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November 14, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Weeks 42-43: Our Scourge of Elite Impunity
For far too long, the wealthy and powerful faced no consequences for even the most egregious acts. Working class Americans, doing their best to get by, are shown every day that they live in a country that bends over backwards to serve a privileged few.
November 14, 2025
Top Trump Official Failed To Disclose Conflicts of Interest for Entire Justice Department Tenure
A Department of Justice official managed to serve in Trump’s administration without disclosing his financial entanglements publicly – and now, only after his departure, can we highlight his conflicts of interest.
November 13, 2025
Revolving Door Project Calls On OpenAI, Harvard, and Other Organizations To Cut Ties With Larry Summers
The Revolving Door Project calls on OpenAI and other organizations tied to Summers to distance themselves in light of Epstein connections
November 13, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
8 Ways Senate Dems Should Have Been Holding the Line With Oversight
Here’s a congressional oversight target for each of the eight Senate Democrat that caved to end the government shutdown.
November 07, 2025 | The American Prospect
Exxon’s Latest Supreme Court Hail Mary
It’s been seven years since Boulder, Colorado, took oil companies Exxon and Suncor to court for decades of lying about the dangers of their products, one of dozens of parallel lawsuits brought by local, state, and tribal governments against fossil fuel companies. In May, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that the case could move toward discovery and trial, something the companies are desperate to avoid. Now, Exxon and Suncor are once again seeking refuge at the Supreme Court.
October 31, 2025 | The American Prospect
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Making Banking Supervision Suck Again
Willfully blinding bank examiners could send us hurtling to yet another financial crisis.
October 31, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Weeks 40-41: Belle of the Ballroom
Crypto interests and White House ballroom donors are the biggest beneficiaries of the administration’s latest rounds of corruption.
October 30, 2025
Democrats Once Fought “Pro-Arsenic” Republicans—They Should Try It Again
Recent history reveals a better way to politicize public health.
October 28, 2025
RELEASE: Hurricane Melissa Is a Reminder That the Trump Administration Is Putting U.S. Residents at Risk of Catastrophic Harm
Melissa serves as a reminder that Americans will face huge—and largely avoidable—risks if and when the game of dice comes up against us.
October 24, 2025 | The Lever
Amid The Shutdown, Flood Insurance Profiteers Are Riding The Wave
Private insurers like Neptune Insurance Holdings are cashing in on the shutdown and pushing to privatize the National Flood Insurance Program, despite risks to homeowners.
October 24, 2025 | The American Prospect
Meet RFK’s Corporate Underlings
Several top officials in the Department of Health and Human Services worked for the very corporate interests their boss claims to oppose.
October 23, 2025
Revolving Door Project Condemns Pardon of Crypto Criminal Changpeng Zhao
Revolving Door Project condemns the Trump administration’s corrupt pardon of crypto criminal Changpeng Zhao
October 22, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
The Chatbotification of the Federal Government
While nearly 7 million Americans marched in “No Kings” protests on Saturday to protest Trump’s lawlessness, the president reposted an AI-generated video of himself in a fighter jet wearing a crown and dumping massive quantities of feces on protestors below.
October 17, 2025
Tracking the Environmental Harms of Trump Actions
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.