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July 23, 2025 | The American Prospect
Home Insurance Executives Are Raking It In—At Your Expense
Performance-based pay packages incentivize claim denials and other harmful practices.
July 18, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
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 16, 2025 | Citations Needed
PODCAST: Timi Iwayemi Discusses Corporate Self-Regulation and the Fine Art of ‘Preempting’ Public Outrage on Citations Needed
Revolving Door Project’s Timi Iwayemi joined Citations Needed to shed light on corporate efforts to shape laws and regulations in their favor, with a particular focus on the crypto industry’s political influence strategy.
July 14, 2025
Don't Let Home Insurers Fool You. They're More Profitable Than Ever
The industry paints a gloomy picture, but nationwide, property insurers still cleared $25.4 billion in underwriting profit in 2024, and their net investment income surged to $164.3 billion.
July 09, 2025
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 23, 2025
Attacks on Federal Climate Data Will Accelerate a Financial Crisis
The DOGE playbook for climate disasters: Gut federal climate data, let insurers jack up rates, and bury the financial results.
June 23, 2025
Mapping the Home Insurance Crisis: A Closer Look at North Carolina
North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey has called for abolishing the Federal Insurance Office. Is it because the data that FIO released makes him look bad?
June 18, 2025
How Crypto Is Buying DC One Revolver At A Time
How the cryptocurrency industry bought influence at the highest levels of government, one payoff at a time
May 16, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
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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.
May 09, 2025 | The American Prospect
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We Can’t Count on Trump’s SEC to Tell Us If He Is Manipulating the Market
The Musk-damaged agency is unlikely to investigate whether Trump and his allies are profiting from advance knowledge about tariff changes or meme coin shenanigans.
May 07, 2025 | The American Prospect
Senior Advisor McHenry at Your Crypto Service
The former congressman is the most employed man in D.C.
April 30, 2025
Corporate Takeover
This past century of days, we have witnessed an administration wholly committed to executing this warped idea of governing. So let’s unpack a couple of ways that Donald Trump & Associates have promoted the corporate takeover of government.
April 24, 2025
Mapping the Home Insurance Crisis
A series of interactive maps and tables to help people make sense of the climate change-fueled home insurance crisis.
March 19, 2025
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Tough Questions for Paul Atkins
Senators shouldn’t go easy on Trump’s nominee to lead the SEC. Here are some things they ought to ask him about.
March 07, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
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Corruption Calendar Week Seven: One Nation Under God, Indivisible
The seventh week of Trump’s presidency was a stark reminder of how little the public’s wellbeing factors into his administration’s decisions. This week, the administration reiterated its position that it’s open season for corporate predators, RFK Jr. moved to abolish public input into public health regulations, co-president Elon Musk found new ways to exploit the federal contracting system, banking regulators chose Wall Street over Main Street, and a corporate lobbyist stepped in to facilitate the sale of precious public lands to lumber companies.