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Who We Are

This project is led by Professor Christina Pagel, a UK-based health services researcher and science communicator. She created and maintains the dataset underlying the tracker, drawing on her background in data analysis and evidence-based policy to monitor and document the authoritarian trajectory of Trump’s presidency. She started the project in February 2025, at first to help herself make sense of the actions of the Trump administration and then later to share with others.

Prof Pagel writes about the Trump administration on her Substack andBluesky. She introduced the five domains of authoritarianism in heranalysis of the first three weeks of the presidency. She has further written about the attacks of the administration onDEI, science, universities and democratic norms.

She is supported by a small team of brilliant volunteers who help make this work!

Sandy Laping is helps track the actions and maintain the underlying spreadsheet.

Pete Duncanson is a software developer and built this website in his spare time to help him sleep a little more soundly at night with the knowledge that he was at least doing "something" in this moment.

A third volunteer, who prefers to remain anonymous, wrote the javascript to render the Venn diagrams displaying the actions. Some content here about how amazing we are.