Six tools to track Trump administration’s attacks on civil liberties
just For several months, Donald Trump will have his second term of office. Dramatically reshaping the US federal government Moved to integrate the power of government agencies. At the president’s request, many federal agencies are investigating immigrants, police speeches, and political enemies, implementing offensive and invasive initiatives that cut public health initiatives and emergency preparedness.
With so much going on at once, many organizations and individuals are launching databases, interactive maps, and other trackers to catalogue these government actions and the impact on civil rights of people across the United States. Using open source intelligence, public data, news coverage, and other research, these tools are key resources for documenting, contextualizing and analyzing the floods of federal activities that are fundamentally reshaping the United States. Here are some notable examples.
Impact map
With the Impact Project, Americans are for public service
this Interactive map It tracks changes in the US federal government funds, labor and policy across the country, documenting large-scale workers shootings, employment freezes, fundraising, lease termination, and more. The tool also shows where funds have not been frozen since then, where federal workers have been or may have been rehired. The federal government has also added new services or benefits.
The map includes notations that specifically document the impacts on rural U.S. counties, largely non-white areas, where over 20% of populations live below the poverty line, and indigenous lands. It also catalogs responses to these initiatives, including legal action and local and state responses to funding cuts.
The United States of America has disappeared
By data analyst Daniel Harlow
This dashboard It tallies the number of people affected by the Trump administration’s deportation implemented by the US Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE). The number has already exceeded 4,000. The tool also monitors each individual’s status to the extent available, focusing on the name, the country of origin, and where it is detained when available.
The tracker crucially tracks each individual’s status, focusing on whether they are temporarily or permanently released, deported, “self-declared,” or died in ice custody. This tool also describes how many days the ordeal has been going on.
Ice flight tracking
Tom Cartwright, immigration rights advocate
Tom Cartwright is a retired JP Morgan executive who uses flight surveillance data from across the country to track ice air remittances, return flights and flights in the United States. He posts his regular specific updates Bluesky Social Media Page Create a monthly report for the immigration rights group Witnesses at the border About ice flight and tally. Over the past 12 months, Cartwright has collected data on roughly 8,000 ice aviation flights, including 824 in April. Of those 12 months total, more than 1,500 people were “removal flights,” and about 1,400 were “removal return” flights. The other approximately 5,000 trips were “Ice Air Domestic Flights” within the United States.
Regulators change trackers
By the Brookings facility
Think Tank Brookings has been built Database Catalogs of significant regulatory changes since the start of the second Trump administration. This includes freezes of new executive orders and regulations, as well as changes to changes to executive orders issued by past administrations. For example, the White House rescinded the 2022 Biden executive order aimed at reducing the costs of prescription drugs, and another house in that year calls for research into cryptocurrency regulations.
Trump Administration Litigation Tracker
Just by security and law
Legal and Policy Publications Just security and law Each provides a database that tracks lawsuits that challenge the Trump administration’s initiatives. The tool includes case names, docket numbers, jurisdiction, and status of executive actions and litigation under challenge. In most cases, the Trump administration pursues its agenda without oversight or corresponding laws, and many of the Trump administration’s efforts that have been challenged in court to date have been suspended or permanently hampered.
A far-right group targeting Pride Month
According to Teddy Wilson, Radical Reports
Anti-LGBTQ+ groups, including fundamentalist Christian nationalists and white supremacist extremist groups, have once again targeted the Pride Month event this June, especially given the Trump administration’s violent rhetoric and enforcement actions related to trans rights. This map It tracks Pride Month events around the country, indicating that radical opposition groups are planning to target the rally.