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June 11, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter

Hannah Story Brown

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Is Brett Kavanaugh the new Ezra Klein?

After live-tweeting his fallout with the world’s richest man, the president has been soothing himself with the pageantry of control. Miles of tanks have rolled into D.C. in preparation for Trump’s military parade. ICE agents have raided workplaces and seized thousands of people across the country. Police have targeted journalists, medics, and protestors in Los Angeles with rubber bullets, tear gas, and smoke grenades. Now the latest escalation: the president has deployed Marines to Los Angeles, threatening martial law. 

May 30, 2025

Kenny Stancil

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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.

May 14, 2025

Xaver Clarke

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Musk’s DOGE Cuts to AmeriCorps Have Triggered a Nationwide Public Service Collapse

The gutting of AmeriCorps is yet another callous move made by Elon Musk’s team at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. AmeriCorps is the national service program that sends full-time volunteers to some of the most vulnerable and underserved communities in the country, reaching where other public or private sector services fall short. In cutting $400 million in AmeriCorps grant funding, nearly a third of the program’s already modest $1.3 billion annual budget, DOGE has displaced over 30,000 volunteers and disrupted more than 1,000 programs. These cuts are already triggering ripple effects in communities across the country, from halted disaster recovery projects to abandoned school programs and shuttered food banks.

May 12, 2025

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Democrats at Law Firms That Surrendered to Trump

Trump started his second term in the White House by targeting law firms in retaliation for their past legal work and personnel decisions that displeased him. While some firms pushed back against these assaults on their independence, more than a few BigLaw firms caved. Within the first months of the year, they bowed to Trump’s demands, surrendering in order to avoid (potentially illegal) executive orders that could damage their business interests.

May 09, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly

Xaver Clarke

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Corruption Calendar Week 16: The Grift That Keeps On Giving

This week, the Trump brothers Eric and Don Jr. embarked on a world tour to make real estate deals while the administration used the threat of tariffs to push Starlink into other countries. Trump allies engaged in price fixing and fraud were given a pass seemingly as a reward for their donations to the president, our retirement savings were placed under the eye of a greedy insurance executive, and consumer protections were targeted by House Republicans eager to find tax breaks for the rich.