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September 10, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter

Hannah Story Brown

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A Portal into Pandemonium

Years ago, during the first Trump administration, our organization led a Swamp Tour of DC, taking a bus around the city and describing how various swamp monsters earned their spot on a tour of DC’s most corrupt and self-serving political operatives. Today, as our Jeff Hauser and Timi Iwayemi recently wrote in The American Prospect, the swamp runneth over: we are living through by far the most corrupt presidency in U.S. history. 

August 27, 2025 | The American Prospect

Hannah Story Brown

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Trump Is Blinding the Government to Methane Pollution. But Others Are Still Watching.

Methane makes up a small portion of greenhouse gas emissions in terms of quantity, but it is one of the most important drivers of climate change, as it’s over 80 times more powerful at trapping heat than carbon dioxide in its first 20 years in the atmosphere. A significant amount of the extreme warming that we will experience in our lifetimes, and the planetary tipping points that we breach, will be propelled by methane—and emissions are rising faster than ever.

August 20, 2025

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Oligarchs and the Trump Admin: John Wu

Since 2020, John Wu has served as president of the crypto company Ava Labs. On April 2, 2025, Ava Labs donated $1 million to MAGA Inc, President Trump’s Super PAC. According to the New York Times, the donation got Wu a spot at a fundraising event just two days later—a “candlelight dinner” featuring Trump as a guest speaker.