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November 19, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly

Hannah Story Brown

Newsletter Corporate CrackdownDepartment of JusticeEthics in GovernmentExecutive BranchRevolving Door

Introducing “Watchdog Weekly”

Welcome back to the Revolving Door Project’s weekly newsletter, which is getting a new name: Watchdog Weekly. We’ve been writing this newsletter since the end of 2018, through three presidential administrations, two general elections, and an ongoing crisis of corporate accountability. Since the beginning, we’ve scrutinized the subtle ways in which corporate wealth shapes our politics: not only through direct spending and lobbying, but via the revolving door between industry and government, through interest groups and formal and informal networks, media influence, and more. We exist to help fill the vacuum of knowledge about who holds power and how power is wielded. We are watchdogs, and we wanted a name for this newsletter that reflects our mission to shed light on the ways that money corrupts politics which may otherwise evade scrutiny.

November 07, 2025 | The American Prospect

Hannah Story Brown

Op-Ed Climate and EnvironmentEthics in GovernmentSupreme Court

Exxon’s Latest Supreme Court Hail Mary

It’s been seven years since Boulder, Colorado, took oil companies Exxon and Suncor to court for decades of lying about the dangers of their products, one of dozens of parallel lawsuits brought by local, state, and tribal governments against fossil fuel companies. In May, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that the case could move toward discovery and trial, something the companies are desperate to avoid. Now, Exxon and Suncor are once again seeking refuge at the Supreme Court.

September 10, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter

Hannah Story Brown

Newsletter DOGEEthics in GovernmentExecutive BranchRevolving DoorTechTrump 2.0

A Portal into Pandemonium

Years ago, during the first Trump administration, our organization led a Swamp Tour of DC, taking a bus around the city and describing how various swamp monsters earned their spot on a tour of DC’s most corrupt and self-serving political operatives. Today, as our Jeff Hauser and Timi Iwayemi recently wrote in The American Prospect, the swamp runneth over: we are living through by far the most corrupt presidency in U.S. history. 

August 22, 2025

Toni Aguilar Rosenthal

Newsletter Corruption CalendarEthics in GovernmentHealthRevolving Door

Corruption Calendar Week 31: The Crises Continue

We are almost through our first summer of what is sure to be a long and ruinous four years. This past week, while Trump tightened control of his invasion of Washington, D.C, gargantuan wildfires ravaged lands in Colorado and Florida. Over in Texas, state Republicans completed step one of their plot to distort the electoral map ahead of the upcoming midterm elections, sending the newly redrawn maps to the Texas State Senate. D.C. residents are far from the only victims of our ever growing police state, as Immigration and Customs Enforcement continues to kidnap and terrorize community members across the country. 

July 18, 2025

Timi Iwayemi

Newsletter Congressional OversightCorruption CalendarEthics in GovernmentFinancial Regulation

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.