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October 24, 2025 | The American Prospect
Meet RFK’s Corporate Underlings
Several top officials in the Department of Health and Human Services worked for the very corporate interests their boss claims to oppose.
October 06, 2025
Trump's Polluter Playground
President Donald Trump has spent the last nine months halting the growth of the American clean energy economy in its tracks, dragging the country into a vengeful, backward-leaning energy agenda that does the bidding of his fossil fuel allies and serves the interest of billionaire campaign donors. Consumers and the planet alike will suffer for it.
October 06, 2025
Trump Brings Fossil Fuel, Far-Right Think Tank Agenda To Government
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has installed more than 100 fossil fuel insiders, renewable energy opponents, corporate lobbyists, and far-right think tank alumni across nine agencies during his second term, according to a new analysis of the backgrounds of staffers appointed to roles in the administration.
October 01, 2025
The Revolving Door Project Criticizes Trump’s Nominations to the TVA Board
“As the largest public power company in the United States, the Tennessee Valley Authority should fight for the interests of the millions of people it serves, rather than extorting them for profit. Donald Trump’s latest nominations make it clear that he sees ratepayers across TVA service states as merely another source of profit. As concerns about privatization continue to plague the TVA, a move which would raise ratepayer costs, degrade delivered services, and shrink jobs across the region, everyday it becomes more clear that impacted communities deserve better,” said Aguilar Rosenthal.
October 01, 2025
“Another Mere Facsimile of Justice”
Next week, the Supreme Court will be back in session and ready to deal new blows to our basic institutions of governance while stripping away longstanding rights and protections for marginalized communities. The Court’s docket includes cases on the constitutionality of racial gerrymandering, bans on gay “conversion therapy,” campaign finance restrictions, and more.
August 22, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week 31: The Crises Continue
We are almost through our first summer of what is sure to be a long and ruinous four years. This past week, while Trump tightened control of his invasion of Washington, D.C, gargantuan wildfires ravaged lands in Colorado and Florida. Over in Texas, state Republicans completed step one of their plot to distort the electoral map ahead of the upcoming midterm elections, sending the newly redrawn maps to the Texas State Senate. D.C. residents are far from the only victims of our ever growing police state, as Immigration and Customs Enforcement continues to kidnap and terrorize community members across the country.
July 09, 2025
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Tracking Uses of AI in the Trump Administration
As the Trump administration continues to expand the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in its operations, we are cataloguing examples of how AI is being deployed by federal agencies to replace human workers and undermine transparency and due process.
June 20, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week 22: Another Week In The Circus Of Destruction
We are just over ten percent of the way through Donald Trump’s second term, an ongoing project of destruction, destabilization and self-enrichment for the president and his gaggle of sycophants.
May 01, 2025
Revolving Door Project Condemns Trump’s Appointment of Corrupt Partisans As Inspectors General
RDP encourages journalists, activists and groups to monitor who currently leads, and who might soon take over, the government’s top watchdog offices.
April 30, 2025
Inspectors General Tracker
Inspectors General are a crucial part of the apparatus that keeps the government accountable to the public it is supposed to serve.
Inspectors General have spent decades building careful systems for overseeing the activities of the Executive branch, acting as crucial watchdogs that root out actual inefficiency, waste, fraud, corruption, and abuse throughout the government.
April 23, 2025
U.S. Attorneys Under Trump
The Office of the United States Attorneys has 94 offices (led by 93 Attorneys) across the U.S., Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Each U.S. Attorney is appointed to these districts by the President for a four-year term, and each official serves as the top federal law enforcement officer in their district, and has historically had significant latitude over policy implementation within the district’s borders.
April 23, 2025
Revolving Door Project Condemns Trump Installing Sycophants, Conspiracists, and Corporate Hacks in U.S. Attorneys Offices
In response to the Trump administration’s reckless appointments of conspiracy theorists and corporate hacks to US Attorney positions across the country, Revolving Door Project (RDP) announced a project to track their appointments. RDP senior researcher, Toni Aguilar Rosenthal released the following statement:
April 04, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week Eleven: Incomprehensible AI Number-Crunching Slop Sets The Scene Of Trump’s Global Tariff Shakedown
This week has been defined by yet more chaos, as the gaggle of incompetent buffoons that seemingly make up the policy infrastructure of this administration continue to play at political theater while doing all that they can to ruin the rest of our lives. From crashing the global economy to giving corporations free license to do whatever they want, they’re succeeding.
March 22, 2025 | Common Dreams
The End of Free Speech?
If the White House can punish anybody who engages in speech it dislikes, nobody will be free to criticize the government—and corporate criminals will be free to run amok.
March 12, 2025
Measles Tracker
Measles is a highly-contagious respiratory virus that infects as many as 90 percent of non-immune people exposed to its pathogens, which can exist in the air for up to two hours after exposure.