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March 25, 2024 | The American Prospect

Op-Ed Climate and Environment Industry Influence Revolving Door

Tim Ryan’s Natural Gas Advocacy Makes a Mockery of Public Service

If meteorologists could gauge the pressure of climate denial with their barometers, they’d surely have picked up on a remarkable atmospheric phenomenon over Houston, Texas. The annual confab of oil and gas industry executives known as CERAWeek—a safe place for fossil fuel aficionados guarded by exorbitant ticket prices and a no-entry policy for environmentalists—has just wrapped.

March 25, 2024 | Slate

Kenny Stancil

Op-Ed 2024 Election Corporate Crackdown Criminal Justice Economic Policy Taxes

Why Biden Should Pardon the IRS Whistleblower Who Leaked Trump’s Taxes

Biden can make billionaire corruption a defining issue of the 2024 presidential race.

March 22, 2024

Blog Post

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget’s Bad-Faith Criticism of Biden’s Budget Proposal

The organization that claims to champion deficit reduction actually wants to cut your Social Security.

March 22, 2024

Henry Burke

Hack Watch Cryptocurrency Hack Watch Revolving Door

Crypto Is Hoping You Won’t Notice Their Redoubled Influence Campaign

The media has done a good job highlighting the cryptocurrency industry’s continued attempts to influence elections but crypto’s hiring of political insiders continues to go unnoticed.

March 21, 2024

Jacob Plaza Vishal Shankar

Blog Post Anti-Monopoly BigLaw Department of Justice FTC Housing Revolving Door Tech

RealPage Enlists Ex-FTC Revolvers From BigLaw Firm Gibson Dunn To Fight Tenant Lawsuits

Facing an existential legal threat, the scandal-plagued software company has hired price-fixing monopolists’ favorite lawyers.

March 20, 2024

Chris Lewis Emma Marsano

Newsletter Climate and Environment Corporate Crackdown

The Next Frontier Of Corporate Polluting: Hydrogen

The corporate polluters are at it again with a new push for “clean energy”—and against government safeguards to ensure that it’s clean.

March 18, 2024

Andrea Beaty

Press Release Anti-Monopoly Congressional Oversight Ethics in Government

RELEASE: Virginia General Assembly Must Investigate Leonard Leo’s Influence On State’s Largest Public Research University

Today, the Revolving Door Project, Take Back the Court Action Fund, People’s Parity Project, Freedom BLOC and the George Mason University chapter of the American Association of University Professors sent a letter to members of the Virginia General Assembly calling on them to investigate Leonard Leo in regard to his undue influence on George Mason University. The groups called on the state legislature to investigate what Leo-tied activities are taking place under the aegis of a state school.

March 18, 2024

Dylan Gyauch-Lewis

Hack Watch Newsletter

Economic Media Hack Watch Larry Summers

Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Out of Touch

A quick roundup of some pundits striking out from their ivory towers to completely and utterly miss the point.

March 15, 2024 | Common Dreams

Kenny Stancil

Op-Ed Banking Financial Regulation Revolving Door Treasury Department

Trump Lackeys Run to Rescue Ailing Bank in Predictable—And Telling—Move

Political reporters must explain the consequences likely to ensue if Steven Mnuchin, Joseph Otting, or their pro-Wall Street doppelgangers return for a second Trump administration.

March 15, 2024 | The American Prospect

Toni Aguilar Rosenthal

Op-Ed

State Attorneys General

Ken Paxton, America First Legal, and Premonitions of Project 2025

Over his nearly ten years serving as the attorney general of Texas—almost nine of which he has been under criminal indictment—Ken Paxton has pushed steadily more extreme, right-wing policies to deprive Texans of their rights. Be it their right to clean air or water, their right to basic democratic participation, or their right to not face discrimination, Paxton has attacked them all.