Revolving Door Project

5 days ago | therevolvingdoorproject.org | Kenny Stancil

This article was originally published by The Sling. In May, Heatmap’s Robinson Meyer and Matthew Zeitlin wrote an article about House Republicans’ plan to weaken environmental review to accelerate the construction of new infrastructure. The subject line of the email promoting the piece read, “Permitting Reform Is Back, Baby,” a rather nonchalant way to describe the latest legislative plan to gut the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

1 week ago | therevolvingdoorproject.org | Kenny Stancil

This newsletter was originally published on our Substack. Read and subscribe here. Welcome to week nineteen of the Revolving Door Project’s Corruption Calendar, where we highlight examples of corporate corruption shaping the Trump administration’s agenda and their material impact on everyday people. Read our first eighteen issues here and follow us on Bluesky and X for updates.

1 month ago | therevolvingdoorproject.org | Kenny Stancil

This article was originally published by The American Prospect. A combination of factors is limiting the public’s ability to ascertain the depths of insider trading and market manipulation likely occurring as a result of President Donald Trump’s chaotic trade war and self-enriching crypto schemes. Although presidents have long been able to move markets, Trump’s unification of power unto himself turbocharges that power.

1 month ago | therevolvingdoorproject.org | Kenny Stancil

Households across the United States face a new and unexpected cost from fossil fuel-driven climate change: Skyrocketing home insurance premiums, along with policy nonrenewals and cancellations. Increasingly frequent and intense extreme weather is boosting insured catastrophe losses. The insurance industry, unprepared despite knowing about climate change for decades, is scrambling to shift those costs to the public.

2 months ago | therevolvingdoorproject.org | Kenny Stancil

NAME: Christopher Stanley Musk Connections: SpaceX, Starlink, X (Twitter) Other Corporate Affiliations: DOGE Deployments: White House, FHFA Stanley Is A Longtime Musk Lackey In January 2025 the New York Times reported that Stanley was an “aide to Mr. Musk, who has worked as a security engineer at SpaceX and X and recently relocated to a role ‘at the White House.’” In February 2025, Stanley posted on his X account about Musk’s buy out for federal workers: “What blows my mind is that people...