DOGE Watch
Tracking the Trump administration's all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution
DOGE Watch
Tracking the Trump administration's all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution
Trump's Disastrous Disaster Policy
Documenting the Trump administration's pre-disaster recklessness and post-disaster cruelty
Trump's Disastrous Disaster Policy
Documenting the Trump administration's pre-disaster recklessness and post-disaster cruelty
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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 MoreDecember 05, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
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Corruption Calendar Week 46: Whose Life is Precious?
It’s a cruel irony that the presumed technology of our future is forcing us to go back in time and prop up coal power generation. It’s even more unconscionable that so many people will be stricken by illness and death as a result.
December 05, 2025 | The American Prospect
Trump’s Katrina Is Coming
The president’s FEMA sabotage has all but guaranteed us more acute disasters in the future.
December 03, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Reclaiming an Abundant and Democratic Future in the Age of AI
One of the defining characteristics of American life in the twenty-first century is its extreme imbalance: excess amid scarcity. While the world teems with a surplus of disposable consumer goods, essentials like healthcare, housing, education, and energy are prohibitively expensive. Much of this imbalance is by design. Powerful corporations profit from distorting public goods into private commodities, and individual and collective choices are replaced by corporate prescriptions that do not meet our needs. This dynamic is particularly visible in the tech industry forcing artificial intelligence into every corner of our lives, regardless of whether it is wanted.
November 26, 2025
Thanksgiving Combo: Corruption Calendar and RDP Work Round-Up
This week’s newsletter recaps the Trump administration’s latest corrupt policymaking and our most notable publications over the past month.
December 9, 2025
Ben Clark - Prospect Magazine
Jerusalem Demsas on the fight for radical liberalism
December 4, 2025
Joe Light - Barron's
Trump Family-Backed Companies Are Being Left Behind as Crypto Recovers
December 4, 2025
George E. Condon Jr. - National Journal
Without a landslide Trump win, states face trouble receiving aid for actual landslides
November 29, 2025
David Sirota - (Substack) Sirota
Pay No Attention To Oligarchs Raising Your Rent
November 26, 2025
Kevin Sanchez - San Antonio Current
Bad Takes: ‘We have the best political system right now that private money can buy’
November 24, 2025
Laura Crimaldi, Aidan Ryan and Anjali Huynh - The Boston Globe
Larry Summers has long seemed unstoppable. Then came the Epstein emails.
RDP on Twitter
NADA's influence has flown under the radar, but it is a lobbying behemoth, leveraging its money and revolvers to stand against environmental regulations of the automobile industry & common sense consumer protections. Read more below: https://t.co/RJjB95ioP9 https://t.co/pCWRwPDKFe
NADA pretends it cares about the interests of both its members and consumers. Their policy priorities tell a different story. NADA has spent millions lobbying against Right to Repair, the FTC's Combating Auto Retail Scams (CARS) Rule, and oversight of non-bank auto lenders. https://t.co/iCPS8fymiQ
Castriota's claim that relaxed CAFE standards will save customers money couldn't be further from the truth. Even if upfront costs increase, they are more than offset by fuel cost savings and health benefits from decreased pollution. https://t.co/rQZNENyghA
Nearly every attendee at the conference was given a chance to heap praise and flattery on President Trump. Here's NADA President Tom Castriota stumbling through his turn, falsely claiming that the new standards will help consumers: https://t.co/8tPsLUc1QK
But its not just auto manufacturers. The National Automobile Dealers Association has spent nearly $5 million on lobbying efforts in 2025 alone, opposing everything from CAFE standards to oversight of auto lenders. https://t.co/N0heYRalf6
“Your people at Ford were coming to me all the time and they were saying, like, please [...] it’s killing us.” Trump said the quiet part loud in his press conference on CAFE standards: He's rolling back regulations because industry asked him to. https://t.co/1m0dJ9jIdy