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Dave Vetter
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Big Tech is saying out loud "You can have a habitable planet or machine generated slop, but you can't have both."
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Jeff Hauser
2 days ago
"Affordability" is what it is as a frame (incomplete), but we need to understand that the Big Tech funded neoliberals are suggesting that responding to climate change is inconsistent with an affordability framework. Nothing could be further from the truth!
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Revolving Door Project
2 days ago
Excellent new
@billmckibben.bsky.social
piece explains how fossil fuels are making life more expensive. While planet-heating pollution drives up the cost of living, climate action—e.g., accelerating the transition to clean, cheap energy—puts us on a path toward greater affordability.
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How about Free? Is that affordable enough for you?
The latest on energy, climate and affordability
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/how-about-free-is-that-affordable
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Revolving Door Project
2 days ago
He cites a piece we co-authored on "pollution premiums," or the hidden surcharge we pay on insurance bills as a result of climate-wrecking fossil fuels. It's part of
@350.org
's "Out of Pocket" series on climate/affordability. By Insure Our Future's Risalat Khan and our
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Out of Pocket: Pollution Premiums – the real cost of fossil fuels on our insurance bills
Fossil fuels are making our insurance premiums unaffordable and exposing us to financial ruin. But momentum is building to ramp up clean energy and make polluters pay!
https://350.org/out-of-pocket-pollution-premiums-the-real-cost-of-fossil-fuels-on-our-insurance-bills/
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Revolving Door Project
2 days ago
Faced with a slow-motion ecological crisis at an Alaska-sized scale, politicians from Juneau to Washington are stuck in the mud of a tedious old dream: Alaska LNG.
@hannahstoryb.bsky.social
digs into the failure of imagination (and billions in subsidies) buoying this boondoggle for
@prospect.org
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Lessons From an Arctic Gas Pipe Dream - The American Prospect
Alaska LNG is an instructive failure in political imagination.
https://prospect.org/2026/06/25/lessons-from-arctic-gas-pipe-dream/
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Revolving Door Project
3 days ago
Wondering what we've been up to lately? This week's newsletter takes us from Silicon Valley to Trump's July 4th "vanity cringefest" to the halls of the Supreme Court. The common thread across these disparate stories is elite impunity: powerful people rigging the game without fear of consequences.
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Elite Corruption, From Silicon Valley to the Supreme Court
A round-up of recent work from the Revolving Door Project team.
https://revolvingdoorproject.substack.com/p/elite-corruption-from-silicon-valley
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Don Moynihan
5 days ago
It seems somewhat bad that the richest man in the world can use his money to bankrupt individuals or organizations -- including officials who are tasked with holding him accountable -- that accurately point out that his actions plausibly facilitated the deaths of millions.
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Revolving Door Project
5 days ago
Dangerous heat is blanketing the United States. People are at greater risk of heat-related illness and death due to the cruel actions of Donald Trump, Russell Vought, and other admin officials. Things are even worse now as White House policy drives up the cost of electricity and other essentials.
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Heat Kills. Trump Has Ensured There Will Be More Victims.
We should be slashing emissions and climate-proofing our cities. Instead, Republicans are turning up the carbon spew and stripping away heat protections — effectively condemning the poor to die under ...
https://jacobin.com/2025/08/heat-climate-deaths-trump-energy
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Ashton Pittman
11 days ago
Images from the Walmart in Senatobia, Mississippi, where police deployed tear gas against residents protesting the police killing of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley. Courtesy Action News 5:
www.actionnews5.com/2026/06/16/c...
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Mark Gongloff
12 days ago
Insurers are some of the world’s biggest complainers about climate damages. So why are they defending Big Oil from accountability for those same climate damages? Follow the money Gift link to my column for
@opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Insurers Endure Self-Harm to Side With Big Oil
Say my house burns down under mysterious circumstances (grease fire in the living room?), and police charge my neighbor with arson. It would look awfully suspicious if I then bankrolled my neighbor’s ...
