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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:

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.

In 1943, Los Angeles residents awoke to a city so thoroughly pervaded by eye-stinging smog that they thought the city had been the victim of a World War II-related chemical attack. It hadn’t. Rather, a boom in car infrastructure coupled with new and existing industrial pollution caused sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, and other particulate matter to dominate the air in the city. At times it was nearly impossible to see more than a few blocks, or to breathe outside of one’s home. 

In response to President Trump’s lawless actions, Executive Director of The Revolving Door Project, Jeff Hauser and Senior Researcher Toni Aguilar Rosenthal released the following statement: 

Trump’s inner circle is stacked with corporate lackeys, far-right influencers, and as Public Citizen described it, “Self-Enriching Grifters.” Many of them, though (somewhat) new to the national political spotlight, are all too familiar to observers of one state: Texas. 

Former Representative Doug Collins is Donald Trump’s pick to head the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), a federal agency that oversees the administration of health care to over 9.1 million veterans. Collins, notably, is a veteran himself, but has seemingly little background on veterans issues. His early pronouncements are superficially bland, promising to “root out corruption, and ensure every veteran receives the benefits they’ve earned,” among other things. 

Donald Trump’s first Department of Justice was a bastion of legal and ethical impropriety led by figures seeking to fundamentally collapse the rule of law. His attorneys general sought to gut civil rights, dehumanize immigrants, further militarize the border, and undermine the basic tenets of American democracy.

With the election just a month away, and a change in administration looming in just three, many are once again asking a crucial question about the basic continuance of governmental function amidst the peaceful transition of power: How does government staffing work?

The Clean Air Act (CAA) has been fiercely opposed by polluters and their allies since its passage in 1970. Industry has never quite stopped fighting to prevent the government from protecting American lives and communities at the expense of even a bit of their profits. But over the past few years, opposition to the law has reached new feverish heights. Multiple cases seeking to gut the CAA have been filed by (or with the support of) oil and gas organizations, their dark-money front groups, and their political allies since 2022.