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August 22, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly

Toni Aguilar Rosenthal

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Corruption Calendar Week 31: The Crises Continue

We are almost through our first summer of what is sure to be a long and ruinous four years. This past week, while Trump tightened control of his invasion of Washington, D.C, gargantuan wildfires ravaged lands in Colorado and Florida. Over in Texas, state Republicans completed step one of their plot to distort the electoral map ahead of the upcoming midterm elections, sending the newly redrawn maps to the Texas State Senate. D.C. residents are far from the only victims of our ever growing police state, as Immigration and Customs Enforcement continues to kidnap and terrorize community members across the country. 

July 18, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly

Timi Iwayemi

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Corruption Calendar Week 26: Crypto Week Marks Washington’s Insatiable Appetite For Grift

While the House of Representatives was busy passing three industry-written pieces of legislation which all but ensure crypto’s complete capture of the federal government, Trump netted close to $100 million from sales of his crypto memecoin. There’s no doubt that the favor machine will keep whirring as long as the zeroes keep adding up for Trump and his family.

July 09, 2025

Jacob Plaza

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RDP Work Round-Up: 4th of July Edition

As Trump’s Big, Backwards Bill was passed into law, we experienced one of the most frustrating and depressing July 4th celebrations in recent memory. So, we at the Revolving Door Project figured now is as good a time as any to round-up our recent work chronicling the corruption that is spreading across the government and political establishment and wreaking havoc on everyday people.

June 06, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly

Jacob Plaza

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Corruption Calendar Week 20: Trump Partners With Palantir To Build A Real World Panopticon 

This week has put on full display the Trump administration’s embrace of the white collar criminals, grifters, harmful extractive industries, and fascist tech bros jointly wreaking havoc on our social institutions and the environment.

June 05, 2025

Dylan Gyauch-Lewis

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Caring About Corporate Conflicts is Cool

The private sector rewards for public sector experience creates a conflict in which the public good and an employee’s own career prospects may be in tension. Not only does it incentivize public servants to consider the interests of the private sector (and how their decisions as a public servant might impact future employment prospects), but it erodes public confidence in civil servants.  

May 16, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly

Timi Iwayemi

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Corruption Calendar Week 17: A Great Gesture Of Corruption

This week’s edition covers Trump’s latest grand gesture of corruption—gleeful acceptance of a $400 million gift from the Qatari royal family, Donald Jr.’s moves to cash in on his father’s office, various deregulatory actions across the executive branch, and Musk & company’s numerous conflicts of interest.