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 MoreDecember 19, 2025
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.
December 19, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Today: Renaming the Kennedy Center. Tomorrow: Renaming The Moon
Corruption Calendar Week 47-48: Trump’s giveaways to corporations continue to pile on as Americans suffer from an affordability crisis.
December 18, 2025 | The American Prospect
Toni Aguilar Rosenthal Dylan Gyauch-Lewis
Op-Ed Ethics in GovernmentFinancial RegulationRevolving Door
Another Biden Financial Regulator Spins Through the Revolving Door
It’s hard times at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), one of the three principal bank regulators in the country, along with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Federal Reserve. All three, plus other financial institution regulators at the National Credit Union Administration and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, have been gutted to varying degrees over the first year of Trump 2.0.
December 17, 2025
Newsletter Corporate CrackdownEthics in GovernmentExecutive BranchFinancial RegulationIndependent Agencies
Cutting Crooks Some Slack
The administrative state’s Kafkaesque transmogrification into the mafia state
December 9, 2025
Ben Clark - Prospect Magazine
Jerusalem Demsas on the fight for radical liberalism
December 4, 2025
Joe Light - Barron's
Trump Family-Backed Companies Are Being Left Behind as Crypto Recovers
December 4, 2025
George E. Condon Jr. - National Journal
Without a landslide Trump win, states face trouble receiving aid for actual landslides
November 29, 2025
David Sirota - (Substack) Sirota
Pay No Attention To Oligarchs Raising Your Rent
November 26, 2025
Kevin Sanchez - San Antonio Current
Bad Takes: ‘We have the best political system right now that private money can buy’
November 24, 2025
Laura Crimaldi, Aidan Ryan and Anjali Huynh - The Boston Globe
Larry Summers has long seemed unstoppable. Then came the Epstein emails.
RDP on Twitter
NEW Corruption Calendar: When it comes to decreasing prices for everyday Americans, Trump is failing miserably. But when it comes to handing free rein of the economy over to his corporate benefactors, Trump continues to outdo himself. READ MORE: https://t.co/E3JPQ9y35J https://t.co/cMaXJ5mgRd
Matt Yglesias with the fossil fuel revolver endorsement! Tim Ryan is a paid lobbyist for the gas industry through the Natural Allies leadership council. We did a whole report on this industry group hiring former Democratic politicians to peddle fossil fuels to Dem constituents. https://t.co/vHw6KYqaLz
RT @ddayen: Biden's head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu just joined venture capital firm CIC, which has sever…
The result? As with all revolving door dynamics, public trust in our regulatory institutions will inevitably suffer. More at: https://t.co/Rp0bh4zIgE
As recently as February, Michael Hsu was one of the most powerful regulators of the financial industry Last week, he joined a VC firm whose portfolio is littered with concerning companies that have faced a # of enforcement actions, including some from Hsu’s (now former) employer https://t.co/wgogC3tNhl