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-06-15/insurers-endure-self-harm-to-side-with-big-oil-on-climate-regulation?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4MTUyNjI3MSwiZXhwIjoxNzgyMTMxMDcxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUR08zU0lLR1pBSjIwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIxMkE1QzVFRUNERDg0NUJEQjVFOTM1MUE0Mzk4QTAxNCJ9.Je5wyUiQCToUMfP-QDQnPhJRXliejRW4L4tq1VR6WRY
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Revolving Door Project
11 days ago
The property & casualty insurance industry's profit spree continued in 2025, new data shows. Underwriting income surged to $69 billion. Meanwhile, the industry raked in $112 billion in investment income, more than double what it saw in 2016. Analysis by
@publiccitizen.bsky.social
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Insurers Score Record Profits While Consumers Paid in 2025
The property and casualty (P&C) insurance industry just posted its most profitable underwriting year in over two decades.
https://www.citizen.org/article/insurers-score-record-profits-while-consumers-pay/
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Revolving Door Project
11 days ago
“We cannot afford to continue on our current path, where insurance CEOs cry poverty from their private jets while insurance consumers, saddled with skyrocketing costs, contend with the threat of losing their homes to foreclosure,” said our
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Home and Auto Insurers Set Profit Records in 2025 - Public Citizen
Insurance companies continue to hike rates for consumers despite massive profits, raising serious questions...
https://www.citizen.org/news/home-and-auto-insurers-set-profit-records-in-2025/
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ProPublica
12 days ago
NEW: Oil tycoon Jeffery Hildebrand gave millions to Donald Trump’s 2024 election campaign. He is set to reap a financial windfall as the EPA moves to weaken restrictions on wells like his that produce very little energy but release vast amounts of methane. By
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Trump Plans to Protect Methane-Leaking Stripper Wells. This Billionaire Donor Will Benefit.
Oil tycoon Jeffery Hildebrand gave millions to Donald Trump’s 2024 election campaign. He is set to reap a financial windfall as the EPA moves to weaken restrictions on wells like his that produce very...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-methane-jeffery-hildebrand-hilcorp-oil-regulations?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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Revolving Door Project
11 days ago
"Previous administrations didn't use the disaster declaration process to settle partisan scores or punish perceived enemies for alleged disloyalty," our
@kennystancil.bsky.social
told the Chicago Tribune. For more on Trump's weaponization of federal disaster assistance, see our tracker:
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David Dayen
15 days ago
We obtained documents detailing the abundance movement's "capital stack." It's $260 million/year, including $100 million from former Microsoft CEO/LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer, who hadn't been listed as an abundance donor before. The documents show Silicon Valley's role bankrolling the movement.
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New Documents Detail Nine-Figure, Silicon Valley–Funded Abundance Movement - The American Prospect
The Prospect has obtained a fundraising pitch and historical manifesto from inside the movement.
https://prospect.org/2026/06/12/new-documents-detail-nine-figure-silicon-valley-funded-abundance-movement/
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How many infants did they guy help kill? Take away his medical license.
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Democracy Now!
15 days ago
An new UN investigation warns that AI's water use in 2030 will match the needs of 1.3 billion people. “We have to think about that very long supply chain that starts with the extraction of critical minerals in the poor areas of the world,” says
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Matthew Haugen
23 days ago
Great piece from
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revolvingdoorproject.substack.com/p/democrats-...
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Democrats Can’t Let Trump Off the Hook When the Next Big Hurricane Hits
The White House has relentlessly undermined disaster readiness and response capacity. When things go wrong, the opposition should make the president and his GOP accomplices pay a political price.
https://revolvingdoorproject.substack.com/p/democrats-cant-let-trump-off-the?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3976&post_id=200321203&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=bfp8&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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Revolving Door Project
23 days ago
Prediction markets are finally receiving some real scrutiny. Even a Republican-controlled Congress seems to be wary of some of the industry's more outlandish behavior. So they're turning to people who know how to deal with this pressure: gambling and vape executives. New in
@newrepublic.com
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Prediction Markets Are Learning From the Addiction Industry
A new coalition of industry influence-peddlers is forming, tasked with defending these nascent businesses from regulation at all cost.
https://newrepublic.com/article/210370/prediction-markets-gambling-industry-coalition
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Revolving Door Project
23 days ago
OMB Director Russell Vought is waging a war on “wokeism” and “fraud” as a sham justification for freezing, cutting, or withholding federal funding for essential programs like public health to punish Trump’s political enemies, risking the collapse of the entire system.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD
24 days ago
"This would be the end of American science as we know it," said
@colesci.bsky.social
, a policy analyst from the group
@standupforscience.net
who has been organizing to protest the change. "We're gonna make sure that it doesn't fade quietly into the night."
www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...
