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Power Consolidation (Executive Watch)

The DOJ Claims the Power to Kill Environmental Lawsuits by Private Citizens, Starting With One Against Trump’s Lackey, Elon Musk
In April, the NAACP sued Elon Musk’s xAI under the Clean Air Act.
 • Executive Watch
White House Launches ‘Trump TV,’ a Propaganda Channel, as It Locks Out Independent Press
On the same day the TV networks suspended pool coverage in solidarity with CNN, the White House rolled out its own replacement.
 • Executive Watch
Trump Administration Wants Signs at the Smithsonian Warning Visitors Not to Trust Its History and Smearing Its Black Leader as ‘Anti-White’
The Trump administration has spent months trying to force the Smithsonian Institution into ideological alignment, including threatening to cut off its…
 • Executive Watch
Trump’s AI Plan: No Guardrails Except a President Who Threatens the Companies That Disagree With Him
Leaders of several of the companies building the most advanced AI—including Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and Elon Musk—have called for…
 • Executive Watch
Trump Praises German Far-Right AfD Party’s Election Victory
Donald Trump, who not that long ago accused China of meddling in U.S.
 • Executive Watch
Trump SHAMEs America by Renaming Lake Ontario to Punish Canada for a Trade War He Started
President Trump remains, as ever, laser-focused on the things that really matter to Americans: renaming things on the map after America, or himself.
 • Executive Watch
The DOJ Fired the Prosecutor Investigating an ICE Officer Who Shot a Nonviolent Immigrant and Then Lied About It
Back in January, ICE agent Christian Castro shot Julio Sosa-Celis in the leg through the closed door of a Minneapolis home—which state charging…
 • Executive Watch
A Trump-Appointed Army Secretary Quits Over Hegseth’s Purge of Respected Military Officials Because He Dislikes Them Or They Are Minorities
The resignation of the Secretary of the Army might not be the most attention-grabbing piece of news coming out of the Trump administration, but there’s…
 • Executive Watch
A Post Office Whistleblower Revealed That the Agency Defied Court Orders to Implement Trump’s Illegal Demands to Restrict Mail-in Ballots
While a federal judge kept a block on the mandatory core of Trump’s mail-ballot rule in place just yesterday, a whistleblower revealed that the Postal…
 • Executive Watch
Hegseth’s Pentagon Secretly Employed a MAGA Influencer Who Was Attacking His Critics
Pete Hegseth has spent over a year restricting the Pentagon press corps.
 • Executive Watch
Wyoming’s Republican Governor Says DOJ Election Monitors Were ‘Aggressive’ and Exceeded Their Authority
Trump’s electoral intimidation rollout is well underway.
 • Executive Watch
The Trump Administration Is Using Taxpayer Money to Fund Anti-Immigrant ‘Independent Journalism’ in Europe
Back in July, we flagged the Trump administration’s nearly $5 million grant program to bankroll far-right causes in Europe.
 • Executive Watch
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