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 MoreFEMA Aid Tracker
The Trump administration has refused to allocate federal disaster assistance in a timely manner, especially when a request comes from a Democratic-led state. The Revolving Door Project is tracking Trump’s political weaponization of disaster relief, which needlessly imperils people’s lives as well as state and local government budgets.
Learn MoreSeptember 28, 2026 | The Sling
It’s the Economics, Stupid: A Review of Gouged and Anti-Fascist Economics
Weber’s Anti-Fascist Economics and Owens’s Gouged help to flesh out a heterodox way of thinking about economic policy.
September 28, 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.
September 25, 2026 | Dissent Magazine
Death by Data Centers
I’m an oncology nurse in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. My patients and I breathe the same polluted air, and we can’t afford the toxic exposure from the gas-fired plants set to power the state’s proposed AI data centers.
September 25, 2026 | Can We Still Govern?
Kenny Stancil Chris Dols, Federal Unionists Network
Op-Ed Climate and EnvironmentDOGEElon MuskExecutive BranchGovernanceGovernment CapacityLaborRussell VoughtTrump Watch
Unions Against Voughtism
Federal unions can connect the dots to reveal the dangers of gutting government capacity.
September 24, 2026
Chuck Schumer and Sheldon Whitehouse - U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
Leader Schumer, Whitehouse Unveil Comprehensive New Report Exposing Corrupt Fossil Fuel Industry Control Over Trump Administration
September 22, 2026
Peter Ryan - (Substack) Ryan Research
Data Centers and Water Explained
September 21, 2026
Jonathan Chait - The Atlantic
The Curious Left-Wing Argument Against New AI Regulations
September 16, 2026
Arnie Arnesen - WNHNFM
Arnie Arnesen Attitude September 16 2026
September 16, 2026
Luke Goldstein - The Lever
Big AI’s Favorite Democrats Are Writing The Party’s AI Plan
September 16, 2026
Stephanie Findlay and Jamie Smyth - Financial Times
Trump oil ally Harold Hamm to invest in Venezuela
RDP on Twitter
RT @burkehenryt: It's a heavy subject, but I'd really encourage people to read this from my colleague Dorothy Slater, who spends her days w…
Despite his departure from federal government, Elon Musk still holds influence over AI policy in the Trump administration. https://t.co/RfDuTRqQK7
How much is Jeff Bezos benefiting from his close ties to the Trump administration? Let us count the ways. https://t.co/0YM6zyownw
The data center boom is making toxic pollution in Cancer Alley even worse, writes RDP Senior Fellow Dorothy Slater in @DissentMag. https://t.co/mubUUOaGcZ
The centrist crusade against Hasan Piker is really about one thing: keeping the corporate wing of the Democratic Party in the driver's seat. https://t.co/fXzur7wFQ3
When the time for an AI bailout comes, Democrats should make the right choice and just say no. https://t.co/dsFc35DQ6u