Tracking The Trackers: Tools for Keeping Up With the Trump Administration (2025) and National Politics

Currently a text-dump from personal notes - updated March 2025


DOGE related:

Verge: Trump’s first 100 days: all the news affecting the tech industry

MSN: DOGE Tracker 

ProPublica's DOGE Tracker is just tracking the people involved.


Springboards - single articles partially tracking or summarizing a core issue; follow the links

RusticGorilla/KeepTrack:  The coup is underway: Elon Musk's playbook to destroy the federal government

Poynter: DOGE touts billions in canceled government contracts. Where are its numbers coming from?

NYT: Struggling With Errors, DOGE Deletes Billions More From List of Savings

NPR: DOGE's savings page fixed old mistakes — and added new ones

Newsweek: Layoff Tracker: List of Federal Agencies Hit With DOGE Layoffs

AP: A comprehensive look at DOGE’s firings and layoffs so far (Feb 21)

The Atlantic:  The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified (Feb 7)

CNN: Fact check: Eight ways Elon Musk has misled Americans about government spending

Schneier on Security: DOGE as a National Cyberattack


Other:

Wikipedia: 2025 United States government online resource removals

Lawfare: Executive Order Tracker (First 100 Days)

JustSecurity: Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions

APNews:  Trump Cabinet confirmation status

Politico:  Tracking Trump’s Cabinet picks

ProgressiveReform:  Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker

RusticGorilla/KeepTrack: KeepTrack Substack

RusticGorilla/KeepTrack: Project 2025 Tracker


Springboards - single articles partially tracking or summarizing a core issue; follow the links

ProPublica: Immigration - Four Years in a Day (Early Trump executive orders on immigration)


Follow the Money:

Springboards - single articles partially tracking or summarizing a core issue; follow the links

Newsweek: List of American Companies That Support President Donald Trump

Business Insider: See the billionaires and CEOs who attended Trump's inauguration


Other Collections of Trackers

UC San Diego: Trump Trackers

Society of Environmental Journalists: Tracking the Trackers in the Trump 2.0 Onslaught


Honorable Mention:

JustSecurity: Russia’s Eliminationist Rhetoric Against Ukraine: A Collection

IFW KIEL - Database of Military, Financial and Humanitarian Aid to Ukraine

ProPublica Series: Faith in Power - The Christian Right’s Attempt to Influence Elections

The Bulwark: The Corruption of Lindsey Graham A case study in the rise of authoritarianism.

TechDirt - [Dealing with Musk, and the administration smoke-and-mirrors]

McSweeney’s - Lest We Forget the Horrors (a left-wing publications' impressively-exhaustive list of Trump's objectionable first-term actions. Largely applicable to centrist and center-right perspectives as well)

Ranieri & Co. - The Dark Shining Moment Countercast (Podcast series intro to Russian social media manipulation)

Freepress.net - Big Tech Backslide: How Social-Media Rollbacks Endanger Democracy Ahead of the 2024 Elections