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March 22, 2025 | Common Dreams
The End of Free Speech?
If the White House can punish anybody who engages in speech it dislikes, nobody will be free to criticize the government—and corporate criminals will be free to run amok.
March 21, 2025
Not Even Veterans Are Exempt From The Trump Firing Line
Over the past couple months, the Trump administration has fired approximately 2500 people at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which provides lifelong healthcare services and non-healthcare benefits such as disability compensation, home loans and life insurance to veterans. There has been widespread outrage among veterans in response to the administration’s actions thus far, but Trump and VA Secretary Doug Collins remain set on tightening the screws.
March 21, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week 9: Trump’s Crypto Business Beats Keeping Contaminants Out Of Our Drinking Water
Among many instances of blatant corruption, this week saw huge gains for Trump’s crypto firm and huge losses for the EPA’s scientific research arm.
March 20, 2025
Revolving Door Project Founder Challenges Abundance Authors to Debate
Revolving Door Project Executive Director Jeff Hauser invites Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, and their ideological counterparts to engage in open debate with him or other progressive voices who are skeptical of their agenda and interested in hashing out their differences, in a venue of their choice. It is far better to have the agenda of the non-Trump majority determined by a free-flowing debate rather than settled by the preexisting media power of various figures.
March 19, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Trump Officials Are Openly Defying Judges’ Orders
“We’re not stopping. I don’t care what the judges think.”
These were the words of Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan after the Trump administration violated multiple court orders and deported people without due process. Are we in a constitutional crisis yet? (Yes, and this is not the first time Trump officials have refused to obey the courts; we are tracking these violations here.)
March 19, 2025 | The American Prospect
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DOGE Is Going to Kill a Lot of Americans
The Democratic Party could spell this out clearly and consistently for voters.
March 19, 2025
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Tough Questions for Paul Atkins
Senators shouldn’t go easy on Trump’s nominee to lead the SEC. Here are some things they ought to ask him about.
March 18, 2025
Release: Trump’s Attempt To Fire Democratic FTC Commissioners Makes Americans Easy Targets For Corporate Abuse
In response to President Trump’s decision to attempt to fire the Federal Trade Commission’s Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, Revolving Door Project Founder and Executive Director Jeff Hauser issued the following statement.
March 14, 2025
DOGE Agent: Joanna Wischer
Musk Connections: Unknown
Other Corporate Connections: Business Analyst at General Dynamics
March 14, 2025
DOGE Agent: Edward Coristine
Musk Connections: former Neuralink intern
DOGE Deployments: Department of Homeland Security (DHS), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), General Services Administration (GSA), and the State Department
March 14, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week Eight: The White House Clown Car Dealership
While the lion’s share of this weeks’ news cycle surrounds a potential partial government shutdown (readers of this newsletter know that the government already is substantially shut down by DOGE), Trump and his lackeys continue churning the corruption machine for their own benefit. Trump, Musk, and their underlings shamelessly use the government to get even richer while decimating the government’s capacity to help poor people, farmers, students, women, and well, all of us.
March 14, 2025
What the People Suing the Trump Administration Are Saying About the Continuing Resolution
Senator Minority Leader Schumer’s stance on whether or not to accede to the continuing resolution depends in part on specific legal claims. We look at whether those claims ought to be accepted at face value or not.
March 13, 2025
DOGE Agent: Anthony Armstrong
Musk Connections: Advised Musk’s Twitter purchase
Other Corporate Affiliations: Morgan Stanley; Credit Suisse; Qatar Holding
DOGE Deployment: Senior Advisor, Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
March 12, 2025
Wall Street Bankers Salivate Over Postal Privatization
Corporate profiteers want to ransack an institution older than America itself.
March 12, 2025
Revolving Door Project: New Laws Implicitly Sanction Trump and Musk’s Violation of Existing Laws
The public and the courts alike need to know that the U.S. Congress does not accept Donald Trump and Elon Musk shredding the core precepts of our Constitution’s separation of powers.