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Power Consolidation (Executive Watch)

Trump Weaponized His ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ to Pressure Two Holdout Republican Senators Into Advancing Blanche’s Confirmation
Just weeks after Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the administration’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization…
 • Executive Watch
DOJ Concedes That the Reflecting Pool Damage Trump Blamed on ‘Vandalism’ Was Caused by His Own No-Bid Contractor’s Botched Work
On July 2, U.S.
 • Executive Watch
Trump’s Unhinged, Rambling Speech Lays Groundwork for Future Election Interference
While The UnPopulist was gathered in D.C.
 • Executive Watch
Trump Administration Launches Nearly $5 Million Grant Program to Bankroll Far-Right Parties in Europe
The Trump administration is continuing with its efforts to support far-right parties in other countries—the irony of Trump’s own recent complaints about…
 • Executive Watch
Hegseth Brings the Pentagon Into the Manosphere By Diagnosing the Military’s Main Problem as Low Testosterone, Ordering Mandatory Screening…
“Amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics,” according to the old military saying.
 • Executive Watch
Trump Guts the Bipartisan Election Assistance Commission to Clear the Way for Fresh Attacks on Our Electoral System
In yet another attempt to undermine the legitimacy of American elections, Donald Trump fired the two Democratic members of the Election Assistance…
 • Executive Watch
DHS Is Tracking Down and Threatening Americans Who Criticize ICE
Criticize ICE and you may get a visit from Homeland Security—anytime, anywhere.
 • Executive Watch
Trump Toady Pete Hegseth Is Quietly Continuing to Refashion the ’Department of War’ in His Boss’s Image
Last year, Pete Hegseth removed every member of the Defense Policy Board.
 • Executive Watch
Trump’s Board of Peace Is Trying to Grant Itself Legal Immunity and the Power to Steal Palestinian Land
Donald Trump’s Board of Peace has a modest ask before it gets to work in Gaza: total legal immunity for itself and its agents, plus the power to seize…
 • Executive Watch
The Trump White House Seriously Weighed Suspending Habeas Corpus and Invoking the Insurrection Act
Newly disclosed internal memoranda show that during the early months of his second term, Trump’s White House gave serious consideration to two of the…
 • Executive Watch
Trump’s FBI Raids an Ohio Voter Registration Group in Its Latest Bid to Suppress the Vote
With the midterms approaching in a key swing state, the FBI has raided the offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative—a pro-democracy coalition that…
 • Executive Watch
Trump Rewards His Personal Lawyer and Toady, Todd Blanche, With AG Nomination
Todd Blanche, Trump’s personal lawyer, has built his reputation as someone willing to do anything Donald Trump wants, no matter how absurd, unethical…
 • Executive Watch
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