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October 07, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly

Hannah Story Brown

Newsletter Climate and EnvironmentEthics in GovernmentJudiciarySupreme Court

Supreme Court Season Kicks Off With Big Oil’s Big Ask

On Monday, the Supreme Court held oral arguments in the climate deception case Suncor v. Boulder, a case we’ve covered extensively given its outsized stakes, the oil industry’s ties to the Supreme Court bench, and the glaring conflicts of interest that have now disqualified longtime oil investor Justice Alito from participating in the case.

September 18, 2026

Xaver Clarke

Tracker Climate and EnvironmentCriminal JusticeEconomic PolicyEducationExecutive BranchHealthImmigrationRussell VoughtTrump Watch

Trump’s War on Public Data

Trump’s antagonistic relationship with facts is well documented. His most egregious attacks on reality aren’t just rhetorical. They threaten physical safety and American democracy. They target the ways we define what we know about the country and ourselves. Trump’s assault on public data is not a side project, it’s a core feature of his authoritarian approach to governance. By hollowing out federal statistics, limiting information gathering, and redacting inconvenient reports, the Trump administration is warping reality to suit its political narrative. The goal isn’t just to obscure the effects of the president’s policies, it’s to prevent the public from seeing them at all.

July 01, 2026

Toni Aguilar Rosenthal

Press Release Climate and EnvironmentEthics in GovernmentExecutive Branch

Draining National Parks to Fill the Reflecting Pool: The Trump Administration Is Redirecting Millions From National Treasures To DC Vanity Projects 

WASHINGTON — Today the Revolving Door Project released a report examining the National Park Service’s distribution of awards out of its Recreational Fee account so far in 2025-2026 as compared to 2023-2024. 

Using publicly accessible databases, found a startling 1673.23 percent increase in spending out of the rec fee account to fund projects in D.C., while spending to the nation’s top-ten most visited fee-collecting National Parks dropped by 75.52 percent. 

And, so far during 2025-2026 we found that D.C.-based contracting spending is far outpacing spending at the nation’s top 10-most visited fee-collecting parks AND our top 10-most visited non-fee collecting parks combined.