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About the Revolving Door Project
The Revolving Door Project (RDP) scrutinizes executive branch appointees to ensure they use their office to serve the broad public interest, rather than to entrench corporate power or seek personal advancement.
Projects
The Agency Spotlight
The Agency Spotlight tracks appointments to leadership positions at thirty-nine independent federal agencies through the confirmation process and beyond. Additionally, for three agencies — the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) — the Spotlight monitors and exhibits key votes.
Learn MoreHackwatch
Hackwatch is where we monitor the mainstream media’s favorite Democratic-leaning economic analysts for conflicts of interest, perverse incentives, and just flat-out erroneous reasoning. We identify who the bad actors are, explain why they’re compromised and wrong, and demand that outlets stop poisoning the information ecosystem with discredited neoliberal orthodoxy and start giving people access to other, better-informed perspectives.
Learn MoreSupreme Transparency
Supreme Transparency—a project of Take Back the Court, True North Research, and the Revolving Door Project—sheds light on an oft-overlooked way that the U.S. Supreme Court’s billionaire benefactors peddle influence: amicus briefs. The Supreme Transparency site exposes the more subtle yet no less destructive ways that right-wing amicus filers and oligarchic court-whisperers hold sway over SCOTUS.
Learn MoreOctober 29, 2024
Report: Gas Industry Ramps Up Deceptive Effort to Influence Democrats
A group funded by fracking firms and pipeline companies is ramping up its efforts to cozy up to key Democratic constituencies in service of a pro-polluter agenda, including a bipartisan bill packed with fossil-fuel giveaways that could be considered in Congress in the coming weeks, according to a new report released today by the Revolving Door Project and Public Citizen.
October 28, 2024
Press Release: The Revolving Door Project on Jeff Bezos, Dan Osborn, and Harris’ Potentially Decisive Decision
Over the last few days we have seen the billionaire class brought to heel by Donald Trump. Jeff Bezos has joined the likes of Mark Zuckerberg in preemptively acquiescing to Trump’s demands, while Elon Musk has become reliant on a Trump presidency to protect him from any legal consequences resulting from his close relationship to Vladimir Putin. Conversely, a former union leader and unabashed Prairie Populist has threatened a Nebraska Republican incumbent no one had believed in any peril by centering his opposition to monopolies, billionaire influence, and greedy corporations.
October 28, 2024
State Insurance Commissioners Are Far Too Important to Ignore
The deeply intertwined crises of climate change, insurance rate hikes and cancellations, and housing injustice are escalating. State insurance regulators cannot tackle these problems on their own, but their role in aggravating or ameliorating them deserves greater scrutiny.
October 28, 2024
To Reach Millions Of Tenants, Walz Should Talk About Housing More
October 24, 2024
Daniel Hampton - Raw Story
'Malpractice': Experts say Harris' tactic with FTC chair 'zaps the life' out of base
October 24, 2024
Brendan Bordelon and Adam Cancryn - POLITICO
Should Kamala Harris embrace Lina Khan? Democrats are split — and some worry it will cost her.
October 24, 2024
Benjamin Guggenheim - POLITICO
They were lobbying on legislation before his committee. They were also employing his son.
October 23, 2024
Kelsey Reichmann - Courthouse News Service
Supreme Court ‘friends’ leave justices more questions than answers
October 20, 2024
Shivaram Rajgopal - Forbes
Add A Zero To The Salary Number Of Civil Servants
October 17, 2024
Alex Seitz-Wald and Allan Smith - NBC News
Battle of the billionaires: Harris deploys Mark Cuban as Elon Musk stumps for Trump
RDP on Twitter
NEW: Insurers are regulated primarily at the state level. Amid our escalating climate, insurance, and housing crises, we need better media coverage of state insurance commissioners. We created a database to help track who these important regulators are. https://t.co/z39qql7WEq
The Harris campaign must revisit the failed strategy of centering billionaire Mark Cuban as a corporate friendly spokesperson and seeking detente with Elon Musk."
Press Release: "While Trump and corporate elites are increasingly united against Harris, the Harris campaign has continued its futile attempts to win over the support of corporate America... https://t.co/5oFdPSI6Jy
It is clear Gov. Walz is someone who can talk about these issues and he should.
Walz also can communicate this from a more personal level because he himself struggled to find housing while as a member of Congress.
Walz, who is considered the middle and working class whisperer, signed a $1 billion housing omnibus package that aligns with the priority of housing activists. https://t.co/ydcakFTHwW