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April 22, 2025

The Revolving Door Project (RDP) is trying to help make sense of DOGE’s chaos by making tangible the harm that the Trump administration is doing. RDP is providing a range of resources for the media and the public. RDP is regularly updating resources that track public health crises and the Trump administration’s defiance of court orders as well as profiles of DOGE personnel.

April 21, 2025

Blog Post Climate and Environment Trump 2.0

Billionaires and the Trump Admin: Harold Hamm

Harold Hamm: founder and Chairman of oil and gas company Continental Resources. Campaign Donor.
Net worth: 18.5 Billion

April 21, 2025

Blog Post Economic Policy Trump 2.0

Billionaires and the Trump Admin: Stephen Schwarzman

Stephen Schwarzman: Advisor on appointees and Economic advisor during Trump 1.0. Net Worth: $38.2 Billion

April 21, 2025

Blog Post

Polling Tracker: Americans’ Opinions of Oligarchy and Corruption

Tracking Americans’ opinions on corruption and oligarchy in the Trump 2.0 era. Updated regularly with for organizers and activists.

April 18, 2025

Chris Lewis

Newsletter Corruption Calendar Ethics in Government Executive Branch Mark Zuckerberg

Corruption Calendar Week 13: No Need To Rely On Luck When Cash Dictates Outcomes In MAGA World

In unlucky number 13, we tackle more corruption and pay to play stories in the administration. From Zaslav to Zuckerberg to selling gold visas we have all of the stories.

April 17, 2025

Emma Marsano

Newsletter

Corporate Crackdown Taxes

Option A: No More Tax Days for the 1 Percent

This year’s Tax Day was particularly dreary. Headlines outlined the many ways the Trump-Musk administration is attacking the government’s ability to provide public services using tax revenue, while weaponizing the IRS’s access to taxpayer data to terrorize undocumented people, enrich Trump’s allies, and potentially attack Trump’s political enemies. Placed against the backdrop of nine states seeing extended tax filing deadlines due to the continuing impact of fossil-fueled climate disasters, a bleak image of our reality emerges.

April 14, 2025

Hackwatch Abundance Climate and Environment Economic Media Economic Policy Housing

Efficiency and Abundance

April 14, 2025

Dylan Gyauch-Lewis

Blog Post

Economic Media Economic Policy

What we mean when we say neoliberal

April 11, 2025

Andrea Beaty

Newsletter Corruption Calendar Department of Justice DOGE Doug Burgum Elon Musk Ethics in Government Scott Bessent Trump 2.0

Corruption Calendar Week 12: Ethics Be Damned

This week’s stories show that from the Justice Department to the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the Trump admin is simultaneously eroding, side-stepping, and outright defying the checks and balances that distinguish a government that is accountable to the public from one that exists simply to enrich the elite.

April 10, 2025

Dorothy Slater Fatou Ndiaye

Blog Post Climate and Environment

RDP Trump Environment Tracker

Trump’s second term began with drastic announcements on Day One and has been chaotic every day since. It can be overwhelming to try to keep up with the cuts to environmental funding, rollbacks to critical regulations, and track the thousands of staff across agencies who have been fired from their roles. The purpose of this tracker is to monitor some of the most important tangible increases in pollution and environmental and health harms caused by the Trump administration’s actions.