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November 14, 2025 | Revolving Door Substack
Corruption Calendar Weeks 42-43: Our Scourge of Elite Impunity
October 31, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Substack
Weeks 40-41: Belle of the Ballroom
Crypto interests and White House ballroom donors are the biggest beneficiaries of the administration’s latest rounds of corruption.
October 17, 2025
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Corruption Calendar Weeks 38-39: Your Wish, My Command
Big Oil is getting the white glove treatment, the Trump sons are cashing in on the White House and the shutdown threatens housing stability.
October 03, 2025
Corruption Calendar Weeks 36-37: Put an End to the Vought Show
Russell Vought has systematically orchestrated a shutdown of critical government services as budget chief. It’s time to end that.
September 19, 2025
Weeks 34-35: Free Speech For Sale
Oligarchs Auction Off Our First Amendment Rights To Our Aspiring King
August 22, 2025
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.
August 15, 2025
Week 30: The Value of Trump’s Grifts
With the National Guard haunting the streets of Washington, D.C., it’s been an ominous week. DC takeover aside, the most immediately visible expressions of Trump’s efforts to consolidate and expand his power are: the administration’s ongoing multi-pronged efforts to let corporations break the law with impunity while raking in record profits; a new shakedown tactic to secure a cut of technology sales to China; and an attack on the research grant process, which is critical to scientific pursuits across the country.
August 08, 2025
Week 29: Corporate Donors Lavish Trump's Non-Existent Re-Election Campaign
Trump’s Super PAC filing revealed millions spent by corporations trying to curry favor with the president.
August 01, 2025
Corruption Calendar Week 28: Less Enforcement, More Problems
In this week’s Corruption Calendar, we tackle the latest in Trump non-enforcement!
July 25, 2025
Corruption Calendar Week 27: Media Merger Madness
Also, CFPB pays for Russ Vought’s security detail while ignoring Americans’ financial security—and other tales from Trump’s swamp.
July 18, 2025
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.
July 11, 2025
Corruption Calendar Week 25: President Trump Notches Another Mysterious Benefactor
A mysterious investor is the latest entrant into the Trump crypto grift, and more stories from the MAGAswamp.
July 03, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Want a Big Tent? Use Congressional Oversight
Ahead of the 4th of July holiday weekend, Republicans are trying to ram through their One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which includes enough horrors to dampen any parade. As written, the bill will do untold harm to Americans across the country through devastating cuts to Medicaid, food assistance, and student loan forgiveness. Working people will suffer, but the Republican’s bill will be a boon for the wealthy, fossil fuel interests, and draconian immigration detention centers. Democrats will not be able to stop the destruction, but they can use every available tool to make sure the public knows who is to blame.
June 27, 2025
Week 23: Appointees Trade Power for Perks as Trump’s Financial Regulators Refuse to Do Their Jobs
In this week’s installment, we look into Scott Turner’s demands for palatial accommodations, Stephen Miller’s plans to profit from mass deportations, and the administration’s enforcement agencies’ redefinition of their roles as corporate protection agencies.
June 20, 2025
Corruption Calendar Week 22: Another Week In The Circus Of Destruction
It’s week twenty-two 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 twenty-one issues can be found here, and follow us on Bluesky and X for more updates on this work.