Watchdog Weekly
Revolving Door Project, Fletcher Calcagno, Aya Dardari, Dylan Gyauch-Lewis, Julian Scoffield, Andrea Beaty, Hannah Story Brown, Henry Burke, Kenny Stancil, Xaver Clarke, KJ BoyleThe Revolving Door Project scrutinizes the subtler ways in which corporate wealth corrupts our politics, starting with the federal executive branch and branching out to the federal judiciary, economic media, and state constitutional officers.
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Democrats Shouldn’t Let Jay Carney Bring Back The Obama-Era Tech Friendship
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney answers questions from reporters. Photo by Janie Amaya, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
We’re quickly approaching the midterms, and that means there’s polling on everything. While the major story is th...
We Solved The Corruption Debate Before I Was Born. Don’t Bring It Back.
President Trump displays renderings for his ballroom in front of the destroyed east wing of the White House. Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian
If you believe the polls, Republican midterm hopes are in shambles. While gerryma...
No Budget for Accountability
President Donald J. Trump speaks with members of the media on the South Lawn before boarding Marine One en route to Joint Base Andrews, Saturday, October 3, 2026. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)
Accountability is the ban...
Supreme Court Season Kicks Off With Big Oil’s Big Ask
Damage from the Marshall Fire in Boulder County, Colorado in 2021. Photo licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
On Monday, the Supreme Court held oral arguments in the climate deception case...
Reversing Voughtism; or, Creating a Pro-Worker Government to Save Lives
Photo: Federal Unionists Network
A couple of highlights before I jump in:
- My colleague Hannah Story Brown has played a huge role in exposing Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s shameful fossil fuel-related conflicts of interest (see...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
We fight to protect the public from government appointees too close to the industries they are supposed to be regulating.
Aya Dardari is a Research Intern at the Revolving Door Project.
Senior Researcher at Revolving Door Project
Research Assistant at the Revolving Door Project
Andrea Beaty is a Research Director of housing & anti-monopoly issues at the Revolving Door Project.
Deputy Research Director on climate and governance at the Revolving Door Project.
Henry Burke is a Research Assistant with the Revolving Door Project where he focuses on issues of government capacity, organized labor, education, and media coverage of macroeconomic issues.
Deputy Research Director at the Revolving Door Project
Research Assistant at the Revolving Door Project
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