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January 16, 2026
The Technobabble Defense
How companies cry “innovation” to defend their lawbreaking
January 14, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Newsletter 2026 ElectionCongressional OversightCorporate CrackdownEconomic PolicyEthics in GovernmentRevolving Door
Now Is The Time For Fighters
On Monday, Senator Elizabeth Warren gave a speech at the National Press Club about how Democrats can rebuild durable trust with voters, win elections, and enact systemic change. She spoke with energy about how Democrats cannot win back a lasting majority by watering down their economic vision, and how candidates in future elections must “credibly demonstrate that they will take on a rigged system in order to fix it.” In other words, she called for the members of her party to refashion themselves as willing fighters.
January 09, 2026
Corruption Calendar Weeks 49-51: War Profiteers Take Center Stage
It’s weeks forty-nine through fifty-one of the Revolving Door Project’s Corruption Calendar, where we highlight the latest slate of corporate corruption that’s shaping the Trump Administration, its agenda, and the material impacts of that corruption on real people. Our first forty eight issues can be found here, and you can follow us on Bluesky and X for more updates on this work.
January 09, 2026 | The American Prospect
The Trump Regime Is Making Disasters Worse
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem sat atop millions of dollars in flood prevention grants while the West Coast was being inundated. Now she’s slashing FEMA disaster response staff.
January 09, 2026
Memo Climate and EnvironmentDOGEElon MuskExecutive BranchFEMAGovernanceGovernment CapacityHousingTrump 2.0
TRACKER: Trump's Disastrous Disaster Policy
We are tracking how the Trump administration’s callous policy choices, before and after bouts of extreme weather, exacerbate avoidable suffering and death.
January 08, 2026
Letter to House Democratic Leader Jeffries on New AI Commission
Revolving Door Project and eleven other organizations sent a letter expressing concern to House Democratic Leader Jeffries with regard to his selection of co-chairs with ties to Big Tech for the new House Democratic Commission on AI and the Innovation Economy.
January 07, 2026
New Year, Same Trump: Making America Sick Again
Americans rang in 2025 with champagne. The Trump administration rang in a public health nightmare.
January 06, 2026
Memo Climate and EnvironmentDOGEElon MuskExecutive BranchFEMAGovernanceGovernment CapacityHousingTrump 2.0
Timeline: Trump's Attacks on Disaster Preparedness and Response
The Trump administration has been criminally negligent when it comes to disaster mitigation and response. Check out our interactive timelines documenting the White House’s pre-disaster recklessness and post-disaster cruelty.
December 31, 2025 | Dollars & Sense
Forsake Some, Fleece the Rest
How U.S. Home Insurers Are Responding to Climate Change
December 23, 2025 | The American Prospect
House Democrats Squander the Opportunity of Trumpian Corruption
Democrats have a golden opportunity to be the anti-corruption party, but the House caucus is not seizing it.
December 19, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Today: Renaming the Kennedy Center. Tomorrow: Renaming The Moon
Corruption Calendar Week 47-48: Trump’s giveaways to corporations continue to pile on as Americans suffer from an affordability crisis.
December 18, 2025 | The American Prospect
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Op-Ed Ethics in GovernmentFinancial RegulationRevolving Door
Another Biden Financial Regulator Spins Through the Revolving Door
It’s hard times at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), one of the three principal bank regulators in the country, along with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Federal Reserve. All three, plus other financial institution regulators at the National Credit Union Administration and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, have been gutted to varying degrees over the first year of Trump 2.0.
December 17, 2025
Newsletter Corporate CrackdownEthics in GovernmentExecutive BranchFinancial RegulationIndependent Agencies
Cutting Crooks Some Slack
The administrative state’s Kafkaesque transmogrification into the mafia state
December 15, 2025
TRACKER: Cuts to Corporate Enforcement Capacity
This tracker records cuts made by the Trump-Musk administration to enforcement capacity at agencies responsible for overseeing corporations’ activities and identifying wrongdoing.
“Enforcement capacity” refers to staffing and funding dedicated to monitoring, oversight, investigation, and preparation of cases against corporations for breaking the law. Cuts to and attacks on enforcement capacity can include firings, buyout offers, funding cuts, reorganizations, and other steps the Trump administration has taken to date.
December 11, 2025
Trump Has Already Shattered FEMA Without Eliminating It
The Trump administration doesn’t need to formally eradicate FEMA to destroy it.