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2026
October 2026
- Oct8SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump's Justice Department Takes Jan. 6 Witness Cassidy Hutchinson to a Grand Jury
- Oct8ModerateAbuse of PowerHegseth Says the First Military Firing Squad Since World War II Will Be Public, and the Pentagon Plans to Livestream It
- Oct8ModerateAbuse of PowerHuckabee's Top Aide Blocked Embassy Reports Critical of Israel, Including One on Killings of Americans, NYT Reports
- Oct8ModerateICE & Immigration EnforcementICE Has Held Children in Hotels Where Lawyers Could Not Find Them, Despite a Court Order to Stop
- Oct8SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementAn ICE Officer Fired Seven Rounds Into a Car on a New York Street With a 5-Year-Old in the Back Seat
- Oct8ConcerningCorruption & ConflictsTrump Gives National Science and Technology Medals to Six Tech Leaders Whose Companies His Portfolio Traded in August
- Oct8ModerateAbuse of PowerVance Bars Microsoft and Seven Other Firms From Sponsoring Green Cards, Calling H-1B Workers 'Indentured Servants'
- Oct7SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawICE Records Show Investigators Pulled Tens of Millions of Voter Records and Weighed Undercover Agents in a Hunt for Noncitizen Voters
- Oct7ModerateICE & Immigration EnforcementICE Quietly Starts a 45-Day California Sweep Weeks Before the Midterms, and Officers Are Told to 'Go After Anybody'
- Oct7ModerateAbuse of PowerTrump Says He Expected the Democrat He Pardoned to Switch Parties, and Calls Defeating Henry Cuellar 'Payback'
- Oct6ModerateAbuse of PowerAn FBI Video Named Senate Nominee Abdul El-Sayed as a Failed 'Progressive Democrat,' Drawing a Hatch Act Complaint
- Oct6ModerateAbuse of PowerPentagon Bars Sen. Chris Murphy From Al Udeid and Refuses Him a War Briefing, Citing a Hegseth Travel Order
- Oct6ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Bars Gov. Wes Moore From Speaking at a Maryland Submarine Plant Announcement Moore Helped Land
- Oct6ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Says Chicago Crime Is 'Getting Worse by the Day' as the City Heads for Fewer Homicides Than Last Year's 60-Year Low
- Oct5SeriousAbuse of PowerFBI Whistleblower Says Trump Saw a TikTok of Immigration Protesters and Had Patel Order an Investigation
- Oct5ModerateICE & Immigration EnforcementSt. Louis Archdiocese Sues Trump's DHS After an ICE Contract Jail Bars Priests From Giving Detainees Communion
- Oct5ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Uses an Anti-Transgender Slur Three Times Against South Carolina Senate Nominee Annie Andrews
- Oct5ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Tells a Nebraska Rally That Iran 'Can Take Out a City,' Then Says 'Let Them Take Out Los Angeles. Let Them Take Out San Diego'
- Oct5ConcerningAbuse of PowerTrump Says The New York Times and Other Outlets 'Should Be Arrested' for Reporting Empty Seats at His Ohio Rally
- Oct3ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Posts What He Says Is Sen. Tom Cotton's Cellphone Number and Tells Arkansans to Call Him Over Daylight Saving Time
- Oct3SeriousCorruption & ConflictsPutin Raised a Lukoil Asset Sale With Witkoff and Kushner, and the Leading Bid Includes a Trump Donor and Groups That Did Business With Them
- Oct3ConcerningAbuse of PowerAt an Ohio Rally a Day After Approving a Disaster Declaration, Trump Says He Is 'Not Going to Help' Democrat Amy Acton if She Wins, Then Adds 'Probably'
- Oct2ModerateDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Taps a Never-Used Medicare Fund to Send $90 to 20 Million Seniors, With a Letter From Him Due Weeks Before the Midterms
- Oct2SeriousAbuse of PowerICE Agents in Maine Flagged Observers as 'Professional Protestors' in an Investigative Database, a Court Filing Shows
- Oct2SevereAbuse of PowerTrump's Fuel Blockade of Cuba, in Place Since January, Now Has the Coast Guard Boarding Tankers Bound for the Island
- Oct2SeriousAbuse of PowerAn Inspector General Finds Trump's Gutting of Voice of America Skipped Key Steps, and Taxpayers Are Paying About $1.6 Million a Week for Staff on Leave
- Oct1ConcerningRewriting HistoryTrump Now Says His 'Four to Six Weeks' Iran Forecast Was Only About the Nuclear Threat, but He and His Press Secretary Applied It to the Whole War
- Oct1ConcerningRewriting HistoryTrump's Justice Department Invited a Former Nixon Aide to Argue That the Watergate Prosecutors Were the Real Wrongdoers
- Oct1ModerateDemocracy & Rule of LawThe Pentagon Quietly Removed the Checkbox for Americans Born Abroad From the Overseas Voter Form, Weeks Before the Midterms
- Oct1AbsurdThe Absurd MomentsTrump Tells an Oklahoma Rally the Iranian Nuclear Sites He Bombed Were Also 'Drug Factories'
- Oct1ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyVance Tells Florida Senate Nominee Angie Nixon to 'Get the Hell Out' and Says She Doesn't Belong in America if She Is a Socialist
September 2026
- Sep30SeriousAbuse of PowerBlanche's Justice Department Files a Misconduct Complaint Against Nearly Every Federal Judge in Minnesota for Talking to The New York Times
- Sep30ModerateAbuse of PowerHegseth Creates a Religious Affairs Office That Reports Only to Him and Can Fund Faith-Based Homeschooling for Military Families
- Sep30ModerateAbuse of PowerHegseth Orders a 20 Percent Cut in General and Admiral Positions in the Middle of the Iran War, Calling It 'Accountability'
- Sep30ModerateCorruption & ConflictsHegseth Puts Musk and Anduril's Palmer Luckey, Whose Companies Hold Billions in Pentagon Contracts, in Charge of a Study of Future Weapons Needs
- Sep30ModerateDemocracy & Rule of LawHegseth Tells 600 Troops That Some War Reporting Is 'Treason, Actually' and Repeats His 'No Fatties, No Trannies' Line
- Sep30ModerateICE & Immigration EnforcementICE Jails a Hasidic Teacher and Moves to Deport Him to Israel Over a 2023 Protest Where He Was Never Convicted of a Crime
- Sep30SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementICE Posted Its Own Reviews Finding Failed Medical Care Before Detainee Deaths, Then Pulled Them Offline
- Sep30ModerateAbuse of PowerThe State Department Moves $52 Million in Ukraine-War Military Aid to Four Latin American Governments Despite a Congressional Hold
- Sep30ModerateDemocracy & Rule of LawFive Weeks Before the Midterms, Trump Sends $500 Checks and a Signed Letter to 950,000 Obamacare Enrollees, Mostly in Battleground States
- Sep30SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Tariffed Brazil Over Bolsonaro's Prosecution and Hosted His Son. Brazil's Spies Now Say the U.S. Is Interfering in Its Election
- Sep30ConcerningRacism & XenophobiaTrump Tells Hispanic Heritage Month Guests 'Only a Hispanic Could Survive' a Fall From His Ballroom Site
- Sep30ModerateAbuse of PowerAfter the Fed's Watchdog Finds No Crime, Trump Says Powell Should Be Sued 'for Either Corruption or Incompetence'
- Sep29AbsurdThe Absurd MomentsTrump Signs an Order Renaming AI 'Super Intelligence,' Then Posts an AI Pledge Signed 'President of the Unites States'
- Sep29ConcerningCorruption & ConflictsTrump Holds as Much as $1 Billion in Municipal Bonds, Including Debt Tied to Coal Plants His Proclamation Exempted From Pollution Limits
- Sep29ConcerningThe Absurd MomentsTrump's New AI Government Website Said Biden Won in 2020, Then Stopped Answering 'Political Questions' While He Was Still Speaking
- Sep29ModerateAbuse of PowerHegseth Orders the Military Academies to Stop Granting Tenure to Civilian Professors, Saying Academic Norms 'Dilute Our Focus on Lethality'
- Sep29SeriousAbuse of PowerJack Smith Tells Senators He 'Will Not Be Silenced' by Trump's Threats to Prosecute Him, and That He Had Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
- Sep29ConcerningDemocracy & Rule of LawNavarro Warns Canada It Will 'Pay Even More Dearly' if It Interferes in the Midterms, and Tells Its Lobbyists to 'Get the Hell Out'
- Sep29ConcerningNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementAsked Why North Korea Can Have Nuclear Weapons but Iran Cannot, Trump Says Kim Jong Un 'Likes Me'
- Sep28ModerateAbuse of PowerA Grand Canyon Tour Company Sues Over Trump's $100 Surcharge on Foreign Visitors to National Parks, Saying Only Congress Can Set It
- Sep28ModeratePublic HealthTrump Cuts Fuel Economy Standards From About 49 mpg to 35, and His Own Agency Projects Americans Will Burn 4.6% More Gasoline
- Sep28ConcerningDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Says He Regrets Putting Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett on the Court Because 'They Voted Against Me Too Often'
- Sep28SeriousAbuse of PowerThe Administration Asks the Supreme Court to Let It Taper Transgender Prisoners Off Hormone Therapy While the Case Goes On
- Sep28ModerateAbuse of PowerAsked Whether He Would Pardon Members of His Own Administration, Trump Tells TIME 'Yeah, Sure I'd Do That'
- Sep28ModerateCorruption & ConflictsThe U.S. Quits Europe's Anti-Corruption Watchdog, Joining Only Russia and Belarus in Leaving It
- Sep27ModeratePublic HealthA Trump Customs Rule Taking Effect October 22 Could Cut Off Mail-Order Prescriptions From Canada for Millions of Americans
- Sep27ModerateCharacter & DishonestyTrump Denies Asking Xi to Buy U.S. Weapons, as His Ambassador Said He Did, Then Says 'Maybe It's a Good Idea'
- Sep26SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Rejects Iran's Offer to Reopen Hormuz in Seven Days, and the WSJ Reports He Expects the Bombing to Resume After the Midterms
- Sep26ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyAfter Rep. Salazar Said His Immigration Enforcement Had 'Gone Too Far,' Trump Reposted Calls to Replace Her
- Sep25SeriousAbuse of PowerWith Five Days Left in the Fiscal Year, Trump Moves to Cancel $810 Million Congress Approved, a Maneuver GAO Calls Illegal
- Sep25SeriousAbuse of PowerFBI Demotes Two Counterterrorism Leaders Over Their Handling of Harassing Calls to Stephen Miller's Wife
- Sep25ConcerningICE & Immigration EnforcementFor the First Time, the IRS's Draft Tax Return Asks Every Filer Whether They Are a Citizen or Authorized to Work in the U.S.
- Sep25SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementA Trump-Appointed Judge Holds the Administration in Contempt for Deporting an Asylum Seeker to El Salvador Twice
- Sep25ModerateWomen & Sexual MisconductTrump's Education Department Formally Restores Its First-Term Title IX Rules After Declining to Defend Biden's in Court
- Sep25ConcerningPublic HealthAt the UN, Trump's CDC Director Says the U.S. Cannot Support a Pandemic Preparedness Declaration, Citing 'Divisive Ideologies'
- Sep24SeriousCorruption & ConflictsSenate Democrats Say Oil Executives Took the $1 Billion Ask at Mar-a-Lago and Got Hundreds of Billions Back
- Sep24ModerateAbuse of PowerThe 'Broadview Six' Prosecutor Retires Under Protest, Saying Trump's U.S. Attorney in Chicago Pushed the Felony Charges
- Sep24SeriousRacism & XenophobiaTrump's Justice Department Says It Has Closed More Than 50 School Desegregation Cases, Some Open Since the 1960s
- Sep24SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementGAO Finds ICE Wasted Millions Rushing to Expand Detention, Including $20 Million on Warehouses It Now Plans to Sell
- Sep24SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementJudge Finds ICE Held Detainees in 'Inhumane and Unconstitutional' Conditions at 26 Federal Plaza to 'Inflict Punishment'
- Sep24ModerateCorruption & ConflictsRFK Jr. Gave His Gardasil Fee Stake to His Old Law Firm, Not His Son, Two Days Before His Confirmation Vote
- Sep24SeriousAbuse of PowerAbout 50 U.S. Troops Join Police Raids Inside Ecuador, Which Its Interior Minister Calls a First
- Sep23SeriousCorruption & ConflictsPro-Trump TV Ads 'Paid for by the U.S. Government' Are Running on Customs and Border Protection Money, One a 2024 Campaign Spot
- Sep23SeriousAbuse of PowerAn Iowa Judge Threw Out Trump's Suit Against the Des Moines Register and Its Pollster, Saying It Fails Even If the Poll Was Faked
- Sep23SeriousCorruption & ConflictsRubio Invited Putin to the G20, Which Trump Has Scheduled at His Own Golf Resort
- Sep23SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Told the Ballroom Architect 'I Am the Code,' and the Architect Quit the Week Demolition Began
- Sep22SeriousCorruption & ConflictsHHS Told Appropriators It Moved $12 Million From the Office of Minority Health to Cover Kennedy's Security Costs
- Sep22SeriousPublic HealthCMS Canceled 315,000 Obamacare Enrollments Covering 760,000 People, Then Announced It Three Weeks Later
- Sep22SeriousRacism & XenophobiaNext Year's Refugee Ceiling Is 17,500 People, and the Notice to Congress Says They Will Primarily Be White South Africans
- Sep22SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Calls the January Venezuela Operation 'a War' and the Oil 'Spoils.' His Own Officials Had Told the UN and Congress It Was Law Enforcement.
- Sep22SeriousCharacter & DishonestyAt the UN, Trump Asks Whether to 'Annihilate the Islamic Republic' and 'Drive Them Into Hell,' and Iran's Delegation Walks Out
- Sep22SeriousCorruption & ConflictsA Collins Donor Handed the FBI a Road Map to Bribery in Congress. The Probe Died After Patel Purged the Corruption Squad.
- Sep22SeriousAbuse of PowerEight Sailors in the Lincoln Strike Group Attempted Suicide During a Deployment Trump Called 'Not Nearly Long Enough'
- Sep21ConcerningDemocracy & Rule of LawDays After Banning Three News Outlets, the White House Launches 'Trump TV,' a 24/7 Stream of Its Own Past Clips
- Sep21SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementWhistleblowers Say an ICE Office Rated for About 50 People Held 342, Sleeping in the Garage Entrance
- Sep21ModerateAbuse of PowerTrump Touts Cheap Belarusian Potash to Undercut Canada After Lifting Sanctions on It, and Lukashenko Says There Is None to Sell
- Sep21ConcerningDemocracy & Rule of LawDOJ Plans to Send 1,000 Election Monitors in November, 'the Biggest DOJ Election Observer Effort in History'
- Sep21SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawThe Supreme Court Blocks the Trump-Backed Missouri Map a Third Time, Days After an Appeals Court Ordered It Used
- Sep21ModerateICE & Immigration EnforcementAn ICE Sweep Through Southwest Kansas Meatpacking Towns Disrupts Beef Processing, Ranchers Say, as Prices Sit Near Records
- Sep21SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementA Trump-Appointed Judge Pauses ICE's Warrantless Construction-Site Raids in Southern Alabama After Agents Twice Detained a U.S. Citizen at Work
- Sep21ModerateCharacter & DishonestyTrump's Approval Falls to 32%, His Lowest in Reuters/Ipsos Polling Across Both Terms and Below Biden's Worst
- Sep21ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Has Invoked Biden at Least 890 Times This Year, About Three Times a Day, a Reuters Review Finds
- Sep21SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump's Wildlife Service Can Trade SpaceX 715 Acres of a Texas Refuge, Most of It on a Civil War Battlefield, a Judge Rules
- Sep21SevereICE & Immigration EnforcementThe State Department's Refugee Bureau Now Runs an 'Office of Remigration' That Has Pledged $410 Million to Get 31 Countries to Take Other Nations' Deportees
- Sep21ModerateCorruption & ConflictsTreasury Let a Firm Run by a Trump Ballroom Donor Buy an Armenian Mine From a Sanctioned Russian Bank
- Sep21SeriousAbuse of PowerA UN Expert Finds 'Reasonable Grounds to Believe' the Boat Strikes Were Crimes Against Humanity of Murder
- Sep20SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementICE Agents Pinned an Evanston Man to the Street Until His Jaw Swelled, Then Drove Off When They Realized He Was a U.S. Citizen
- Sep20ConcerningAbuse of PowerTrump Says His Washington Arch Will Become a 'Military Complex' With Drones, Snipers and Ammunition, and the Pentagon Has Nothing to Add
- Sep20SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementA Man Died in a Burning Car After Fleeing an ICE Stop in Grand Rapids, and the Local Police Say They Cannot Get Answers From the Agents
- Sep20SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementAn ICE Agent Shot a Food Delivery Driver in Austin. The Agency Investigating Is a Branch of ICE, and Prosecutors Have Charged the Man Who Was Shot.
- Sep20ModerateCorruption & ConflictsTrump and His Sons Hold Stakes Across the AI Boom While He Refuses to Regulate It, a Washington Post Analysis Finds
- Sep20SeriousCharacter & DishonestyTrump on Iran: 'My Question Is, If and When Do I Blow the Entire Nation Up?'
- Sep19SevereICE & Immigration EnforcementThe Machinery Built to Protect Migrant Children Is Being Turned Toward Deporting Them
- Sep19ModerateCorruption & ConflictsThe First Released Text of Trump's Drug-Pricing Deals Shows a Tariff Shield to 2029, a Hidden Revenue Share, and a Promise to Keep It All From the Public
- Sep18SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Extends the $100,000 H-1B Policy for Another Year, Three Months After a Judge Ruled It Unlawful and Blocked It
- Sep18ModerateCharacter & DishonestyTrump Claimed 'Permanent Control' Over Greenland. The Signed Agreement Reaffirms Danish Sovereignty and Greenland's Right to Self-Determination.
- Sep18SevereDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Bans CNN, MS NOW and Politico From the White House, and the Next Morning the Secret Service Took Their Reporters' Badges
- Sep18SeriousAbuse of PowerThe Justice Department Used Fraudulent-Billing Claims and Grand Jury Subpoenas for Patient Records to End Gender Care for Minors at Two Hospital Systems
- Sep18ModerateCorruption & ConflictsKennedy Disclosed More Than $250,000 in Free Travel From a Campaign Donor and $4 Million in Book Advances
- Sep18SeriousCorruption & ConflictsA Nonprofit Tied to RFK Jr. Sold Companies a $300,000 Tier That Came With a Private Dinner With Him and the Medicare Chief
- Sep18SevereICE & Immigration EnforcementThe United States Is Paying $7.5 Million to Send Deportees to a Hotel Owned by a Dictator's Family, Where Lawyers Say Two Men Were Bound, Hooded and Beaten
- Sep18SeriousPublic HealthTrump Drafted an Order Giving His Budget Chief a Veto Over NIH Grants, Then Backed Off After Susan Collins Objected
- Sep17SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawRepublicans and Democrats Alike Walked Out of a Legally Required Pentagon Briefing Saying They Never Got It, and Its Author Would Not Rule Out Guard Troops at Polling Places
- Sep17SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawCarr's FCC Cleared Saudi, Emirati and Qatari Funds to Take Nearly Half of Paramount's Equity, in a Staff Ruling With No Commission Vote
- Sep17SeriousAbuse of PowerA Judge Voids the Education Department's Anti-DEI Grant Rules as Arbitrary, Restoring 109 Canceled Grants
- Sep17SeriousCharacter & DishonestyTrump Says He Has a 'Big Decision' on Iran: 'Do I Want to Go In and Annihilate Them or Do I Not?'
- Sep17SeriousPublic HealthRFK Jr. Tells the Anti-Vaccine Group He Used to Run That It Has 'a Strong and Steadfast Friend at the White House,' and Says HHS Is Looking at Chemtrails
- Sep17SeriousAbuse of PowerThe Administration Clears a Possible $24.3 Billion Sale of 48 F-35s to Saudi Arabia, Over Warnings About Chinese Access to the Technology
- Sep17SeriousCorruption & ConflictsThe Park Service Quietly Signed a Contract to Begin Trump's Takeover of a Public Golf Course on Federal Parkland, at a Cost Estimated Up to $49 Million
- Sep17SeriousPublic HealthKennedy Refills the Panel That Decides Which Preventive Care Insurers Must Cover for Free, With Five Specialists, One Non-Physician and No Published Conflict Policy
- Sep17SeriousAbuse of PowerHegseth Has Briefed Congress Seven Times in Six Months of War. Rumsfeld Did It More Than Twenty Times in the Same Span of Iraq.
- Sep17SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawThe Redistricting War Trump Started Has Moved 34.8 Million Americans Into Different House Districts, About One in Ten
- Sep17SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump Allies Are Bidding for Cuban Assets That His Own Sanctions Shook Loose
- Sep17SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump's Attorney General Is Campaigning for Republican Candidates, Undoing a Norm That Dates to Watergate
- Sep17SevereAbuse of PowerUN Fact-Finding Mission Finds Reasonable Grounds to Believe the U.S. Committed War Crimes in Strikes on an Iranian School and Sports Center
- Sep17ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyThe Pentagon Put Jake and Logan Paul at Its Briefing Room Podium Weeks After Jake Paul Said Citizens Should Have 'RPGs Potentially, Anti-Helicopter' Weapons
- Sep16SeriousRacism & XenophobiaTrump Invokes the 1988 Willie Horton Ad at a North Carolina Rally and Says He Is Copying It: 'Just Like I'm Putting This On'
- Sep16ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Calls North Carolina Cities 'Blood-Soaked Killing Fields' Hours After His Own White House and Attorney General Said Crime There Was Falling
- Sep16ConcerningAbuse of PowerTrump Tells a North Carolina Crowd He Will Not Send More Helene Money if His Senate Candidate Loses, Then Says He Is 'Only Kidding'
- Sep16ModerateAbuse of PowerTrump Threatens 'Very Serious Tariffs' on Europe if Its Offer to Make Canada an Associate Member Is a 'Hostile Act'
- Sep16ModerateAbuse of PowerAfter His Own Fed Chair Raises Rates, Trump Demands 1 Percent 'or Less,' Attacks a 'Hostile' Board and Says He Told Warsh How to Vote
- Sep16ModerateAbuse of PowerTrump's $2.8 Billion Package of 2,000-Pound Bombs for Israel, Largely Paid With U.S. Military Aid, Draws a Hold From the Top House Foreign Affairs Democrat
- Sep16ModeratePublic HealthTrump Revokes the Executive Order That Coordinated Chesapeake Bay Cleanup and Tells the EPA to Push States to Repeal Stormwater Fees
- Sep16ModerateAbuse of PowerTrump's Commerce Department Conditions Broadband Grants on States Not Enforcing Net Neutrality, and California Weighs Signing Away Its Law
- Sep16SeriousPublic HealthThe CDC Has Not Opened Covid Vaccine Ordering for the Program That Covers About Half of American Children
- Sep16ModerateDemocracy & Rule of LawFor the First Time Since 2002, International Observers Say They Have Not Been Invited to Watch a U.S. Federal Election
- Sep16ModerateCorruption & ConflictsThe IRS's Estimate of Unpaid Taxes Is a Year Overdue, as a Watchdog Finds Audit Revenue Fell 35 Percent After Staff Cuts
- Sep16DisputedCorruption & ConflictsTucker Carlson Claims 'the Order to Cover It Up Came From Trump' on the Epstein Files. The White House Does Not Deny the Conversation.
