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January 14, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly

Hannah Story Brown

Newsletter 2026 ElectionCongressional OversightCorporate CrackdownEconomic PolicyEthics in GovernmentRevolving Door

Now Is The Time For Fighters

On Monday, Senator Elizabeth Warren gave a speech at the National Press Club about how Democrats can rebuild durable trust with voters, win elections, and enact systemic change. She spoke with energy about how Democrats cannot win back a lasting majority by watering down their economic vision, and how candidates in future elections must “credibly demonstrate that they will take on a rigged system in order to fix it.” In other words, she called for the members of her party to refashion themselves as willing fighters. 

January 09, 2026

Toni Aguilar Rosenthal

Newsletter Corruption Calendar

Corruption Calendar Weeks 49-51: War Profiteers Take Center Stage  

It’s weeks forty-nine through fifty-one of the Revolving Door Project’s Corruption Calendar, where we highlight the latest slate of corporate corruption that’s shaping the Trump Administration, its agenda, and the material impacts of that corruption on real people. Our first forty eight issues can be found here, and you can follow us on Bluesky and X for more updates on this work.

December 03, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly

Hannah Story Brown

Newsletter AbundanceClimate and EnvironmentEthics in GovernmentTechTrump 2.0

Reclaiming an Abundant and Democratic Future in the Age of AI

One of the defining characteristics of American life in the twenty-first century is its extreme imbalance: excess amid scarcity. While the world teems with a surplus of disposable consumer goods, essentials like healthcare, housing, education, and energy are prohibitively expensive. Much of this imbalance is by design. Powerful corporations profit from distorting public goods into private commodities, and individual and collective choices are replaced by corporate prescriptions that do not meet our needs. This dynamic is particularly visible in the tech industry forcing artificial intelligence into every corner of our lives, regardless of whether it is wanted.

November 19, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly

Hannah Story Brown

Newsletter Corporate CrackdownDepartment of JusticeEthics in GovernmentExecutive BranchRevolving Door

Introducing “Watchdog Weekly”

Welcome back to the Revolving Door Project’s weekly newsletter, which is getting a new name: Watchdog Weekly. We’ve been writing this newsletter since the end of 2018, through three presidential administrations, two general elections, and an ongoing crisis of corporate accountability. Since the beginning, we’ve scrutinized the subtle ways in which corporate wealth shapes our politics: not only through direct spending and lobbying, but via the revolving door between industry and government, through interest groups and formal and informal networks, media influence, and more. We exist to help fill the vacuum of knowledge about who holds power and how power is wielded. We are watchdogs, and we wanted a name for this newsletter that reflects our mission to shed light on the ways that money corrupts politics which may otherwise evade scrutiny.