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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.
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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 MoreJanuary 15, 2025
Here Are Some Files The Revolving Door Project Has On Trump Nominees
January 15, 2025
The Revolving Door Project Denounces Former Senator Stabenow’s Cash Grab.
Stabenow Has Joined A K St. Firm Where She Will Undoubtedly Be Well Rewarded By The Cryptocurrency Industry For Her Faithful Service To Their Cause While In Government.
January 14, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
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Tough Questions For Trump Nominees
We’re back for another edition of this newsletter proposing tough questions that need to be asked of Trump’s nominees. This iteration will cover Pam Bondi, the nominee for Attorney General, and Scott Bessent, the nominee to lead the Department of Treasury.
January 13, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Democrats Need To Ask Trump Nominees The Tough Questions
Trump’s nominees need to be asked hard questions about their records of harming the public. So we did the work ourselves and wrote some!
January 6, 2025
Kyle Campbell - The Bond Buyer
Michael Barr, the Fed's top regulator, to step down
January 2, 2025
Meghan Blonder - The Washington Free Beacon
Biden Lobbied To Grant Clemency to Culprit Who Leaked Tax Returns of the Wealthy to Left-Wing News Outlet
January 1, 2025
Brent D. Griffiths - Business Insider
Trump's billionaires will have to navigate a complex web of possible conflicts of interest
December 28, 2024
Matt Sledge - The Intercept
He Leaked Trump’s Tax Returns. Will Biden Protect Him?
December 20, 2024
Ryan Cooper - The American Prospect
Elon Musk Declares Himself President, Shuts Down Government
December 19, 2024
Dax Everly - Kawsachun News
Biden Pressured to Commute Sentence of ‘Hero’ Who Exposed Trump’s Taxes
RDP on Twitter
Democrats need to use the confirmation hearings of Trump's nominees to foreground their extensive records of facilitating material harms to Americans. These are the questions they need to ask Pam Bondi and Scott Bessent: https://t.co/iWsHTqM78r https://t.co/c8BiGVJFdj
Confirmation hearings for Trump's nominees begin tomorrow & Senate Democrats need to be aggressive in holding their feet to the fire. Here are some examples of questions we'd like to see asked: https://t.co/NhMOJQHgcQ https://t.co/XApQRI0XXw
RT @fldnotes_: Oil billionaires are throwing a swanky party to celebrate Trump's inauguration, according to an invitation sent to @DougBurg…
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Yet there is no indication of a shift. By all accounts, Senate Democrats are seeking strategic retreat wherever possible, convinced that ‘opposition' is a bad strategy for the opposition party."
"Joe Biden's degraded public communications capacity played an enormous role in the Party's past four years. While the Senate Democratic caucus is not exactly run by figures exuding vim and vigor, they should have learned from Biden's calamitously passive strategy.