DOGE Watch
Tracking the Trump administration's all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution
DOGE Watch
Tracking the Trump administration's all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution
Trump's Disastrous Disaster Policy
Documenting the Trump administration's pre-disaster recklessness and post-disaster cruelty
Trump's Disastrous Disaster Policy
Documenting the Trump administration's pre-disaster recklessness and post-disaster cruelty
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About the Revolving Door Project
The Revolving Door Project (RDP) scrutinizes executive branch appointees to ensure they use their office to serve the broad public interest, rather than to entrench corporate power or seek personal advancement.
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The Agency Spotlight
The Agency Spotlight tracks appointments to leadership positions at thirty-nine independent federal agencies through the confirmation process and beyond.
Learn MoreHackwatch
Hackwatch is where we monitor the mainstream media’s favorite Democratic-leaning economic analysts for conflicts of interest, perverse incentives, and just flat-out erroneous reasoning. We identify who the bad actors are, explain why they’re compromised and wrong, and demand that outlets stop poisoning the information ecosystem with discredited neoliberal orthodoxy and start giving people access to other, better-informed perspectives.
Learn MoreSupreme Transparency
Supreme Transparency—a project of Take Back the Court, True North Research, and the Revolving Door Project—sheds light on an oft-overlooked way that the U.S. Supreme Court’s billionaire benefactors peddle influence: amicus briefs. The Supreme Transparency site exposes the more subtle yet no less destructive ways that right-wing amicus filers and oligarchic court-whisperers hold sway over SCOTUS.
Learn MoreJanuary 16, 2026
Map: Trump Has Often Delayed or Denied Disaster Aid
The Trump administration so far has refused to allocate federal disaster aid in a timely manner. Check out our interactive map for more details on the White House’s careless approach to major disaster declarations.
January 16, 2026
The Technobabble Defense
How companies cry “innovation” to defend their lawbreaking
January 14, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
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
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.
January 8, 2026
Maria Curi - Axios
Inside Democrats' AI division
December 28, 2025
Katie Gatti Tassin and Caro Claire Burke - Diabolical Lies
The Texasification of America
December 21, 2025
Matt Stoller - (Substack) BIG by Matt Stoller
Monopoly Round-Up: Corporate Lawyers and Fat Envelope America
December 21, 2025
Robert Garrison - Denver7
Trump rejects Colorado’s bid for federal disaster relief after fires, flooding
December 18, 2025
Kat So - Center for American Progress
Climate Deniers of the 119th Congress and the Second Trump Administration
December 18, 2025
Brad Reed - Common Dreams
‘Feckless’ Ken Martin Rebuked Over DNC Decision to Bury Autopsy of 2024 Election Disaster
RDP on Twitter
"Abundance has become a rallying cry for wealthy donors and other corporate-aligned Democrats who are putting big-time muscle behind making Democrats more favorable to big businesses." - @ewarren https://t.co/uChLvcAwPL
From coast to coast, the Trump administration is refusing to provide disaster relief and aid in a timely manner. https://t.co/4XSm0IiDsJ
Former Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney announced this week he'll head the Coalition for Prediction Markets, a crypto-funded lobbying group. https://t.co/gTtRciOzpU
Companies like Uber and RealPage have taken to invoking the "technobabble" defense to justify why their conduct is not subject to government oversight. https://t.co/ySy4FUuH6p
In our latest installment of Hackwatch, our @DylanGyauchL writes about companies' "technobabble defense," obscuring underhanded and illegal conduct behind jargon. Our central point: "The rule of law does not have an algorithm exception" https://t.co/ySy4FUuH6p
Get all the details on this by reading the full piece here: https://t.co/gTtRciOzpU
