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December 03, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
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 26, 2025
Thanksgiving Combo: Corruption Calendar and RDP Work Round-Up
This week’s newsletter recaps the Trump administration’s latest corrupt policymaking and our most notable publications over the past month.
November 19, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
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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.
November 14, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Weeks 42-43: Our Scourge of Elite Impunity
For far too long, the wealthy and powerful faced no consequences for even the most egregious acts. Working class Americans, doing their best to get by, are shown every day that they live in a country that bends over backwards to serve a privileged few.
November 13, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
8 Ways Senate Dems Should Have Been Holding the Line With Oversight
Here’s a congressional oversight target for each of the eight Senate Democrat that caved to end the government shutdown.
October 31, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Weeks 40-41: Belle of the Ballroom
Crypto interests and White House ballroom donors are the biggest beneficiaries of the administration’s latest rounds of corruption.
October 30, 2025
Democrats Once Fought “Pro-Arsenic” Republicans—They Should Try It Again
Recent history reveals a better way to politicize public health.
October 22, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
The Chatbotification of the Federal Government
While nearly 7 million Americans marched in “No Kings” protests on Saturday to protest Trump’s lawlessness, the president reposted an AI-generated video of himself in a fighter jet wearing a crown and dumping massive quantities of feces on protestors below.
October 17, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
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Corruption Calendar Weeks 38-39: Your Wish, My Command
Big Oil is getting the white glove treatment, the Trump sons are cashing in on the White House and the shutdown threatens housing stability.
October 16, 2025
Big Business Will Not Save Us
Scrutinizing the “ideological warfare” a business community mouthpiece says drove Corporate America into the arms of a fascist.
October 06, 2025
Railroad Barons Launch an Astroturf Campaign For Their Mega-Merger
Those supporting a new railroad monopoly include paid-off politicians, business partners, and… an anti-monopoly group?
October 03, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Weeks 36-37: Put an End to the Vought Show
Russell Vought has systematically orchestrated a shutdown of critical government services as budget chief. It’s time to end that.
October 01, 2025
“Another Mere Facsimile of Justice”
Next week, the Supreme Court will be back in session and ready to deal new blows to our basic institutions of governance while stripping away longstanding rights and protections for marginalized communities. The Court’s docket includes cases on the constitutionality of racial gerrymandering, bans on gay “conversion therapy,” campaign finance restrictions, and more.
September 22, 2025
From Industry Watchdog to Industry Wish List
The MAHA Commission’s latest report reflect the very corporate cronyism that it was was supposed to root out
September 19, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Weeks 34-35: Free Speech For Sale
Oligarchs Auction Off Our First Amendment Rights To Our Aspiring King