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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 MoreMay 12, 2025
Democrats at Law Firms That Surrendered to Trump
Trump started his second term in the White House by targeting law firms in retaliation for their past legal work and personnel decisions that displeased him. While some firms pushed back against these assaults on their independence, more than a few BigLaw firms caved. Within the first months of the year, they bowed to Trump’s demands, surrendering in order to avoid (potentially illegal) executive orders that could damage their business interests.
May 09, 2025
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Corruption Calendar Week 16: The Grift That Keeps On Giving
Welcome to week sixteen of the Revolving Door Project’s Corruption Calendar, where we highlight examples of corporate corruption shaping the Trump administration’s agenda and their material impact on everyday people. Read our first fifteen issues here and follow us on Bluesky and X for updates.
May 09, 2025 | The American Prospect
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We Can’t Count on Trump’s SEC to Tell Us If He Is Manipulating the Market
The Musk-damaged agency is unlikely to investigate whether Trump and his allies are profiting from advance knowledge about tariff changes or meme coin shenanigans.
May 07, 2025
Revolving Door Project Executive Director Testifies About Trump Family Crypto Corruption
RDP Executive Director Jeff Hauser testified about the Trump family’s use of cryptocurrency as a vehicle for blatant corruption
May 11, 2025
Zach Everson - Forbes
The 3 Easy New Ways Anyone Can Funnel Money Directly To Donald Trump’s Businesses
May 9, 2025
Aaron Regunberg - The Nation
Why the “Abundance Agenda” Could Sink the Democratic Party
May 8, 2025
Matt Sledge - The Intercept
Democrats Woke Up to Trump’s Crypto Grift. Will They Stop Other Scammers?
May 8, 2025
Murphy Woodhouse - KUNC Radio
New data, maps provide ‘rare window’ into scale of homeowner’s insurance crisis
May 7, 2025
Ben Goldfarb - Defector
An Abundance Of Concrete
May 7, 2025
David Dayen - The American Prospect