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Tracking Trump and Musk’s all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution
DOGE Watch
Tracking Trump and Musk’s all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution
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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.
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 MoreMarch 26, 2025 | The American Prospect
An Abundance of Credulity
In the months before the re-election of Donald Trump precipitated our rapid descent into authoritarianism, two books were being written about the idea that progressivism went astray in the 1960s and 1970s. In Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson describe a drift into a “politics of scarcity,” and in Why Nothing Works, Marc Dunkelman calls it a “cultural aversion to power.” Both books ask a pertinent question: Why doesn’t the government do big, bold things, quickly, to address the pressing issues of our time? We have an abundance of viewpoints and veto points, they argue, but a shortage of affordable housing and transmission lines. Something’s got to give. The unstated question, of course, is who must give.
March 26, 2025
IRS Cuts and the Signal Chat Scandal: The Latest Indicators of the Trump Administration’s Recklessness
While national security adviser Michael Waltz’s Signal chat security breach debacle has dominated headlines this week, it’s not the only act of reckless disregard for the safety and security of Americans in the news. This week also saw projections that Trump-Musk cuts to the IRS could lead to a $500 billion tax revenue shortfall this year, with a slump already in effect at this point in tax season.
March 26, 2025
Paul, Weiss Appeased Trump. More Attacks on BigLaw Will Follow.
Fascists respond to capitulation with more aggression. Elon Musk has already started targeting firms himself.
March 25, 2025
Ezra Klein Said What?
Abundance co-author’s word salad about environmental review left us scratching our heads.
March 21, 2025
Chris Lehmann - The Nation
Trump Sets His Sights on “Eliminating” Public Education
March 20, 2025
Brett Wilkins - Common Dreams
'Constitutional Crime': Outrage as Trump Fires Democratic FTC Commissioners
March 20, 2025
Sophia Cai and Daniel Lippman - POLITICO
K Street crashes into ‘nearly un-lobbyable’ Elon Musk
March 19, 2025
Steven T. Dennis - Bloomberg
Crypto’s Clout in Washington Is Soaring
March 18, 2025
The Privatization Report - In The Public Interest
Privatization Report 3/18/2025
March 15, 2025
David Dayen - The American Prospect