- Sep15SeriousCharacter & DishonestyThe House Votes a Third Time to End the Iran War, 220-204, as Seven Republicans Now Break With Trump
- Sep15SeriousNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementA Judge Blocks Trump's Name From the Kennedy Center Again; the Board Closes the Building for Two Years and Trump Says It Could Be 'Ripped Down'
- Sep15ModerateCharacter & DishonestyTrump Calls the Butler Assassination Attempt 'a Democrat Plot' Hours Before His FBI Director Testifies There Is No Evidence the Shooter Talked to Anyone but His Parents
- Sep15ConcerningCharacter & Dishonesty'They Give You a List, Guys': Blanche Reveals Preselected Reporters at a White House Briefing, a Practice Trump Attacked Biden For
- Sep15SeriousAbuse of PowerRepublican Thomas Massie Forces a Vote on Impeaching Hegseth Over the Iran War, and Speaker Johnson Sends the House Home Before It Happens
- Sep15SevereAbuse of PowerCongressional Budget Office Estimates the Iran War Cost the Pentagon $38.1 Billion Through August and Used Up to Two-Thirds of U.S. Missile Interceptors
- Sep15SeriousCorruption & ConflictsGAO Finds the Government Paid $9.5 Billion in Salaries for Administrative Leave in 2025, Mostly to Workers Taking the Deferred Resignation Offer
- Sep15ModerateRacism & XenophobiaRubio Announces Visa Restrictions on South Africans Tied to Land and Race Policies, as the U.S. Ambassador Calls It 'Only the First Step'
- Sep15SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawPatel Won't Commit to Keeping FBI Agents Away From the Polls: 'I Don't Know That We Can't Legally Do It'
- Sep15SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementICE Records Show at Least 18 Miscarriages in Custody in 2025, and the Agency Admits It Has No Miscarriage Data Since October
- Sep15SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementICE Quietly Stopped Listing Detainees With Final Removal Orders in Its Public Locator, Leaving Lawyers Unable to Find Their Clients
- Sep14SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawThe Supreme Court Keeps the Postal Service Ballot Rule Out of the Midterms, and Trump Calls the Justices 'a Shell of Their Original Selves'
- Sep14SeriousAbuse of PowerBrennan Is Subpoenaed to a Florida Grand Jury in the 'Grand Conspiracy' Probe by a Trump Loyalist Who Resigned the Next Day
- Sep14SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawA DHS Whistleblower Says Immigration Officers Were Told to Pose as Voters on State Websites in a Hunt for Noncitizen Voting
- Sep14SeriousAbuse of Power22 States and New York City Sue to Block a DHS Rule Letting Officers Weigh Any Means-Tested Benefits Against Green Card Applicants
- Sep14SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump Says the Super PAC's Billion Dollars Is 'My Money That I Control.' A Watchdog Says That Is the Violation.
- Sep14ModerateAbuse of PowerA Judge Orders 48 Hours' Notice Before Work on Trump's Arch, and the Federal Preservation Review Ends Without Agreement
- Sep14SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementDHS Watchdog Finds 'Alligator Alcatraz' Confined 79 ICE Detainees in Small Metal Enclosures Used as 'Calming Areas'
- Sep14SeverePublic HealthEPA Repeals Most of the Biden-Era Carbon Limits on Coal and Gas Power Plants and Proposes Ending the Rest
- Sep14SeriousPublic HealthA Fish and Wildlife Service Memo Says Killing an Endangered Animal Is Only Illegal if the Animal Was the Target
- Sep14SevereAbuse of PowerPentagon Watchdog Finds the Iran War Left 'Strategic Inventory Shortfalls' in Munitions as Trump Boasts of Record Weapons Production
- Sep14SeriousCorruption & ConflictsA Russian Oligarch Close to Putin Secretly Paid for Donald Trump Jr.'s Bahamas Wedding Celebrations
- Sep14SeriousPublic HealthThe Trump Administration's Repeal of the Endangered Species Act Rule Counting Habitat Destruction as 'Harm' Takes Effect
- Sep14ConcerningNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump Says the Only Guardrail AI Needs Is a 'STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT' and Tells Critics to 'BEWARE'
- Sep13SeriousCorruption & ConflictsPardon Brokers Touting Ties to Trump's Orbit Pitch a $300,000 Pardon on a 60 Minutes Hidden Camera
- Sep13SeriousNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementKennedy Center Warns of Collapse Within Weeks, and Says Trump Will Lead a Rescue Only With 'Appropriate Recognition'
- Sep13ModerateAbuse of PowerTrump Says the U.S. Could 'Stay and Keep the Oil' in Iran, 'Like Venezuela'
- Sep12ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Breaks Decades of U.S. Neutrality on Northern Ireland: 'I'd Love to See It Unified'
- Sep11SeriousAbuse of PowerA Judge Rules Trump's Plan to Cut FEMA in Half Was Illegal, and Faults Officials for Deleting Signal Messages
- Sep11SeriousAbuse of PowerA Judge Blocks the Question Asking Civil Service Applicants How They Would Advance Trump's Executive Orders
- Sep11SeriousRacism & XenophobiaTrump's Homeland Security Secretary Says Rep. Ilhan Omar 'Married Her Brother' and Could Be Deported, Asserting as Fact a Claim a Decade of Reporting Has Not Supported
- Sep11ConcerningRewriting HistoryTrump Reposts His January 6 'We Love You' Video on 9/11, Then Says 'I Don't Know What She's Talking About' When Asked Why
- Sep11SeriousAbuse of PowerInterior Blocks 130 Already-Funded National Park Projects, Saying the Partners Work Against Administration Priorities
- Sep11SeriousAbuse of PowerThe Justice Department Activates a Dormant 1996 Terrorism Court for the First Time Ever, Deporting a Legal Permanent Resident Who Was Never Charged With a Crime
- Sep11ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Appears to Doze at the Pentagon's 25th Anniversary 9/11 Ceremony as the Names of the Dead Are Read
- Sep10ConcerningDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump's Convention Pledge to 'the Greatest President in the History of the United States' Included 'Cheat Like Hell'
- Sep10ConcerningRewriting HistoryRFK Jr. Tells the GOP Convention Democrats Ran 'the Biggest Child Trafficking Operation in World History'
- Sep10ConcerningDemocracy & Rule of LawA Reporter Says She and Three Epstein Survivors Were Removed From Trump's Convention Shortly After Asking About the Files
- Sep10ModerateAbuse of PowerFOIA Texts Show Patel Pushing the FBI's Press Office to Fight an X Account That Insulted Him
- Sep10AbsurdThe Absurd MomentsTrump Says His Convention Speech 'Beat the NFL.' It Drew About 3 Million TV Viewers Against the Opener's 25 Million.
- Sep10ModerateCorruption & ConflictsTrump's EPA Showed Bayer a Menu of Restrictions for Its Weedkiller, Asked Which It Wanted, and Wrote the Company's Choices Into the Approval
- Sep9ModerateDemocracy & Rule of LawKimmel Moves His James Talarico Interview Off Broadcast TV, Saying Trump's FCC 'Has Threatened Me, Threatened Our Show, Threatened Our Network'
- Sep9SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Promises Every Adult Citizen a $5,000 'Trump Dividend' if Republicans Keep the House and Senate
- Sep9SeriousAbuse of PowerActing Navy Secretary Says Iran 'Blew the Hell Out of Bahrain' as the Navy Weighs the Future of Its Middle East Headquarters
- Sep9ConcerningPublic HealthEPA's New Drinking Water Study Will Screen for Abortion Pills After a Push From Anti-Abortion Groups
- Sep9ModerateAbuse of PowerTrump Says the Iran War 'Will End Immediately After Our Election,' Accusing Tehran of Holding Out for 'Dumb, Weak Democrats'
- Sep9SevereDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump's Census Bureau Proposes Counting Only Citizens and Green Card Holders for Apportionment in 2030, and Dropping the Race Question Asked Since 1790
- Sep8SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump Gave $45,000 in Cash to Natalie Harp and Two Other White House Aides, Which Ethics Lawyers Say Looks Like an Illegal Salary Top-Up
- Sep8ModerateDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Cheers the German Far Right's Record State Win: 'THEY ARE ON THE RISE' and 'MGGA!!!'
- Sep8ConcerningRewriting HistoryTrump Says Two Firemen Lifted Him Up and Ran With Him at Ground Zero, and He Was Miles Away That Day
- Sep8ModerateAbuse of PowerTrump Bans Canadian Whisky, Wine, Beer and Whey Under a 1930 Law After Canada Hits Back at His Tariffs
- Sep7SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Orders "No More Selling Bombardier in the United States," and Republicans From Bombardier States Push Back
- Sep6ConcerningNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump Spends Ten Hours Posting AI Images, Renaming New Mexico, Claiming the Moon and Huge Stock Gains
- Sep5ConcerningCharacter & Dishonesty41% of Canadians Now Call the United States an Enemy, and the Pollster Says Trump Is the Reason
- Sep4SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementICE Stakes Out a Frederick, Maryland Neighborhood for 40 Hours, Then Uses Batons on Protesters and Leaves With No Arrest
- Sep4ModeratePublic HealthTrump Signs an Order Aimed at Stripping Endangered Species Protection From Gray Wolves and the 317 Mexican Wolves Left in the Wild
- Sep4SeriousAbuse of PowerDiesel Hits Record After Record During the Iran War. Trump Calls It 'a Very Inexpensive Price to Pay' and Weighs an Export Ban
- Sep4SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementImmigration Hearings Are Being Moved to Unannounced Rooms, Including a FEMA Conference Room, With Days of Notice or None
- Sep4ConcerningNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementAsked Whether He Is Building Monuments to Himself, Trump Says 'That's True. Nobody Will Do It Once I'm Gone.'
- Sep4ModerateAbuse of PowerThe Administration Notifies Congress of a Possible $5 Billion Sale of 10,000 Bombs to Saudi Arabia During the Iran War
- Sep3ModerateCorruption & ConflictsA Second Epstein Files Bill Reaches 106 Signatures as Massie Accuses the Justice Department of Unnecessary Redactions
- Sep3ModerateDemocracy & Rule of LawGeorgia Audited Its Own Voter Rolls and Found Them 99.9 Percent Accurate, With the Errors Traced to the DMV Rather Than Fraud
- Sep3SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementICE's Own Solicitation Describes Vans That Would Act as a 'Mobile Detention Facility' Until They Are Full
- Sep2SeriousAbuse of PowerA Judge Blocks Trump's Second Birthright Citizenship Order, Saying the Supreme Court Already Decided the Question
- Sep2SeriousPublic HealthTwenty-Two States Sue to Stop a Rule Cutting Off Medicaid and CHIP Payment for Transgender Adolescents
- Sep2SevereAbuse of PowerA US Missile Hit a Fisherman's Home During His Daughter's Wedding in Southern Iran, Killing Four Including a Four-Year-Old
- Sep1SeriousAbuse of PowerDraft State Department Guidance Would Make Parents Prove Their Own Citizenship to Get a Passport for a Child Born in the United States
- Sep1SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawA Postal Service Whistleblower Says the New Ballot Portal Is Untested and That One Unmatched Ballot Would Send an Entire Batch Back to the State
- Sep1SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawDHS Launched a Nine-State Voter Fraud Surge With Field Interviews as Early Voting Opened
August 2026
- Aug31SevereAbuse of PowerThe Army Secretary Resigned Mid-War Over Hegseth's Purge, Leaving the Largest Service With No Senate-Confirmed Leader, Civilian or Uniformed
- Aug31ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyDrug Prices Really Did Fall the Most Since 1963. Trump's Claim That Americans Now Pay 'the Lowest Price Anywhere in the World' Is Still False
- Aug31SeriousAbuse of PowerOver the Chief Justice's Dissent, the Supreme Court Lets Trump Keep Building His Ballroom Without Deciding Whether It Is Legal
- Aug30SevereAbuse of PowerThree Combatant Commanders and the Navy's Top Admiral Formally Objected to Extending the Iran War. Trump Called It 'a Relatively Little War'
- Aug30SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Says Kristen Welker Will Be Reported to the FCC 'for Rebuke or Punishment' for Calling His Endorsements 'Mixed'
- Aug29SeriousAbuse of PowerAfter a Judge Twice Refused a Warrant, DHS Used a Customs Law to Get a Journalist's Phone Records Without One
- Aug28SevereAbuse of PowerTrump Announces 'the Biggest Oil Deal in World History': Majority US Control of Venezuelan Reserves, Granted by the Government He Installed
- Aug28ConcerningPublic HealthTrump Says He Will Let Ranchers 'Process Their Own Food.' The Cattle Industry Answered That 'Food Safety Is NOT Red Tape'
- Aug28SeriousAbuse of PowerPatel's FBI Quietly Dropped Theft, Paying for Sex and Animal Cruelty From Its List of Automatic Disqualifiers as Agents Left in Droves
- Aug28SeriousAbuse of PowerThe Administration Is Pressuring the Park Service to Hand a Strip of Yosemite to a Private Developer Who Wants a Road to His Resort Land
- Aug27SeriousAbuse of PowerJudge Rules Hegseth Illegally Blacklisted an AI Company to Punish It for Criticizing the Government
- Aug27SevereICE & Immigration EnforcementDeportation Flights to Haiti Go Weekly, Carrying US-Born Children to a Country the FAA Won't Let Airlines Fly Into
- Aug27SeriousCorruption & Conflicts$900 Million From a Federal Wind Settlement Is Going to a Firm Run by a Trump Donor Who Bought a Mansion Near Mar-a-Lago
- Aug27SeriousPublic HealthRFK Jr. Told Senators His Samoa Trip Had 'Nothing to Do With Vaccines.' His Own Letter Asking to Study Samoa's MMR Vaccine Says Otherwise
- Aug27SevereDemocracy & Rule of LawThe Pentagon Fired the Top Three Staff at Stars and Stripes a Day After It Reported on Conditions Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln
- Aug27ConcerningRewriting HistoryTrump Renames Lake Ontario 'Lake America' and Orders Every Federal Reference to the Old Name Deleted
- Aug27SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementICE Buys 6,000 Electric Shock Gloves in a No-Bid Deal, for Use on Detainees Who Are 'Actively or Passively Resisting'
- Aug26SeriousCorruption & ConflictsA Federal Judge Rules the Administration's Farmworker Wage Cut Unlawful, After It Dropped California Pay From $19.97 to $16.90 an Hour
- Aug26SeverePublic HealthA Coroner Ruled One Pennsylvania Baby Died of Measles, and the CDC Deleted Both Deaths From Its Count
- Aug26ConcerningDemocracy & Rule of LawWyoming's Republican Governor Asks His Attorney General to Look Into DOJ Election Monitors He Calls 'Aggressive' and 'Irregular'
- Aug26SevereICE & Immigration EnforcementICE Arrested More Than 800 People a Day With No Criminal Record in July, the First Month of the Term Where Civil Violations Were the Majority
- Aug26SeriousCorruption & ConflictsRaskin Opens an Investigation Into 1789 Capital, Asking Whether Donald Trump Jr.'s Firm Made Bets With 'Almost Clairvoyant Accuracy' Using Administration Access
- Aug26SeriousAbuse of PowerThe U.S. Designated an Italian Privacy-Tech Collective a Global Terrorist Group. It Is Shutting Down.
- Aug24ModerateAbuse of PowerThe MS-13 'Mastermind' the Administration Paraded in 2025 Has Now Deadlocked Two Juries, Amid a String of Losses in Pirro's D.C. Office
- Aug24SevereDemocracy & Rule of LawThe Supreme Court Lifts One of Two Injunctions on Trump's Mail Voting Order, Ruling 6-3 That the States Sued Too Soon Rather Than That the Order Is Lawful
- Aug24SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawA Pentagon Spokesperson Confirms U.S. Central Command Keeps a Secret Directory of Blacklisted Journalists
- Aug24SeriousAbuse of PowerAn ICE Memo Moves to Restrict International Students' Internships, and Universities Start Pausing Work Authorizations
- Aug22SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementBorder Patrol Detains the Father of a Sailor Who Had Been Deployed Nine Months on the USS Abraham Lincoln, as He Waited for His Son to Come Home
- Aug22ModerateCorruption & ConflictsThe Rose Garden Statues Came From Harlan Crow, After the White House Credited Them to 'Generous Private American Patriots'
- Aug22SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump Made More Than 1,000 Securities Trades in a Single Month, Worth Up to $263 Million, While Setting the Policies That Move Those Markets
- Aug21ConcerningDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Tells Supporters He Will Be Impeached if Republicans Lose the Midterms, and That They Will 'Lose Everything'
- Aug21ConcerningRewriting HistoryTrump Tells a Rally That Hospitals Are Performing 'Reverse Surgery' on Transgender Patients 'At My Order'
- Aug21SeriousAbuse of PowerA Judge Voids Rubio's Visa Ban on 75 Countries, Calling It 'Patently Unlawful' for Rejecting Applicants Solely on Nationality
- Aug21SeverePublic HealthSNAP Enrollment Falls to a 17-Year Low, With About 5 Million People Off the Program Including Roughly 1.5 Million Children
- Aug20ModerateNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementThe Navy Is Weighing Stripping Pearl Harbor Hero Doris Miller's Name From an Aircraft Carrier and Putting Trump's on It Instead
- Aug20SeriousCorruption & ConflictsThe Bureau of Land Management Has More Than Doubled Wild Horse Sales, and a Times Investigation Traced Some of Them to Slaughterhouses
- Aug20SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementA Homeland Security Watchdog Finds Fentanyl Investigations Fell 24 Percent and Seizures 39 Percent as Agents Were Moved to Immigration Work
- Aug19SeriousPublic HealthA Federal Judge Found RFK's HHS Justified Killing Teen Pregnancy Grants With Studies That Appear Not to Exist, Calling Them 'a Hallmark of AI-Generated Citations'
- Aug18SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawThe Census Bureau Report Claiming 24,000 Noncitizens Voted in 2020 Came From a Team Tied to a Trump-Aligned Think Tank
- Aug18SeriousAbuse of PowerThe EEOC Agreed Never to Investigate 20,000 Employers Over Gender-Identity Discrimination, in Perpetuity
- Aug18SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Has Sanctioned the International Criminal Court's President, Its Prosecutor and Its Judges, and Is Reported to Be Preparing to Sanction the Court Itself
- Aug17ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyHegseth Uses an Anti-Transgender Slur at an Iowa Fundraiser: 'At the Department of War, We Do Training, Not Trannies'
- Aug17SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawThe White House Tells CNN's Kristen Holmes Her Children Will Be 'Sickened and Embarrassed' by Her, After She Asked Trump a Question He Disliked
- Aug16SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump Frees a Ponzi Schemer Less Than Halfway Through a 33-Year Sentence, Cancelling the Restitution She Owed Her Victims
- Aug14SeriousThe Absurd MomentsTrump Says He Will Declare the Strait of Hormuz a U.S. Territory, Then Posts a Map Labeling It One
- Aug14SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump Put a 100 Percent Tariff on Imported Drones, and the Stock of a Company His Son Advises Jumped 24 Percent
- Aug14ModerateCorruption & ConflictsThe FCC Abolishes the National Gigabit Broadband Goal, Saying It Is Unfair to Slower Technologies
- Aug14SeriousNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump Orders the Navy to Rip Out Its Electromagnetic Catapults and Go Back to Steam, Including on a Carrier Already Being Built for the New System
- Aug13SeriousAbuse of PowerUndercover DHS Agents Infiltrated Minneapolis Church and Union Meetings in 'Operation Puppet Master,' Court Documents Show
- Aug12SeriousAbuse of PowerBulldozers Enter Big Bend National Park for Border Barrier Work, in What a Former Superintendent Calls the Least Active Crossing Area in the Country
- Aug11SevereCorruption & ConflictsTreasury Ends the Shell-Company Ownership Registry and Orders the Records Americans Already Filed to Be Deleted
- Aug11ConcerningDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Won't Rule Out Declaring a 'National Security Emergency for Elections' to Impose Voting Rules Without Congress
- Aug10SeriousAbuse of PowerDays After Blanche Is Confirmed, His DOJ Extends Executive Privilege to Trump's Private Advisers, Shielding Them From Congress
- Aug10SeriousRacism & XenophobiaTrump Calls Democratic Candidates 'Jihadists' Being Elected 'All Over the Place,' Offering No Evidence
- Aug10SeriousAbuse of PowerThe DOJ Abandons Its Appeal to Seize Transgender Minors' Medical Records From a Pittsburgh Children's Hospital
- Aug10SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementThe State Department Says It Has Revoked More Than 175,000 Visas Since Trump Took Office
- Aug10SeriousPublic HealthTrump Signs an Executive Order to Cut the Childhood Vaccine Schedule From 18 Diseases to 11 and Split Up the MMR Shot
- Aug10ModerateAbuse of PowerNOAA Ends Its Coordination of the 20-Year-Old Arctic Report Card, the Government's Flagship Annual Report on the Arctic
- Aug7SeriousRewriting HistoryTrump's Border Wall Is Set to Cut Through the Site of the 1918 Porvenir Massacre in West Texas
- Aug7SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementICE Deported Mexicans Who Had Won Protection Against Torture, Revoking It Without a Judge on 'Diplomatic Assurances'
- Aug7ModerateAbuse of PowerTrump Nominates Carr's Aide for the Empty FCC Seat, Moving Toward a 3-1 Republican Majority While Leaving the Democratic Seat Unfilled
- Aug7SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementICE Will Promptly Release Body-Camera Video of Its Shootings Only When It Decides Doing So Is in the Agency's 'Best Interests'
- Aug6SeriousAbuse of PowerThe FCC Votes to Scrap the 39% National TV Ownership Cap Set by Congress, Clearing the Way for More Media Consolidation
- Aug6SeriousPublic HealthThe Trump Administration Proposes Gutting Head Start's Early-Education Standards, Leaving Safety and Staffing Rules to the States
- Aug6SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Vows 'Long Term Jail Sentences' for 'Treasonous Leakers' After Reports the U.S. Is Running Low on Missiles in the Iran War
- Aug5ConcerningWomen & Sexual MisconductTrump's New CDC Director Called 'Abortion Surveillance' a Critical Component of the Agency's Work and Pledged to Help Hawley Get More State Data
- Aug5ModerateAbuse of PowerThe White House Declassifies 2017 FBI Memos Showing a Counterintelligence Probe of Whether Trump Fired Comey at Russia's Behest
- Aug5SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementICE Has Detained More Than 50 Spouses and Parents of Active-Duty U.S. Troops, Reversing a Bipartisan Protection
- Aug4SeriousAbuse of PowerA Divided Full D.C. Circuit Rules the Trump EPA Likely Broke the Law by Clawing Back the $20 Billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund
- Aug4AbsurdThe Absurd MomentsTrump Posts an AI Image of Himself as a Four-Star General Wearing Medals He Never Earned, Outranking Patton and MacArthur
- Aug3SeriousPublic HealthTransgender Federal Workers Sue Over the Trump Administration's End to Insurance Coverage for Gender-Affirming Care
- Aug3SeriousAbuse of PowerICE Is Watching Its Online Critics Around the Clock and Subpoenaing Social Media Companies to Unmask Them
- Aug2SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementThe ACLU Files 54 Claims Across 17 States Alleging a Nationwide Pattern of ICE Abuse, the First Step Toward Suing the Government
- Aug1SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Demands Pirro Revive the Reflecting Pool Case Against an Ex-Olympian, and a Judge Bars It for Good
July 2026
- Jul31SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump Media Sells Traders Faster Access to Trump's Market-Moving Truth Social Posts for Up to $100,000 a Month, and Raskin Opens an Inquiry
- Jul31ModerateCorruption & ConflictsCapital One Says It Closed the Trump Organization's Accounts for Anti-Money-Laundering Reasons
- Jul30SeriousPublic HealthA Judge Lets the Medicaid Work-Requirement Rule Stand, Under Which a Terminal Diagnosis Alone Does Not Exempt You
- Jul30ModerateAbuse of PowerA Judge Lets a Privacy Lawsuit Over DOGE's Access to Treasury and OPM Data Proceed
- Jul30SeriousWomen & Sexual MisconductTrump's AG Nominee Tells a Prayer Call the DOJ Is Working So 'the Dobbs Decision Becomes Permanent in Every Single State,' Signaling a Mail-Order Pill Crackdown
- Jul30SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementRoughly 1.5 to 1.8 Million People Who Came to the U.S. Legally Have Had Their Status Revoked Under Trump
- Jul30SevereAbuse of PowerA U.S. 2,000-Pound Bomb Hit a Family's Home on Iran's Qeshm Island, Killing a Toddler and His Parents, With No Military Target Nearby
- Jul29ModerateAbuse of PowerTrump Moves to Take His Dismissed and Sanctioned RICO Suit Against Hillary Clinton to the Supreme Court
- Jul29ConcerningDemocracy & Rule of LawMusk Revives America PAC With a Planned $100 Million-Plus Turnout Operation for Republicans in the 2026 Midterms
- Jul29SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementICE's Own Paperwork Confirms It Force-Fed a Hunger-Striking Detainee, a First for This Administration
- Jul29ModerateCorruption & ConflictsThe Interior Department Seeks $10 Million More From Congress to Cover Park Service Costs for Trump's Freedom 250 Events
- Jul29ModerateAbuse of PowerA Judge Throws Out FBI Director Patel's $10 Million Defamation Suit Against a Blogger Who Insulted Him Online
- Jul29ModeratePublic HealthThe Administration Is Ending a Medicare Subsidy That Holds Down Drug-Plan Premiums for 25 Million Seniors
- Jul29SeriousAbuse of PowerA Homeland Security Agent Testifies That the Immigration Show of Force Outside a Newsom Press Conference Was 'Purely Political'
- Jul29SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Overruled His Own Agencies, Which Had Approved Disaster Aid, to Deny It to Four States That Voted Against Him
- Jul28SeriousAbuse of PowerThe DHS General Counsel Posts a 'Worst of the Worst' List Naming Four Federal Judges as Threats to the Judiciary Reach a Record
- Jul28SevereICE & Immigration EnforcementThe Agency That Cares for Migrant Children Fed ICE 460,000 Leads, and More Than 12,000 People Were Arrested, Reuters Found
- Jul28SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump's Justice Department Asks the Supreme Court to Swap In the U.S. as Defendant, a Move That Would Erase His $83.3 Million Carroll Verdict
- Jul27SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementDHS Declared Protected Status Over for 350,000 Haitians While Lawyers Said a Court Order Still Blocked It
- Jul27ModerateAbuse of PowerThe Official Who Built DHS's Immigration Transparency Quits, Citing a 'War on Immigrants,' a 'War on Facts,' and 'Brazen Corruption'
- Jul27SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementAn Overland, Missouri Couple Is Found Killed in Guatemala Months After ICE Deported the Husband
- Jul26ModerateAbuse of PowerAfter a Trump Order, West Point Made Professors Get Approval Before Speaking or Publishing. One Refused and Sued.
