A Democracy Drive Project
A dated, sourced record of the norms, laws, and institutions being tested — what happened, when, and the proof. Draw your own conclusions.
24 topics · 453 sourced entries · every entry links back to its origin.
A claim that courts, recounts, and audits rejected — repeated for years, then turned into the machinery of government.
Clemency for January 6 defendants, crypto executives, corrupt politicians, donors, and a foreign president — and what some of them did once they were free.
Turning the Justice Department against the people who investigated and prosecuted him — indictments brought by a loyalist with no prosecutorial experience, then thrown out as unlawful.
Executive orders rewriting voter rules, lawsuits to seize voters’ private data, and a campaign against mail ballots and voting machines — a federal drive to control elections the Constitution leaves to the states.
Antifa, protesters, and activists in the administration’s crosshairs.
Federalizing the National Guard and deploying soldiers into U.S. cities — Los Angeles, Washington, Memphis, Portland, Chicago — over the objections of governors and mayors, and what the courts said about it.
Purging career officials and filling the Justice Department, intelligence, health, and other agencies with loyalists and donors — often unqualified, frequently bypassing Senate or judicial review — and what some did once in place.
The 900-page Heritage blueprint Trump claimed to know nothing about — now roughly half-enacted, and run by the people who wrote it.
A vaccine skeptic running the nation’s health agencies — mass layoffs, a measles outbreak, the CDC vaccine panel purged, mRNA research cancelled, and junk science elevated.
How the family built a multibillion-dollar crypto empire from the White House — a memecoin, a stablecoin, foreign money, mining and treasury companies, and a pardon.
Cartoon NFTs, $399 sneakers, $60 Bibles, $100,000 watches, $249 cologne and a $499 phone — licensing the name to whatever sells.
Firing the watchdogs, pausing the bribery law, dropping cases against donors, taking a $400M jet, and parking oil money offshore — dismantling the guardrails and selling the favor.
Roughly doubling his net worth in office, promoting his properties on the public dime, pocketing foreign gifts before favorable decisions, and trademarking his name.
The president’s sons and son-in-law turning the family name and his power into resorts, crypto ventures, billions in Gulf money, and Pentagon contracts for companies they’re invested in.
How the nation’s flagship cultural institution was remade from the top down.
How the administration tried to force an AI company to drop its safety limits — and what it did when the company refused.
Lawsuits, paid settlements, license threats, an FCC enforcer, and barred reporters — a sustained campaign to punish coverage he dislikes.
Since combat operations began on February 28, 2026, the same war has been called won, over, nearly finished, and indefinitely ongoing — sometimes in the same week.
Over eleven months, pressure on a NATO ally's territory escalated from an offhand annexation threat to refusals to rule out military force, tariff threats against Europe, leaked private messages, and a hospital ship.
A promise to release everything, followed by closed investigations, blocked votes, redacted names, a convicted associate moved to a lower-security prison, and missed deadlines.
A $16 million no-bid “beautification” became green water, peeling paint, and arrests — with the blame aimed at the public instead of the contractors.
Not a diagnosis — a deflection. How a pejorative buzzword became the all-purpose excuse to dismiss any criticism, and the push to brand disagreement itself as illness.
The 22nd Amendment limits presidents to two terms. A running record of the times he has floated a third anyway — and the efforts to make one possible.
Decades on the record — the Access Hollywood tape, the E. Jean Carroll verdicts, demeaning insults, and an administration that follows suit.