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.
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Trump Watch
The Revolving Door Project works diligently to document how the Trump administration’s corrupt governance is helping oligarchs and hurting ordinary people.
Learn MoreIlluminating the Home Insurance Crisis
The declining availability and affordability of home insurance stems from unchecked fossil fuel pollution, concentrated corporate power, and weak regulation. The Revolving Door Project is shedding light on those responsible for perpetuating this crisis, which jeopardizes local housing markets and global financial stability.
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 MoreAugust 13, 2026 | The American Prospect
Jeff Hauser Dylan Gyauch-Lewis
Op-Ed 2024 ElectionEconomic PolicyExecutive BranchFinancial RegulationTech
An AI Bailout Will Be a ‘Which Side Are You On’ Moment
If AI falls, Democrats can build an enduring political majority—but only if they reject handing a lifeline to Altman, Musk, and the rest of the industry.
August 13, 2026
Tracker Climate and EnvironmentDOGEElon MuskExecutive BranchFEMAGovernanceGovernment CapacityHousingRussell VoughtTrump Watch
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.
August 12, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
What the AI Industry Gains from Hiring Former Biden Officials
The revolving door is another tool in the AI industry’s toolbox to ensure it gets its wish list, from lax regulations to lucrative contracts.
August 10, 2026
Tracking the Revolving Door Between AI and Former Biden Officials
The Revolving Door Project is tracking AI companies that have hired senior level Democrats who staffed the Biden administration – figures who are likely to be in positions of power for a future Democratic administration. Thus far, we’ve tracked over 100 former Biden admin senior staff from the White House and other executive branch agencies who have gone on to AI industry companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Amazon.
August 12, 2026
Brett Wilkins - Common Dreams
‘Shamelessly Corrupt’: Recusal From Climate Cases Demanded After Alito’s Fossil Fuel Profits Exposed
August 10, 2026
Justin Henry, Ryan Tarinelli, and Suzanne Monyak - Bloomberg Law
Trump’s New White House Lawyer Embodies MAGA Mold in Second Term
August 7, 2026
Whitney Curry Wimbish and Zachary Groz - The American Prospect
Union Sues TSA Over Secret Plan to Privatize Security
August 4, 2026
Dhara Chavda - The Crypto Times
Crypto Industry Rebuts Sheriffs’ CLARITY Act Objections as Vote Slips
August 4, 2026
Kyle Mantyla - People For
The Missing Roadshow
August 2, 2026
Madeline Croad - (Substack) Professionally Confused
Confusing News: Articles that made me smarter this week
RDP on Twitter
Today in @TheProspect, our @jeffhauser & @DylanGyauchL explain why it's time to start thinking about an AI bailout--and realizing why it would be a huge mistake. Every bailout winds up strengthening industry elites who inevitably turn their wealth against progressive causes https://t.co/kNiNe7NYOy
And make sure to check out our Biden AI Revolvers tracker: https://t.co/jaw744fhKN
Read more in our latest newsletter here ⬇️ https://t.co/YMIsIOq4tZ
Last week, we launched our tracker focused on Biden-era officials who have joined the AI industry. If Democrats want to seriously stand up to Silicon Valley, a future Democratic administration can't be led by these revolvers. https://t.co/zXOgprE43B