June 18, 2025
How Crypto Is Buying DC One Revolver At A Time
How the cryptocurrency industry bought influence at the highest levels of government, one payoff at a time

June 02, 2025 | The Sling
Why Big Oil and Big Tech Are Big Fans of Abundance
Trump’s unbridling of AI, crypto, and dirty energy should be understood as one inseparable process. Big Tech has thrown Big Oil & Gas a lifeline by fabricating speculative justifications for fossil fuel expansion.

May 30, 2025
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Corruption Calendar Week 19: “We Reject Regulators.” Pardon Me?
This week the Trump administration deepened its wildly corrupt and lucrative crypto grift, sought to further enrich wealthy supporters at the direct expense of working households, and continued to pardon white-collar criminals who don the red MAGA cap.

May 23, 2025
Corruption Calendar Week 18: Trump’s Independent Agency Power Grab
This week the Trump administration continued to dedicate itself to tearing down the safeguards that protect Americans from things like dangerous consumer products and predatory sales tactics, all while his officials and donors (often one and the same) enrich themselves.

May 21, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
RDP Work Round Up: Memorial Day Edition
A roundup of recent RDP work on the patent system takeover, bipartisan support for crypto, FAA chaos, and more!
May 14, 2025
Revolving Door Project Warns Against Welcoming Billionaire Marc Andreessen’s Opinions
The Silicon Valley venture capitalist’s longstanding commitment to extreme right-wing ideology makes it clear that any attempts to ingratiate himself with liberals are just a means of obtaining crypto-friendly legislation.

May 09, 2025
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Corruption Calendar Week 16: The Grift That Keeps On Giving
Welcome to week sixteen of the Revolving Door Project’s Corruption Calendar, where we highlight examples of corporate corruption shaping the Trump administration’s agenda and their material impact on everyday people. Read our first fifteen issues here and follow us on Bluesky and X for updates.

May 09, 2025 | The American Prospect
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We Can’t Count on Trump’s SEC to Tell Us If He Is Manipulating the Market
The Musk-damaged agency is unlikely to investigate whether Trump and his allies are profiting from advance knowledge about tariff changes or meme coin shenanigans.

May 07, 2025 | The American Prospect
Senior Advisor McHenry at Your Crypto Service
The former congressman is the most employed man in D.C.

May 07, 2025
Revolving Door Project Executive Director Testifies About Trump Family Crypto Corruption
RDP Executive Director Jeff Hauser testified about the Trump family’s use of cryptocurrency as a vehicle for blatant corruption

April 30, 2025
Corporate Takeover
This past century of days, we have witnessed an administration wholly committed to executing this warped idea of governing. So let’s unpack a couple of ways that Donald Trump & Associates have promoted the corporate takeover of government.

April 03, 2025
DOGE Agent: Gregory Barbaccia
Musk Connection: Unknown
Other Corporate Affiliations: Palantir Technologies, blockchain search engine Elementus, software engineering and finance start up Theorem
DOGE Deployment: Chief Information Officer, Executive Office of the President
March 28, 2025
Corruption Calendar Week 10: Bad Signals All Around
As Trump expanded his crypto ventures, Trump’s CFPB sought to return money it had previously obtained from a mortgage lender that settled with the agency over claims of racial discrimination.

March 14, 2025
Week Eight: The White House Clown Car Dealership
While the lion’s share of this weeks’ news cycle surrounds a potential partial government shutdown (readers of this newsletter know that the government already is substantially shut down by DOGE), Trump and his lackeys continue churning the corruption machine for their own benefit. Trump, Musk, and their underlings shamelessly use the government to get even richer while decimating the government’s capacity to help poor people, farmers, students, women, and well, all of us.
March 07, 2025
Week Seven: One Nation Under God, Indivisible
The seventh week of Trump’s presidency was a stark reminder of how little the public’s wellbeing factors into his administration’s decisions. This week, the administration reiterated its position that it’s open season for corporate predators, RFK Jr. moved to abolish public input into public health regulations, co-president Elon Musk found new ways to exploit the federal contracting system, banking regulators chose Wall Street over Main Street, and a corporate lobbyist stepped in to facilitate the sale of precious public lands to lumber companies.