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 MoreAugust 26, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption is a Two-Way Street
The Taylor Farms Cyclospora Outbreak Shows Why Congress Must Investigate Both Trump and His Corporate Accomplices
August 26, 2026 | The American Prospect
Cracking Down on Big Insurance in … Oklahoma?
By challenging Allstate and State Farm’s allegedly unfair claims handling practices, Gentner Drummond is opening the door to a broader crackdown on Big Insurance. His counterparts in other states have no excuse to sit on the sidelines.
August 26, 2026
Memo Climate and EnvironmentDOGEElon MuskExecutive BranchFEMAGovernanceGovernment CapacityHousingTrump Watch
Illuminating the Home Insurance Crisis
A collection of RDP’s work trying to shed light on the deeply intertwined crises of fossil fuel-driven climate change, rising insurance premiums and declining coverage, and housing injustice.
August 26, 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
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
Centrists' fake moral panic about Hasan Piker is really about one thing: cementing corporate donors' control over the Democratic Party. https://t.co/fXzur7wFQ3
Read more here: https://t.co/9kXMrbilj2
Contrary to Kovacevich's advice, dragging executives from corporations like Taylor Farms (or, yes, Big Tech firms) before Congress is good politics. We need oversight of both the administration's incompetence and the corporate practices that are making our food unsafe. https://t.co/X5vPOmQHUg
Big Tech's favorite think tank CEO @adamkovac wants Democrats to focus oversight on the Trump admin and avoid investigating corporate collaborators. The Taylor Farms cyclospora saga shows why that would be a big mistake. https://t.co/nK7h7cIRKb
RT @burkehenryt: In another strange clip from "The Great American Road Trip," Sean Duffy pulls his family aside to tell them all about "Ame…
RT @ddayen: Good news: a state is suing home insurers for failing to pay claims. Strange news: that state is Oklahoma, hardly a bastion of…