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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 06, 2024 | The American Prospect
Corporate Polluters Still Want to Kill California’s Clean Air Regulations
The Clean Air Act (CAA) has been fiercely opposed by polluters and their allies since its passage in 1970. Industry has never quite stopped fighting to prevent the government from protecting American lives and communities at the expense of even a bit of their profits. But over the past few years, opposition to the law has reached new feverish heights. Multiple cases seeking to gut the CAA have been filed by (or with the support of) oil and gas organizations, their dark-money front groups, and their political allies since 2022.
September 05, 2024
Heatmap’s Poll on Permitting “Reform” Is Worse Than Useless
It’s an effort to manufacture consent for a dirty deal whose elements are poorly understood by most U.S. voters—through little fault of their own.
September 03, 2024
Matt Yglesias’ Understanding of Inflation is Still Fake
The idea of relying on the basic supply and demand model from intro macro runs into a wall anytime you have a market of price setters rather than price takers.
September 03, 2024
Newsletter 227: How The Auto Lobby Spent Eight Figures Crying Wolf About Regulations
If Shondaland is ever looking to do a “How To Get Away With Murder” spin-off, we would humbly propose a remake about the lobbyists pushing to preserve lead pipes and forever chemicals in our water, to keep fracking near homes and schools, to keep power plants burning coal and gas, to keep car tailpipes polluting, and so on.
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
August 30, 2024
Jeff Hauser - The Baltimore Sun
Progressives should hope Wes Moore is wrong about Harris | GUEST COMMENTARY
August 28, 2024
Julia Conley - Common Dreams
Beyond Plastics Offers Next President Agenda to Protect Public Health and Environment
RDP on Twitter
RT @NxtGenComp: We joined @revolvingdoorDC, @demandprogress, @openmarkets, @ilsr, @mainstreetweets, & @Public_Citizen to support an immedia…
RT @ddayen: The California Trucking Association is fighting rules under the state's Clean Air Act. Members of the CTA include big corporati…
RT @demandprogress: Great to see @SenWarren is paying attention here. We sent a letter on the same topic back in July. 1/3 https://t.co/r0…
One correction: the quotation marks around "waste of money" are a typo. The original draft tweet included the quote saying "not 'a good idea to spend money on it'" but it ran over the character limit. That was cut and replaced but the quotation marks were accidentally left. https://t.co/63usuHgGsR
RT @revolvingdoorDC: .@mattyglesias reupped his take on inflation that he wrote without even reading the idea he's critiquing. We thought w…
@mattyglesias One correction: the quotation marks around "waste of money" are a typo. The original draft tweet included the quote saying "not 'a good idea to spend money on it'" but it ran over the character limit. That was cut and replaced but the quotation marks were accidentally left.