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August 13, 2025
How Trump’s BLS Nominee Could Undermine Our Social Safety Net
The agency’s data feeds directly into many social programs—programs EJ Antoni opposes.
August 11, 2025
The Democrats Were Designed For An America That No Longer Exists
If the Democratic Party, and the country, want to survive, they need to wake up and choose what they want the next world to look like. Then they need to start fighting for it.
August 08, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week 29: Corporate Donors Lavish Trump's Non-Existent Re-Election Campaign
Trump’s Super PAC filing revealed millions spent by corporations trying to curry favor with the president.
August 07, 2025
Trump’s EPA Just Moved to Shred the Legal Foundation of U.S. Climate Policy
Trump’s most brazen act of climate sabotage yet: a proposed repeal of the 2009 “endangerment finding.”
August 01, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week 28: Less Enforcement, More Problems
In this week’s Corruption Calendar, we tackle the latest in Trump non-enforcement!
July 30, 2025
The Corporations Winning Big Under Trump 2.0
As we’ve been documenting every week of Trump 2.0 in our Corruption Calendar newsletter, the second Trump administration has been egregiously corrupt. Many key appointees, as well as Trump himself, have blatant conflicts of interest and are using their positions to enrich themselves and their friends. Indeed, Trump’s cabinet contains a historic number of billionaires. Every week, more news breaks on the way corporations and the wealthy are lining their pockets due to Trump’s policy decisions, at the expense of the rest of us.
July 25, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week 27: Media Merger Madness
Also, CFPB pays for Russ Vought’s security detail while ignoring Americans’ financial security—and other tales from Trump’s swamp.
July 23, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Trump Hands Another Victory To Cancer’s Profiteers
A Dow Chemicals facility that exploded in a ball of fire in Plaquemines, Louisiana in 2023, releasing tens of thousands of pounds of carcinogens. A leaky medical sterilization plant in a Los Angeles County neighborhood being sued by local residents suffering from breast, blood, and stomach cancers. A coal-fired power plant in Colorado whose emissions have been tied to dozens of premature deaths a year. What do all of these facilities have in common? They’re among the approximately one hundred facilities with cancer-causing emissions that President Trump has exempted from hazardous air pollution limits.
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
Who’s To Blame For Texas’ Abysmal Flood Response?
The Trump administration is trying to sidestep questions of blame, but its finger prints are all over Texas’ awful flood response.
July 11, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week 25: President Trump Notches Another Mysterious Benefactor
A mysterious investor is the latest entrant into the Trump crypto grift, and more stories from the MAGAswamp.
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.
July 03, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Want a Big Tent? Use Congressional Oversight
Ahead of the 4th of July holiday weekend, Republicans are trying to ram through their One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which includes enough horrors to dampen any parade. As written, the bill will do untold harm to Americans across the country through devastating cuts to Medicaid, food assistance, and student loan forgiveness. Working people will suffer, but the Republican’s bill will be a boon for the wealthy, fossil fuel interests, and draconian immigration detention centers. Democrats will not be able to stop the destruction, but they can use every available tool to make sure the public knows who is to blame.
June 27, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week 23: Appointees Trade Power for Perks as Trump’s Financial Regulators Refuse to Do Their Jobs
In this week’s installment, we look into Scott Turner’s demands for palatial accommodations, Stephen Miller’s plans to profit from mass deportations, and the administration’s enforcement agencies’ redefinition of their roles as corporate protection agencies.
June 25, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Chatbot, Are We Cooked?
On Tuesday, as New Yorkers headed to the polls for the primaries—hours before Zohran Mamdani’s joyous triumph over Andrew Cuomo would be apparent—it was 100°F, the outdoor public pools were closed to the public, and my neighbors were barefoot in the spray of a fire hydrant. “Opening fire hydrants without spray caps is illegal, wasteful, and dangerous,” read the 12:34 pm email I received from the city. Also wasteful and dangerous was failing to open the city’s public pools in time for a record-breaking heat dome.