- Jul24SeriousAbuse of PowerDHS Scanned the Faces of People Watching ICE, Then Revoked Their Global Entry, a Lawsuit Says
- Jul24ModerateAbuse of PowerThe Justice Department Charges a U.S. Citizen for Wiping His Own Phone at the Border, an Apparent First
- Jul24SeriousRewriting HistoryTrump's Second Smithsonian Order Says Its Leaders 'Cannot Be Trusted' and Puts Park Service Signs Outside the History Museum
- Jul23ModerateAbuse of PowerAfter Courts Ruled Against Two of His Tariff Schemes, Trump Taxes 60 Economies Over Forced Labor Under Yet Another Law
- Jul23ConcerningAbuse of PowerThe Navy Puts a Senior Official on Leave After a James O'Keefe Hidden Camera Caught Him Criticizing Trump
- Jul23SeriousPublic HealthThe CDC Website Now Says 'Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism' Is 'Not an Evidence-Based Claim'
- Jul23SeriousCorruption & ConflictsIn Court, the Administration Admits It Canceled 284 Clean-Energy Grants Based Solely on Whether a State Voted for Trump
- Jul23SeriousAbuse of PowerWhile Bombing Iran Over Enrichment, Trump Signs a Saudi Nuclear Deal That Leaves the Door Open to It
- Jul23SeriousAbuse of PowerMore Than Two Dozen States Sue Over Trump's Demand That They Change Their Elections and Help ICE to Get Disaster Aid
- Jul22SeriousCorruption & ConflictsThe Administration Has Made About $13 Billion Selling Venezuela's Oil. Only $300 Million Can Be Publicly Traced.
- Jul21SeriousCorruption & ConflictsHouse Investigators Say Epstein Files Show Him Working for Saudi, Kuwaiti, Russian, and Israeli Interests to Influence Trump, Without Ever Registering
- Jul21SeriousAbuse of PowerRFK Jr. and Oz Freeze $1 Billion in Medicare and Medicaid Money to California and Minnesota, Citing Fraud They Offer No Evidence Of
- Jul21SeriousAbuse of PowerFederal Agencies Admit in Court Stipulations That They Used Keyword Searches to Pick University of California Grants for Termination
- Jul21SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump Becomes the First President to Pardon Corporations, Wiping Out About $200 Million in Penalties
- Jul21SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump's Brokers Began Trading Private Prison Stock Ten Days Into His Term, as Those Companies Profited From His Detention Policy
- Jul20SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Slaps 50 Percent Tariffs on Most Canadian Goods Over Alcohol, Dairy, and Auto Disputes
- Jul20SeriousAbuse of PowerThe Justice Department Is Running the Largest Campaign to Strip Americans of Their Citizenship in Modern History
- Jul20ConcerningAbuse of PowerPatel Plans an FSB-Hosted Trip to Moscow, the First Known Visit to Russia by an FBI Director Since 2013
- Jul20SeriousAbuse of PowerA State Department Report Names Hasan Piker, Ilhan Omar's Daughter, and the DSA as Part of a 'Cuba-Backed' Network
- Jul20SeriousCorruption & ConflictsA $1 Million MAGA Donor's Lettuce Was Tied to the Diarrhea Outbreak. Its Executives Visited the White House, and the FDA's Warning Became a 'False Positive'
- Jul20ModerateAbuse of PowerA Trump-Appointed Judge Throws Out the Justice Department's Entire Case Against Minnesota's Sanctuary Laws
- Jul19SevereAbuse of PowerAfter Three Deadly Encounters in a Week, ICE Agents Are Told the FBI Will No Longer Investigate Their Confrontations
- Jul17ConcerningAbuse of PowerDiesel From Trump's Freedom 250 Equipment Leaked Into the National Mall's Irrigation Cisterns, and Interior Paid $1.8 Million for a No-Bid Cleanup
- Jul17SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawThe USPS Mail-Ballot Rule Is Blocked for November, and the Post Office Issued It as a Final Rule Anyway
- Jul16SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Demands ABC and NBC Lose Their Broadcast Licenses for Declining to Air His Election Speech
- Jul16SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawDHS Claims 250,000 Noncitizens Are Registered to Vote in Four States. Fact-Checkers and the States Say the Number Is Wildly Inflated.
- Jul16ModerateAbuse of PowerA Trump-Appointed Judge Catches the Justice Department Citing a Court Case That Does Not Exist
- Jul16SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawAt a 67-Nation State Department Gathering, Miller Calls Leftists a 'Cancer' to 'Root Out' as Rubio Vows to 'Dismantle' Their Networks
- Jul16ConcerningNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementSchiff Finds Another $153,000 in Taxpayer Contracts for Giant Trump Banners on Federal Buildings, Calling Them Illegal Propaganda
- Jul16ModerateCorruption & ConflictsTrump's Teleprompter Operator Made Over $100,000 Betting on What the President Would Say Before He Said It
- Jul16ConcerningCorruption & ConflictsVance Sought to Use Marine Two to Fly His Son Across Washington for a Golf Lesson
- Jul15SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementAfter Two Wrong-Man Killings, Homan Warns of 'More Bloodshed' Unless Democrats 'Shut Their Mouth' About ICE
- Jul15SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump's Pick for Intelligence Chief Refuses to Say Biden Won 2020, Offering Only That He Was 'Certified'
- Jul15SeriousCorruption & ConflictsThe EPA Moves to End Public Disclosure of Data Center Air Pollution, Declines to Set National Standards, and Exempts Their Power Plants From Acid Rain Limits
- Jul15SeriousCorruption & ConflictsThe FCC Commissioner Who Cast the Deciding Vote for Paramount's Merger Took $12,000 in Gala Tickets From Paramount; the Chair Sat in Its $125,000 Skybox
- Jul15ConcerningPublic HealthHegseth Orders Annual Testosterone Screenings for Every Service Member Over 30, With Replacement Therapy on Offer
- Jul15ModerateAbuse of PowerA Gay FBI Veteran Patel Fired Over a Pride Flag Asks a Judge to Let Him Dig Into the Bureau's Records
- Jul15ConcerningICE & Immigration EnforcementTrump Proposes Stripping Commercial Licenses From Undocumented Truckers and Handing Them to Veterans Automatically
- Jul15ConcerningThe Absurd MomentsTrump Tells the Army War College That Companies Couldn't Get CHIPS Act Money Unless They Were Run by Transgender Executives
- Jul15SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Fired Seattle's Court-Appointed U.S. Attorney 54 Minutes After He Was Sworn In, by Email, While He Stood in the Courthouse Lobby
- Jul15SevereICE & Immigration EnforcementICE Suspended Vehicle Stops After Its Second Wrong-Man Killing. Trump Ordered Them Resumed: 'We CANNOT Give Up... THE TRAFFIC STOP!'
- Jul14SeriousCorruption & ConflictsEpstein Survivors Film a PSA Against Blanche's Attorney General Nomination as the NYC Bar Calls Him 'Unfit'
- Jul14SevereAbuse of PowerThe Pentagon Extends Trump's National Guard Deployment in Washington Until Inauguration Day 2029, With Nearly 5,000 Troops at $3 Million a Day
- Jul14SeriousAbuse of PowerMahmoud Khalil Sues Rubio, Miller, and Blanche Under the 1871 KKK Act, Alleging a Public-Private Conspiracy Against Pro-Palestinian Activists
- Jul14SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawWisconsin's Bipartisan Elections Commission Finds Musk Likely Broke the Bribery Law With His $1 Million Voter Checks and Refers Him to Prosecutors
- Jul14ModerateAbuse of PowerWyden Files a Hatch Act Complaint After RFK Jr. Personally Called Iowa Libertarians to Push Them Out of Congressional Races
- Jul14ModerateDemocracy & Rule of LawSenate Democrats Block the $1.15 Trillion Defense Bill Over Trump's Unauthorized Iran War
- Jul13SeriousPublic HealthThe CDC Cut Foodborne-Illness Monitoring From Eight Pathogens to Two, a Year Before a Cyclospora Outbreak Spread Faster Than It Could Track
- Jul13SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump's Primetime Address Claims China and the 'Deep State' Rigged 2020. His Own Declassified Documents Show Russia Was the One Helping Him
- Jul13SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Cuts Bears Ears and Grand Staircase by About 90 Percent, Roughly 3 Million Acres, and Reopens Them to Mining
- Jul13SevereICE & Immigration EnforcementICE Agents in Maine Fatally Shot a 26-Year-Old Colombian Worker, the Second 'Wrong Man' Killing in a Week
- Jul12SeriousAbuse of PowerSurvivors of the Deadliest Attack on U.S. Troops in Trump's Iran War Say Commanders Ignored Warnings Before an Iranian Drone Killed Six
- Jul12ConcerningDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Amplifies a Video Demanding That 'Hardcore Communist Bastards' Like Mamdani Be Criminalized and Deported
- Jul11SeriousAbuse of PowerThe FBI Fired Two Analysts Who Refused to Work on Patel's Investigation of Georgia's 2020 Election
- Jul11ConcerningAbuse of PowerTrump Says Maggie Haberman 'Will Pay the Price' After She Called His Health a 'Black Box'
- Jul10SeriousAbuse of PowerThe White House Had Patel Run a Leak Investigation Into the Times's Air Force One Reporting, Then Four Reporters Were Subpoenaed
- Jul10ConcerningCorruption & ConflictsState Republican Parties Are Charging Up to $20,000 for 'Honorary Delegate' Seats at Trump's Midterm Convention, Which Nominates No One
- Jul10SeriousCorruption & ConflictsThe Interior Department Is Paying Energy Companies Billions to Cancel Offshore Wind Projects and Invest in Fossil Fuels Instead
- Jul9SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Denies $227 Million in Blizzard Aid to Four Blue States Two Days After Approving Aid for Six Red Ones
- Jul9ConcerningCorruption & ConflictsThe White House Touts 25 'Freedom Fuel' Stations Selling Gas at $3.47, but No One Will Say Who Is Funding the Below-Cost Prices
- Jul9SeriousCorruption & ConflictsThe GAO Cleared DOGE of Raiding Labor Board Systems, Then Buried in a Footnote That the Records Proving It Had Been Deleted
- Jul9SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementMexico Will Ask U.S. Prosecutors to Open a Criminal Investigation Into the Deaths of 17 Mexicans in Trump's Immigration Crackdown
- Jul9SeriousCorruption & ConflictsNew Mexico's Attorney General Says Trump's Justice Department Is Withholding the Records His Epstein Ranch Prosecution Would Be Built On
- Jul9ConcerningNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementPalm Beach's Airport Becomes 'President Donald J. Trump International,' Trading Its PBI Code for DJT in a $5.5 Million Rebrand
- Jul9SeriousCorruption & ConflictsThe Secret Service Told Trump Not to Fly His Qatari-Gifted Air Force One Out of a War Zone, Because It Lacks the Old Plane's Defenses
- Jul9ModerateNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTo Build His 250-Foot Arch, Trump's Interior Department Argues a 1910 Law Capping Washington's Buildings Never Applied to Federal Ones
- Jul9SevereDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Fires the Last Members of the Bipartisan Election Assistance Commission, Leaving It Unable to Act Before the Midterms
- Jul8ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Tells a Reporter She Will Die With Him if Iran Hits Air Force One: 'If I Go, You Go'
- Jul8ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Says the 'Islamic Republic of Japan' Fired 111 Missiles at a U.S. Aircraft Carrier
- Jul8SeriousRacism & XenophobiaThe Navy Will Move to Discharge Sailors Whose Shaving Condition Does Not Clear in a Year, a Disorder Affecting an Estimated 60 Percent of Black Men
- Jul8SevereAbuse of PowerTrump Declares His Iran Ceasefire 'Over,' Calling Tehran's Leaders 'Scum' as the War Reignites
- Jul8ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Secretly Switched Planes in Turkey Amid an Iranian Assassination Threat, Leaving Staff and Press on a Decoy Air Force One
- Jul7ConcerningCorruption & ConflictsTrump Has Pocketed $1.5 Million Licensing the 'God Bless the USA' Bible, Which Is Printed in China
- Jul7ModerateAbuse of PowerA Judge Throws Out Trump Media's $3.8 Billion Defamation Suit Against The Washington Post
- Jul7ConcerningRacism & XenophobiaTrump Shares a Right-Wing Account's Video of St. Paul Kindergartners Wearing Hijabs, and Ms. Rachel Answers the Children Directly
- Jul7SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementICE Agents Shot and Killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Houston Father of Three Driving to a Construction Job After 35 Years in the Country
- Jul7ModerateDemocracy & Rule of LawThe Justice Department Warned Election Officials in All 50 States They Could Be Prosecuted, Then Told Utah's Republican Election Chief She Is 'Under Investigation'
- Jul6SeriousAbuse of PowerICE Agents Tracked Down a Man Who Called Its Chief a Nazi in an Email, Staking Out His Hotel and Leaving a 'Warning Notice'
- Jul6SeriousRacism & XenophobiaA Federal Judge Blocks Trump's Freeze on Green Cards and Work Permits, Ruling It Reflects a Preference for White Immigrants
- Jul6ConcerningRacism & XenophobiaThe Treasury Abandons the Harriet Tubman $20 Bill While Preparing a $250 Bill With Trump's Face
- Jul4SeriousAbuse of PowerDOGE Quietly Shut Down on July 4, Leaving an $11 Billion Buyout Bill and Agencies Now Rehiring the People It Cut
- Jul3SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump Pardoned a Convicted Fraudster Three Days After the Man Wrote a Check to a MAGA Congressman
- Jul2ConcerningDemocracy & Rule of LawJack Smith, the Prosecutor Trump Spent a Year Attacking, Warns the Rule of Law Faces an Attack Unlike Anything in His Lifetime
- Jul2ConcerningRewriting HistoryThe Energy Department Deleted Its Own '78 Degrees' Thermostat Advice After Mamdani Said the Same Thing
- Jul2SeriousCorruption & ConflictsHouse Democrats Say Donations Meant for the Nonpartisan America250 Commission Were Routed to Trump's Similarly Named 'Freedom 250'
- Jul2SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump's New Intelligence Chief Starts Firing Dozens of Officials as Trump Says He Expects Him to 'Find Out Some Things About the Rigged Elections'
- Jul1SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawA Decorated Air Force Major Called for Trump's Impeachment on the Capitol Steps. He Was Arrested, and After a CNN Interview He Was Detained Again
- Jul1SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementTrump Quietly Ordered ICE to Hit 2,000 Arrests a Day, and It Detained 10,000 People in Five Days
- Jul1ModerateCorruption & ConflictsKash Patel Disclosed a Six-Figure Stock Purchase in a DOJ Contractor Six Months Late, Missing the STOCK Act's Deadline
June 2026
- Jun30SevereCorruption & ConflictsTrump's Disclosure Lists About $2 Billion Coming In During His First Year Back, $1.4 Billion of It From Crypto
- Jun29SeriousAbuse of PowerThe Supreme Court Blocks Trump's Firing of Fed Governor Lisa Cook, Letting Her Stay While It Shields the Federal Reserve
- Jun29SeriousAbuse of PowerA Judge Permanently Bars the Administration From Threatening Protesters' Permits Over '8647' Flags Near the National Mall
- Jun29SevereAbuse of PowerThe Supreme Court Lets Trump Fire Independent-Agency Members at Will, Overruling a 90-Year Precedent in a 6-3 Decision
- Jun29SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump Bought Up to $5 Million in Axon Stock Two Weeks Before ICE Sought a $220 Million Taser Deal Tailored to the Company
- Jun29ConcerningNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump's 'Great American State Fair' Draws Sparse Crowds as He Claims 45,000 and Posts a Pre-Dawn Defense
- Jun28ConcerningCorruption & ConflictsA Belgian Diamond Group Gave Trump a 321-Diamond Ring Weeks Before a Tariff Exemption, and Senators Want to Know Where It Is
- Jun26SeriousCorruption & ConflictsThe Park Service Paid $689,000 for the White House Walkway Trump Said Was 'Paid for by Me'
- Jun25SeriousCorruption & ConflictsA Federal Judge Rules the DOJ Has 'Conceded' It Is Violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act, Giving It a Week to Unredact or Explain
- Jun25ModerateRewriting HistoryVance Says the 'Deep State' Took Down Nixon and That Watergate Today Would Be 'a 12-Hour News Story'
- Jun25ModeratePublic HealthThe Supreme Court Bars Roundup Cancer-Warning Suits Against Monsanto After the Trump Administration Backed the Company, Splitting Trump's MAHA Base
- Jun24SeriousAbuse of PowerA Day After Congress Passed an Iran War Powers Resolution, the Senate Blocks a Second One, 47-50, Under Direct Pressure From Trump
- Jun24ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyThe White House Communications Director Calls Rep. Ted Lieu a 'Dumbass' and a 'B**ch' After He Questioned Trump's Health
- Jun24SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump's DOJ Prosecutes Rep. LaMonica McIver Over an ICE Oversight Visit, and an Appeals Court Sends Her Toward Trial
- Jun24SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Cancels the Signing of the Biggest Housing Affordability Bill in a Generation, Holding It Hostage to a Voter-Restriction Bill
- Jun23SevereDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Says He Called a California Prosecutor to 'Take a Look' at the Primary and Got His Endorsed Candidate Into the Runoff
- Jun23SeriousAbuse of PowerICE Agents Confront a Syracuse Poll Worker at Her Polling Place on Primary Day Over an Instagram Post About an Agent
- Jun23SeriousAbuse of PowerEight Defendants Get Sentences Totaling About 450 Years in the First 'Antifa' Terrorism Case, as the Administration Touts 'Dismantling Antifa'
- Jun23SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementA Federal Judge Voids ICE's Courthouse Arrest Rules and Its Six-Fold Detention Extension, Finding the Arrest Rules 'Devoid of Rational Explanation'
- Jun22ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Says He's 'Preparing Lawsuits Against ABC' Over Its Reflecting Pool Coverage: 'I Like Their Money'
- Jun22SeriousAbuse of PowerThe DOJ Opens a Civil-Rights Probe of a Brooklyn Coffee Chain That Refused to Serve Rep. Dan Goldman Over Israel
- Jun22SeriousAbuse of Power101 Former Judges File an Ethics Complaint Against Acting AG Todd Blanche Over Political Prosecutions, the Epstein Files, and the $1.776 Billion Fund
- Jun22SevereDemocracy & Rule of LawThe Administration Tied Homeland Security Grants to States Adopting Its Election Changes, and a Judge Threw Out the Conditions
- Jun22SeriousAbuse of PowerIran Recloses the Strait of Hormuz, Trump Threatens to 'Take Over' the Country, and the Talks Collapse
- Jun21ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Announces That Britain's Prime Minister Will Resign, Before Starmer Has Said So Himself
- Jun20ModerateNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump's $14 Million Reflecting Pool Redo Fills With Algae and Sheds Its Paint, Then He Blames Obama and 'Vandals'
- Jun19ConcerningNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump Says Meloni 'Begged' Him for a Photo. She Calls It 'Completely Fabricated,' and Italy Cancels a U.S. Trip
- Jun19SeriousCorruption & ConflictsA CBS Review Finds the Epstein Release Has Only a Handful of Emails From His Early-2000s Account, From the Years He Was in Touch With Trump
- Jun18SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump Bought Up to $500,000 of Boeing Stock on June 18. The Navy Awarded Boeing a Contract Worth Up to $880 Million the Same Day
- Jun18ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Defends His Iran Deal With a 4:32 a.m. Post Calling Critics 'Fools' and a 'Son of a Bitch' Jab at Obama
- Jun17SeriousAbuse of PowerA Judge Blocks the Administration's Four-Year Cap on International Student Stays a Day Before It Was to Take Effect
- Jun17SevereAbuse of PowerTrump's Iran War Framework Trades an Open Strait of Hormuz for $300 Billion in Reconstruction and a Reversal on Enrichment
- Jun17ModerateAbuse of PowerThe Labor Department Threatens to Withhold Unemployment Funds From States 'for the First Time in History' Over Fraud
- Jun17DisputedCorruption & ConflictsPark Service Supervisors Ordered Staff to Wear 'Freedom 250' Pins and Threatened Reprimands, Employees Tell Mother Jones
- Jun17SevereAbuse of PowerThe Pentagon Says in Court It Used Musk's Grok AI to Help Target Iran Strikes, Firing 2,000 Munitions in 96 Hours
- Jun16SeriousAbuse of PowerThe DOJ Indicts 15 Minnesotans on Conspiracy Charges Over Anti-ICE Protests, Citing 'Antifa Ties'
- Jun16SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump's DOJ Argues It Can Kill Citizen Lawsuits Against Polluters, Even Ones It Won't Prosecute, in a Case Over Musk's xAI
- Jun16ModerateCharacter & DishonestyAfter a Discovery Ruling Goes Against Him, Trump Quietly Drops His $100 Million Lawsuit Against His Niece Mary Trump
- Jun16ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyEpstein's Handwritten Jail Notes, Newly Reported, Call Trump 'a Total Con Artist' and Say Weisselberg 'Knows All'
- Jun15SeriousCorruption & ConflictsRaskin Says Kash Patel Used the FBI Budget as a 'Personal Slush Fund,' Paying Over $1 Million in Bonuses to Loyalist Agents
- Jun14ModerateDemocracy & Rule of LawThe Homeland Security Secretary Says He'd 'Throw Out the Constitution' to Stop Noncitizen Voting, Then Walks It Back
- Jun12SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementA Haitian Woman Released From ICE Custody in Pittsburgh Froze to Death, and the Medical Examiner Ruled It a Homicide
- Jun12ModerateAbuse of PowerThe Education Department Said Up to 61 Male Students Held Girls' Roster Spots in a Colorado District. The District Says They Were Mascots and Managers.
