DOGE Watch
Tracking Trump and Musk’s all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution
DOGE Watch
Tracking Trump and Musk’s all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution
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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.
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 MoreApril 03, 2025
DOGE Agent: Gregory Barbaccia
Musk Connection: Unknown
Other Corporate Affiliations: Palantir Technologies, blockchain search engine Elementus, software engineering and finance start up Theorem
DOGE Deployment: Chief Information Officer, Executive Office of the President
April 02, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Polluters Get A Presidential Exemption From The Law
Are you a highly polluting industrial facility? Maybe a coal-fired power plant, or a coke oven, or a chemical manufacturer, or a commercial sterilizer? Do your neighbors complain about the eye-watering, throat-choking clouds that billow from your stacks? Are you tired of being the bad guy just because your operations emit arsenic, ethylene oxide, mercury, and lead into the air and water, which can cause cancer, brain defects, and other illnesses? Well, President Trump has got your back.
March 31, 2025
DOGE Agent: Christopher Stanley
Musk Connections: SpaceX, Starlink, X (Twitter)
DOGE Deployments: White House, FHFA
March 28, 2025
Corruption Calendar Week 10: Bad Signals All Around
As Trump expanded his crypto ventures, Trump’s CFPB sought to return money it had previously obtained from a mortgage lender that settled with the agency over claims of racial discrimination.
March 28, 2025
Jon Queally - Common Dreams
'Fall in Line or Else': Latest Trump Order Seen as Message to Workers
March 27, 2025
Gary Winslett - The Rebuild (Substack)
Will the Real Anti-Monopolists Please Stand Up?
March 25, 2025
Doktor Zoom - Wonkette (Substack)
There Is No DeJoy In Mudville, Or In The Postal Service Either
March 24, 2025
Matt Bruenig - People's Policy Project
The Abundance Agenda
March 22, 2025
Toni Aguilar Rosenthal - Common Dreams
The End of Free Speech?
March 21, 2025
Chris Lehmann - The Nation