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June 03, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Wreck-It Russ Risks Breaking the Public Health System
OMB Director Russell Vought is holding federal funds for essential programs like public health hostage in order to punish Trump’s political enemies, the consequences to people’s lives be damned.
May 26, 2026
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V for Vampire Vought's Vendetta
This report summarizes how OMB Director Russell Vought is weaponizing federal funding for education, food, health, transportation, and other life-affirming programs to punish and coerce Trump’s political enemies, hurting millions of Americans in the process.
May 19, 2026 | Talking Points Memo
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Democrats Shouldn’t Let Russell Vought Fly Under the Radar
Members of the opposition party need to start connecting the dots between the OMB director’s actions and their constituents’ preventable suffering.
May 15, 2026
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Poison and Plunder
From gutting clean air rules to waging a war no one asked for, the Trump administration is showing that human suffering is a core feature of this regime.
May 12, 2026
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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.
April 22, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
The Pro-Cancer Administration
Trump has taken us from War on Cancer to War on Cancer Patients
February 05, 2026
Making Measles Endemic Again
Outbreaks across the South are just the “cost of doing business” for Trump 2.0.
January 07, 2026
New Year, Same Trump: Making America Sick Again
Americans rang in 2025 with champagne. The Trump administration rang in a public health nightmare.
November 26, 2025
Thanksgiving Combo: Corruption Calendar and RDP Work Round-Up
This week’s newsletter recaps the Trump administration’s latest corrupt policymaking and our most notable publications over the past month.
October 30, 2025
Democrats Once Fought “Pro-Arsenic” Republicans—They Should Try It Again
Recent history reveals a better way to politicize public health.
October 24, 2025 | The American Prospect
Meet RFK’s Corporate Underlings
Several top officials in the Department of Health and Human Services worked for the very corporate interests their boss claims to oppose.
September 22, 2025
From Industry Watchdog to Industry Wish List
The MAHA Commission’s latest report reflect the very corporate cronyism that it was was supposed to root out
September 04, 2025
CDC in Chaos: Director Fired, Top Leaders Resign in Protest
HHS fired CDC Director Susan Monarez after she refused to implement vaccine policy changes directed by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
August 22, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week 31: The Crises Continue
We are almost through our first summer of what is sure to be a long and ruinous four years. This past week, while Trump tightened control of his invasion of Washington, D.C, gargantuan wildfires ravaged lands in Colorado and Florida. Over in Texas, state Republicans completed step one of their plot to distort the electoral map ahead of the upcoming midterm elections, sending the newly redrawn maps to the Texas State Senate. D.C. residents are far from the only victims of our ever growing police state, as Immigration and Customs Enforcement continues to kidnap and terrorize community members across the country.
July 23, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Trump Hands Another Victory To Cancer’s Profiteers
A Dow Chemicals facility that exploded in a ball of fire in Plaquemines, Louisiana in 2023, releasing tens of thousands of pounds of carcinogens. A leaky medical sterilization plant in a Los Angeles County neighborhood being sued by local residents suffering from breast, blood, and stomach cancers. A coal-fired power plant in Colorado whose emissions have been tied to dozens of premature deaths a year. What do all of these facilities have in common? They’re among the approximately one hundred facilities with cancer-causing emissions that President Trump has exempted from hazardous air pollution limits.