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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. 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 MoreSeptember 16, 2024
David Yost’s Long Crusade Against Immigrants
September 13, 2024
You Don’t Need To Defend Betting Markets To Defend Polling
A feud between an actress and a prominent election forecaster has somehow resulted in people defending the unshakable political insights of gambling addicts and political junkies because it involves a market.
September 12, 2024
Just Because Harris Didn’t Mention Antitrust In The Debate Doesn’t Mean She Abandoned It
Populist messaging on holding corporations accountable remains a strong part of the Vice President’s campaign strategy.
September 12, 2024
The Other Group Praised By Ginni Thomas
Since first posting Ginni Thomas’s endorsement to its website, Americans for Limited Government has defended the Thomases over allegations of misconduct and become a frequent advocate at the Supreme Court.
September 10, 2024
Sam Sutton - POLITICO
Can Harris run as a deficit hawk?
September 10, 2024
Luke Goldstein - The American Prospect
Debate Prep by Day, Google Defense by Night
September 3, 2024
Cristiano Lima-Strong and Cat Zakrzewski - The Washington Post
Silicon Valley had Harris’s back for decades. Will she return the favor?
September 1, 2024
Ted Mann and Josh Eidelson - Bloomberg
Harris Finds Top Labor Allies Despite Questions on Her Plans
August 31, 2024
Capitol Account - Substack
Tumult at FDIC; How a Trump Win Could Shake Up Regulators; CAT Fight
August 30, 2024
The Fucking News - Substack
Harris Survives Dramatic Attempted Interview
RDP on Twitter
Around early October 2021, Americans for Limited Government—a right-wing group that supported the fake elector scheme—posted an endorsement from Ginni Thomas to its website. Since then, the group has become a frequent advocate at SCOTUS. https://t.co/TuB3Ttm38a
Bette Midler and Nate Silver are fighting. This is something nobody should care about. But defending Silver has become an opportunity to defend the "insight" of gambling markets. Take it from Josh Shapiro and Beyonce fans, they're not very accurate https://t.co/LxtAKHuAvm
But, YES, conflicts of interest in campaigns can matter (@mattyglesias) https://t.co/bwbbkjjX2C
NEW NEWSLETTER: Kamala Harris' popular anti-price gouging proposals weren’t discussed in the debate even as her campaign continues to run populist TV ads. Bad luck, or the debate prep role of Big Tech revolver @karenleahdunn? Unclear! https://t.co/Di3g9Y8zLZ
CC: @mattyglesias since you seemed confused about what conflicts of interest are
VP Harris has made it clear that antitrust enforcement is a key part of her campaign messaging. Yet it was not mentioned once at the debate. This could be nothing, or it could be the influence of Google's defense lawyer on Harris' debate prep team. https://t.co/bwbbkjjX2C