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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.
November 25, 2025
DOJ’s RealPage Settlement Doesn’t Achieve The Corporate Crackdown Tenants Deserve
Trump’s appointees have negotiated a settlement which requires restrictions on RealPage’s use of nonpublic rental data and current lease information, but appears to stop short of financial penalty or admission of wrongdoing.
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.
October 16, 2025
Big Business Will Not Save Us
Scrutinizing the “ideological warfare” a business community mouthpiece says drove Corporate America into the arms of a fascist.
September 19, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Weeks 34-35: Free Speech For Sale
Oligarchs Auction Off Our First Amendment Rights To Our Aspiring King
August 12, 2025
RealPage and Its Private Equity Owner Are Spending Big On Lobbying
RealPage and it’s private equity owner Thoma Bravo have spent over $300,000 on lobbying in 2025.
August 08, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week 29: Corporate Donors Lavish Trump's Non-Existent Re-Election Campaign
Trump’s Super PAC filing revealed millions spent by corporations trying to curry favor with the president.
July 11, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week 25: President Trump Notches Another Mysterious Benefactor
A mysterious investor is the latest entrant into the Trump crypto grift, and more stories from the MAGAswamp.
May 23, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week 18: Trump’s Independent Agency Power Grab
This week the Trump administration continued to dedicate itself to tearing down the safeguards that protect Americans from things like dangerous consumer products and predatory sales tactics, all while his officials and donors (often one and the same) enrich themselves.
May 01, 2025 | The American Prospect
Public Records Wreckers
The consequences of gutting FOIA offices are both obvious and unknowable.
April 11, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
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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.
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.
February 11, 2025
RealPage Defender Jay Parsons Joins HUD Secretary’s Former Real Estate Company
Jay Parsons, the economist and price-setting software cheerleader who left RealPage right before it started getting sued by tenants and state AGs across the country for allegedly colluding with landlords to raise rents, joined JPI last week. If JPI rings a bell, perhaps it is because it is the development company that Scott Turner just left before his improbable nomination and confirmation as Secretary of HUD.
January 31, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week Two: Trump Moves To Gut Exec Branch And Make Way For Loyalists
In just Week Two of his administration, Trump lodged a full-on attack aimed at gutting the federal civil service and disrupting the many critical functions of the federal government. The goal is obvious: to elevate figures who are first and foremost loyal to the Trump agenda, which is mostly about accommodating the rich people who matter to Trump.
January 27, 2025
Trump Admin Announces Appointees For Key Leadership Positions At The FTC
Last week, the Trump administration announced two new picks for leading divisions within the Federal Trade Commission: Daniel Guarnera and Christopher Mufarrige.