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February 26, 2025 | No Corporate Cabinet
No Corporate Cabinet: Paul Atkins
Anti-Safeguard, Pro-Secret Money in Politics SEC Nominee
February 14, 2025
Elon Musk Didn’t Start Flouting The Law With DOGE.
Elon Musk is ignoring laws he doesn’t like at DOGE. This is a strategy he learned from the world of business.
February 14, 2025
The Revolving Door Project Publishes List Tracking Reports Elon Musk and His Companies Flout the Law and Regulations
The billionaire’s disregard of federal laws and constitutional powers did not arise out of nowhere when he began his work at “DOGE.” It is just the logical outgrowth of a career spent flouting rules and regulations without consequence.
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 24, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week One: Amidst A Flurry Of EOs, A First Round of CEOs Cashes In
We’re excited to introduce the Corruption Calendar, a new project from Revolving Door Project consisting of a weekly newsletter (you’re reading the first edition) and dedicated social media channels (follow us on X and Bluesky).
January 17, 2025
What the WSJ Editorial Board Got Wrong About IRS Whistleblower Charles Littlejohn
The Editorial Board disapproves of Littlejohn for political reasons.
January 08, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Who Bought The Presidency?
With less than two weeks until Trump’s inauguration, the Senate confirmation process for his roster of loyalists will be underway before we know it. The confirmation hearings for Trump’s energy picks are already set, with hearings for Interior nominee Doug Burgum, Energy nominee Chris Wright, and EPA nominee Lee Zeldin scheduled for January 14, January 15, and Wednesday or Thursday of next week respectively. This newsletter series will highlight the ties between Trump’s personnel picks and the exploitative industries and their billionaire CEOs who will be enriched by their appointments.
December 19, 2024
As the Biden Admin Winds Down, Will They Take Stands To Protect The Public?
This week’s newsletter highlights three litmus tests of the Biden administration’s commitment to holding the wealthy and powerful accountable to the public interest within their dwindling time in office.
December 18, 2024 | Rolling Stone
Biden Must Free the Man Who Exposed Trump’s Tax Avoidance
Joe Biden must commute the sentence of Charles Littlejohn, the IRS whistleblower who leaked Donald Trump’s tax records, before Trump can get revenge.
December 18, 2024
PODCAST: RDP's Kenny Stancil Urges Biden to Commute Sentence of IRS Whistleblower On Arnie Arnesen Attitude
You can make your voice heard at freecharleslittlejohn.com.
December 17, 2024
RELEASE: Patriotic Millionaires and Revolving Door Project Launch Letter Campaign to Urge President Biden to Commute Sentence of Charles Littlejohn
“He broke the law, but in light of the good that came from his actions in exposing the full scale of tax injustice in America, he certainly did not deserve a sentence six times higher than what guidelines recommended.”
November 19, 2024
The Biden Administration Completely Failed to Address Corporate Crime. Can We Blame Voters for Noticing?
As the Democratic Party apparatus’s post-election reflections continue this week, they would do well to consider this basic question: Was it smart to run a campaign hinging on your opponent’s blatant corruption and white-collar criminal status, despite the failure of the Biden administration to take tangible steps to address the harms perpetrated by corporations and the wealthy during their time in office?
November 08, 2024
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Some Notes on Centrists Blaming Everyone but Themselves
November 07, 2024
Two Plutocrats Shifted Harris’ Earned Media Message. It Didn’t End Well.
In October, billionaire Mark Cuban bragged about his role in exiling a Harris surrogate and former Elizabeth Warren staffer for the sin of supporting a wealth tax during a television appearance….
October 31, 2024
Successful Biden-Harris Efforts Toward A Corporate Crackdown: A Pre-Election Week Review
We reviewed efforts at five agencies (DOL, NLRB, SEC, CFPB, and FTC) toward using existing enforcement powers to crack down on corporate wrongdoing, highlighting successful enforcement actions with real impact on our daily lives. Over the past four years, these critical (if not always public-facing) executive branch agencies have made significant strides toward reversing the deregulatory efforts of the Trump administration, while pushing protections for workers and consumers further.