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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.
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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. 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 MoreDecember 19, 2024
As the Biden Admin Winds Down, Will They Take Stands To Protect The Public?
This week’s newsletter highlights three litmus tests of the Biden administration’s commitment to holding the wealthy and powerful accountable to the public interest within their dwindling time in office.
December 18, 2024 | Rolling Stone
Biden Must Free the Man Who Exposed Trump’s Tax Avoidance
Joe Biden must commute the sentence of Charles Littlejohn, the IRS whistleblower who leaked Donald Trump’s tax records, before Trump can get revenge.
December 18, 2024 | Slate
Meet the Terrifying Line of Shock Troops Likely to Make Up the New Trump DOJ
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.
December 18, 2024
PODCAST: RDP's Kenny Stancil Urges Biden to Commute Sentence of IRS Whistleblower On Arnie Arnesen Attitude
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December 18, 2024
Arnie Arnesen - Podomatic
Arnie Arnesen Attitude December 18 2024
December 18, 2024
Matthew Chapman - Raw Story
Biden urged to pardon whistleblower jailed for leaking Trump's tax returns
December 18, 2024
Institute for Policy Studies - Inequality.org
Pressuring President Biden To Free a Principled Advocate for Tax Justice
December 17, 2024
Marita Vlachou and Dave Jamieson - HuffPost
Elizabeth Warren Urges Trump To Place Guardrails On Top Ally Elon Musk
December 16, 2024
Corporate Crime Reporter - Corporate Crime Reporter
Emma Marsano on the Biden Administration’s Failure to Address Corporate Crime
December 16, 2024
Brett Wilkins - Common Dreams
New Campaign Urges Biden to Commute Sentence of 'Public Hero' Who Leaked Trump Tax Data
RDP on Twitter
Who might staff Trump Justice 2.0? The same people who did before Trump DOJ alum have spent the last 4 years endeavoring to make your life harder & worse and may soon have a federal platform to do so...again A who’s who of what might be to come from @aguilarosenthal for @Slate https://t.co/kI9TL8a1HY
@JusticeATR 7. Just this week, the CA AG (a role Harris herself once held!) secured settlements from RealPage and a corporate landlord for violating tenant protections. These are the types of villains Americans wanted to see Harris confront. https://t.co/ajEtWsBsgd
@JusticeATR 6. Kamala Harris had a golden opportunity to connect with voters by promising to crack down on the corporate profiteers who make affordable housing a pipe dream for everyday Americans. But instead, she took bad advice from corporate advisors.
@JusticeATR 5. Clegg’s past clients even included corporate landlords who poured millions into efforts to oppose rent control in California. https://t.co/VmDKojmxrp
@JusticeATR 4. But key Harris advisors like Tony West and Sean Clegg counseled the VP to dial back on populist positions like antitrust enforcement & the role of corporate price-gouging in high rent and grocery prices. https://t.co/RstKSLFR5Q