DOGE: From Meme to Government Erosion Machine
A record of DOGE's first year of destruction
DOGE: From Meme to Government Erosion Machine
A record of DOGE's first year of destruction
Trump Watch
Tracking the Trump administration's all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution
Trump 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.
Projects
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 MoreJuly 10, 2026
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Map: Trump Has Often Delayed or Denied Disaster Aid
The Trump administration 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.
July 09, 2026
AI Villains and The Trump Admin: Greg Brockman
Greg Brockman is the current President of OpenAI—a tech firm he co-founded in 2015 with Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Ilya Sutskever.
July 09, 2026
AI Villains and the Trump Administration: Chris Lehane
Chris Lehane is OpenAI’s Chief Government Affairs Officer.
July 09, 2026
AI Villains and the Trump Administration: David Sacks
David Sacks, a venture capitalist with extensive AI and crypto investments, has been steering Trump’s AI policy to the benefit of industry.
July 7, 2026
Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
Big Oil Takeover ‘Now Complete,’ Watchdog Warns as Exxon Lawyer Joins Trump DOJ
July 6, 2026
Andrew Christie - Sierra Club
What Price, Abundance?
July 6, 2026
Aaron Regunberg - Boston Review
Why Climate Politics Can’t Wait
July 3, 2026
Amy Green - Inside Climate News
As America Celebrates 250th, Murkiness Surrounds Trump-Backed Planning Fund
July 3, 2026
Dave Levinthal - NOTUS
Big Lobbying Spenders Are Going All Out at the Great American State Fair
July 3, 2026
Brett Heinz - The American Prospect
Who Is Running America’s 250th Anniversary?
RDP on Twitter
Donald Trump is abusing and looting our National Parks to make way for his own vanity projects. https://t.co/S5XhH0bhxZ
Third Way's temper tantrums about Hasan Piker are nothing more than bad-faith left-punching. https://t.co/fXzur7wFQ3
Biden Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar is the latest ex-public official to sell out to the prediction markets industry. https://t.co/OuqZ2ytCu8
Meet Kevin Lilly, a wealthy investment banker and Trump's nominee to lead the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. https://t.co/YoqDsab607
"Donald Trump’s takeover of the 250th is an affront to the American people." -@aguilarosenthal https://t.co/35XNW2BhMn
After using the YIMBY movement to wage war on the Bay Area left, Big Tech donors are now taking the same playbook — redubbed Abundance — national. https://t.co/Qw2hbI7MZa