️ https://t.co/sBUnkVb8YT
With Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX about to go public, we looked back at how he used DOGE to undermine NASA's funding and capacity. https://t.co/V9aYDpc6W0
RT @TheProspect: The progressive nonprofit Demand Progress has set up a new monitoring effort, called AI Money Watch, to follow one particu…
RT @demandprogress: Execs from companies like @OpenAI pumped millions into Leading the Future, a Super PAC that is trying to buy politician…
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