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
DOGE Watch
Tracking the Trump administration's all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution
DOGE 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.
Projects
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 MoreMay 15, 2026
Coalition Sends Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Leadership Urging Investigation of Justice Alito’s Conflicted Interests and Irregular Recusals in Upcoming Case
On Tuesday, May 12, a coalition of thirty organizations including the Revolving Door Project sent a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee leadership urging the investigation of Justice Alito’s conflicted interests and irregular recusal habits in the upcoming case Suncor v. Boulder and parallel state climate deception lawsuits. The letter can be read in full here.
May 15, 2026
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Poison and Plunder
From gutting clean air rules to waging a war no one asked for, the Trump administration is showing that human suffering is a core feature of this regime.
May 14, 2026
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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.
May 14, 2026
Oligarchs and the Trump Admin: Doug Burgum
Former North Dakota Governor cum Trump Interior Secretary Doug Burgum was a venture capitalist who sold his software company for over a billion dollars. As Interior Secretary, Doug Burgum has decimated public lands while throttling clean energy projects and boosting oil, gas, and coal.
April 30, 2026
Saqib Rahim - E&E News
States are demanding property insurance records to study climate change
April 29, 2026
Maurizio Guerrero - PRISM Reports
DHS is buying access to real-time location data—the latest expansion of its “invasive” surveillance technology
April 29, 2026
Aaron Regunberg - Jacobin
Stop the AI Build-Out, Start the Fight
April 22, 2026
Sarah Todd - STAT News
Former tobacco executive joins CDC senior leadership, raising concerns over industry influence
April 10, 2026
Morgan Chalfant - Semafor
Debatable: AI titans influencing regulation
April 10, 2026
Talik Evans - Coin Insider
Securitize Names Ex-SEC Chief Ahead of Nasdaq Plan
RDP on Twitter
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We talked about our effort to map state-based differences in property insurance regulation. Only 14 states require "prior approval" of rate hikes! Many offices have inadequate staff and budgets! Serious but underappreciated. https://t.co/VxW3CvuIl1
One of the most interesting and under-covered aspects of the Duffy saga is the possible use of government funds to finance his family's trip. The Great American Road Trip lists a US-government backed program as a sponsor, and the DOT spokesperson refused to address it directly. https://t.co/YSMfNPwEPz https://t.co/L7T6iWSyZf
RT @RBReich: Are you sick and tired of dealing with soaring rent and crumbling buildings? Do you want to level the playing field between la…
@lesleyclark @EENewsUpdates Read the story here: https://t.co/tk0TnCZ1xa
Along with 29 other organizations, we called on the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate Justice Alito's failure to recuse from granting an oil petition where he could profit from its outcome. @lesleyclark for @EENewsUpdates has the story. https://t.co/XkVZSP6Lsn