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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 MoreNovember 04, 2024
RDP Suspicion of Crypto-Connected Betting Websites Proves Correct
Who would’ve guessed that an offshore political betting market relying upon cryptocurrency deposits is riddled with issues?
November 04, 2024 | The American Prospect
The Climate Crisis Is a Cost-of-Living Crisis
The right’s climate denial means higher prices.
November 01, 2024
Being Ethical Can Pay Off
Why it’s smart for power-hungry politicians to embrace common sense ethics reforms
October 31, 2024
In New White Paper, Revolving Door Project Provides Recommendations to Reform Government Ethics and Win Back Trust of Americans
Today, the Revolving Door Project published a new white paper, “Rebuilding Public Trust: Six Principles to Guide Reform,” which provides a blueprint for strengthening the federal government’s ethics programs across the executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
November 1, 2024
Caitlin Oprysko - POLITICO
The travel industry lays out its hurricane relief asks
October 31, 2024
Brett Wilkins - Common Dreams
Fearing More 'Blatant Corruption' in Second Trump Term, Watchdog Issues Ethics Blueprint
October 31, 2024
Josh Gerstein - POLITICO
Meet the sleeper conservatives who could help fulfill Trump’s promise to be a dictator on Day 1
October 31, 2024
Alex Seitz-Wald and Sahil Kapur - NBC News
Progressives gear up for their first big fight if Harris wins: Protecting Lina Khan
October 30, 2024
Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
'Dark Omen': Supreme Court Allows Virginia Voter Purge Just Days Before Election
October 29, 2024
Public Citizen - Public Citizen
Gas Industry Ramps Up Deceptive Effort to Influence Democrats
RDP on Twitter
NEW: Our @DylanGyauchL has a piece in @TheSlingUtah about inflation and why it didn't ease because of Jerome Powell or monetary policy. There's no evidence of a drop in demand, unemployment didn't go up, and there's no causal link. https://t.co/2Cu8SY880p
RT @DylanGyauchL: I have a piece out in the *Sling today! It’s about inflation and why the Fed can’t be credited with it easing. Hope folk…
THREAD https://t.co/M9xAQgVpL0
NEW: In @TheProspect, our @kenny_stancil explains how the climate crisis contributes to higher prices. Progressives should make clear to working people that the right's climate denialism amounts to support for inflation. https://t.co/0hhrkTt4n8 https://t.co/mwtPlK6H6F
RT @cplusci: Read this piece by @kenny_stancil on how tackling planetary warming and fixing the economy for working people through cost-cut…
RT @ddayen: The main topic of this election has been the rising cost of living. @kenny_stancil explains how the climate crisis is facilitat…