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June 24, 2025
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Trump’s War on Public Data
Trump’s antagonistic relationship with facts is well documented. His most egregious attacks on reality aren’t just rhetorical. They threaten physical safety and American democracy. They target the ways we define what we know about the country and ourselves. Trump’s assault on public data is not a side project, it’s a core feature of his authoritarian approach to governance. By hollowing out federal statistics, limiting information gathering, and redacting inconvenient reports, the Trump administration is warping reality to suit its political narrative. The goal isn’t just to obscure the effects of the president’s policies, it’s to prevent the public from seeing them at all.
May 30, 2025
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Corruption Calendar Week 19: “We Reject Regulators.” Pardon Me?
This week the Trump administration deepened its wildly corrupt and lucrative crypto grift, sought to further enrich wealthy supporters at the direct expense of working households, and continued to pardon white-collar criminals who don the red MAGA cap.
January 17, 2025
What the WSJ Editorial Board Got Wrong About IRS Whistleblower Charles Littlejohn
The Editorial Board disapproves of Littlejohn for political reasons.
December 18, 2024
PODCAST: RDP's Kenny Stancil Urges Biden to Commute Sentence of IRS Whistleblower On Arnie Arnesen Attitude
You can make your voice heard at freecharleslittlejohn.com.
December 18, 2024 | Rolling Stone
Biden Must Free the Man Who Exposed Trump’s Tax Avoidance
Joe Biden must commute the sentence of Charles Littlejohn, the IRS whistleblower who leaked Donald Trump’s tax records, before Trump can get revenge.
December 17, 2024
RELEASE: Patriotic Millionaires and Revolving Door Project Launch Letter Campaign to Urge President Biden to Commute Sentence of Charles Littlejohn
“He broke the law, but in light of the good that came from his actions in exposing the full scale of tax injustice in America, he certainly did not deserve a sentence six times higher than what guidelines recommended.”
May 01, 2024 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Merrick Garland’s Delay May Mean Justice Denied
Last week, the Supreme Court mulled over whether the former president (the “very stable genius” who pushed a “miracle cure” for COVID later tied to 17,000 avoidable deaths) should be prescribed his own miracle cure: presidential immunity for the crimes he is charged with committing while in office.
April 05, 2024
Maybe Financial Regulators Shouldn’t See The Best In Everyone
Last Friday, former FDIC Chair Sheila Bair decided to offer her two cents on the broader conversation surrounding the recent sentencing of Sam Bankman-Fried . Her takeaway from SBF’s trial and conviction on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy? We need financial literacy classes for children.
April 02, 2024
PODCAST: RDP's Kenny Stancil Talks IRS Whistleblower On Arnie Arnesen Attitude
RDP Senior Researcher Kenny Stancil joined Arnie Arnesen to discuss why Biden should pardon IRS whistleblower Charles Littlejohn.
March 25, 2024 | Slate
Why Biden Should Pardon the IRS Whistleblower Who Leaked Trump’s Taxes
Biden can make billionaire corruption a defining issue of the 2024 presidential race.
May 02, 2023
DOJ IN THE NEWS: Early May Trends
This is the latest installment of a new biweekly blog series from RDP. Every two weeks, we call out ongoing trends in media coverage of the Justice Department’s focus and priorities, giving context from our past DOJ oversight work as needed, with an eye to the impact of DOJ capacity and resources, as well as alignment with the Biden administration’s professed goals.
April 14, 2023
DOJ IN THE NEWS: Mid-April Trends
This is the latest installment of a new biweekly blog series from RDP. Every two weeks, we call out ongoing trends in media coverage of the Justice Department’s focus and priorities, giving context from our past DOJ oversight work as needed, with an eye to the impact of DOJ capacity and resources, as well as alignment with the Biden administration’s professed goals.
March 24, 2023
DOJ IN THE NEWS: Mid-March Trends
This is the latest installment of a new biweekly blog series from RDP. Every two weeks, we call out ongoing trends in media coverage of the Justice Department’s focus and priorities, giving context from our past DOJ oversight work as needed, with an eye to the impact of DOJ capacity and resources, as well as alignment with the Biden administration’s professed goals.
March 10, 2023
DOJ IN THE NEWS: Early March Trends
This is the latest installment of a new biweekly blog series from RDP. Every two weeks, we call out ongoing trends in media coverage of the Justice Department’s focus and priorities, giving context from our past DOJ oversight work as needed, with an eye to the impact of DOJ capacity and resources, as well as alignment with the Biden administration’s professed goals.
December 08, 2021 | Talking Points Memo
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The Bureau Of Prisons Needs New Leadership, Now
Progressives, prison workers and prisoners are in agreement: the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Michael Carvajal, should be fired. The Bureau of Prisons is in a crisis several layers deep, and new leadership will be key to its reformation.