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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 06, 2024
RELEASE: Justice Gorsuch’s Recusal Shows Other Justices Have Missed Recusals
On Wednesday, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch recused himself from Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado. While he did not disclose a reason for recusal, the decision followed revelations from Accountable.US that Gorsuch’s billionaire benefactor, Philip Anschutz, stood to benefit from the case. Importantly, one of Anschutz’s companies filed an amicus brief outlining its interests in the case.
December 04, 2024
RELEASE: Donald Trump’s Nomination of Paul Atkins to Chair the SEC Is a Huge Gift to the Crypto Industry
If Atkins is confirmed by the Senate, crypto grifters will surely rejoice at their newfound freedom to swindle, but most investors in the U.S. will be much less safe.
December 04, 2024
Why Won’t Democrats Defend Their Legacy On Labor?
Time is running out to reconfirm NLRB Chair Lauren McFerran.
December 02, 2024
INTERVIEW: RDP's Jeff Hauser Joins The Lever to Dissect Trump's Cabinet
RDP Founder and Executive Director Jeff Hauser joined The Lever to discuss the conflicts of interest plaguing President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks.
November 23, 2024
Carl Gibson - AlterNet
'Insane': Experts condemn Trump plan to make DOJ 'manufacture evidence' that he won in 2020
November 22, 2024
Brent D. Griffiths - Business Insider
3 of Trump's top cabinet-level picks recently worked as lobbyists, with clients ranging from Amazon to Qatar
November 22, 2024
Eugenio Catone - Seeking Alpha
Google: The DoJ Gave Me An Early Christmas Present
November 22, 2024
Matt Sledge - The Intercept
Pam Bondi, Trump’s New AG Pick, Lobbied for Private Prisons and Amazon
November 21, 2024
Marcia Brown, Daniel Payne and Megan Messerly - POLITICO
Progressive groups share many of RFK Jr.’s goals. They’re opposing him anyway.
November 21, 2024
David Sirota and Freddy Brewster - The Lever
Trump AG Pick Linked To Musk’s Fraud Lawyer
RDP on Twitter
"The days Harris spent campaigning with former congresswoman Liz Cheney, in my view, would have been better used giving speeches attacking companies for ripping off consumers" @perrybaconjr reiterating the popularity of a corporate crackdown in the WaPo https://t.co/7tZIoWguV8
If the Senate confirms cryptocurrency enthusiast and Project 2025 contributor Paul Atkins as SEC chair, crypto grifters will surely rejoice at their newfound freedom to swindle, but most investors in the U.S. will be much less safe. https://t.co/szsPQalu7E
NEW NEWSLETTER: Democrats have the chance to secure a majority at the NLRB and continue their popular defense of workers' rights. But with less than two weeks left on Chairwoman Lauren McFerran’s term, time is running out. Where’s the sense of urgency?https://t.co/1LFIFFgmAm
Any Harris post-mortem needs to contend with the actual campaign. Blaming a supposed global backlash to inflation only serves to deflect accountability. Did inflation play a role? Of course. Did it mean Democrats were destined to lose? Absolutely not. https://t.co/6895tVWXsF
Ireland, Mexico, and many others showed that incumbent parties could retain power, and in some cases increase vote share, despite high spikes of inflation. https://t.co/bRisozdl38