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June 22, 2026
Crypto Bill Offers Potentially Huge Tax Benefits To Trump Family
A bill stands to offer Donald Trump’s sons huge tax breaks on their cryptocurrency mining enterprise. Recipients of crypto cash will decide
June 16, 2026
Kenny Stancil Patrick Davis, Public Citizen
Press Release Climate and EnvironmentFinancial RegulationHousing
RELEASE: Home and Auto Insurers Set Profit Records in 2025
Soaring insurance premiums, fewer disasters, and massive investment income fuel high industry profits and CEO pay.
June 16, 2026
Insurers Score Record Profits While Consumers Pay
Underwriting income soared to $68.7 billion in 2025, delivering windfall profits to the industry.
June 09, 2026 | Talking Points Memo
Why Are Any Democrats Supporting a Bill That Was Championed by the Crypto Industry?
In May, the crypto industry won big as the Senate Banking Committee advanced the Clarity Act. It passed largely along party lines, but two Democrats with crypto-friendly records, Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD), broke with their colleagues to support the bill.
May 19, 2026 | Talking Points Memo
Op-Ed Climate and EnvironmentCongressional OversightDOGEElon MuskExecutive BranchFinancial RegulationGovernanceGovernment CapacityHealthRussell VoughtTrump Watch
Democrats Shouldn’t Let Russell Vought Fly Under the Radar
Members of the opposition party need to start connecting the dots between the OMB director’s actions and their constituents’ preventable suffering.
May 14, 2026 | 350.org
Kenny Stancil Risalat Khan, Insure Our Future
Op-Ed Climate and EnvironmentCorporate CrackdownFinancial RegulationHousing
Out of Pocket: Pollution Premiums - the real cost of fossil fuels on our insurance bills
Fossil fuels are making our insurance premiums unaffordable and exposing us to financial ruin. But momentum is building to ramp up clean energy and make polluters pay!
May 08, 2026
PCAST is Another Lever of Corporate Influence
Trump has filled the PCAST with billionaires, Big Tech, and crypto interests who will use the advisory board to further their own interests.
April 24, 2026
MAGA Reaffirms Allegiance To Crypto
The bitcoin conference in late April is a chance for Republicans to show their commitment to the crypto industry. Here’s a who is attending:
April 17, 2026
Right Wing Animus for Public Data
In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, Congress created the Office of Financial Research (OFR) through the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Originating from the spirit to reform the wildly irresponsible Wall Street elite, OFR was charged with providing data, analysis, and research regarding systemic financial risks to the members of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC). Essentially, OFR is an integral part of the federal infrastructure for safeguarding financial stability.
April 03, 2026
Newsletter Corruption CalendarDepartment of JusticeDOGEEthics in GovernmentExecutive BranchFinancial RegulationRevolving DoorRussell VoughtTrump Watch
Corruption Calendar Weeks 62-63: Enforcement Has Left The Building
Trump’s SEC continues the administration’s poor track record on corporate enforcement and the EPA pulls back regulations on another cancer-causing toxin.
April 02, 2026
Oligarchs and the Trump Admin: Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are billionaires who made their initial fortune from a 2004 lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg, accusing him of stealing their idea in the creation of Facebook. The Winklevoss twins have since expanded their fortunes through an $11 million purchase of Bitcoin in 2013, founding the venture capital firm Winklevoss Capital, and founding cryptocurrency exchange Gemini. In June 2024, the Winklevosses each tweeted an endorsement of Trump’s candidacy and donated $1 million in Bitcoin to his campaign.
March 17, 2026
RELEASE: Home Insurance Regulation Blunted by Revolving Door Activity and Insufficient Resources. New Tools Highlight Scale of Problems
It’s a lot easier to be an ambitious, pro-consumer and pro-climate regulator when you aren’t trying to preserve friendships with profit-maximizing insurance CEOs.
March 17, 2026
Kenny Stancil Fletcher Calcagno Aya Dardari Xaver Clarke
Report Climate and EnvironmentCorporate CrackdownFinancial RegulationHousingRevolving Door
Tracking State Insurance Commissioners
State insurance commissioners cannot tackle the deeply intertwined crises of fossil fuel-driven climate change, insurance rate hikes and cancellations, and housing injustice on their own. But their role in aggravating or ameliorating problems deserves greater scrutiny.
March 17, 2026
Mapping Home Insurance Regulation
Differences in state regulations play a major role in the growing crisis over home insurance, which is closely linked to the climate emergency propelled by fossil fuels.
March 13, 2026
The Technobabble Defense: Cryptocurrency
How the cryptocurrency industry lied about it’s supposed innovation in order to escape basic government oversight.