- Jun10SeriousAbuse of PowerAfter a U.S. Apache Goes Down Near Hormuz, Trump Vows to Hit Iran 'Very Hard' and Says Tehran Keeps 'Playing Us for Suckers'
- Jun10ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Says He's 'Not Looking to Renew' the USMCA Trade Deal: 'We Don't Need Anything' Canada or Mexico Has
- Jun10DisputedAbuse of PowerA Pentagon Officer Told a Classified Briefing That People Killed in the First Boat Strike 'Could Be' Trafficking Victims, Two Attendees Say
- Jun10SeriousCorruption & ConflictsA NYT Investigation Details a White House Situation Room Meltdown Over the Epstein Files, With 'Empty Gesture' Plans to Appease the Base
- Jun10SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawUnder Trump's Order, the Postal Service Would Refuse to Deliver Mail Ballots for States That Don't Hand Over Their Voter Lists
- Jun9ModerateCharacter & DishonestyEpstein's Longtime Assistant Tells House Investigators She Personally Arranged Phone Calls Between Epstein and Trump
- Jun9SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump's Family Crypto Firm Wins Conditional Approval for a Federal Trust Bank Charter From a Trump-Appointed Regulator
- Jun8ConcerningNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump Is Loudly Booed at Madison Square Garden During the NBA Finals, Then Insists It Was 'Mostly Cheers'
- Jun8DisputedCharacter & DishonestyAfter the Greenland Failure, Trump Weighs Buying the Chagos Islands and Their Diego Garcia Military Base
- Jun7SeriousCharacter & DishonestyTrump Storms Off Meet the Press After Kristen Welker Asks for Evidence of His Election-Fraud Claims, Calling Her 'Darling' on the Way Out
- Jun6SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump Pardons Stephen Buyer, the Former Republican Congressman Who Served Prison Time for Insider Trading
- Jun6ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyAt a D-Day Memorial in Normandy, Hegseth Compares European Immigration to an 'Invasion'; Historians Call It 'Grotesque Stupidity'
- Jun5SeriousAbuse of PowerA DOJ Lawyer Tells an Appeals Court That Trump Could 'Bulldoze' the Statue of Liberty and No One Could Sue to Stop Him
- Jun5SeriousPublic HealthA Flesh-Eating Parasite DOGE Helped Defund Reaches Texas Cattle, With a Potential $1.8 Billion Hit to the State Economy
- Jun5SeriousAbuse of PowerA Whistleblower Says Trump Officials Planned to Falsely Mark 2.7 Million Living People as Dead, Including Citizens, as a Deportation Tool
- Jun4AbsurdNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementAt a Coal Announcement, Trump Says the Lincoln Memorial's Front 'Was Supposed to Be the Back' and Pitches a 'Trump Promenade'
- Jun4SevereCorruption & ConflictsPublic Citizen: Trump's Ballroom Donors Won More Than $50 Billion in Federal Contracts in Six Months, With Lockheed Alone Getting $43.8 Billion
- Jun4ConcerningAbuse of PowerHegseth Cuts the Military's Recognized Religions From About 211 to 31, Dropping Wiccans, Pagans, Humanists, and 170 Others
- Jun4SeriousAbuse of PowerICE Drops the Rule Requiring It to Report Deaths of Detainees Who Die Within 30 Days of Release, as Custody Deaths Run at a 20-Year High
- Jun4SeriousAbuse of PowerA Lawfare Analysis Finds 97 Pardoned January 6 Rioters, About 1 in 16, Have Been Tied to a New Crime Since Trump Freed Them
- Jun4ModerateAbuse of PowerA House Defense-Bill Provision Would Have the Pentagon 'Synchronize' U.S.-Israel Weapons Development; an Amendment to Strip It Failed by Voice Vote
- Jun4SeriousAbuse of PowerThe U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Is Being Drained to Its Lowest Level Since 1983 to Blunt the Oil Shock From Trump's Iran War
- Jun3SeriousCharacter & DishonestyThe House Votes to End Trump's Iran War in a Bipartisan Rebuke; He Calls the Four Republicans 'Grandstanders' and the Vote 'Meaningless'
- Jun3SevereAbuse of PowerIranian Drones Hit Kuwait's Main Airport, Killing a Passenger, as the U.S. Strikes Qeshm Island in Trump's Widening Iran War
- Jun2AbsurdNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump and the White House Cast Him as James Bond; He Calls Himself 'The Greatest Attraction'
- Jun2SeriousCorruption & ConflictsAt a June Hearing, Blanche Insists the DOJ 'Complied With the Law' on Epstein While Rep. Dean Says 3 Million Files Remain Hidden
- Jun2SevereAbuse of PowerTrump Names Bill Pulte, a Home-Builder Heir With No Intelligence Background, as Acting Director of National Intelligence
- Jun2ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Demands His 34-Count Conviction Be 'Immediately Dismissed' After Michael Cohen Says on a Podcast He Was 'Pressured and Coerced'
- Jun1ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Revives His '51st State' Taunt at Canada After It Slips Into a Technical Recession
- Jun1ModerateAbuse of PowerIran Halts Talks and Vows to Completely Block the Strait of Hormuz; Oil Jumps 7% After Trump's Situation Room Meeting Ends With No Decision
- Jun1ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Posts a Record 861 Times in a Month, Then Appears to Doze Off in an Oval Office Briefing, as Questions About His Fitness Grow
May 2026
- May24SevereCorruption & ConflictsNYT: The CFTC Sidelined Staff Who Questioned Trump-Tied Crypto Firms, and an Official Who Pushed One Approval Later Joined That Firm
- May31ConcerningNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump Says His Perfect Cognitive-Test Score Proves 'Extreme Intelligence'; the Test's Creator Says It Screens for Impairment, Not Genius
- May31SeriousRewriting HistoryThe White House Officially Blamed Capitol Police for January 6; Pence Says There's 'Clearly' an Effort to 'Rewrite' the History
- May30SeriousCharacter & DishonestyTrump Tells Fox 'We Shouldn't Have Been in Iran,' Then Claims Their Navy and Air Force Are 'Gone, 100%'
- May30DisputedCharacter & DishonestyTrump Privately Questions Whether Vance Can Be His 2028 Heir, Needling Him Over a Dropped Trophy, the Times Reports
- May30ConcerningNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump Cancels the Freedom 250 Concerts After Performers Pull Out and Makes Himself the Headliner of 'the Greatest Rally, EVER!'
- May29SeriousCorruption & ConflictsBondi Tells House Investigators She Handed the Epstein Files to Todd Blanche, Then Insists She Didn't Blame Him
- May29SeriousCorruption & ConflictsMillion-Dollar Donors to Trump's 'Freedom 250' Fund Are Offered a Private Reception and 'Historic Photo' With the President; Schiff and Warren Open a Probe
- May29SevereAbuse of PowerKash Patel's FBI Sent Agents to the Homes of Wisconsin Election Officials, Chasing Debunked 2020 Conspiracy Theories
- May29SeriousAbuse of PowerA Proposed White House Rule Would Put Political Appointees in Charge of Approving Federal Science Grants
- May29ConcerningWomen & Sexual MisconductTrump Attacks Jill Biden Over Her Memoir, Saying She Never Rushed to Help Her Husband 'as Any Good Wife Would Do'
- May28SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTo Dodge His Own Attacks on Obama, Trump's Team Rebrands Iran's $300 Billion War-Reparations Demand as an 'Investment Fund'
- May28SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementDetainees at Newark's Delaney Hall Launch a Hunger Strike Over Conditions; ICE Tear-Gasses Protesters and Bars the Governor From Entering
- May28SevereDemocracy & Rule of LawJudge Carl Nichols, a Trump Appointee, Declined in May to Block Trump's Mail-Voting Order, Then Blocked the Postal Service Rule in September
- May28SeriousWomen & Sexual MisconductKatie Miller, Stephen Miller's Wife, Doxes the Democrats' Social Media Manager By Name and Photo After Her Husband Drew an 'Ugly F*** ' Reply
- May28ConcerningCorruption & ConflictsJustice Alito's Son Has Quietly Worked at Trump's Treasury Department, Which Was a Defendant in the Tariff Case His Father Heard
- May28SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTreasury Has Designed a $250 Bill With Trump's Face on It; Bessent Confirms, Says It's Ready for When Congress Authorizes the Denomination
- May28ModerateCorruption & ConflictsThe Trump Administration Is Paying $5 Million to Coat Four DC Horse Statues in Gold, Through a No-Bid Contract Rushed for July 4
- May28ModerateICE & Immigration EnforcementDHS Secretary Mullin Threatens to Pull CBP From Sanctuary-City Airports, Says International Flights to Chicago, LA, and New York 'Won't Be Able to Be Processed'
- May28SevereCorruption & ConflictsProPublica: White House Counselor Peter Navarro Initiated a $620M Pentagon Loan Commitment to Vulcan Elements, Months After Donald Trump Jr.'s Firm Invested
- May27SevereAbuse of PowerDOJ Opens Criminal Investigation of E. Jean Carroll for Perjury Over Whether Reid Hoffman Helped Pay Her Legal Fees Against Trump
- May27SeriousCorruption & ConflictsDell Wins a $9.7 Billion Pentagon Software Contract as Sole Microsoft Intermediary, After Michael Dell's Donations to Trump-Account Initiatives
- May27ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Appears to Doze at His May 27 Cabinet Meeting, the Day After His Walter Reed Checkup
- May27ModerateCorruption & ConflictsTrump Hands Out $55 Trump-Store Hats and Signed Challenge Coins to His Cabinet, Turning an Official Meeting Into a Merchandise Pitch
- May27ModerateAbuse of PowerCBS News Lets Sharyn Alfonsi's Contract Expire After Bari Weiss Delayed Her '60 Minutes' Story on Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador's CECOT
- May26ConcerningNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump Skips Visiting the 14 Iran-War Wounded at Walter Reed During His Own Checkup, Echoing His 'Doesn't Look Good for Me' Stance on Visibly Injured Troops
- May27ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Calls Texas Senate Nominee James Talarico a 'Vegan' Who 'Believes in Six Genders' and Takes 'Hits at Jesus Christ'
- May27AbsurdThe Absurd MomentsTrump Is Building a 5,000-Seat UFC Cage on the White House South Lawn to Celebrate His 80th Birthday and America's 250th
- May27ConcerningNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementNYT Analysis of 12 Hours of Cabinet Footage Finds One in Six Sentences Is Trump Flattery, Credit-to-Trump, or an Attack on Biden
- May26SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump-Backed Ken Paxton Beats Cornyn Nearly Two-to-One in the Texas Senate Runoff, Erasing a Three-Term Incumbent
- May26SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementICE Agents Pepper-Sprayed Senator Andy Kim on Memorial Day Outside a Detention Center Where 300 Detainees Were on Hunger Strike
- May26SevereAbuse of PowerTrump Summons Entire Cabinet Over the Crumbling Iran Ceasefire After U.S. Strikes Hit Iran Hours Into Qatar Peace Talks
- May26ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Pauses His Arlington Memorial Day Speech to Joke That 'Not Too Many' Soldiers Named Donald Are Buried There
- May26ConcerningCorruption & ConflictsTrump Brings Bondi Back as a White House AI Adviser Less Than Two Months After Ousting Her as Attorney General
- May26ModerateAbuse of PowerThe Supreme Court Sides With Trump in the Immigration Judges' Free-Speech Fight, Reversing an Appeals Court on Procedural Grounds
- May26ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump, About to Turn 80, Heads to Walter Reed for His Third Checkup in 13 Months as Prior 'MRI' Was Quietly Corrected to a Cardiac CT
- May25AbsurdThe Absurd MomentsTrump Spends Six Minutes Examining a White House Column on Memorial Day as His Appointee Pushes to Replace the Ionic Pillars With Corinthian
- May25SeriousCorruption & ConflictsUS Tourism Drops by 4 Million Foreign Visitors and $8 Billion in 2025, the First Real Decline Since COVID; Canadian Visits Down 17% After Trump Tariffs
- May25SeverePublic HealthTrump Administration Bars NIAID Disease Experts From Communicating With the WHO During the Congo Ebola Outbreak, Limits U.S. Officials to 'Listening Capacity'
- May25ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Opens Memorial Day With a 6:15 AM, 206-Word Truth Social Tirade Calling Tillis, Cassidy, and Massie 'Sleazebags' and 'Fools'
- May24ConcerningAbuse of PowerVance Makes an Unannounced Visit to John Roberts's Private Clerks' Dinner as Trump Renews His Attacks on the Court
- May24SeriousCorruption & ConflictsMassie Says Blanche Is 'Violating the Law' by Withholding Epstein Files, Adds 'Even Melania' Knows Epstein Didn't Act Alone
- May23SevereRewriting HistoryDOJ Scrubs Hundreds of January 6 Prosecution Press Releases From Its Website, Calls Them 'Partisan Propaganda'
- May23SeriousCharacter & DishonestyHegseth Breaks the Nonpartisan Tradition at West Point With a Graduation Speech Attacking Democrats and DEI
- May22ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Posts an AI-Generated Video of Himself Throwing Stephen Colbert Into a Dumpster the Day After 'The Late Show' Ends
- May22SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Reverses Hegseth's Cancellation of Poland Troop Deployment After Realizing the Defense Secretary Targeted the Wrong Country
- May22SevereICE & Immigration EnforcementUSCIS Rule Now Forces Most Green Card Applicants Already in the US to Leave the Country to Apply, Affecting Hundreds of Thousands
- May22SeriousAbuse of PowerWhite House Orders Its Propaganda App Installed on Every Federal Employee's Government Phone
- May22ModerateAbuse of PowerTulsi Gabbard Resigns as Director of National Intelligence, the Fourth Trump Cabinet Member to Leave in 2026, Ending a Tenure Marked by the Politicization of Intelligence
- May22ModerateCorruption & ConflictsSoftBank Gave $50 Million to Trump's Presidential Library Two Months Before His Administration Announced a Federal Data-Center Deal for the Company
- May22SevereDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Officials Tried to Ban the Voting Machines Used in More Than Half the Country by Declaring Them a National Security Risk, and Switch the Nation to Hand-Counting Before the Midterms
- May21ModeratePublic HealthThe EPA Delays the Climate-Refrigerant Phasedown by Up to Six Years, and Its Own Rule Admits That Could Raise Prices
- May21SevereAbuse of PowerA Congressional Research Service Tally Puts Trump's Iran War Losses at Up to 42 Aircraft and 13 U.S. Troops Killed, as Officials Privately Put the Cost Near $50 Billion
- May21SeriousAbuse of PowerA Colorado Intelligence Bulletin Warned That DHS's Own ICE Recruitment Posts Used White-Supremacist Memes That Could Incite Violence
- May21SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump's DHS Rehired a $324,000 Doctor Accused of Drinking While Armed on the Job, Trying to Procure Fentanyl Lollipops, and Sexual Harassment, Then Sent Him to ICE Operations in Minneapolis
- May20SevereAbuse of PowerTwo Officers Who Defended the Capitol on January 6 Sue to Block Trump's $1.8 Billion Fund, Arguing It Would Pay the Rioters Who Attacked Them
- May20SeriousAbuse of PowerCommerce Orders a Review That Could Strip California of Its Authority to Object to Federal Coastal Projects
- May19SeriousAbuse of PowerIn One Week, Trump Ends the Careers of Two Republicans Who Crossed Him and Moves to End a Third's, Tightening His Control of the Party's Primaries
- May19SeriousAbuse of PowerThe Senate Votes 50-47 to Advance a Resolution Forcing an End to the Iran War, as Bill Cassidy Flips Days After Losing a Primary in Which Trump Backed His Opponent
- May19SevereAbuse of PowerTrump Withheld Federal Funds From Colorado to Pressure Gov. Polis Into Commuting Tina Peters, the County Clerk Convicted of Breaching Her County's Election System
- May19SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump's Executive Order to House 6,000 Homeless Veterans in LA Got Zero Dollars in His Own VA Budget Request
- May19SeriousCharacter & DishonestyEpstein Survivors Say Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche Falsely Told Senators He Had Met With Them
- May19SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementICE Arrested a Man at a Manhattan Immigration Court the Day After a Federal Judge Ordered Those Arrests Paused
- May19AbsurdThe Absurd MomentsTrump's Greenland Envoy, Gov. Jeff Landry, Offered Children MAGA Hats and 'All the Chocolate Chip Cookies You Can Eat,' and Got a Middle Finger in Nuuk
- May19SeriousAbuse of PowerA Federal Judge Again Blocks the Administration From Moving Transgender Women to Men's Prisons After Plaintiffs Describe Rapes in Male Facilities
- May18SeriousAbuse of PowerDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth Headlined a Republican Primary Rally Against Rep. Thomas Massie, Breaking the Pentagon's Tradition of Political Neutrality
- May18SeriousCorruption & ConflictsThe DOJ Drops Its Bribery Case Against Billionaire Gautam Adani After He Hired Trump's Personal Lawyer and Pledged $10 Billion in U.S. Investment
- May18SeriousAbuse of PowerIran Launches a 'Persian Gulf Strait Authority' to Vet and Toll Ships in Hormuz, Weeks After Trump Said the Strait Was 'Sealed Up Tight'
- May17ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Spent the 'Rededicate 250' Faith Rally on the National Mall Golfing in Virginia, Appearing Only by Recorded Video
- May17ModerateDemocracy & Rule of LawActing Attorney General Todd Blanche Tells Fox News There's a 'Ton of Evidence' the 2020 Election Was Rigged, Then Says He Can't Promise a 'Definitive Answer'
- May15ModerateCorruption & ConflictsEric Trump Threatens to Sue Jen Psaki, Saying He Was 'NEVER' on Alt5 Sigma's Board. The Company First Announced Him as a Director.
- May15ModerateCorruption & ConflictsTrump Says He's Unsure About a $14 Billion Taiwan Arms Package After Discussing It 'in Great Detail' With Xi
- May15SeriousCorruption & ConflictsEric Trump Said His Father's Assets Are in a Blind Trust in Broad Market Indexes. Trump's Own Disclosure Lists More Than 3,600 Trades, Including 15 in Nvidia.
- May15SeriousPublic HealthA Top HHS Official in America's Hantavirus Response Is a Penile Implant Urologist Who Once Hosted 'Erection Connection' and Promoted Covid Conspiracy Theories
- May15SeriousRewriting HistoryABC News Took Every FiveThirtyEight Article Offline, Erasing the Polling and Forecast Archive That Tracked Trump's First-Term Approval and the 2020 Election
- May15ModerateCorruption & ConflictsTrump's Labor Department Drops Its Defense of the Overtime Rule, Leaving About 4 Million Workers Without Expanded Overtime Pay
- May15SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Told a New York Times Reporter on Air Force One That His Iran War Reporting Was 'Sort of Treasonous'
- May14ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyAfter Xi Invoked the 'Thucydides Trap' in Beijing, Trump Said Xi Was '100% Correct' That America Had Been Declining, and Blamed Biden
- May14SeriousRewriting HistoryDuring His Beijing Trip, Trump Defends Chinese Ownership of U.S. Farmland and 500,000 Chinese Students, Breaking With His Own Farmland Pledge
- May14ModerateCharacter & DishonestySenators Asked HUD Secretary Scott Turner What He'd Actually Done. He Kept Blaming Biden, Until Gillibrand Snapped: 'Stop Talking About Biden! Talk About Your Record!'
- May14SevereCorruption & ConflictsTrump's Q1 Disclosure Shows 3,700+ Stock Trades, Including Buys in Nvidia, Palantir, and Axon as His Administration Steered Billions in Business Their Way
- May14SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump's Team Is Planning 250 Pardons for His Birthday or July 4, With Crypto Felons and Wire Fraud Convicts Already Named and Maxwell on the Speculation List
- May14SevereCorruption & ConflictsThe DOJ Announces a $1.776 Billion 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' to Compensate Trump's Allies, Settling the President's $10 Billion Lawsuit Against the IRS He Controls
- May13SeriousAbuse of PowerVance Announces a $1.3 Billion Medicaid Deferral for California and Threatens Every State's Medicaid Fraud Unit Funding
- May13SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump Brought His Son, Daughter-in-Law, a Trillion Dollars of CEOs Lobbying China for Their Own Deals, and the Director of 'Rush Hour 4' on the Beijing State Visit
- May12ModerateCharacter & DishonestyAsked Whether Americans' Financial Hardship Motivates Him on Iran, Trump Answers 'Not Even a Little Bit'; Vance the Next Day Flatly Denies Trump Said It on Camera
- May12ModerateRacism & XenophobiaThe Supreme Court Used Faulty Racial Voter Turnout Data to Gut the Voting Rights Act in Callais; Alito's Opinion Compared the Wrong Populations and Reached the Opposite Conclusion the Real Numbers Support
- May12SeverePublic HealthBlack Lung Disease Surges to 1 in 10 Working Coal Miners as the Trump MSHA Indefinitely Delays the Silica Dust Rule for the Fourth Time and Cuts Enforcement Staff
- May12SevereAbuse of PowerInside the FBI's 'Payback Squad': A Secret Team Building Cases Against Trump's Enemies, With Brennan's Indictment Expected in Weeks
- May11ModerateRacism & XenophobiaTrump Posts 55 Times in Three Hours, Boosting Calls to Arrest Obama for Treason and Reposting Videos of Black People, One Calling a Man a 'POS'
- May10ModerateDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Promises a 'Much Bigger and Stronger' Republican 'Election Integrity Army' in Every State for the 2026 Midterms
- May9SeriousCorruption & ConflictsThe Transportation Secretary Made a Reality TV Show Funded by Boeing, Shell, Toyota, United, and Royal Caribbean, All Companies His Department Regulates
- May8ConcerningAbuse of PowerThe State Department Starts Revoking Passports of Parents Who Owe $100,000 or More in Child Support, and Plans to Lower the Bar to $2,500
- May8SeriousAbuse of PowerBLM Cancels American Prairie's Bison Grazing Permits in Montana and Orders the Herd Off Federal Allotments; a Federal Judge Has Blocked the Removal
- May8ModerateDemocracy & Rule of LawThe Virginia Supreme Court Strikes Down the Voter-Approved Democratic Redistricting Referendum 4-3, Wiping Out the One Major Democratic Counter-Move in the Post-Callais Map War
- May8SeriousAbuse of PowerABC Files With the FCC Accusing the Trump Administration of Violating Its First Amendment Rights Over an 'Equal Time' Investigation of The View
- May8ModerateCorruption & ConflictsTrump Gives a $6.9 Million No-Bid Contract to His 'Pool Guy' to Repaint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool 'American Flag Blue'; Cost Then Soared to $13.1M and the Cultural Landscape Foundation Sued
- May8SeriousAbuse of PowerFEMA Cut Hazard-Mitigation Grants From $91 Million a Month to $3 Million; California Has Received $830,000 Since July, Colorado Has Received Nothing
- May7SeriousAbuse of PowerU.S. Court of International Trade Strikes Down Trump's Section 122 Tariffs 2-1, His Second Tariff Scheme Blocked in Three Months; Trump Appeals the Following Day
- May7SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementICE Moves to Buy Its Detention Centers From GEO Group and CoreCivic to Shield Them From State Oversight, and the GEO CEO Admits That's the Point
- May7ModeratePublic HealthThe Trump Administration Cut a Hantavirus Research Project Months Before a Deadly Andes Virus Outbreak on a Cruise Ship
- May7SevereAbuse of PowerD.C. Circuit Judges Force Hegseth's Lawyer to Concede That Sen. Mark Kelly Never Said 'Disobey Lawful Orders' in the Video Hegseth Used to Try to Strip His Rank
- May7SeriousCorruption & ConflictsHouse and Senate Democrats Open an Investigation Into Whether Trump's Pardon Recipients Paid Intermediaries to Reach Him; Letters Sent to More Than a Dozen Recipients
- May7DisputedAbuse of PowerPress Freedom Groups Demand Paramount Records Over Reports Larry Ellison Discussed Firing CNN Anchors Trump Dislikes
- May7SeriousPublic Health30,000 Cubic Yards of East Wing Demolition Debris Were Dumped at a Public DC Golf Course; National Park Service Soil Tests Found Lead, Chromium, and Other Toxic Metals
- May7SevereAbuse of PowerThe Trump Administration Has Been Deleting Federal Datasets Across Multiple Agencies, Including Tools That Tell Americans Whether They Live Near Toxic Chemical Plants
- May7SevereICE & Immigration EnforcementReuters: Trump's Minneapolis Immigration Blitz Collapsed Federal Gun and Drug Prosecutions From 77 to 8 in Four Months as 5 of 6 Criminal-Section Supervisors Quit the U.S. Attorney's Office
- May7SevereAbuse of PowerConfidential CIA Assessment: Iran Can Outlast Trump's Blockade for 3 to 4 Months and Retains 75% of Its Mobile Launchers and 70% of Its Missile Stockpile
- May6SeriousAbuse of PowerA Quietly Revised Prison Policy Lets the Attorney General Personally Choose Where a Federal Prisoner Serves Time
- May6SeriousAbuse of PowerThe FBI Searches the Office of L. Louise Lucas, the 82-Year-Old Virginia Democratic Leader Behind the Redistricting Referendum Trump Denounced
- May6ModerateCharacter & DishonestyTrump's Hands Appear Swollen and Covered in Mismatched Concealer, and the Next Morning He Posts an AI Image of Hunter Biden Snorting Cocaine in the Oval Office
- May6SevereAbuse of PowerSebastian Gorka's Counterterrorism Strategy Names 'Anarchists and Anti-Fascists' a Top Terror Threat and Targets 'Radically Pro-Transgender' Groups
- May5SevereICE & Immigration EnforcementDHS Shuts Down Its Immigration Detention Watchdog as Use of Force Against Detainees Surges 37% and 30+ Detainees Died in Custody in 2025
- May5SevereAbuse of PowerThe State Department Officially Fires More Than 230 Foreign and Civil Service Officers in a Long-Delayed Mass RIF, Bringing the Year's Total to 1,300+ Layoffs
- May5ConcerningDemocracy & Rule of LawThe Lead Plaintiff in the Case That Narrowed the Voting Rights Act Posted Photos of Himself at the Capitol's 'Stop the Steal' Protest on January 6, 2021
- May5SeriousCorruption & ConflictsSenate Republicans' $72 Billion ICE Bill Carried $1 Billion in Secret Service Security Money Tied to Trump's Ballroom, Until It Was Stripped
- May5SeverePublic HealthThe FDA Has Blocked the Publication of Several Agency-Scientist Studies Showing the COVID and Shingles Vaccines Are Safe
- May5ConcerningDemocracy & Rule of LawNYT: Trump Has Built a Three-Tier Emergency-Powers Architecture (NSPM-7, National Emergencies, PEADs) That Brennan Center and Keep Our Republic Experts Warn Could Be Used to Disrupt the 2026 Midterms
- May5ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Pointed Between His Eyes to Show Children in the Oval Office Where Iranian Protesters Were Shot
- May4ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Derails a White House Small-Business Summit With a Long Riff on His Cognitive Tests and Jokes About Leaving Office in 'Eight or Nine Years'
- May4SeriousRacism & XenophobiaAlabama Rushes a Special Session After Callais to Undo Its Second Majority-Black District, Aiming for a 7-0 GOP Delegation
- May4SevereDemocracy & Rule of LawDeSantis Signs a Mid-Decade Florida Congressional Map Favoring Republicans in 24 of 28 Seats, and the Courts Let It Stand for 2026
- May4ConcerningCorruption & ConflictsTed Cruz Says Trump Accounts Are 'Social Security Personal Accounts' and That 'We Gave the Money to Babies and So the Old People Didn't Get Pissed'
- May4ConcerningCorruption & ConflictsThrough Sean Hannity, Trump Pitches John Fetterman on Switching Parties With 'More Money Than He Ever Dreamed Of'; Fetterman: 'I'm Not Changing'
- May4SevereDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Tells Republican States to 'Vote Twice' If They Have To and Redraw Their Maps After Callais; Predicts Republicans Will Pick Up 'More Than 20 House Seats'
- May4SeriousAbuse of PowerThe U.S. Launches a Mission to Escort Commercial Ships Through the Strait of Hormuz; Iran Warns Any Interference Violates the Ceasefire
- May4ConcerningDemocracy & Rule of Law53 Election-Denying Candidates Are Running for the Statewide Offices That Certify Elections in 23 States, Including Five Presidential Swing States
- May3SevereAbuse of PowerHegseth Brings His Wife to Pentagon Meetings and Makes His Brother a Senior Adviser After Forcing Out 24 Generals, About 60% of Them Black or Female
- May3SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Rejects Iran's 14-Point Proposal to End the War: 'It's Not Acceptable to Me'; Same Weekend He Tells Congress He Doesn't Need Their Authorization
- May2ModerateCorruption & ConflictsSpirit Airlines Becomes the First Major U.S. Airline to Fold in 25 Years After Trump's $500 Million Bailout Collapses, Costing 17,000 Jobs
- May2ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Tells Reporters He Never Said the U.S. Might Be Better Off Not Making a Deal With Iran; CNN Has Him On Camera Saying Exactly That One Day Earlier
- May1SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Orders 5,000 Troops Out of Germany and Threatens 'A Lot Further' After Chancellor Merz Said the U.S. Is Being 'Humiliated' by Iran
- May1ModerateCharacter & DishonestyA Florida Sting With 266 Arrests Caught a MAGA Influencer Pictured With Trump and a January 6 Rioter Trump Pardoned
- May1SevereDemocracy & Rule of LawLouisiana Governor Jeff Landry Suspends the State's U.S. House Primaries by Executive Order, Citing the Supreme Court's Decision Gutting the Voting Rights Act
April 2026
- Apr30ModerateCharacter & DishonestySen. Tim Scott Says Gas Prices Are 'Coming Down' as They Spike Past $4.30; House Majority Leader Steve Scalise Claims Two Years Ago Gas Was 'Almost $6 a Gallon'
- Apr30SeriousAbuse of PowerDr. Oz's CMS Exposed Healthcare Providers' Social Security Numbers in a Public Medicare Database for Weeks
- Apr30SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump's DOJ Opens Investigations Into 36 Illinois School Districts on Whether They Let Parents Opt Out of LGBTQ Instruction
- Apr30SeriousAbuse of PowerThe House Passes a Budget Resolution Steering Another $70 Billion to ICE and CBP With No Reforms or Oversight, on a 215-211 Party-Line Vote
- Apr30SevereCorruption & ConflictsA Company Don Jr. and Eric Trump Invested In Merges With a Kazakhstan Tungsten Venture Backed by U.S. Financing Letters Worth Up to $1.6 Billion
- Apr30SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump DOJ Task Force Report Brands Biden-Era Policies on Gender and Sexual Orientation 'Anti-Christian'
- Apr30SeriousPublic HealthTrump Picks Fox News Contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier as His Third Surgeon General Nominee After Casey Means' Nomination Stalled Over Her Anti-Vaccine Views
- Apr30SeriousCorruption & ConflictsU.S. National Debt Tops 100% of GDP for the First Time Since 1946; CBO Says It's on Track to Break the Post-WWII Record and Hit 175% by 2056
- Apr30SeriousCorruption & ConflictsApril PCE Inflation Hit a Three-Year High of 3.8%; Core PCE Posted Its Biggest Annual Jump Since November 2023, Driven by Trump's Tariffs and the Iran-War Oil Shock
- Apr30SeriousCorruption & ConflictsJacobin Investigation: Jeffrey Epstein Spent Five Years Pursuing Peter Thiel, Brokered Him Into Trumpworld in 2016, and Stayed in His Orbit Until 2018
- Apr30ModerateCharacter & DishonestyTrump's Approval on Cost of Living Hits Negative 40 Points and Falls Off the Bottom of a Pollster's Tracking Chart
- Apr30SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Calls the New York Times 'Seditious' Over Its Iran War Coverage
- Apr29ConcerningNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump Reshares an AI-Generated Map Renaming the Strait of Hormuz the 'Strait of Trump' as Brent Crude Tops $125 a Barrel and Gas Hits $4.30 a Gallon
- Apr29SeriousNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump Privately Tells Confidants He's 'the Most Powerful Person to Ever Live,' His Insiders Tell The Atlantic; Hours Later He Posts a 4 a.m. AI Image of Himself Holding a Rifle
- Apr29SevereAbuse of PowerAbout 5,500 Justice Department Employees Have Left in Nine Months and Stacey Young's Justice Connection Says Many Are Quitting Rather Than Run 'Vindictive Prosecutions'
- Apr29ModerateDemocracy & Rule of LawHegseth Twice Tells Congress Troops Were 'Deployed to Polling Locations in 15 States' Under Biden. Every State That Answered CNN Said None Were
- Apr29SeriousCharacter & DishonestyHegseth Loses His Cool in Two Days of Iran-War Testimony Before the House and Senate, Calls Lawmakers America's 'Biggest Adversary' and Refuses to Answer 'What's the Plan?'
- Apr29SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawFour Trump Judicial Nominees Stay Silent When a Senator Asks Whether the Constitution Bars a Third Term
- Apr28ConcerningCorruption & ConflictsAll Six Conservative Supreme Court Justices Attended Trump's State Dinner for King Charles, Hours Before the Court Weakened the Voting Rights Act
- Apr28ConcerningThe White House Posts a 'TWO KINGS' Photo of Trump and King Charles With a Crown Emoji as Charles Tells Congress Executive Power Has Limits
- Apr28SevereAbuse of PowerThe FCC Orders Early License Reviews of All Disney TV Stations Days After Trump Demanded Kimmel Be Fired for a Melania Joke
- Apr28SevereAbuse of PowerComey Is Indicted a Second Time, Now for an Instagram Photo of Seashells Spelling '86 47'
- Apr28SevereNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump's Face and Gold Signature Will Appear on US Passports for the 250th Anniversary, the First Living President Ever Featured
- Apr28SeriousPublic HealthTrump SSA Rule Could Cut Benefits for Up to 400,000 Disabled and Elderly Americans by Counting the Value of a Bedroom in a Relative's Home Against Them
- Apr28ModerateCorruption & ConflictsSens. Graham, Schmitt, and Britt Introduce a Bill to Use Customs and Park Fees to Pay for Trump's $400 Million 'Privately Funded' White House Ballroom
- Apr27ModerateAbuse of PowerDOJ Files a Court Brief in Trump's Voice, Calling the Plaintiff's Name 'FAKE,' and Only Three Political Appointees Sign It
- Apr27AbsurdThe Absurd MomentsTrump Endorses Renaming ICE to NICE So 'the Media Has to Say NICE Agents All Day Everyday'
- Apr27SeriousAbuse of PowerSoybean Exports to China Are Cut in Half, Farm Bankruptcies Are Up 46%, and 15,000 American Farms Have Disappeared in a Year as Trump's Tariffs Crush His Own Base
- Apr27SevereAbuse of PowerDOJ Tries to Use the WHCD Shooting as Grounds to Kill the National Trust's Lawsuit Against Trump's $400 Million White House Ballroom; the Trust Refuses
- Apr27SeriousAbuse of PowerThe Trump Administration Pays Bluepoint Wind and Golden State Wind Nearly $900 Million to Cancel Two Offshore Wind Projects After a Federal Judge Ruled the Wind Ban Unlawful
- Apr27SeriousAbuse of PowerHegseth Takes Kid Rock for a Ride in an AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter at Fort Belvoir, Weeks After Lifting the Suspensions of Pilots Who Flew by the Singer's Home
- Apr27SeriousCorruption & ConflictsLawyer Katie Phang Sues Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for Withholding 2.5 Million Pages of Epstein Files Required to Be Released by an Act of Congress
- Apr27SeriousAbuse of PowerGerman Chancellor Friedrich Merz Says the U.S. Is Being 'Humiliated' by Iran in the War's Negotiations and That He Cannot See What Strategic Exit Trump Is Choosing
- Apr27SeriousAbuse of PowerDHS Training Materials Tell Officers to Deny Green Cards to Immigrants Who Criticize Israel, Attend Pro-Palestine Protests, or Desecrate the U.S. Flag
- Apr27SeriousAbuse of PowerSenate Republicans Tell The Hill Pete Hegseth Would Not Be Confirmed Today, as Pentagon Turmoil and the Driscoll Feud Erode His Standing in His Own Party
- Apr25SevereAbuse of PowerA Gunman Charges the White House Correspondents' Dinner Armed With a Shotgun, Handgun, and Multiple Knives; Trump Is Evacuated and the Suspect's Manifesto Calls Him a 'Pedophile, Rapist, and Traitor'
- Apr25SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Abruptly Cancels U.S.-Iran Talks in Islamabad Because the 18-Hour Flight to Pakistan Is 'Too Much Time Wasted on Traveling'
- Apr25SevereAbuse of PowerTrump Fires the Entire National Science Board, the Apolitical Body That Has Advised Presidents on the National Science Foundation Since 1950
- Apr25CatastrophicAbuse of PowerNBC: Iran Inflicted More Than $5 Billion in Damage to U.S. Bases, Killed 13 Service Members and Wounded Nearly 400, and the Trump Administration Asked Satellite Companies to Suppress Photos of the Wreckage
- Apr24SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Calls for Barack Obama to Be Arrested for 'Treason' in a Late-Night Truth Social Spree, Citing Declassified Brennan Notes
- Apr24SevereAbuse of PowerThe Justice Department Formally Brings Back Firing Squads, Electrocution, and Gas Asphyxiation as Federal Execution Methods
- Apr24SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawThe DC Circuit Blocks Trump's Day-One Asylum Ban, Ruling the President 'Cannot Supplant the Rule of Law' by Declaring an Invasion
- Apr24ModerateCorruption & ConflictsKristi Noem Is Still Living in the Coast Guard Commandant's Waterfront Home Seven Weeks After Trump Fired Her, After Testifying Under Oath That She Pays Rent
- Apr24ModerateAbuse of PowerA Leaked Pentagon Memo Floats Suspending Spain From NATO and Reviewing British Sovereignty Over the Falkland Islands as Punishment for Allies Who Sat Out the Iran War
- Apr24SeverePublic HealthSAMHSA Ends Grant Funding for Fentanyl and Xylazine Test Strips, Reversing Its Own Guidance From Nine Months Earlier
- Apr24SeriousAbuse of PowerDOJ Drops Criminal Probe of Fed Chair Powell, Clearing the Path to Install Warsh Three Days After His Senate Testimony
- Apr24SevereAbuse of PowerHegseth Tells Estonia the HIMARS Missiles It Paid For Are Delayed Indefinitely Because the Iran War Burned Through the Stockpile
- Apr23SevereAbuse of PowerNew York Times: The Iran War Has Drained U.S. Weapons Stockpiles Below the Level Needed to Confront a Near-Peer Adversary, at a Cost Nearing $1 Billion a Day
- Apr23ConcerningNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump Falls Asleep on Camera in the Oval Office During His Own Drug-Pricing Announcement With the Regeneron CEO and RFK Jr.
- Apr23ModerateAbuse of PowerTrump Threatens a 'Big Tariff' on the U.K. Over Its Digital Services Tax on Apple, Google, and Meta, Days Before King Charles's State Visit
- Apr23SeriousRewriting HistoryA DHS Contractor Cut Through the Las Playas Intaglio for Trump's Border Wall. Scientists Now Date It to at Least 6,500 Years Ago.
- Apr23SeriousCorruption & ConflictsFirst-Ever Prediction-Market Insider Trading Case: A Fort Bragg Soldier Indicted for $409,000 in Maduro Bets, $413M Wagered on Trump's Iran Posts, and Trump Says the World Is 'a Casino'
- Apr23SeriousCorruption & ConflictsEric Trump Goes on Fox to Tout $24 Million in Pentagon Contracts for a Robotics Startup He Advises and Invests In
- Apr23SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Orders the Navy to 'Shoot and Kill' Any Boat Laying Mines in the Strait of Hormuz, With 'No Hesitation'
- Apr23CatastrophicAbuse of PowerTrump's Undeclared Boat-Strike Campaign: At Least 231 Dead in 69 Strikes by September, and $4.7 Billion Spent by April
- Apr23ConcerningNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump, 79, Spends Midnight Hour Posting Seven Truth Social Attacks Boosting an Anonymous Conspiracy Theorist Targeting John Roberts
- Apr22SeriousRacism & XenophobiaTrump's New Acting Navy Secretary Once Asked for a KKK Hood With 'Slits' So He Could 'See Better'
- Apr22ConcerningWomen & Sexual MisconductTrump Stands in Front of the Women's Tennis Champions, Shakes Only the Men's Hands, in a Week That Saw the Third Woman Leave His Cabinet
- Apr22SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawLeague of Women Voters and ACLU Sue Alaska for Handing Voter Rolls to Trump's DOJ for Possible Purges
- Apr22SeriousPublic HealthOncologists Say RFK Lied About Why FDA Rejected the Melanoma Drug Keeping Their Patients Alive
- Apr22SeriousRacism & XenophobiaTrump Shares a Four-Page Transcript Calling India a 'Hellhole' and Attacking Indian Immigrants, Drawing a Formal Condemnation From New Delhi
- Apr22ConcerningCorruption & ConflictsDevin Nunes Steps Down as Trump Media CEO After Losses Top $1 Billion and Stock Loses More Than Half Its Value
- Apr22ModerateCharacter & DishonestyTrump Approval Craters to 33% as a Retired Air Force Captain Who Voted for Him Calls Him 'A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing'
- Apr22SevereAbuse of PowerPatel's FBI Investigated a NYT Reporter for Writing About His Girlfriend's SWAT Escorts, Then Recommended Stalking Charges
- Apr22SeriousCorruption & ConflictsMaxwell Sends a USB Drive With an Amended Petition to the DOJ From Prison, Seven Days After Melania's Epstein Statement
- Apr22SeriousCorruption & ConflictsRFK Jr. Tells Senate That Trump 'Has His Own Way of Calculating Percentages' as TrumpRx Is Found to Lower Prices on Exactly One Drug
- Apr22ModerateRacism & XenophobiaTrump Calls the Only Black Woman on the Supreme Court a 'Low IQ Person'
- Apr22ModerateDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Declares Virginia Redistricting Vote 'RIGGED' After Losing, Using Identical 2020 Language in His First Fraud Claim About a 2026 Election
- Apr22SeriousAbuse of PowerBondi's Former Chief of Staff Explains Why Trump's Revenge Prosecutions Failed: 'You Need People Who Are MAGA and Really Competent. It's a Very Small Group.'
- Apr21ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyFederal Judge Tosses Patel's $250 Million Defamation Suit, Saying No 'Reasonable' Person Would Have Taken the Nightclub Joke Literally
- Apr21SevereAbuse of PowerTrump's DOJ Indicts the Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 Fraud Counts for Tracking Hate Groups
- Apr21SevereRewriting HistoryState Department Legal Memo Says the U.S. Joined the Iran War 'at the Request of' Israel, After Trump Said Israel Never Talked Him Into It
- Apr21ModerateCorruption & ConflictsTrump Turns the Tariff Refund Process Into a Loyalty Test, Telling Companies That Don't Claim Their Court-Ordered Refunds That He Will 'Remember Them'
- Apr21SeriousPublic HealthHegseth Ends the Military Flu Vaccine Requirement That Has Existed Since George Washington, During an Active War
- Apr21AbsurdNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementFive-Time Draft Dodger Trump Brags He 'Would Have Won Vietnam, Very Quickly' While Claiming His Iran War Is Five Months Old (It Was Seven Weeks)
- Apr21ModerateAbuse of PowerTrump Says 'I Expect to Be Bombing' in the Morning, Then Extends the Iran Ceasefire Indefinitely That Afternoon
- Apr21ModerateCharacter & DishonestyTucker Carlson Apologizes for Endorsing Trump: 'I'm Sorry for Misleading People. We'll Be Tormented by It for a Long Time.'
- Apr21SeriousDemocracy & Rule of Law250+ Journalists Demand the WHCA Call Out Trump at the Correspondents' Dinner. The WHCA Replaced the Comedian With a Mentalist Instead.
- Apr20ConcerningAbuse of PowerThe Army Raises Its Enlistment Age to 42 for the First Time Since Iraq and Afghanistan, Announced During the Iran War
- Apr20SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Invokes the Wartime Defense Production Act for Oil, Coal, and Gas in the Most Expansive Use of the Law for Fossil Fuels in History
- Apr20SeriousAbuse of PowerIran Refuses to Negotiate After Trump Seizes a Ship and Threatens to 'Blow Up the Whole Country'
- Apr20SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump Pardoned a Nursing Home Owner Whose Residents Were Found in Feces With Maggots. He Paid $1M to Lobbyists for the Pardon.
- Apr20SeriousCorruption & ConflictsA Court Forces Trump to Refund $166 Billion in Unconstitutional Tariffs, but Only Businesses Get the Money
- Apr20ModerateCharacter & DishonestyTrump Says Vance Isn't Going to Pakistan, Then Says He Is, Then Vance Is Spotted at the White House
- Apr20SeriousAbuse of PowerSusie Wiles Summons GOP Consultants to an Emergency Meeting at the Waldorf as Trump's Approval Hits 37%
- Apr19SevereDemocracy & Rule of LawFBI Director Patel Announces Imminent Arrests Over the '2020 Rigged Election,' Based on Claims Already Rejected by 60+ Courts
- Apr19SevereAbuse of PowerThe Wall Street Journal Reports Trump's Aides Physically Kept Him Out of the Situation Room Because 'His Impatience Wouldn't Be Helpful'
- Apr19SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump Considers a Financial Lifeline for the UAE, Whose Royal-Backed Firm Bought Half of His Family's Crypto Company
- Apr18SeriousPublic HealthFederal Judge Voids RFK's Trans Care Ban as 'Unlawful,' Calls HHS Argument 'a Bald-Faced Lie' to the Court
- Apr18SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawA Judge Rules Bondi and Noem Violated the First Amendment by Pressuring Facebook and Apple to Remove ICE-Tracking Groups
- Apr18SevereAbuse of PowerTrump Declares a 'Great Victory' on Iran. Twelve Hours Later, Iran Fires on Ships and Re-Closes the Strait of Hormuz.
- Apr18SeriousAbuse of PowerUkraine Gives Up on Trump, Signs 10-Year Defense Deals With Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and Deploys Drone Specialists to the Gulf
- Apr18CatastrophicAbuse of PowerA Whistleblower Book Reveals Trump Appointees Thought USAID 'Did Abortions' Before Musk 'Fed It Into the Wood Chipper'
- Apr17SevereDemocracy & Rule of LawThe DOJ Subpoenaed Fulton County for the Home Addresses and Phone Numbers of Nearly 3,000 People Who Worked the 2020 Election. A Trump-Appointed Judge Quashed It.
- Apr17ModerateAbuse of PowerA DOGE Whistleblower Sues Musk for Defamation Over a Post Calling a False Whistleblower Claim 'a Serious Crime'
- Apr17SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump's DOJ Is Now 0-for-21 on Voter Roll Lawsuits, Losing Every Resolved Case for Access to States' Voter Rolls
- Apr17SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Blocks Appointments to the Voting Equipment Standards Committee, Leaving Nearly Half Its Seats Vacant Before the Midterms
- Apr17SeriousAbuse of PowerIran Declares the Strait of Hormuz 'Completely Open' and Oil Plunges 10%, but Trump Says the Blockade 'Will Remain in Full Force'
- Apr17SeriousAbuse of PowerThe Atlantic Reports FBI Director Patel Drinks to 'Obvious Intoxication' and His Security Detail Requested Breaching Equipment to Reach Him
- Apr17SevereCorruption & ConflictsRaskin Launches an Investigation Into Kushner for Negotiating the Iran War While Running a $6.2B Fund Bankrolled by Saudi Arabia
- Apr17ModeratePublic HealthRFK Jr. Tells Congress 'I've Never Been Anti-Vaccine' as Measles Cases Pass 1,700, With His Own Recorded Quotes Contradicting Him
- Apr17ConcerningCorruption & ConflictsFresh Tomato Prices Hit an Eight-Year High After Trump Ended Free Trade With Mexico, Up 23% in One Year
- Apr17AbsurdNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump Demands the Media Say 'JOB WELL DONE, MR. PRESIDENT' on Iran, Then Accidentally Calls His Own Presidency 'An Embarrassment'
- Apr17ModerateRewriting HistoryTrump Claims Iran 'Agreed to Everything' Before the Market Close; Iran Immediately Denies It as 'Alternative Facts,' as Axios Reports a $20B Asset Unfreeze in Negotiation
- Apr17SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump's PAC Has Spent $60M+ in Donor Money on His Legal Fees and Is Now Nominating Lawyers It Owes Money to for Lifetime Judgeships
- Apr16ConcerningPublic HealthRFK Calls Medicaid Family Caregivers 'Rife With Fraud' for Tasks They 'Used To Do for Free'
- Apr16SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementAn ICE Agent Is Charged With Two Felonies for Pointing His Gun at Motorists on a Minneapolis Highway During Operation Metro Surge
- Apr16SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementICE's Own Data Shows 39% of Arrests Had No Criminal Record, Contradicting Trump's 'Worst of the Worst' Claims
- Apr16SeriousAbuse of PowerSailors Enforcing Trump's Iran Blockade Are Going Hungry as 'USS Hunger Games' Photos Go Viral
- Apr16ModerateRewriting HistoryRFK Jr. Claims Everyone Who Lost Health Insurance Is an Illegal Immigrant. They Were Never Eligible for the ACA.
