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October 09, 2026
Corruption Calendar: No Budget for Accountability
Accountability is the bane of the Trump administration’s shamelessly venal approach to governance. That’s why the administration has willfully attacked the civil servants and laws that exist to hold power accountable.
October 07, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Supreme Court Season Kicks Off With Big Oil’s Big Ask
On Monday, the Supreme Court held oral arguments in the climate deception case Suncor v. Boulder, a case we’ve covered extensively given its outsized stakes, the oil industry’s ties to the Supreme Court bench, and the glaring conflicts of interest that have now disqualified longtime oil investor Justice Alito from participating in the case.
September 30, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
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Reversing Voughtism; or, Creating a Pro-Worker Government to Save Lives
The Trump regime is dismantling the federal government’s ability to protect you. Undoing the Vought-led onslaught is a matter of life-and-death, and it would be good politics.
September 23, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Russell Vought’s Continued War on Public Health
Russell Vought’s attempt to control NIH grantmaking is another attack on Congress’ power of the purse and threatens unbiased scientific research.
September 17, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
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The Current Capacity Crisis
Trump and company have decimated the federal government’s ability to protect Americans from Robber Barons running amok
September 03, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Will The Food Borne Illness Epidemic Ever End?
Not unless BigAg and the Trump administration are held accountable.
August 26, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption is a Two-Way Street
The Taylor Farms Cyclospora Outbreak Shows Why Congress Must Investigate Both Trump and His Corporate Accomplices
August 19, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
The Live, Dangerous, Lopsided Experiment of AI in Government
This much is clear: artificial intelligence has permeated just about every corner of the federal government. The Revolving Door Project has been tracking news stories and reports of the Trump administration’s adoption of AI, which has been at turns benign, ridiculous, and dangerous. By the administration’s own measure, forty-one departments and agencies reported 3,611 distinct use cases of AI in 2025.
August 12, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
What the AI Industry Gains from Hiring Former Biden Officials
The revolving door is another tool in the AI industry’s toolbox to ensure it gets its wish list, from lax regulations to lucrative contracts.
July 29, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Trump is the Cause of Our Problems
Nate Silver thinks Trump is no longer central to US politics because Trump-related stories are “boring and dumb.” Here’s why he’s wrong.
July 24, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
The Insider Trading Administration
Donald Trump’s administration profited handsomely from insider trading. Now they want to sell inside information to Wall Street.
July 22, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Talking About A World on Fire
Last week, well over 100 million people across the United States and Canada were forced to breathe dangerously unhealthy air, as smoke from hundreds of wildfires in Canada blanketed much of North America.
July 09, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Introducing Our AI Villains Tracker
To understand the Trump administration’s policy on AI, one has to look beyond Trump’s own pronouncements to the AI “experts” he surrounds himself with. To that end, we at the Revolving Door Project are launching our AI Villains Tracker—an compendium of the people responsible for crafting and delivering some of the least popular policy decisions made by the second Trump Administration.
June 29, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar: A New Watergate, Every Day
As our stories this week illustrate, there are plenty of examples of how Trump’s corruption is making our lives demonstrably worse — from mining and oil extraction pollution that threatens the health of our communities and monopolists’ tightening stranglehold on our pockets and labor to corrupt machinations attacking our increasingly fragile democracy.
June 24, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
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Elite Corruption, From Silicon Valley to the Supreme Court
Welcome back to Watchdog Weekly. We’ve been busy so far this hurricane season, tracking the literal and metaphorical storms gathering on the horizon as elite immunity spreads its shadow over the American landscape. Here are some of the projects we’ve been working on lately: