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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.
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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 20, 2024 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
A Lame-Duck Prelude of the Next Four Years
It’s only been two weeks since Donald Trump was re-elected President and the tenor of the next four years is already taking shape. The speed with which Trump’s transition team is announcing executive branch appointments is matched only by the swiftness with which those appointees will decimate the government’s capacity to serve the American people. The question now is whether Democrats and media understand the gravity of the situation and will act accordingly.
November 20, 2024
The Committee For a Responsible Federal Budget Welcomes Musk’s Meme Department of Government Efficiency
Welcome to the new Trump administration, where apparently this is what we can expect from the “responsible moderates” like CRFB.
November 20, 2024
The Revolving Door Project Criticizes Nomination of Linda McMahon as Secretary of Education
November 19, 2024
The Biden Administration Completely Failed to Address Corporate Crime. Can We Blame Voters for Noticing?
As the Democratic Party apparatus’s post-election reflections continue this week, they would do well to consider this basic question: Was it smart to run a campaign hinging on your opponent’s blatant corruption and white-collar criminal status, despite the failure of the Biden administration to take tangible steps to address the harms perpetrated by corporations and the wealthy during their time in office?
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
The lame-duck has been a grim preview of things to come: corporate cronies in the cabinet, revolver-driven rollbacks in the courts, and a failure from Democrats and media to meet the moment. https://t.co/dEHCcQMULE
To put it plainly—if Democrats wanted to run and win on an aversion to their opponent’s white collar corruption, it might have been helpful to actually fight white collar corruption while they had the chance.
If voters look at the options before them and see two corrupt political parties too corporate captured to stand up for their interests, can we blame them for choosing the less hypocritical one?
And with Trump’s team making news this week with plans to “ease…rules for self-driving cars,” it seems extremely unlikely that Cruise and its ilk will face harsher consequences over the next four years. https://t.co/Fy31mkXbjD
Thankfully, the victim in this incident survived. But a fine of $500,000 for a company valued in the billions of dollars, with a parent company valued at almost $162 billion, is pitiful, to say the least. https://t.co/8MJyNCHsr4
Cruise is a self-driving car producer whose representatives lied to federal regulators during an investigation into an incident where one of their vehicles ran over a pedestrian and dragged her under the car for 20 feet. https://t.co/YhC6PLSSaa