THE.PROJECT TRUTH

About

What this is, and what it isn't.

The Project is a permanent, reader-submitted record of the second Trump administration - articles, columns, and opinion - built to make what's happening easy to find, hard to dispute, and impossible to quietly rewrite. We collect what people flag, preserve it, and get out of the way.

The idea

A lot happens in a presidential administration, and most of it competes for attention with whatever is loudest that day. Consequential actions - rules changed, agencies reshaped, money moved, people appointed or removed - often surface for a single news cycle and then vanish under the next wave of takes. The underlying record gets hard to reconstruct.

The Project is a deliberately boring corrective. We don't decide what matters or curate a watchlist. Contributors from across the political spectrum forward what they come across about the second Trump administration - articles, columns, opinion pieces - and we post it, after removing duplicates and confirming each item is real, from a legitimate source (nothing AI-generated, satire, or fabricated), and genuinely related to the administration. That is the entire extent of our involvement, and we stake our reputation on it. Each entry links straight to its original source. We collect and preserve; we don't editorialize.

Because the archive is built from what people actually choose to flag, it works as a barometer - a bottom-up read on what engaged Americans are paying attention to, including the consequential stories that fell through the cracks of mainstream coverage. The mix reflects the contributors, not us. The entries are just the reporting, linked and dated, for you to read and judge.

How it works

Contributors forward articles they come across. Our tooling parses each submission, pulls the real headline and source, removes duplicates, and files it into a clean timeline you can search and skim. We confirm each item is from a legitimate source and actually concerns the administration - no AI-generated content, no satire, no fabrications, nothing unverifiable. Beyond that, we don't pick and choose. Every entry links to third-party writing that already exists in the wild; nothing on the site is written or rewritten by us.

What we don't do

Who it's for

Researchers, journalists, students, and anyone who wants to check the record for themselves rather than take someone's word for it. If you can cite it, fact-check against it, or follow a story's timeline through it, it's doing its job.

A note on accuracy

Every entry is a pointer to third-party reporting; we don't vouch for any single outlet, and we encourage readers to evaluate sources critically. As links age, some may move or go offline - we work to preserve access to archived copies so the record stays reachable over time.

Preserving the record

News links break. Articles get moved, paywalled, quietly edited, or pulled down entirely, and a citation that points to a dead page is worth little. To guard against that, we capture a snapshot of each source through the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine as it enters the archive.

Alongside the live link, you'll see a small "archived copy" link that points to that preserved snapshot. If the original ever disappears or changes, the version we recorded remains available, exactly as it read when we logged it. It is one more way the record stays hard to lose and hard to quietly rewrite.