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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.
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The Agency Spotlight
The Agency Spotlight tracks appointments to leadership positions at thirty-nine independent federal agencies through the confirmation process and beyond.
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 MoreFebruary 20, 2025
DOGE Agent: Gavin Kliger
Corporate Affiliations: Engineer at Databricks
DOGE Deployment: Internal Revenue Service; Office of Personnel Management; General Services Administration; Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; USAID
February 20, 2025
DOGE Agent: Jordan Wick
Corporate Affiliations: Software engineer at Waymo; Founder of start-up Intercept
DOGE Deployment: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
February 20, 2025
DOGE Agent: Luke Farritor
Musk Connections: Intern at SpaceX; Intern at Starlink
Other Corporate Affiliations: Thiel Fellow
DOGE Deployment: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; State Department; USAID; General Services Administration; Education Department; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Energy Department
February 20, 2025
DOGE Agent: Tom Krause
Musk Connections: Silicon Valley CEO who has been described as a “Musk ally”
Other Corporate Affiliations: CEO of Cloud Software Group; President of Broadcom Software
DOGE Deployment: Fiscal Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
February 19, 2025
Beatrice Nolan - Fortune
Not even DOGE employees know who’s in charge after the White House denies Elon Musk is heading the team
February 18, 2025
Alena Botros - Fortune
Elon Musk isn’t in charge of DOGE or even an employee of it, White House says
February 13, 2025
Rogan's List - Substack
February 13, 2025
February 13, 2025
Capitol Account
FHFA Nominee Pulte Named in Straw-Donor Complaint at FEC
February 13, 2025
Aaron Wood - Cointelegraph
Trump’s CFTC pick Brian Quintenz gets crypto’s foot in the revolving door
February 12, 2025
Jake Johnson - Alaska Native News
Constitutional Crisis Intensifies as Lawless Trump Ignores Federal Court Orders
RDP on Twitter
The map now incorporates data from our DOGE hit list tracker—check it out! /END
A few weeks ago, DemLabs published a storymap to visualize Elon Musk’s ongoing coup. 11/ https://t.co/uM2NJlCR5D
Finally, check out the work by our friends over at @TheDemLabs. 10/
(6) Enforcement Capacity Tracker. The Enforcement Capacity Tracker will list examples of cuts to the staffing, budget, and overall capacity of federal agencies with the power to investigate corporate wrongdoing and industry-driven threats to people’s safety. 9/
(5) Laws Elon Musk Has Ignored. 8/ https://t.co/gsjLFk56Rg
(4) Trump Admin Non-Adherence to Court Orders. Despite multiple judges pausing the Trump administration's spending freeze, critical programs and services reliant on federal funding remain closed. 7/ https://t.co/eZCLAtPBaC