DOGE Watch

Tracking Trump and Musk’s all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution

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DOGE Watch

Tracking Trump and Musk’s all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution

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Corruption Calendar

A Weekly Chronicle of the Trump Favor Machine

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Corruption Calendar

A Weekly Chronicle of the Trump Favor Machine

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Ethics Rules To Restore Public Trust

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Ethics Rules To Restore Public Trust

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Bloated Government? The Problem Is the Opposite

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Bloated Government? The Problem Is the Opposite

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Enforcement: The Untapped Resource

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Enforcement: The Untapped Resource

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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

Agency Spotlight

The Agency Spotlight tracks appointments to leadership positions at thirty-nine independent federal agencies through the confirmation process and beyond.

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Hackwatch

Hackwatch

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.

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Supreme Transparency

Supreme 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.

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Our Blog

May 12, 2025

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Democrats at Law Firms That Surrendered to Trump

Trump started his second term in the White House by targeting law firms in retaliation for their past legal work and personnel decisions that displeased him. While some firms pushed back against these assaults on their independence, more than a few BigLaw firms caved. Within the first months of the year, they bowed to Trump’s demands, surrendering in order to avoid (potentially illegal) executive orders that could damage their business interests.

May 09, 2025

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Corruption Calendar Week 16: The Grift That Keeps On Giving

Welcome to week sixteen of the Revolving Door Project’s Corruption Calendar, where we highlight examples of corporate corruption shaping the Trump administration’s agenda and their material impact on everyday people. Read our first fifteen issues here and follow us on Bluesky and X for updates.

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