- Apr16ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Demands Fox News Fire Jessica Tarlov, Calling Her the 'Least Attractive and Talented' Person on TV, After She Cited His Own Poll Numbers
- Apr16ConcerningRewriting HistoryTrump Fabricates That Pope Said 'Iran Can Have a Nuclear Weapon'; PolitiFact Rates the Claim 'Pants on Fire'
- Apr16ModerateRewriting HistoryTrump Calls War-Driven Inflation 'Fake' While Standing in Las Vegas With $5 Gas; Tells Tipped Workers 'You're Welcome,' Though 37% Get Zero Benefit
- Apr16AbsurdNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump Asks 'What's a Corner Store?' and Says Poorer People 'Don't Think in Terms of Deductions,' While Promoting a Tax Bill That Mostly Benefits the Wealthy
- Apr15SeriousAbuse of PowerTreasury Secretary Bessent Announces 'Operation Economic Fury' and Calls It 'the Financial Equivalent of Bombing' Iran
- Apr15SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump's Administration Cancels an $11M Catholic Charities Contract for Migrant Children Amid the Pope Feud, Shutting Down a 60-Year Program
- Apr15SeriousAbuse of PowerThe Eighth Circuit Rules Trump's Executive Orders 'Are Not Law' and Rejects a Trans Athlete Ban, With Two Trump Appointees on the Panel
- Apr15SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Posted 'KILL FISA' in 2024. Now He's Pushing a Clean Extension With No Privacy Reforms While FBI Searches of Americans Are Up 34%.
- Apr15SeriousAbuse of PowerGabbard Declassifies Impeachment Documents and Refers the Whistleblower and Inspector General for Criminal Prosecution as Trump Pushes to 'Expunge' His First Impeachment
- Apr15SeriousCorruption & ConflictsInterior Helped Write Mike Lee's Public Lands Sell-Off Pitch. Then Burgum Said Land Sales Were Not 'Part of the President's Agenda'
- Apr15ModerateAbuse of PowerStephen Miller Calls the Iran Blockade 'a 100-Year Reset' and Says It Can Continue 'Indefinitely.' His Pre-Election Posts Said 'Trump = Peace.'
- Apr15ConcerningCorruption & ConflictsNetgear Gets a Mysterious Exemption to the FCC Router Ban Nobody Can Explain, Creating a De Facto Monopoly
- Apr15AbsurdNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump Defiantly Posts a Second AI Jesus Image Days After Deleting the First; the Original Caption Used QAnon-Adjacent Language
- Apr14SeriousCorruption & ConflictsBlanche Goes on Fox News and Redefines 2.5 Million Unreleased Epstein Pages as 'Not Epstein Files' While 15 Survivors Push Back
- Apr14SeriousCorruption & ConflictsBondi Fails to Show Up for Her Epstein Deposition While Her Social Media Still Lists Her as Attorney General
- Apr14SeriousAbuse of PowerFederal Workers Across Multiple Agencies Report Being Inundated With Religion as the OPM Officially Permits Workplace Proselytizing
- Apr14SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump-Appointed Judges Blocked the Contempt Probe Into Officials Who Defied a Court Order on Deportation Flights, and the Full Appeals Court Is Now Reconsidering
- Apr14SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump's Debanking Order Would Require Banks to Verify Citizenship, but the 10 States With the Lowest Passport Rates All Voted for Him
- Apr14CatastrophicDemocracy & Rule of LawThe DOJ Moves to Fully Erase the Seditious Conspiracy Convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers Leaders So They Can Never Be Re-Prosecuted
- Apr14SeriousAbuse of PowerAt Least Seven Ships Defy Trump's Iran Blockade on Day One, Including a Sanctioned Chinese Tanker, as CENTCOM Claims 'No Ships Got Past'
- Apr14SeriousAbuse of PowerA Second Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Pleads Guilty to Child Sexual Exploitation After Trying to Use Trump's Pardon to Escape the Charges
- Apr14SeriousCorruption & ConflictsA Peer-Reviewed Study Finds Trump's Tariffs Dealt an Economic Blow in All 50 States as Agricultural Exports to China Collapsed From $12B to $5.5B
- Apr14SeriousRacism & XenophobiaLawsuit Alleges Trump Fired 75% of Black Officials at Independent Agencies While Retaining 73% of White Officials, in 'A Pattern of Discrimination'
- Apr14ModerateCharacter & DishonestyTrump Turns on His Last European Ally, Calling Meloni 'Unacceptable' and Saying 'I Was Wrong About Her,' After She Criticized His Attack on the Pope
- Apr14ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyVance Is Heckled at a Quarter-Full Turning Point USA Event in Athens; Heckler: 'Jesus Christ Does Not Support Genocide!'
- Apr14AbsurdThe Absurd MomentsCatholic Convert Vance Tells the Pope to 'Be Careful' About Theology; Pope Leo Led St. Augustine's Order for a Decade and Wrote His Doctorate on Augustine
- Apr14SeriousAbuse of PowerVance Calls Ending Ukraine Aid 'One of the Proudest' Achievements of the Trump Administration, as U.S. Military Aid to Ukraine Has Dropped 99%
- Apr14ConcerningCorruption & ConflictsWholesale Inflation Hits a 3-Year High at 4.0% PPI; Gasoline Up 15.7% in One Month, With the Iran War Driving Nearly Half the Increase
- Apr13ModerateRewriting HistoryTrump's 2026 Economic Report Claims 1.7% Inflation by Dividing Two Months of Data by Three. The Actual Figure Was 2.6%.
- Apr13SeriousCorruption & ConflictsFederal Reserve Economists Find Trump's Tariffs Explain the 'Entirety' of Excess Inflation in Consumer Goods
- Apr13SeriousCorruption & ConflictsProcess Servers Tried 14 Times to Hand Elon Musk a DOGE Deposition Subpoena While the Justice Department Fought to Keep Him From Testifying
- Apr13ModerateCharacter & DishonestyBritain Refuses to Join Trump's Hormuz Blockade, Saying 'We're Not Getting Dragged Into the War,' as It and France Plan a Separate Shipping Summit
- Apr13ConcerningAbuse of PowerNetanyahu Says the Trump Administration Briefs Him on the Iran Talks 'in Detail, as This Administration Does Every Day'
- Apr13SevereDemocracy & Rule of LawProPublica Finds Nearly All of the 75 Officials Who Protected the 2020 Election Are Gone, Replaced by About Two Dozen Trump Picks Tied to Election Denial
- Apr13ModerateRewriting HistoryTrump Admits Gas Prices Won't Drop Before the Midterms, Then Borrows the Biden Price Gouging Playbook He Spent Years Mocking
- Apr13AbsurdNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump Derails His Own Tax Event by Pressing a DoorDash Driver About Transgender Athletes. She Responds: 'I'm Here About No Tax on Tips.'
- Apr13ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyJudge Tosses Trump's $10 Billion Defamation Lawsuit Against the WSJ and Murdoch Over an Epstein Birthday Letter; Trump Refiles in Miami a Month Later
- Apr13SevereCorruption & ConflictsAP: The Trump Organization Has Done Eight Foreign Deals in His Second Term, After Zero in His First
- Apr13AbsurdCharacter & DishonestyTrump, 79, Stops a Golf Cart to Ogle a Married Woman in Front of His 17-Year-Old Grandson: 'She's in Great Shape!'
- Apr13AbsurdThe Absurd MomentsVance Accidentally Admits Trump's Iran Blockade Is 'Economic Terrorism': 'Two Can Play at That Game'
- Apr12ConcerningDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump's Ally Viktor Orban Loses the Hungarian Election After 16 Years Despite Trump Pledging 'Full Economic Might' and a Vance Campaign Visit
- Apr12AbsurdNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump Posts an AI-Generated Image of Himself as Jesus Christ Hours After Attacking the Pope. MTG: 'It's More Than Blasphemy. It's an Antichrist Spirit.'
- Apr12ModerateCharacter & DishonestyTrump Calls Pope Leo XIV 'WEAK on Crime,' Claims the Church Made Him Pope to 'Deal With' Trump; Pope Responds, 'I Have No Fear'
- Apr12ConcerningAbuse of PowerTrump Says China Will Face a 50% Tariff 'If We Catch Them' Sending Shoulder-Fired Missiles to Iran
- Apr12SevereAbuse of PowerVance-Led Iran Negotiations Collapse After 21 Hours, and Trump Orders a Full Naval Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz; Oil Surges 7% to $103 a Barrel
- Apr11SevereAbuse of PowerKerry Reveals Netanyahu Pitched the Iran War to Bush, Obama, and Biden. All Three Refused. Trump Was the Only President Who Said Yes.
- Apr11ConcerningAbuse of PowerTrump Fires the Entire Presidio Trust Board, Terminating All 6 Biden Appointees 'Effective Immediately' in What Is Widely Seen as Pelosi Revenge
- Apr10SeriousCorruption & ConflictsConsumer Sentiment Hits the Lowest Level in the 74-Year History of the Michigan Survey, Worse Than the Great Recession or Biden's Worst
- Apr10ModerateCharacter & DishonestyTrump Attacks Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones as 'NUT JOBS' and 'LOSERS' as the MAGA Split Over Iran Deepens
- Apr10ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Posts a Graphic Surveillance Video of a Deadly Hammer Attack on Truth Social, Using the Victim's Death to Justify His Mass Deportation Agenda
- Apr9SeriousPublic HealthThe EPA Keeps Pushing Back Coal Ash Cleanup Deadlines, Moving Groundwater Monitoring at 189 Toxic Sites From 2028 to 2031
- Apr9DisputedAbuse of PowerReport Says Pentagon Gave the Pope's Envoy a 'Bitter Lecture' and Invoked the Avignon Papacy; the Vatican Calls the Account 'Completely Untrue'
- Apr9SeverePublic HealthThe CDC Refused to Publish a Study Showing COVID Vaccines Cut Hospitalizations by 55%, Though It Used the Same Method in a Flu Study a Week Earlier
- Apr9SeriousRewriting HistoryFinancial Times: The White House Pushed for the Iran Ceasefire While Trump Said in Public, 'They Are Begging to Make a Deal. Not Me.'
- Apr9SeriousCorruption & ConflictsAn Analysis Finds Trump's Federal Workforce Purge Cost the Economy More Than $165.6 Billion. The Partnership for Public Service Calls It 'The Cost of Chaos.'
- Apr9ModerateDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Revives the Greenland Takeover Threat Amid the NATO Rift, Calling It a 'Big, Poorly Run, Piece of Ice'
- Apr9SeriousAbuse of PowerHegseth Orders 300,000 Pentagon Workers' Union Contracts Terminated Within 24 Hours
- Apr9CatastrophicAbuse of PowerArmy Survivors Flatly Contradict Hegseth on the Kuwait Attack, Saying Deaths Were 'Absolutely' Preventable and the Unit Was 'Unprepared'
- Apr9ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyMelania Trump Uses the White House Podium to Deny Epstein Ties and Call for Congressional Hearings for His Survivors
- Apr8ModerateCharacter & DishonestyA Day After the Iran Ceasefire, Trump Warns the 'Shootin' Starts' if the Deal Is Broken and Says the Military Looks Forward to 'Its Next Conquest'
- Apr8SevereCorruption & ConflictsMelania and Noem Share a $70M Luxury Jet as What Insiders Call an 'Insurance Policy' Against Being Fired
- Apr8SevereCorruption & ConflictsThe DOJ Claims Bondi's Firing Means Her Epstein Subpoena No Longer Applies. Bipartisan Lawmakers: 'The Subpoena Was by Name, Not by Title.'
- Apr8SeriousAbuse of PowerA Book Reveals Trump's Cabinet Split Over Iran, With Vance Trying to Stop the War and Hegseth Pushing for It
- Apr8SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump's Pardon Attorney Claims Executive Privilege to Evade Personal Ethics Charges, Arguing He and the President Are 'Indistinguishable'
- Apr7SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Launches an 'Investigation' Into CNN for Reporting What Iran Said About the Ceasefire; FCC Chairman Calls for 'Change at CNN'
- Apr7ModerateCharacter & DishonestyVance Learned the Iran Strikes Had Actually Happened From a Reporter at His Own Press Conference: 'Unless I Have a Text Message From Steve Witkoff'
- Apr7SeriousAbuse of PowerMTG, Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, the NAACP, and 30+ Lawmakers All Call for Trump's Removal Over Iran
- Apr7CatastrophicAbuse of Power'A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight': Trump Declares 'Power Plant Day and Bridge Day' as 100+ Legal Experts Call It a War Crime
- Apr7SeriousAbuse of PowerHegseth Claims 'Complete Control of Iranian Skies' After an F-15 Is Shot Down, and Pentagon Officials Worry He's Misleading Trump Himself
- Apr6SeriousCharacter & DishonestyTrump's April 6 Press Conference: Called Biden the R-Word, Threatened to Jail Journalists, Said He'd Run for President of Venezuela, Claimed Iranians Want to Be Bombed, Dismissed War Crimes, Called Iranians 'Animals'
- Apr6SeriousAbuse of PowerHouse Democrats File Five Articles of Impeachment Against Hegseth for War Crimes, Signalgate, and Obstruction of Congress
- Apr6ModerateCorruption & ConflictsTrump Mobile Took $100 Deposits for a Gold 'T1' Phone, Then Quietly Added a Clause Saying It Might Never Be Built
- Apr5SeriousAbuse of PowerThe Trump Administration Pressures Planet Labs to Indefinitely Withhold All Satellite Imagery of the Iran War
- Apr5SevereDemocracy & Rule of LawThe Administration Turned an Immigration Database Into a Voter Citizenship Checker. A Judge Vacated It, and the Supreme Court Put It Back.
- Apr5ModerateCharacter & DishonestyTrump's Easter: An F-Bomb Threat to Iran, a Post Signed 'Praise Be to Allah,' and No Church; MTG Says 'He Has Gone Insane'
- Apr4ConcerningICE & Immigration EnforcementRubio Revokes the Green Cards of Soleimani's Niece and Daughter as ICE Arrests Legal Permanent Residents in a Wartime Visa Purge
- Apr4SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Bypasses Congress to Pay DHS Workers in Apparent Violation of the Antideficiency Act
- Apr4SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump's FBI Budget Requests $166M to Target 'Gender Extremism' as Domestic Terrorism, With a 5,000-Person Watchlist and 300% More Investigations
- Apr3ConcerningRacism & XenophobiaA Judge Blocks Trump's Demand for Race-Based Admissions Data From Public Colleges in 17 States, Calling the Rollout 'Rushed and Chaotic'
- Apr3SeriousAbuse of PowerIran Peace Talks Collapse After Trump Orders Strikes During Negotiations, Undermining His Own Diplomatic Effort
- Apr3SeriousCorruption & ConflictsActing AG Blanche Claims 'All' Epstein Files Have Been Released. The DOJ's Own Records Show Only 50%.
- Apr3SeriousAbuse of PowerActive-Duty Marines Call Hegseth's Pentagon the 'Department of War Crimes' and Staffers Call Him 'Dumb McNamara'
- Apr3ModerateRewriting HistoryTrump Said Iran Had 'No Anti Aircraft Equipment.' Two Days Later an F-15E Was Shot Down Over Iran, and Three Days After That He Said It Again
- Apr3ModerateAbuse of PowerTrump's FY2027 Budget Requests $1.5 Trillion for the Military While Cutting the EPA by 52%, Eliminating CISA Election Security, and Zeroing Out LIHEAP
- Apr2SevereAbuse of PowerTrump Fires AG Pam Bondi Over the Epstein Debacle and Installs His Own Defense Lawyer, Who Negotiated Maxwell's Sweetheart Deal, as Acting AG
- Apr2ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump's White House Stops Paying Interns, Ending Biden's Stipends and Asking for at Least 45 Hours a Week
- Apr2SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump's Sons Back a Drone Company Pitching Interceptors to Gulf States Under Iranian Attack in a War Their Father Began
- Apr2SevereAbuse of PowerHegseth Fires the Army Chief of Staff During an Active War for Questioning the Iran Campaign's Strategic Goals
- Apr2ConcerningAbuse of PowerHegseth Lifts the Gun Ban on Military Bases, Reversing a Policy That Stood Through Multiple Mass Shootings at Military Installations
- Apr2SevereAbuse of PowerThe Man Indicted for Stealing Classified Documents Just Had His DOJ Declare the Presidential Records Act Unconstitutional
- Apr2SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump's Drug Tariffs Reach 100%, But Only on Patented Medicines and Only for Companies That Did Not Cut a Deal With the White House
- Apr2SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump's VA Killed a Mortgage Rescue Program; 10,000+ Veterans Have Lost Their Homes, and 90,000 More Are at Risk
- Apr1ModerateRewriting HistoryTrump's Primetime Iran War Address Claims Operations Are 'Nearing Completion' and Threatens to Destroy All Power Plants, Even as Only 28% of Americans Support the War
- Apr1ModerateNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementWhite House Accidentally Uploads Trump's Private Easter Speech: 'If I Was a King, We'd Be Doing a Lot More'; Also: 'I'm Gonna Tell Everybody How Great I Am'
- Apr1SeriousPublic HealthTrump Tells OMB to Stop Funding Daycare Because 'We're Fighting Wars,' Then Extends the Same Logic to Medicare and Medicaid
- Apr1ConcerningThe Absurd MomentsTrump's FEMA Disaster Response Chief Believes He Can Teleport to Waffle Houses and Starred in the Debunked Film '2000 Mules'
- Apr1ModerateCharacter & DishonestyIran's President Bypasses Trump, Addresses American People Directly: 'Is America First Truly Among the Priorities of the U.S. Government Today?'
- Apr1SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump Admits His Presidential 'Library' Will 'Most Likely' Be a Hotel, Built on $67 Million of Public Land Transferred to Him for $10
- Apr1ModerateCharacter & DishonestyTrump Storms Out of the Supreme Court After His Own Justices Tear His Birthright Citizenship Case Apart, Then Posts 'STUPID' on Truth Social
- Apr1SevereAbuse of PowerThe Pentagon Is Hiding Iran War Casualties: Official Count Says 303 Wounded, but the Actual Total May Exceed 750
- Apr1SeriousAbuse of PowerBritish Officials Have Started Withholding Intelligence From Washington, Five Months After the U.K. Cut Off Caribbean Targeting Data
- Apr1SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Says He Is 'Strongly Considering' Pulling the U.S. Out of NATO, Calling It a 'Paper Tiger' That Is 'Beyond Reconsideration'
March 2026
- Mar31DisputedDemocracy & Rule of LawA Journalist Says Kennedy Center Security Detained Him for Booing Trump at the 'Chicago' Opening
- Mar31SevereDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Signs an Executive Order Creating Federal Voter Lists and Restricting Mail-In Voting; States Immediately Refuse to Comply
- Mar31SeverePublic HealthThe Forest Service Will Close 57 Research Stations and Move Its Headquarters From Washington to Salt Lake City
- Mar31SeriousAbuse of PowerGas Prices Cross $4 as the Iran War Costs Average Families $740-$857 More Per Year, With Fertilizer Up 40% and the Tax Cut Eaten by War
- Mar31ModerateCorruption & ConflictsFederal Prosecutors Now Decline Three of Every Four Fraud Referrals, the Lowest Rate Since Records Began in 1986, While Reported Fraud Losses Hit a Record $15.9 Billion
- Mar31SeriousCorruption & ConflictsHegseth's Broker Sought a Multimillion-Dollar Defense Stock Investment Before the Iran War Began
- Mar31SevereAbuse of PowerBondi's DOJ Quietly Dropped 23,000 Criminal Cases Including 1,300 Terrorism Cases to Redirect Resources to Immigration
- Mar31SeriousCorruption & ConflictsThe CEOs Who Flanked Trump at His Inauguration Got $51 Billion in Tax Breaks and Paid 4.9% on $315 Billion in Profits
- Mar31SevereAbuse of PowerPatel Fires About a Dozen FBI Staff From the Trump Documents Case After Revealing That Smith's Team Subpoenaed His Phone Records
- Mar31SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawJudge Rules Trump Cannot Escape the Jan. 6 Civil Lawsuit Because His Ellipse Speech and Raffensperger Call Were Not Official Acts
- Mar30SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Threatens to Destroy Iran's Desalination Plants, Targeting Civilian Drinking Water Infrastructure That International Law Experts Call a 'Textbook War Crime'
- Mar30SeriousPublic HealthRepublicans Propose Cutting Healthcare to Fund $200 Billion for Trump's Iran War, and 300,000 More Americans Could Lose Coverage
- Mar30CatastrophicAbuse of PowerTrump Weighs Sending Troops Into Iran to Seize 1,000 Pounds of Enriched Uranium, Enough for 10 Nuclear Bombs, After Claiming He Already 'Obliterated' the Program
- Mar30ModerateCorruption & ConflictsBig Oil Profits Surge Past $100 Billion as the Iran War Drives Oil Above $100/Barrel and Gas Past $4
- Mar30DisputedCorruption & ConflictsTrump's Pre-Market Iran Posts Coincided With a $900 Billion Swing and a $3 Trillion Move in 56 Minutes; Whether They Were Timed to Move Markets Is Unproven
- Mar29SeriousAbuse of PowerHegseth Carries a 'Deus Vult' Bible, Quotes Pulp Fiction as Scripture at the Pentagon, and 200+ Troops Report Religious Coercion
- Mar28SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump's Golf Tab Crosses $100 Million in Taxpayer Money After 110 Days on His Own Courses
- Mar27SevereRacism & XenophobiaHegseth Strikes Black and Female Officers From Military Promotion Lists in What the Pentagon Calls a 'Merit-Based' Review
- Mar27SeriousRacism & XenophobiaBlack Farmers Are Shut Out of a Trump White House Event as the USDA Cancels Their $300M Program
- Mar27SeriousCharacter & DishonestyFBI Director Kash Patel's Email Is Hacked by Iran, Raising Questions About the Security Practices of America's Top Law Enforcement Official
- Mar27SeriousCorruption & ConflictsMusk Joins a Trump-Modi Phone Call About the Iran War Despite Having No Government Title or Security Clearance for the Topic
- Mar27CatastrophicAbuse of PowerTrump Weighs Sending 10,000 More Ground Troops to Iran as the 82nd Airborne Deploys Without Congressional Authorization
- Mar27AbsurdCharacter & DishonestyTrump Tells Room Full of World Leaders and Investors 'You Can Talk Sex, Whatever the Hell You Want' at Saudi-Backed Summit
- Mar26ConcerningThe Absurd MomentsWhite House Posts Cryptic 'Launching Soon' Videos During the Iran War, Sparking Panic and Russian Disinformation; the Reveal Was a Propaganda App With an ICE Tip Line
- Mar26SevereDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Holds DHS Hostage for 40+ Days, Demanding a Voter Suppression Bill That Could Disenfranchise 21 Million Americans Before He Will Fund TSA
- Mar26ModerateNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump's Signature Will Appear on All U.S. Paper Currency, Replacing the Treasurer's Name and Making Him the First Sitting President in 165 Years to Do So
- Mar25SevereCorruption & ConflictsJack Smith's Memo Reveals Trump Stole Classified Documents to Advance Business Interests and Showed a Secret Map on a Plane
- Mar25AbsurdNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementHouse Republicans Invent a Brand-New 'America First Award' for the Express Purpose of Giving It to Trump, a Golden Eagle Statue for the 'Golden Era'
- Mar25SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Deploys ICE to 14 Airports and Threatens to Send the National Guard, as Agents Are Photographed Sipping Starbucks While Unpaid TSA Workers Screen Passengers
- Mar25ModerateCharacter & DishonestyTrump Says He Doesn't Want a Ceasefire With Iran, Then Proposes a 15-Point Ceasefire Plan; Iran Rejects It and the White House Denies It Exists
- Mar25ModerateCharacter & DishonestyTrump Admits He Knew the Iran War Would Raise Prices and Tank Markets, Saying It 'Didn't Matter to Me'
- Mar25AbsurdRewriting HistoryTrump, Melania, and Barron All Voted by Mail in Florida Days Before Trump Called Mail-In Voting 'Cheating'; a Democrat Then Flipped His Home District
- Mar24ConcerningAbuse of PowerTrump Cabinet Members Retreat Behind Military Gates. A Harvard Professor: 'Something You Never See in a Democracy.'
