The Trump Action Tracker has had an update!

Finer-grained domains, easier filtering, better views on a phone, to help make sense of 1600+ actions

Hi all,

Just a quick post to let you know that we’ve pushed a bunch of updates to the TrumpActionTracker this weekend!

The main change is that we have broken down our five domains of authoritarian behaviours into ten. This is not adding domains, but instead splitting out some of the larger previous domains into their constituent parts. So for instance, what was formerly “undermining civil rights; corruption and enrichment” has become two domains, one for undermining civil rights and the other for logging corruption. Another important split was separating out “Nationalism” from “Aggressive foreign policy/global destabilisation”.

As the number of logged actions continues to grow (now at 1621), I felt that it would be easier to make sense of actions by having these finer grained categories. It not only helps see rapidly why actions have made it onto the list (the short titles are now more representative of each domain) but also easier to filter and search if wanting to understand specific types of action, or specific time periods of the second term.

Speaking of filtering, there is now a toggle to select/deselect all categories and the date sort has been enabled for showing results within a text search. So for instance, searching on “Lisa”, and ordering by oldest date first, you can see the rapid esacalation in actions against Federal Reserver Governor Lisa Cook over one week in August.

The finer-grained view also reveals more patterns emerging. There was an initial focus in the first few months of hollowing out the state with DOGE aggressively cutting funds, staff and whole departments or agencies (the dark pink bulge). Spring saw the first large and concerted attacks on universities (the light pink bulge). And then since the summer, many actions have fallen in to the “anti-immigrant or militarised nationalism” domains, as Trump has sent ICE and the National Guard to Democrat cities.

You can read more details on how each domain is assigned in the About page. I’m also now aiming for twice weekly video/podcast updates on the latest actions (instead of more frequent). So far they are averaging about 3.5 minutes and you can subscribe via Apple, Spotify or Pocketcast podcast players too!

Please do go explore the site and share widely!

And thank you so much to Sandy Laping for helping me keep on top of the latest goings on, Pete Duncanson for his work in setting up and maintaining the website and a couple of other volunteers who wish to remain anonymous but who have also been working hard on the website over the last week!