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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. 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.
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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 MoreFebruary 12, 2025
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President Trump Would Like You To Say Goodbye To Our Food Inspectors
This week has seen further escalations in an already dramatic first month of Trump 2.0. In particular, in addition to “cartoonishly corrupt” moves like signing an order to halt enforcement of a bribery ban, the Trump administration has used a number of methods to reduce enforcement capacity across federal agencies, building on the hiring and funding freezes Trump ordered on his first day in office. (While judges have readily agreed to challenges to the funding freeze, it appears the administration is illegally withholding funding, anyway.)
February 12, 2025
The Dire Consequences For A Society With No Department of Education
With rumors growing that Trump plans to sign an executive order which would effectively dismantle the Department of Education, this factsheet highlights the likely deleterious effects for millions of students across the country.
February 12, 2025
Trump Disavowed Project 2025, So Stop Saying There is a Mandate for DOGE
DOGE is merely memeified Project 2025. And President Trump was repeatedly explicit on the campaign trail – he was not running on Project 2025. So why does Musk claim a mandate?
February 11, 2025
Kyrsten Sinema Is The Latest Addition To Crypto’s Sellout Dream Team. Who Will Be Next?
Outgoing Biden officials, members of Congress, and political staffers are all up for grabs by industries looking for their own roster of influence peddlers.
February 12, 2025
Rick Smith - Apple Podcasts
The Rick Smith Show - February 12, 2025
February 12, 2025
Owen Dahlkamp - The Nation
Trump’s Education Pick Bankrolled Efforts to Support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
February 10, 2025
Dave Jamieson - HuffPost
Trump Is Running A Bulldozer Over Independent Federal Agencies
February 8, 2025
Tabby Kinder and Cynthia O’Murchu - Financial Times
Palantir’s ‘revolving door’ with government spurs huge growth
February 7, 2025
Network for Public Education - Network for Public Education
Christopher Lewis, Jacob Plaza: The MAGA Think Tank Behind Linda McMahon’s Education Agenda
February 6, 2025
Francesca D’Annunzio - Texas Observer
New DEA Chief’s Background Includes Surveillance Tech and Border Misinformation
RDP on Twitter
What you may not have heard is both of Trump Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles' two daughters were signed by lobbying firms looking to expand their influence in DC. Lobbying prospects abound for influence-peddlers looking to cash in on their connections. https://t.co/re3Dntiwmg
You may have already heard that Kyrsten Sinema was one of the first pickups, with cryptocurrency firm Coinbase signing her to their Global Advisory Council.
With the Super Bowl over, all eyes are now focused on the draft. In DC a similarly important draft is taking place, overshadowed by the chaos and lawlessness Elon Musk has unleashed on the federal government. Here's our definitive draft guide on the 2025 lobbying class prospects:
And if you want to learn more about independent agencies, check out Agency Spotlight, where we track appointments to leadership positions at thirty-nine federal independent agencies. https://t.co/MNA9OxhdN4
Or check out https://t.co/M7wzEBSjR2, where we help to track the corporate insiders and top executives who Trump has picked to run the government, at the expense of working families.
We have also compiled a list of the agencies that DOGE has visited, keeping you up to date on what Elon Musk is looking to illegally gut. https://t.co/eUriLyeT3I