- Mar24SevereCorruption & ConflictsA Suspicious $580 Million Oil Futures Trade Was Made 15 Minutes Before Trump's Iran Reversal, and the CFTC Is Now Investigating a Pattern
- Mar24SeriousRacism & XenophobiaStephen Miller Pushes to End Public Education for Undocumented Children, Overturning a 1982 Supreme Court Ruling
- Mar24SeriousCorruption & ConflictsOn Noem's Last Day, DHS Bought Five Planes From Her PAC Donor's Firm for Millions More Than It Paid
- Mar24SeriousAbuse of PowerRepublican Senator Reveals Trump Personally Blocked Bipartisan Deal to End DHS Shutdown and Pay TSA Workers
- Mar24ModerateCharacter & DishonestyTrump Boasts Iran Gave Him a 'Very Big Present'; It Was a Few Tankers Passing Through Hormuz, and Iran Denied Everything Before Launching Missiles
- Mar23SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawThe Pentagon Imposes New Rules Requiring Reporter Escorts and Banning Source Anonymity, Even for Unclassified Information. A Judge Calls It 'Viewpoint Discrimination.'
- Mar23ModerateCharacter & DishonestyTrump Publicly Blames Hegseth for Starting the Iran War at a Memphis Roundtable, With the Defense Secretary Sitting Right Next to Him
- Mar22ModerateDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Calls the Democratic Party 'The Greatest Enemy America Has'; Jeffries Responds, 'Keep His Reckless Mouth Shut Before He Gets Somebody Killed'
- Mar21SeriousAbuse of PowerIran Strikes Israeli Cities Near a Nuclear Facility, Injuring 180 People in Retaliation for U.S.-Israeli Strikes
- Mar21ModerateCharacter & DishonestyTrump Celebrates Robert Mueller's Death: 'Good, I'm Glad He's Dead'
- Mar21SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Gives Iran 48-Hour Ultimatum: 'Obliterate' Their Power Plants If Strait of Hormuz Doesn't Open
- Mar20SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump's HHS Altered a Social Security Inspector General Report to Hide DOGE Damage; Real Wait Times Were 46 Minutes to 2 Hours, Not 10
- Mar20ModerateCharacter & DishonestyTrump Calls NATO Allies 'COWARDS' for Refusing to Help Fight His War, Then Says He Doesn't Need Them Anyway
- Mar19AbsurdThe Absurd MomentsDOGE Used ChatGPT to Cancel a $349,000 Museum HVAC Grant Because AI Decided Air Conditioning Is DEI
- Mar19ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Makes a Pearl Harbor Joke to the Japanese Prime Minister's Face: 'Why Didn't You Tell Me About Pearl Harbor?'
- Mar18SeriousCorruption & ConflictsDemocrats Walk Out of Bondi's Epstein Briefing After She Refuses to Commit to Complying With Her Subpoena
- Mar18SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump's Own Intelligence Director Refuses to Say Iran Was an 'Imminent Threat,' Then Confirms Iran Wasn't Rebuilding Its Enrichment Program
- Mar18ConcerningAbuse of PowerTrump's Own Intelligence Chiefs Publicly Contradict His Envoy's Claim That the U.S. Can 'Take Putin at His Word'
- Mar18ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump's DHS Nominee Markwayne Mullin Is Accused of Stolen Valor Over War Remarks Despite Never Having Served
- Mar18SeriousCorruption & ConflictsThe National Debt Crosses $39 Trillion Under Trump as the Annual Deficit Exceeds $2 Trillion
- Mar18ModerateCorruption & ConflictsPowell Says Tariffs Are 'Some Big Chunk' of Core Inflation, While Insisting a One Time Price Increase Is Not the Same Thing as Inflation
- Mar17SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump's Own Counterterrorism Chief Joe Kent Resigns Over Iran, Saying the War 'Serves No Benefit to the American People'
- Mar17CatastrophicDemocracy & Rule of LawWorld's Leading Democracy Watchdog Downgrades the U.S. to 'Electoral Autocracy,' the Country's Worst Democratic Standing Since 1965
- Mar16SeriousPublic HealthA Federal Judge Blocks RFK Jr.'s Vaccine Schedule Overhaul, Finding It Likely Violated Federal Law and the New Vaccine Panel Was 'Distinctly Unqualified'
- Mar16SevereICE & Immigration EnforcementA 19-Year-Old Mexican Teen Dies of 'Presumed Suicide' in ICE Custody at the Glades Detention Center, the Youngest Death Since Trump's Second Term Began
- Mar16SeriousAbuse of PowerThe Jan. 6 Pipe Bomber Claims Trump's Blanket Pardon Covers His Case
- Mar16SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawThree Weeks Into the Iran War, Republicans Resist Democrats' Demands for Public Hearings
- Mar16ModerateCharacter & DishonestyTrump Reaffirms His Backing of Michael Whatley Hours After Being Asked About the NC GOP's Ties to a Convicted Child Sex Offender
- Mar16ConcerningRewriting HistoryTrump, 79, Falsely Claims He Predicted the 9/11 Attacks; His Own Book Proves Otherwise
- Mar16ModerateCharacter & DishonestyTrump Claims a Former President Privately Told Him 'I Wish I Did It' About the Iran War; All Four Living Ex-Presidents Deny It
- Mar16SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Creates a 'Fraud Task Force' Led by Vance Whose Executive Order Explicitly Targets Democratic States
- Mar15ModerateCorruption & ConflictsGas Prices Surge to Trump-Era Highs as the Iran War Disrupts 20% of the World's Oil Supply Through the Strait of Hormuz
- Mar15ModerateCharacter & DishonestyTrump Says the U.S. May Hit Iran's Kharg Island Again 'Just for Fun'; the Hub Handles 90% of Iran's Crude Exports
- Mar14SeriousCorruption & ConflictsThe Pentagon Awards a $20B Sole-Source Contract to Anduril Days After Jared Kushner's Brother Co-Led a $4B Investment in the Company
- Mar14SevereCorruption & ConflictsTwo DOGE Staffers Testified They Never Reduced the Deficit, and One Said He Had No Regrets About People Losing Income
- Mar14SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawThe FCC Chair Threatens to Revoke Broadcasters' Licenses Over Iran War Coverage, and Trump Endorses the Threats
- Mar13SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawAnti-ICE Protesters Convicted of 'Material Support for Terrorism' After Prosecutors Argued Wearing Black Constituted Support
- Mar13ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Loyalist Grenell Resigns from Kennedy Center After Mass Artist Exodus and Plummeting Ticket Sales
- Mar13SeriousPublic HealthDeadly Tornadoes Hit Without FEMA's Tracking Tool After a $200K Contract Renewal Stalled in Noem's Spending Approval Process
- Mar13SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump Lifts Russian Oil Sanctions During the Iran War Oil Crisis as Democrats Call for an Investigation
- Mar13SeriousRacism & XenophobiaTrump Blames 'Genetics' for Violent Attacks in a Fox News Interview, Echoing Eugenics Rhetoric
- Mar13SeriousCharacter & DishonestyTrump Posts 'It Is My Great Honor to Be Killing Them' About Iranians, Says the War Ends When He 'Feels It in His Bones'
- Mar13SeriousAbuse of PowerJudge Blocks Trump DOJ Subpoenas Against Fed Chair Powell, Citing 'Mountain of Evidence' They Were Meant to Pressure Interest Rate Cuts
- Mar12SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawCornyn Flips on the Filibuster to Pass Trump's SAVE Act After Trump Said Banning Mail Ballots Will 'Guarantee the Midterms'
- Mar12ModerateCorruption & ConflictsTrump Fundraising Email Promises Donors 'Private National Security Briefings' for Payment
- Mar12SeriousRacism & XenophobiaUN Panel Accuses Trump by Name of 'Racist Hate Speech' Leading to 'Grave Human Rights Violations'
- Mar12SeriousPublic HealthHundreds of VA Mental Health Workers Leave Under Trump, and Some Veterans Wait Months for Therapy
- Mar11SevereCorruption & ConflictsCredit Bureau Errors Soar as the CFPB Is Gutted, Leaving 2.7 Million Consumer Complaints Without Relief
- Mar11ConcerningDemocracy & Rule of LawDemocrats Have Flipped 28 State Legislative Seats Since Trump Took Office. Republicans Have Flipped Zero.
- Mar11SevereAbuse of PowerDOGE Gutted the National Endowment for the Humanities in 22 Days Using ChatGPT, Terminating 97% of Grants Including Holocaust Research
- Mar11SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump's DOJ Revives a Dormant Program to Restore Gun Rights to Felons, and Includes an Indicted Alleged Fake Elector
- Mar11ConcerningDemocracy & Rule of LawSenate GOP Uses Hyper-Realistic AI Deepfake to Attack Texas Democratic Senate Candidate Talarico
- Mar11CatastrophicICE & Immigration EnforcementA Cuban Migrant's Death at ICE's Camp East Montana Is Ruled a Homicide After He Died of Asphyxiation in Custody
- Mar11SevereRewriting HistoryTrump Denies Bombing an Iranian Elementary School Where More Than 150 People Were Killed, Calling Reports 'Fake News' Despite Satellite Evidence
- Mar11SevereAbuse of PowerThe Pentagon Dismantled 90% of Its Civilian Protection Program Before the Iran War and Fired the Military Lawyers Who Provided Legal Guidance
- Mar10SeriousCorruption & ConflictsThe DOJ Dropped Its Antitrust Case Against Live Nation a Week Into Trial, and More Than 30 States Refused to Sign On
- Mar10SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump and Musk's Spending Cuts Weakened Cyber, Consular and Counterterrorism Capacity as the Iran War Began, Officials Told CNN
- Mar10ConcerningAbuse of PowerTrump Appoints Charlie Kirk's Widow to the Air Force Academy Board, and the White House Cites 'Bold Christian Faith' as the Qualification
- Mar10CatastrophicICE & Immigration EnforcementICE's Own Records Now List 57 Deaths in Custody Since Trump's Second Term Began, at a Death Rate Far Above Recent Years
- Mar9DisputedCharacter & DishonestyAn Independent Investigation Verifies Key Details From a Trump-Epstein Accuser's FBI Testimony, Confirming Named Associates, Locations, and Dates
- Mar9SeriousAbuse of PowerA Federal Judge Disqualifies NJ U.S. Attorney Leadership for the Second Time, Ruling Bondi's Workaround After Habba's Ouster Also Unlawful
- Mar9SeriousCorruption & ConflictsHegseth's Pentagon Spent $93 Billion in One Month on King Crab, Lobster, a $98K Piano, and $225M in Furniture While DOGE Cuts SNAP Benefits
- Mar9SeverePublic HealthKennedy Replaced All 17 CDC Vaccine Advisers, and the Panel He Appointed Rewrote the Childhood Schedule
- Mar9SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Says Ending the Iran War Will Be a 'Mutual' Decision With Netanyahu, Ceding U.S. War Authority to a Foreign Leader
- Mar8SeriousAbuse of PowerThe DHS Shutdown Hits Day 24 With 3.5-Hour TSA Lines, Unpaid Workers, and Suspended PreCheck During Spring Break
- Mar8ModerateRewriting HistoryOil Surges Past $100/Barrel and Gas Prices Hit a Trump-Era Record as He Dismisses Soaring Costs as 'a Little Glitch'
- Mar8SeriousAbuse of PowerSchedule F Takes Effect and 50,000+ Federal Workers Become At-Will Employees Who Lose Whistleblower Protections
- Mar8CatastrophicAbuse of PowerU.S. Forces Strike Targets on Three Continents in Three Days, Hitting Ecuador, Iran, Somalia, and a Civilian Boat in the Pacific
- Mar7SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Threatens a 'Friendly Takeover' of Cuba, Saying Regime Change Is 'a Question of Time' After Iran
- Mar6ModerateRewriting HistoryThe U.S. Economy Loses 92,000 Jobs in February, the Worst Month Since the Pandemic, as Gas Prices Hit a Trump-Era High
- Mar6SeriousPublic HealthThe EPA Falls to a 40-Year Staffing Low After Losing More Than 4,000 Employees, With Outsized Losses Among Ph.D.s and Health Staff
- Mar6ConcerningAbuse of PowerHegseth Bans Military Recruiting at Elite Universities Over DEI Policies and Threatens to Cut ROTC Programs
- Mar6SeriousAbuse of PowerRussia Is Sharing Intelligence With Iran to Target U.S. Troops, and Trump Dismisses the Reports While His Envoy Says to 'Take Russia at Their Word'
- Mar5SeriousAbuse of PowerCongress Narrowly Rejects Iran War Powers Resolutions Four Times, Then Fails by a Single Vote in the House
- Mar5SeriousCharacter & DishonestyDOJ Releases Previously Withheld Epstein FBI Files Describing Woman's Accusation That Trump Sexually Assaulted Her at Age 13
- Mar5SeriousCorruption & ConflictsA Whistleblower Complaint Alleges DNI Gabbard Bypassed Normal Channels on an NSA Intercept Involving Kushner and Iran
- Mar5SeriousAbuse of PowerJan 6 Rioter Pardoned by Trump Sentenced to Life in Prison for Sexually Abusing Middle-School Children After Release
- Mar5SeriousCorruption & ConflictsKristi Noem Is Fired as DHS Secretary After a $220 Million No-Bid Ad Campaign Scandal With a Contract Awarded to an 8-Day-Old GOP Firm
- Mar5SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump Pardons Wipe Nearly $2 Billion in Victim Restitution and Taxpayer Recovery, Leaving Fraud Victims With Nothing
- Mar5SevereCorruption & ConflictsProPublica Publishes 3,200 Disclosure Records Showing Trump Appointees' Ties to the Industries They Regulate
- Mar5SeriousAbuse of Power20+ States Sue Trump Over a New 15% Global Tariff That Uses a Never-Before-Invoked Law as an End-Run Around the Supreme Court
- Mar5SeriousCorruption & ConflictsInvestors Backed by a New Anti-Corruption Firm Sue Trump and Bondi, Saying the TikTok Deal Broke the Divestment Law and Rewarded Trump's Allies
- Mar5ModerateAbuse of PowerTrump Says He 'Must Be Involved' in Choosing Iran's Next Supreme Leader, Calls Khamenei's Son 'Unacceptable'
- Mar5SevereAbuse of PowerVA Cuts More Than 14,000 Medical Positions, and 1.2 Million Veterans Lose Their Providers as DOGE Plans 70,000 More Cuts
- Mar4SeriousAbuse of PowerBondi's DOJ Proposes Rule to Block State Bar Ethics Investigations of Government Lawyers Who Lie in Court
- Mar4SeriousCorruption & ConflictsThe House Oversight Committee Subpoenas AG Bondi Over Epstein Files in a Bipartisan 24-19 Vote Led by Republican Nancy Mace
- Mar4ModerateCharacter & DishonestyHegseth Slams the Media for Reporting Troop Deaths, Calling Coverage of U.S. Casualties 'Unpatriotic'
- Mar4SeverePublic HealthRepublican Medicaid Cuts Totaling $665 Billion Are Already Causing Rural Hospitals to Close Across Red States
- Mar4SeriousCorruption & ConflictsKash Patel Used an FBI Jet for 10+ Personal Trips Including the Milan Olympics, Where He Was Photographed With Beer in the Locker Room
- Mar3SeriousCorruption & ConflictsLabor Secretary Chavez-DeRemer Forced to Resign Over Strip Club Trips, Drinking, and Her Husband Sexually Assaulting Staffers
- Mar3SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementICE Training Is Slashed 40% and Firearms Training Halved While the Agency Ramps Up Enforcement to Record Levels
- Mar3ModerateRewriting HistoryThe Justification for Trump's Iran War Has Shifted Five Times in Six Weeks, From Nuclear Threat to Regime Change to 'Finishing the Job'
- Mar3SevereAbuse of PowerKash Patel Fired the FBI's Iran Counterintelligence Unit Days Before the Iran War. The Agents Had Been Purged for Investigating Mar-a-Lago Documents.
- Mar3ConcerningDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Allies Push to Invoke Emergency Powers Ahead of the 2026 Midterms and Send Federal Agents to the Polls
- Mar1SevereRacism & XenophobiaTrump Administration Systematically Dismantles Fair Housing Protections, Eliminating Disparate Impact Enforcement and Zeroing Out Funding
February 2026
- Feb28CatastrophicAbuse of PowerAn Untested PrSM Missile Was Used Near a School in Lamerd, Killing 21 People in What the Pentagon Called a 'Precision Strike'
- Feb28CatastrophicAbuse of PowerTrump Launches a War With Iran Without Congressional Approval, Killing the Supreme Leader, Bombing a School Full of Children, and Triggering a Regional War
- Feb28SevereCharacter & DishonestyTrump Launches Regime Change War in Iran After Years of Promising to 'End the Cycle of Regime Change'
- Feb27SevereAbuse of PowerIran Offered to Suspend Uranium Enrichment for Three to Five Years Before the War; Trump Rejected It and Launched the Strikes Instead
- Feb27ModerateDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Says He's 'Entitled' to an Illegal Third Term Because Democrats 'Cheated Like Hell' in 2020
- Feb26SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawPro-Trump Attorneys Draft Executive Order Declaring 'Election Emergency' to Ban Mail-In Ballots and Mandate Hand-Counted Ballots
- Feb26SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawA Trump Ally's Family Is Set to Control CNN, CBS, HBO, Paramount, and TikTok in the Largest Media Consolidation in American History
- Feb26SeriousRacism & XenophobiaTrump Says Reps. Omar and Tlaib Are 'LUNATICS' Who 'Look Like They Should Be Institutionalized,' Then Says 'Send Them Back'
- Feb25SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Administration Moves to Open FBI Case Files, Banking Records and Union Investigations to the CIA and Other Spy Agencies, Officials Say
- Feb25SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Withholds $259 Million in Medicaid Funding From Minnesota After the State Refuses to Comply With ICE Demands
- Feb25SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementCourts Found Trump's Third-Country Deportation Process Unlawful, and the Supreme Court Let It Resume While It Takes Up the Case
- Feb25ModerateRewriting HistoryTrump's 2026 State of the Union: Fact-Checkers Document Dozens of False Claims, Many Contradicted by His Own Website
- Feb24SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Uses His State of the Union to Call Democrats 'Crazy' and 'Sick People' Who Are 'Destroying Our Country' in the Longest, Most Partisan Address in History
- Feb24SevereCorruption & ConflictsTrump's DOJ Withheld 50+ Pages of Epstein Files About a Woman Who Accused Trump of Sexual Assault at Age 13
- Feb22ModerateCorruption & ConflictsNoem and Rumored Lover Lewandowski Tried to Suspend TSA PreCheck During the Shutdown Until the White House Overruled Them
- Feb22ModerateCorruption & ConflictsTrump Threatens Netflix to Fire Susan Rice 'Immediately, or Pay the Consequences,' While DOJ Reviews Their Merger
- Feb20AbsurdCharacter & DishonestyRepublican Congressman Calls Trump's 'Alien Files' Release the 'Ultimate Weapon of Mass Distraction' as Epstein Documents Drop
- Feb20SevereDemocracy & Rule of LawAfter the Supreme Court Strikes Down His Emergency Tariffs, Trump Attacks His Own Appointees and Reimposes Global Tariffs Under Another Law
- Feb19SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump Commits $10 Billion in US Taxpayer Money to His Board of Peace, Meeting in a Building Renamed After Himself
- Feb19ModerateDemocracy & Rule of LawCBS Blocks Colbert from Interviewing Democratic Candidate on Air After Trump's FCC Threatens 'Equal Time' Crackdown on Late-Night Shows
- Feb19SeriousCorruption & ConflictsDOGE Promised $2 Trillion in Savings but Delivered $215 Billion (Probably Less) as Congress Actually Increased Spending
- Feb19DisputedCorruption & ConflictsFBI Interviewed a Woman Four Times in 2019 About Her Allegation That Trump Sexually Assaulted Her as a Minor
- Feb19ModerateDemocracy & Rule of LawMusk's America PAC Faces Voter Fraud Allegations in Georgia After Canvassers Reportedly Fabricated Door-Knock Data
- Feb19AbsurdThe Absurd MomentsHHS Secretary RFK Jr. Posts a Shirtless Workout Video With Kid Rock While Running a $1.7 Trillion Department
- Feb19SeriousCorruption & ConflictsDespite Trump's Aggressive Tariffs, the U.S. Goods Trade Deficit Hits an All-Time Record of $1.24 Trillion
- Feb19ModerateDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Says the Quiet Part Out Loud: Eliminating Mail-In Ballots Means Republicans 'Will Never Lose a Race for 50 Years'
- Feb19ModerateNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump Hangs a Giant Banner of His Face on the Department of Justice Building, the Agency Meant to Be Independent of the President
- Feb19ModeratePublic HealthTrump Invokes Defense Production Act for Glyphosate, Whose Only Domestic Supplier Gave $1 Million to His Inauguration
- Feb19CatastrophicAbuse of PowerPentagon Prepared to Strike Iran 'As Early as This Weekend' as Trump Issues 10-15 Day Ultimatum
- Feb19AbsurdNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump Says He Deserves the Congressional Medal of Honor for Visiting Iraq: 'I Was Extremely Brave'
- Feb18SevereDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump's FCC Chairman Demands 'Pro-America Programming,' Declares 'Fake News' Loses Legal Protections, and Moves to Eliminate Media Ownership Caps
- Feb18SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Administration Freezes FEMA Disaster Deployments During DHS Shutdown Despite $7 Billion in Available Funds
- Feb18SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump's Top Economic Adviser Demands Fed Researchers Be 'Disciplined' for Study Showing Americans Pay 86% of Tariff Costs
- Feb16SeverePublic HealthThe FDA's Ability to Trace Food Outbreaks Fell From 77% to 36% After Staff Cuts, and Foreign Food Inspections Hit a Historic Low
- Feb14SeriousAbuse of PowerDHS Partial Shutdown Begins After Republicans Refuse ICE Oversight Reforms Following Deaths of Two US Citizens
- Feb14SeriousPublic HealthMusk's DOGE Releases Massive Medicaid Claims Database to the Public, Encouraging Random Internet Users to 'Find Fraud'
- Feb13SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Sends Second Aircraft Carrier to Middle East, Says Iran Regime Change 'Would Be the Best Thing That Could Happen'
- Feb13SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Vows Voter ID for the Midterms 'Whether Approved by Congress or Not' and Promises an Executive Order
- Feb12SeverePublic HealthEPA Revokes the 2009 Endangerment Finding That Underpins Federal Greenhouse Gas Rules
- Feb12AbsurdPublic HealthAmerica's Health Secretary RFK Jr. Brags About Snorting Cocaine Off Toilet Seats While Downplaying COVID
- Feb12SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump-Appointed Judge Blocks Transfer of 20 Biden-Commuted Death Row Inmates to Supermax ADX Florence
- Feb11SeriousCorruption & ConflictsBondi Brings Rep. Jayapal's Epstein Search History to a Hearing and Calls Raskin a 'Washed-Up, Loser Lawyer'
- Feb11SeriousAbuse of PowerCFPB Employee Fired for Asking DOGE Visitors to Identify Themselves and Protect Consumer Data
- Feb11ModerateAbuse of PowerHouse Votes 219-211 to Overturn Trump's Canada Tariffs, With Six Republicans Joining Democrats
- Feb11SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump Orders Pentagon to Buy Coal Power, Receives 'Undisputed Champion of Coal' Trophy, and Renames DOD 'the Department of War'
- Feb11SevereDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Accused Six Democrats of 'Seditious Behavior,' Then a Grand Jury Refused His DOJ's Bid to Indict Them
- Feb11SeriousCorruption & ConflictsCBO Projects Trump's Policies Add $1.4 Trillion to Deficits, With Debt on Track to Hit 120% of GDP
- Feb11SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Says 'Fake and Fraudulent Polling' Should Be 'Virtually, a Criminal Offence' and Adds a Times Poll to His Lawsuit
- Feb10SeriousAbuse of PowerA Grand Jury Refuses to Indict the Six Democratic Lawmakers Trump Called 'Traitors'
- Feb10SeriousCorruption & ConflictsLutnick Admits a 2012 Lunch on Epstein's Island After Saying He Cut Off Contact in 2005
- Feb10ModerateCharacter & DishonestyTrump Administration Orders the Pride Flag Removed From Stonewall, the First National Monument to LGBTQ Rights
- Feb9SeverePublic HealthTrump's CDC Moves to Cut $600 Million in Public Health Grants, Including HIV Programs, in Four Democrat-Led States; a Judge Blocks It
- Feb9SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Threatens to Block the Gordie Howe Bridge Canada Paid For, Saying the US Should Own 'at Least One Half'
- Feb9ConcerningCorruption & ConflictsGhislaine Maxwell's Lawyer Says She Will Testify Trump Is 'Innocent of Any Wrongdoing' if He Grants Her Clemency
- Feb8SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Shuts Democratic Governors Out of the White House's Bipartisan NGA Gathering, Breaking Decades of Tradition
