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.
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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.
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 MoreJune 13, 2025
Corruption Calendar Week 21: Trump Cuts the Corruption Cops
This week, nothing too unusual happened, which is to say that the Trump administration continued its crusade to further enrich the rich at the expense of everyone else.
June 12, 2025
Tracking State-Level DOGEs
While Elon Musk’s brainchild continues to rampage through our federal government, governors and state legislatures are creating their own DOGE-style bodies, seeking to emulate Musk’s DOGE’s destruction within their own state governments.
June 11, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Is Brett Kavanaugh the new Ezra Klein?
After live-tweeting his fallout with the world’s richest man, the president has been soothing himself with the pageantry of control. Miles of tanks have rolled into D.C. in preparation for Trump’s military parade. ICE agents have raided workplaces and seized thousands of people across the country. Police have targeted journalists, medics, and protestors in Los Angeles with rubber bullets, tear gas, and smoke grenades. Now the latest escalation: the president has deployed Marines to Los Angeles, threatening martial law.
June 11, 2025
The Abundance Mask Slips at WelcomeFest
A quick list of WelcomeFest’s most interesting moments, speakers and takeaways. Abundance Coachella really lived up to the hype.
June 12, 2025
Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
'Why Are People Cynical About Politics'? Ex-Obama Adviser Joins Pro-Trump Crypto Giant Coinbase
June 11, 2025
Anders Lee, Jake Flores, and Alex Ptak - Pod Damn America
(BONUS) WelcomeFest w/Alex Bronzini-Vender
June 11, 2025
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson - Citations Needed
Ep. 223: The Empire Strikes First, Part II — ‘Abundance’ Pablum as Counter to Left Populism
June 11, 2025
Waleed Shahid - The Nation
The Abundance Debate Is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It.
June 10, 2025
Claire Heddles - NOTUS
Pete Hegseth Sold Tons of Stock the Week Before ‘Liberation Day’ Stock Market Plunge
June 9, 2025
Sarah Todd - Stat+