DOGE: From Meme to Government Erosion Machine
A record of DOGE's first year of destruction
DOGE: From Meme to Government Erosion Machine
A record of DOGE's first year of destruction
Trump Watch
Tracking the Trump administration's all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution
Trump Watch
Tracking the Trump administration's all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution
Trump's Disastrous Disaster Policy
Documenting the Trump administration's pre-disaster recklessness and post-disaster cruelty
Trump's Disastrous Disaster Policy
Documenting the Trump administration's pre-disaster recklessness and post-disaster cruelty
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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 MoreJune 26, 2026
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Map: Trump Has Often Delayed or Denied Disaster Aid
The Trump administration has refused to allocate federal disaster aid in a timely manner. Check out our interactive map for more details on the White House’s careless approach to major disaster declarations.
June 26, 2026
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Personal Information at Risk
The United States federal government knows a lot about you. If you’ve ever applied for federal student aid, the Department of Education has records of your income and assets. The Social Security Administration begins collecting information from the moment your parents apply for your Social Security number at birth, adds new data every time Social Security taxes are deducted from your paychecks, and continues to monitor you until the day you die.
June 26, 2026
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Trump’s War on Public Data
Trump’s antagonistic relationship with facts is well documented. His most egregious attacks on reality aren’t just rhetorical. They threaten physical safety and American democracy. They target the ways we define what we know about the country and ourselves. Trump’s assault on public data is not a side project, it’s a core feature of his authoritarian approach to governance. By hollowing out federal statistics, limiting information gathering, and redacting inconvenient reports, the Trump administration is warping reality to suit its political narrative. The goal isn’t just to obscure the effects of the president’s policies, it’s to prevent the public from seeing them at all.
June 25, 2026
Administration must stop targeting LGBTQ kids
McMahon, Trump, and Republicans are targeting LGBTQ kids.
June 25, 2026
Jordan Smith and Emily Hopkins - IndyStar
A month after leaving top city role, former Hogsett deputy took job at major city contractor
June 25, 2026
Frances Sawyer - (Substack) Transition Finance Weekly
Transition Finance Weekly - June 25, 2026
June 24, 2026
Bill McKibben - (Substack) The Crucial Years
How about Free? Is that affordable enough for you?
June 24, 2026
Dean Baker - (Substack) Dean Baker
The Abundance Bandwagon Jumps the Shark in Vancouver
June 22, 2026
Ian Masters - Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing: June 22, 2026
June 22, 2026
Jesse Hamilton - CoinDesk
Crypto's second U.S. lobbying front — tax policy — sees industry push on mining, staking
RDP on Twitter
The powerful House Ways & Means Committee, which crafts tax policy, has become a key target for the cryptocurrency industry. https://t.co/wOu78TH7hz
New documents reveal the big money corporate donors bankrolling the so-called "Abundance movement". https://t.co/etv7MZmoby
The prediction markets industry is building out its lobbying power, hiring high-ranking former government officials from both parties. https://t.co/ifAVhQYazj
Over $103M in federal contracts and grants for 250th anniversary celebrtions have gone to politicized entities under the control of Trump officials and allies. https://t.co/RzJ8KhMQCK
Alaska's long-delayed LNG pipeline illustrates how heavily fossil fuels are subsidized — at great cost to the public. https://t.co/27jZ33Zr0j
Federal disaster relief is itself becoming a slow-motion disaster thanks to Trump. https://t.co/AedzwAdjKN