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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 MoreFebruary 14, 2025
Corruption Calendar Week 4: Messrs.Trump And Musk Want You To Know The Presidency Is For Sale
February 14, 2025
Elon Musk Didn’t Start Flouting The Law With DOGE.
Elon Musk is ignoring laws he doesn’t like at DOGE. This is a strategy he learned from the world of business.
February 14, 2025
The Revolving Door Project Publishes List Tracking Reports Elon Musk and His Companies Flout the Law and Regulations
The billionaire’s disregard of federal laws and constitutional powers did not arise out of nowhere when he began his work at “DOGE.” It is just the logical outgrowth of a career spent flouting rules and regulations without consequence.
February 13, 2025
Questioning Bessent on the DOGE Treasury Raid
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was asked about the Elon Musk-led DOGE team’s meddling in the Treasury Department’s payments system. His answers raise additional questions.
February 13, 2025
Rogan's List - Substack
February 13, 2025
February 13, 2025
Capitol Account
FHFA Nominee Pulte Named in Straw-Donor Complaint at FEC
February 13, 2025
Aaron Wood - Cointelegraph
Trump’s CFTC pick Brian Quintenz gets crypto’s foot in the revolving door
February 12, 2025
Jake Johnson - Alaska Native News
Constitutional Crisis Intensifies as Lawless Trump Ignores Federal Court Orders
February 12, 2025
Doug Porter - Words & Deeds (Substack)
Grand Theft Government: White House Edition
February 12, 2025
Rick Smith - Apple Podcasts
The Rick Smith Show - February 12, 2025
RDP on Twitter
We think it's crucial that people know how often the quasi-president has flaunted the law to his personal benefit. Read our tracker here: https://t.co/gsjLFk56Rg
Curious how Musk was so willing to flaunt federal law as soon as he and DOGE took over? It's because he's spent his career ignoring rules, laws and regulations that get in his way. Usually to almost no consequence. That's why we compiled a list of his legal fights.
And if you would like to keep up to date on Trump and Musk’s all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution, check out our tracking resources here: https://t.co/SHBn2robcl
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On the other hand, New York City Mayor Eric Adams' rush to join in on the Trumpworld corruption hit a significant bump as the Trump DOJ’s calls to dismiss his case were rebuffed by U.S. Attorneys in Manhattan. 4/ https://t.co/ELbNknh4FF
Others include: foreign oligarchs who Attorney General Pam Bondi invited to meddle in our politics, American businesses eager to bribe foreign officials and Trump’s Wall Street Allies who would love for humanitarian efforts to take a back seat to their investments goals. 3/ https://t.co/1OuTeceJ2Q