- Feb8ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Calls US Olympic Skier Hunter Hess a 'Real Loser' for Expressing Mixed Feelings About Representing America
- Feb6SeriousAbuse of PowerA Judge Blocks Trump's Freeze of $10 Billion in Child Care and Welfare Aid to Five Democratic-Led States
- Feb6SevereAbuse of PowerTrump Freezes $2.2 Billion in Harvard Grants and Demands a $1 Billion Payment as the Pentagon Cuts Military Ties
- Feb6SeriousRacism & XenophobiaTrump Posts Racist Video Depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as Apes in Late-Night Social Media Rampage
- Feb5SevereAbuse of PowerNew START Expires With No Replacement After Trump Rejects Russia's Offer to Keep Its Limits for Up to a Year
- Feb5ConcerningDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Jokes at the National Prayer Breakfast That He Will Revoke the Tax-Exempt Status of Churches That 'Say Something Bad About Trump'
- Feb5SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawThe White House Won't Rule Out ICE at the Polls, and Denver Sues After Mullin Says Agents Could Serve Warrants There
- Feb4ModerateCorruption & ConflictsBessent Tells Congress He Didn't Write That 'Tariffs Are Inflationary,' but His 2024 Letter to Investors Says So
- Feb3SevereAbuse of PowerDHS Uses 'Judge-Free' Administrative Subpoenas to Unmask and Intimidate Trump Critics and People Documenting ICE Operations
- Feb2SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Calls to 'Nationalize' Elections, Will Only Accept 2026 Midterm Results 'If They Are Honest'
- Feb2SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Calls for Republicans to 'Nationalize Voting' and Seize Control from States
January 2026
- Jan30SevereDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump DOJ Arrests Four Including Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort
- Jan30ModerateCorruption & ConflictsDOJ Deletes Then Restores Epstein File With Trump Allegations After Going Viral
- Jan30SevereAbuse of PowerDOJ's Epstein Files Release Exposes Victims' Names and Nude Photos While Perpetrators' Names Stay Redacted
- Jan29SeriousAbuse of PowerState Department Officials Met Three Times With a Group Campaigning to Break Alberta Away From Canada
- Jan29ModerateCharacter & DishonestyTrump Admits He Wants to 'Drive Housing Prices Up' Despite Affordability Crisis
- Jan29SevereCorruption & ConflictsTrump Sues His Own Administration's IRS for $10 Billion Over Tax Leak
- Jan28SevereDemocracy & Rule of LawFBI Seizure of Fulton County 2020 Ballots
- Jan28ConcerningNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump Names Government Savings Accounts After Himself, Visa Partners to Promote Them
- Jan27ModerateRewriting HistoryTrump Orders National Parks to Remove Climate Change, Native American History, and Environmental Displays Nationwide
- Jan27SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump Hangs Framed Photo of Himself with Putin in White House
- Jan25SevereICE & Immigration EnforcementPam Bondi Letter to Minnesota on Immigration Enforcement
- Jan24CatastrophicICE & Immigration EnforcementAlex Pretti Shooting by Border Patrol in Minneapolis
- Jan22SevereRewriting HistoryRemoves Slavery Memorial at George Washington's President's House
- Jan16SeriousAbuse of PowerJustice Department Admits DOGE Mishandled Social Security Data, Backing Parts of a Whistleblower's Complaint
- Jan15SeriousCorruption & ConflictsThe Firm Building Trump's Ballroom Got a No-Bid Park Service Contract, Now $17.4 Million, for Lafayette Park Fountain Work Once Estimated at $3.3 Million
- Jan15AbsurdNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementMachado Hands Trump Her Nobel Peace Prize Medal at the White House, and He Says He Will Keep It
- Jan15ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Calls Former Special Counsel Jack Smith a 'Sick Son of a B*tch' from the White House Press Room
- Jan14ConcerningDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Tells Reuters 'We Shouldn't Even Have an Election' as His Party Faces the Midterms
- Jan14SevereCorruption & ConflictsVenezuelan Oil Sales in Qatar Offshore Account
- Jan11SeriousPublic HealthKennedy Calls California's Folic Acid Fortification, Aimed at Birth Defects in Latino Children, 'Insanity'
- Jan8SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Posts December Jobs Data 12 Hours Before Its Official Release, a Move an Economist Called 'Unprecedented'
- Jan7SevereICE & Immigration EnforcementAn ICE Officer Kills Renee Good in Minneapolis; Noem Calls It Domestic Terrorism and Trump Falsely Says She Ran Over the Officer
- Jan5SeverePublic HealthA Rebuilt Childhood Vaccine Schedule Moved 12 Vaccines Off Universal Recommendation Before a Judge Stayed It
- Jan5SeverePublic HealthAfter a Presidential Memo, HHS and CDC Cut the Number of Vaccines Recommended for All Children
- Jan5SeriousAbuse of PowerHegseth Censures Senator Mark Kelly and Moves to Cut His Retirement Pay for Reminding Troops They Can Refuse Illegal Orders
- Jan3CatastrophicAbuse of PowerTrump Launches a Military Operation to Capture Maduro and Says, 'We're Going to Run the Country'
2025
December 2025
- Dec31ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Rings in 2026 by Telling Colorado's Governor and a Republican DA to 'Rot in Hell' Over a Jailed Election Denier
- Dec22ModerateNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump-Class Navy Battleships Named After President
- Dec18ModerateNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementThe Kennedy Center Board Trump Chairs Adds His Name to the Building, and a Federal Judge Orders It Removed
- Dec18SeriousCorruption & ConflictsNoem's DHS Gave $1 Billion in Border Wall Contracts to a Company Once Accused of Smuggling and Arming Workers
- Dec17ModerateNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump Installs 'Presidential Walk of Fame' Plaques Calling Biden 'the Worst President in American History'
- Dec16ModerateCorruption & ConflictsTrump's Commerce Department Withdrew a Rule That Would Have Made Frontier AI Developers Report to the Government
- Dec16SeriousCharacter & DishonestyTrump Sues BBC for $10 Billion Over Panorama Documentary Edit
- Dec15ModerateNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementNew Federal Savings Accounts for Children, Seeded With $1,000, Are Named 'Trump Accounts'
- Dec12ModerateNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTreasury Unveils a $1 Gold Coin Bearing Trump's Image, Though Federal Law Bars Living People From U.S. Coins
- Dec11ConcerningNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump's Face Replaces Nature Photos on National Parks Pass
- Dec10ModerateNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump's Gold Card Visa Program Has Sold Just One Card in a Year After He Promised It Could Generate $50 Trillion and Erase the National Debt
- Dec9SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump, 79, Calls It 'Seditious, Perhaps Even Treasonous' to Question His Health, and Threatens the New York Times
- Dec6ModerateNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementRemoved MLK Day & Juneteenth as Free Park Days, Added Trump's Birthday
- Dec5ModerateCorruption & ConflictsTrump's Forest Service Chief Came From a Lumber Company, Then Signed a Deal to Double Timber Sales in Its Home State
- Dec3ModerateNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementRenamed US Institute of Peace 'Trump Institute of Peace'
November 2025
- Nov26SevereAbuse of PowerReuters Documents 470+ People and Organizations Targeted by Trump for Retribution, Averaging One Per Day
- Nov24SevereAbuse of PowerA Judge Throws Out the Comey and Letitia James Indictments Because Trump's Hand-Picked Prosecutor Was Unlawfully Appointed
- Nov21ModerateCharacter & DishonestyTrump Attacks Marjorie Taylor Greene Over Epstein Files, Calls Her 'Traitor'
- Nov20SevereDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Calls for the Execution of Six Democratic Lawmakers for 'SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, Punishable by DEATH'; All Six Are Military Veterans
- Nov19SevereAbuse of PowerBLS Says It Cannot Collect October Jobs Data Because of Trump's 43-Day Shutdown, a First in Over 900 Months
- Nov12ModerateAbuse of PowerTrump Spent Months Pressing Israel's President to Pardon Netanyahu, Then Called Him 'Weak and Pathetic' for Refusing
- Nov4SevereCorruption & ConflictsSwiss Executives Give Trump a Gold Bar and a Rolex Clock, and a Week Later He Cuts Swiss Tariffs From 39% to 15%
- Nov1SeriousPublic HealthThe Worst U.S. Measles Year Since 1991, and an Elimination Status Now Under Review
- Nov1ModerateCharacter & DishonestyBroken Promises: $5,000 DOGE Checks and $2,000 Tariff Rebates Never Sent
October 2025
- Oct29CatastrophicAbuse of PowerTrump Orders the Pentagon to Resume Nuclear Weapons Testing for the First Time Since 1992, Minutes Before Meeting Xi Jinping
- Oct29ModerateCorruption & ConflictsTrump's Top Strategists Were Paid to Advise Pro-Russia Republika Srpska After His Administration Lifted Sanctions on Its Leader
- Oct21SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump Pardoned Binance's Founder After Binance Did Business With His Family's Crypto Firm, Then Said 'I Don't Know Who He Is'
- Oct19ConcerningThe Absurd MomentsAI-Generated Deepfakes & 'King Trump' Video
- Oct1ConcerningNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementTrump Launches TrumpRx.gov, a Government Prescription Drug Program Bearing His Name
September 2025
- Sep29SeriousCorruption & ConflictsFive Media and Tech Companies Paid $86.5 Million to Settle Trump Lawsuits, Most of It to His Library Foundation and His Ballroom
- Sep29SeriousRacism & XenophobiaTrump Posts a Racist AI Deepfake of Schumer in a Fake Voice and Jeffries in a Sombrero, Hours After Meeting Both at the White House
- Sep25SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Designates 'Antifa' as a Domestic Terrorist Organization in the First Presidential Designation of Its Kind
- Sep25ConcerningRacism & XenophobiaTrump Singles Out Black Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett as 'Low IQ' and Warns 'Bad Things Happen'
- Sep20SevereAbuse of PowerTrump Posts a Message to AG Bondi Demanding She Prosecute His Enemies, Reportedly Meant as a Private Note: 'They're All Guilty as Hell'
- Sep17ModerateNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementGiant Banners with Trump's Face on Federal Buildings
- Sep5ModerateCorruption & ConflictsTrump's FTC Drops Its Defense of the Non-Compete Ban That Would Have Covered an Estimated 30 Million Workers
- Sep4SevereNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementRenamed Department of Defense to 'Department of War'
- Sep2SevereAbuse of PowerU.S. Commanders Watched Two Survivors of the First Boat Strike Cling to the Wreckage for More Than 40 Minutes, Then Killed Them
- Sep1CatastrophicPublic HealthWhooping Cough Cases Reach 28,783 in 2025, With at Least 12 Infant Deaths
August 2025
- Aug27SevereAbuse of PowerTrump Fires CDC Director Monarez After She Declines Kennedy's Vaccine Demands, and Three Top Officials Quit in Protest
- Aug15SevereAbuse of PowerTrump Fires BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer After a Weak Jobs Report, a First in the Agency's 140-Year History
- Aug5SeverePublic HealthHHS Cancels 22 mRNA Vaccine Projects Worth Nearly $500 Million, Saying the Vaccines 'Fail to Protect' Against COVID and Flu
- Aug1ModerateCharacter & DishonestyTrump's Pick to Run the BLS, January 6 Participant EJ Antoni, Is Withdrawn After Mounting Opposition
July 2025
- Jul24SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump's Homelessness Policy Steers Federal Money Toward Involuntary Commitment and Away From Permanent Housing
- Jul24SevereDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Seeks to Prosecute Obama Over Debunked 'Russiagate' Conspiracy
- Jul4SeverePublic HealthTrump Signs Bill Cutting Over $1 Trillion From Health Programs as CBO Estimates 10 Million More Uninsured
- Jul4SeverePublic HealthThe Largest SNAP Cuts in History Total $187 Billion Over a Decade, and 4 Million People Including 1 Million Children Lose Food Assistance to Fund Tax Cuts
- Jul3ModerateCorruption & ConflictsGuilfoyle Pressed a Trump Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her AmEx Days Before Her Confirmation Hearing, WSJ Reports
- Jul1SeriousCharacter & DishonestyEmails Show Patel Took a 'VIP Snorkel' Around the USS Arizona, a Pearl Harbor Military Cemetery Where 900 Sailors Died
- Jul1SevereCorruption & ConflictsWhite House Ballroom Funded by $400 Million From Corporate Donors; a Judge Orders Construction to Stop, Ruling 'The President Is Not the Owner'
June 2025
- Jun26SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Demands Democrats Be Prosecuted for the Iran Intelligence Leak Without Providing Any Evidence They Were Responsible
- Jun15CatastrophicPublic HealthTrump Rolls Back the First-Ever PFAS Drinking Water Standards as 100 Million Americans Have 'Forever Chemicals' in Their Water
- Jun9SevereAbuse of PowerKennedy Fires All 17 Members of the ACIP Vaccine Panel, a First in Its History, and Brings In Vaccine Skeptics
- Jun4SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementIn Trump's Second Term, a Judge Finds the Government Breached the Family Separation Settlement, and AP Finds Dozens of Children Separated Again
- Jun3SeriousWomen & Sexual MisconductThe Trump Administration Rescinds the Guidance Telling Hospitals That Emergency Abortions Can Be Required Under Federal Law
- Jun1SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementNearly 100 Immigration Judges Fired in 2025 as Courts Start 2026 With Fewer Than Half the Judges of a Year Ago
- Jun1CatastrophicPublic HealthOSHA Enforcement Is Gutted, the Heat Stress Rule Is Killed, and Worker Injury Reporting Is Rolled Back While 5,000+ Workers Die From Injuries Each Year
May 2025
- May22SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump Hosted a Dinner at His Virginia Golf Club for the 220 Biggest Buyers of His Meme Coin
- May21SevereCorruption & ConflictsTrump Accepted a Luxury 747 From Qatar's Government to Fly as Air Force One and Says It Will Go to His Library
- May19SevereRacism & Xenophobia70% of DOJ Civil Rights Division Attorneys Are Gone, Zero Sexual Assault Cases Were Resolved in 2025, and the Division Now Targets Trans Students
- May13SeriousPublic HealthPush to Remove Fluoride from Water and Supplements Despite Decades of Safety Data
- May10SeriousCorruption & ConflictsPatel Flew the FBI Jet to Philly for a $50,000 Concert Suite With His Girlfriend and Won't Say Who Paid
- May5ConcerningAbuse of PowerHegseth Ordered Cuts to the Military's Generals and Admirals in May 2025, Amid a Wave of Firings of Senior Officers
- May1SevereRacism & XenophobiaThe Education Department's Civil Rights Office Dismisses Over 90% of Discrimination Complaints and Redirects to Targeting Trans Students
- May1SeriousAbuse of PowerUS Embassy Officials Intimidate French Judge Over Marine Le Pen Trial
- May1SevereDemocracy & Rule of LawGabbard's Office Obtained Puerto Rico's Voting Machines to Probe a Venezuelan Hacking Claim and Found No Evidence
- May1SevereAbuse of PowerTrump Defunds PBS and NPR. A Judge Rules It Unconstitutional Viewpoint Discrimination. But CPB Has Already Dissolved After 58 Years.
April 2025
- Apr30SeriousCorruption & ConflictsWhile Trump Is President, His Family Business Signs Billions in New Real-Estate Deals With Saudi and Qatari State-Linked Developers
- Apr24SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Orders the DOJ to Investigate ActBlue, the Democratic Fundraising Platform, While Ignoring Its Republican Equivalent
- Apr23SevereRacism & XenophobiaTrump Issues an Executive Order to Eliminate Disparate Impact Liability, Gutting 60 Years of Civil Rights Enforcement
- Apr15SevereAbuse of Power46% of CDC Public Health Databases Stopped Updating or Were Taken Offline, Including Measles and HIV Tracking
- Apr11SeriousAbuse of PowerNine Law Firms Pledged $940 Million in Free Legal Work to Avoid Trump's Executive Orders, and Some of It Went to His Commerce Department
- Apr10CatastrophicPublic HealthTrump Guts ATF Enforcement and Reverses the Bump Stock Ban While 45,000 Americans Die From Gun Violence Per Year
- Apr8SevereAbuse of PowerNIH Terminated 694 Research Grants Worth $1.81 Billion in Six Weeks, With Minority Health Research Among the Hardest Hit
- Apr7SeriousCorruption & ConflictsBlanche Shut Down the Justice Department's Crypto Enforcement Team While He Still Owned Crypto, as the Trump Family Built a Crypto Business
- Apr7SeverePublic HealthTrump Administration Ends Trump's Own First-Term HIV Initiative and More Than 200 HIV/AIDS Research Grants
- Apr1SevereAbuse of PowerHHS Lays Off About 10,000 in One Day as Part of a Plan to Shrink the Department From 82,000 to 62,000 Workers
- Apr1SeverePublic HealthTrump Administration Cuts About 20,000 HHS Positions, 25% of Staff, Including 3,500 at FDA and 2,400 at CDC
March 2025
- Mar28SevereAbuse of PowerFDA's Top Vaccine Regulator Is Forced Out After Refusing Kennedy's Team Edit Access to Vaccine Safety Data
- Mar27SevereRewriting HistoryTrump Orders the Smithsonian to Remove 'Divisive' Exhibits in a 2025 Executive Order
- Mar26SeverePublic HealthTrump Administration Cancels $11.4 Billion in CDC Grants and $766 Million in Moderna Pandemic Flu Contracts
- Mar20SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Moves to Weaken the ADA Website Accessibility Rule That Took Over a Decade to Develop, Affecting 70 Million Disabled Americans
- Mar20SevereAbuse of PowerTrump Signs Order to Dismantle the Education Department as the Agency Fires Almost 1,400 Employees
- Mar15SeverePublic HealthTrump Strips Clean Water Act Protections From Up to 60% of Wetlands and Millions of Miles of Streams, Allowing Developers and Polluters to Destroy Them Without Permits
- Mar10SeverePublic HealthTrump's EPA Stalls Lead Pipe Replacement as Millions of Lead Service Lines Continue to Poison Drinking Water in Low-Income Neighborhoods
- Mar6SevereAbuse of PowerTrump Targeted Law Firms With Executive Orders for Representing His Opponents; All Four Were Struck Down as Unconstitutional
- Mar1SeriousCharacter & DishonestyHegseth Shares Real-Time Yemen Strike Details in a Signal Chat That Included Atlantic Editor Jeffrey Goldberg
February 2025
January 2025
- Jan29SevereRewriting History1776 Commission Report and 'Patriotic Education' Order
- Jan29ModerateRewriting HistoryBans 'Critical Race Theory' to Censor Teaching About Racism
- Jan27SevereAbuse of PowerTrump Fires NLRB Leaders and Leaves the Board Without a Quorum, Unable to Issue Decisions for Nearly a Year
- Jan22SeriousAbuse of PowerTrump Pardoned Two D.C. Officers, One Convicted of Murder and Both of Covering Up the Death of a Man on a Moped
- Jan21SevereRacism & XenophobiaTrump Revokes a 60-Year-Old Executive Order Requiring Federal Contractors Not to Discriminate and Bans DEI Across the Federal Government
- Jan20SevereICE & Immigration EnforcementTrump Signs an Executive Order to End Birthright Citizenship on Day One, and the Supreme Court Strikes It Down 6-3
- Jan20SevereAbuse of PowerDOJ Weaponization Against Political Opponents
- Jan20SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump Puts Dr. Oz, a TV Personality With No Government Experience, in Charge of Medicare and Medicaid
- Jan20SeriousCharacter & DishonestyTrump Pardons Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht, Gang Leader Larry Hoover and Ex-Honduran President Hernández
- Jan20ConcerningRewriting HistoryTrump Says He Built 'the Greatest Economy in History,' but Obama Handed Him 75 Consecutive Months of Job Growth
- Jan20SevereCorruption & ConflictsTrump Gives Musk, Whose Companies Hold More Than $300 Billion in Federal Contracts, Power to Slash Spending
- Jan20CatastrophicICE & Immigration EnforcementFederal Immigration Officers Have Fatally Shot at Least 10 People Since Trump's Second Term Began
- Jan20SevereAbuse of PowerFired 17+ Inspectors General on First Day
- Jan20CatastrophicDemocracy & Rule of LawMass Pardons for January 6 Defendants
- Jan20CatastrophicAbuse of PowerJanuary 6 Pardons
- Jan20CatastrophicRewriting HistoryWhite House Website Rewrites January 6 History
- Jan20SevereAbuse of PowerTrump Appoints Kash Patel, Whose Book Lists 60 'Enemies' to Target, as FBI Director
- Jan20SeriousRacism & XenophobiaMusk Nazi Salute at Trump Inauguration
- Jan20SeriousWomen & Sexual MisconductPete Hegseth Confirmed 51-50 as Defense Secretary Despite a $50,000 Settlement With a Sexual Assault Accuser
- Jan20CatastrophicPublic HealthUS Measles Cases Reach the Most Since 1991 as the Trump Administration Cuts 20,000 HHS Employees
- Jan20SeverePublic HealthTrump Makes RFK Jr., Who Promoted the Debunked Vaccine-Autism Theory for Decades, His Health Secretary
- Jan20ModerateCharacter & Dishonesty100 False Claims in First 100 Days of Second Term
- Jan20SevereICE & Immigration EnforcementFederal Agents Have Detained More Than 500 U.S. Citizens in Trump's Immigration Crackdown, ProPublica Finds
- Jan20SevereCharacter & DishonestyWithdrew United States from World Health Organization (Again)
- Jan20SevereAbuse of PowerTrump Orders the US Out of the World Health Organization Within Hours of Taking Office
- Jan17SevereCorruption & ConflictsNearly a Million Investors Lost $3.8 Billion on Trump's Meme Coin as He Reported $635 Million in Royalties From It
- Jan16SevereCorruption & ConflictsA Firm Tied to the UAE's National Security Adviser Bought 49% of Trump's Crypto Company Four Days Before His Inauguration
- Jan1SeriousCorruption & ConflictsTrump-Epstein Relationship & Files Controversy
2024
October 2024
- Oct31SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Suggests Liz Cheney Should Face a Firing Squad: 'Nine Barrels Shooting at Her... Guns Trained on Her Face'
- Oct14AbsurdThe Absurd MomentsThe 39-Minute Music Session Town Hall
- Oct13SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Says the 'Enemy From Within' Is More Dangerous Than China or Russia and Could Be Handled by the National Guard or the Military
- Oct1SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawTrump Calls Democrats the 'Enemy From Within' and Says the Military Should Be Used Against 'Radical Left Lunatics'
September 2024
- Sep28ModerateCharacter & DishonestyTrump Calls Kamala Harris 'Mentally Disabled,' 'Dumb as a Rock,' and Says She Should Be Prosecuted
- Sep16SevereCorruption & ConflictsThe Trump Family Launched a Crypto Company During the 2024 Campaign, and It Became One of His Largest Sources of Income
- Sep10SeriousRacism & XenophobiaHaitians Eating Pets in Springfield, Ohio
- Sep9ConcerningRewriting HistoryShifting Abortion Positions and Walk-Backs
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January 2017
- Jan27SeriousICE & Immigration EnforcementMuslim Ban / Travel Ban (Executive Order 13769)
- Jan21ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump Claims a Record Inauguration Crowd, and Conway Defends It as 'Alternative Facts'
- Jan21ConcerningNarcissism & Self-AggrandizementSpicer Claims Trump Drew 'the Largest Audience to Ever Witness an Inauguration,' and PolitiFact Rates It 'Pants on Fire'
- Jan20SeriousRacism & XenophobiaSystematic Attacks on Black Women
- Jan20ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyBroken Promises & Failed Follow-Through
- Jan20SevereAbuse of PowerSystematic Retaliation Against Cabinet Members and Officials Who Dissent
- Jan20ConcerningCharacter & DishonestyTrump's First Term Set Turnover Records, With Four Chiefs of Staff and Four National Security Advisers
- Jan20AbsurdThe Absurd MomentsNuking Hurricanes
- Jan20SeriousDemocracy & Rule of LawPraise for Dictators and Authoritarians
- Jan20SeriousCharacter & DishonestyUnprecedented Lying & '30,573 False Claims'