What Is Happening?

Since Trump took office on Jan 20, he has issued a fast and furious barrage of executive orders that challenge the powers of the presidency and largely follow the playbook of Project 2025. Here, we aim to provide background and the big picture.

Trackers

DOGE Tracker

Project 2025 Tracker

Choose Democracy Tracking Trackers
When not overwhelming, information is power.
In that spirit to help the movement, we’ve assembled reliable trackers and databases following the Trump/Musk administrative coup.
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Legal Challenges

Litigation Tracker from Just Security

Trump’s Executive Orders

Akin’s Executive Order Tracker

Sheppard Mullin’s Executive Order Tracker

EOs by category, from @zombiespaceship

Impacts

Cancelled NIH Grants Tracker

Layoffs Tracker

ROI = Return On Investment. Click image to go to website.
The Impact Project. Better Data, Better Policy. Share Your Story Support Our Work
The Impact Project provides objective, transparent, and open-source data to help explain how federal policies, funding, and workforce changes affect our communities. Click image to go to website.
SCIMaP: View Impact of Federal Health Research Cuts National Impact: $16B and 68K Jobs Lost (heat map of the United States)
Interactive map to see how your community will be affected by Trump/DOGE science & research cuts. Click image to go to website.
The Research We Lost Join your colleagues in recording and resisting the defunding of science.
A group of US researchers funded through federal grants who wish to document the damage to our scientific infrastructure. Our data archive is for use by journalists, academics, and the general public.
emptywheel. Work in Progress: What Trump Took Away
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We make America work. fedsworkforyou Follow 240 posts 19.6K followers 172 following Feds Work for You linktr.ee/fedsworkforyou +2
fedsworkforyou Instgram account highlights the important work by federal workers. Click image to go to profile.

About Project 2025

Downloadable PDF of Project 2025

View Project 2025’s Secret Training Videos from ProPublica

Learn about right-wing group behind Project 2025: The Heritage Foundation

Is This Authoritarianism?

Understanding Authoritarianism from Horizons Project

The Authoritarian Playbook from Protect Democracy

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Diving into Data & Decision making. US POLITICS "So this is how liberty dies… " Making sense of Trump's first three weeks Where I categorise 76 Trump administration actions from the last 3 weeks and show how they align with the authoritarian playbook CHRISTINA PAGEL FEB 13, 2025
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The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide
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How did this happen?

This piece does a great job tying together the major players in the government takeover, their connections, histories, and philosophies. Click image to go to blog.
Click image to go to article, which may be paywalled. For a free version, try 12ft.io
Powerful illustration of the unequal organization and resources on the right vs the left. Click image to go to blog post.

Other Resources

Reforming the NIH: Framework for Discussion. From June 14, 2024, lays out their vision for the National Institutes of Health