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October 07, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Supreme Court Season Kicks Off With Big Oil’s Big Ask
On Monday, the Supreme Court held oral arguments in the climate deception case Suncor v. Boulder, a case we’ve covered extensively given its outsized stakes, the oil industry’s ties to the Supreme Court bench, and the glaring conflicts of interest that have now disqualified longtime oil investor Justice Alito from participating in the case.
October 02, 2026 | Wall Street Journal
A Recusal Question Justice Alito Can’t Avoid
Your editorial “Justice Alito’s Climate Case Recusal” (Sept. 30) derided the successful calls for Justice Alito to recuse from the upcoming climate deception case Suncor v. Boulder as “specious” and “partisan,” while framing a refusal to recuse as an “honorable tradition.”
September 18, 2026 | Common Dreams
What OpenAI Having Chuck Schumer’s Daughter as a Lobbyist Tells Us
The hiring of Jessica Schumer is another example of powerful people and families, regardless of party, who are deeply intertwined with the corporate behemoths that people are organizing against.
September 16, 2026
TRACKER: Cuts to Corporate Enforcement Capacity
This tracker records cuts made by the Trump-Musk administration to enforcement capacity at agencies responsible for overseeing corporations’ activities and identifying wrongdoing.
“Enforcement capacity” refers to staffing and funding dedicated to monitoring, oversight, investigation, and preparation of cases against corporations for breaking the law. Cuts to and attacks on enforcement capacity can include firings, buyout offers, funding cuts, reorganizations, and other steps the Trump administration has taken to date.
September 14, 2026 | The American Prospect
The EPA’s Dark Embrace of the AI Industry
Since his nomination, Lee Zeldin, the head of Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency, has been clear about his unprecedented intentions: supporting the artificial intelligence industry.
September 11, 2026 | The American Prospect
Why OpenAI Hired Chuck Schumer’s Daughter Away From Amazon
The AI industry has a greater need for government influence than anyone else.
September 10, 2026 | The Lever
The Big Tech Alums Building Trump’s AI War Machine
As lawmakers demand new AI protections, a Pentagon office staffed by Big Tech alums is dismantling safeguards and accelerating AI warfare as their former employers land lucrative military contracts.
September 08, 2026
RDP: Schumer's Daughter Imperils Potential Landslide
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s daughter has a new job at OpenAI. It’s threatening to ruing Dems’ anti-corruption message
August 28, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Freedom For Sale
America has never seen anything like Donald Trump’s second presidency. The scale and scope of shattered norms, illegality, and self-dealing far outpace even the historic malfeasance of Trump’s first term. Trump’s use of the presidential pardon power follows the same trend.
August 19, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
The Live, Dangerous, Lopsided Experiment of AI in Government
This much is clear: artificial intelligence has permeated just about every corner of the federal government. The Revolving Door Project has been tracking news stories and reports of the Trump administration’s adoption of AI, which has been at turns benign, ridiculous, and dangerous. By the administration’s own measure, forty-one departments and agencies reported 3,611 distinct use cases of AI in 2025.
August 17, 2026
Revolving Door Project Condemns Trump’s Corrupt Crypto and Prediction Market Roundtable
The Revolving Door Project condemns the Trump White House’s corrupt cryptocurrency and prediction markets roundtable as nothing more than a last minute attempt to pass another dangerous, industry friendly bill
July 24, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
The Insider Trading Administration
Donald Trump’s administration profited handsomely from insider trading. Now they want to sell inside information to Wall Street.
July 08, 2026 | The American Prospect
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Not All Nepo Babies Are Trumps
Last month, Fortune reported that Theodore Gillibrand, son of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), had received a $30 million dollar round of investment for his company, American Perpetual Exchange Commission (APEC). The funding round valued APEC at $300 million and was led by Lux Capital, a venture capital firm whose other investments include the Peter Thiel-backed Anduril Industries and Erebor Bank.
July 01, 2026
Draining National Parks to Fill the Reflecting Pool: The Trump Administration Is Redirecting Millions From National Treasures To DC Vanity Projects
WASHINGTON — Today the Revolving Door Project released a report examining the National Park Service’s distribution of awards out of its Recreational Fee account so far in 2025-2026 as compared to 2023-2024.
Using publicly accessible databases, found a startling 1673.23 percent increase in spending out of the rec fee account to fund projects in D.C., while spending to the nation’s top-ten most visited fee-collecting National Parks dropped by 75.52 percent.
And, so far during 2025-2026 we found that D.C.-based contracting spending is far outpacing spending at the nation’s top 10-most visited fee-collecting parks AND our top 10-most visited non-fee collecting parks combined.
July 01, 2026
Draining National Parks to Fill the Reflecting Pool
The National Park Service (NPS) is charged with stewarding what author and environmentalist Wallace Stegner called America’s “best idea.”
From the striking expanse of the Chihuahuan Desert, partially contained in Big Bend National Park, to the towering stone walls of Yosemite, the United States government has the privilege of caring for some of the most overwhelmingly beautiful vistas in the world.
For more than 100 years, recreational fees have been collected at a subsect of our National Parks to explicitly and specifically support the management and responsible stewardship of these lands on behalf of present and future generations.