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President Trump seeks control of science funding
The White House Office of Management and Budget is moving to take more control of billions of dollars in federal grants. Critics say the proposed change would jeopardize the integrity of U.S. science.
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/03/nx-s1-5844678/trump-science-funding-omb-budget-office-rule-change?utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=bsky.app
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Revolving Door Project
25 days ago
Here's a detailed summary of what the Trump regime has done to make us more vulnerable to catastrophic hurricane outcomes.
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How Trump Undermined Our Hurricane Readiness and Response Capacity | Revolving Door Project
The White House’s reactionary policy choices are leaving our society ill-equipped to plan for, withstand, and bounce back from worsening extreme weather, including hurricanes.
https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/how-trump-undermined-our-hurricane-readiness-and-response-capacity/
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Revolving Door Project
25 days ago
NEW: The Trump administration has relentlessly undermined hurricane readiness and response capacity. When things go wrong, the opposition should make the president and his GOP accomplices pay a political price.
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Democrats Can’t Let Trump Off the Hook When the Next Big Hurricane Hits
The White House has relentlessly undermined disaster readiness and response capacity. When things go wrong, the opposition should make the president and his GOP accomplices pay a political price.
https://revolvingdoorproject.substack.com/p/democrats-cant-let-trump-off-the
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Joshua Weitz
29 days ago
For "tighten" read "enforce" For "political oversight" read "political litmus tests" For "grantmaking" read "science & medical research funding" Put it all together: White House seeks to enforce political litmus tests for science & medical research funding.
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Brian Goldstone
29 days ago
Simply damning
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Jeff Hauser
about 1 month ago
John Roberts' Supreme Court is built on the belief that it is legal if powerful people do it. That's been their approach to what had been white collar crime (legalizing it), campaign finance regulations (slashing them), and of course legal ethics (mocking them).
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Ketan Joshi
about 1 month ago
"If data centres were a country, they would be the second-largest destination for gas turbines ordered from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026" New IEA report confirms this isn't a normal industry. It is a fossil-fuelled, high-polluting heavy industry producing socially corrosive products at massive climate cost.
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Mark Jacob
about 1 month ago
Someday an academic will hit the total button on how many lives have been lost because of MAGA Republicans, and the number will show that Trump is a mass murderer.
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Revolving Door Project
about 1 month ago
NEW: Our latest report breaks down how OMB Director Russell Vought is weaponizing federal funding for disaster aid, education, food, health, transportation, and other essential programs to punish and coerce Trump’s political enemies, hurting millions of people in the process. Read it here⬇️
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V for Vampire Vought's Vendetta | Revolving Door Project
This report summarizes how OMB Director Russell Vought is weaponizing federal funding for education, food, health, transportation, and other life-affirming programs to punish and coerce Trump’s politi...
https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/v-for-vampire-voughts-vendetta/
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Max Kennerly
about 1 month ago
Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.
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ryan cooper
about 1 month ago
"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV."
prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...
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Who Died When Elon Musk Killed USAID? - The American Prospect
Nicholas Enrich’s new memoir details the human toll of the agency’s dismantling.
https://prospect.org/2026/05/22/who-died-when-elon-musk-killed-usaid-enrich-review/
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Naomi Klein
about 1 month ago
$9-billion taxpayer transfer to a $5 trillion company for US spy agencies to go all in on AI. NYT doesn't include a single critical word from a privacy or civil liberties expert. Just a don't-worry-about-it assurance at the end. Also: Anthropic is not our friend.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...
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White House Approves $9 Billion for Spy Agencies to Catch Up on A.I.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/us/politics/spy-agencies-ai-chips-shortage.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kVA.W3Ge.WvM4g_g7Veql&smid=url-share
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Murshed Zaheed
about 1 month ago
"Most of the domestic carnage of the second Trump administration is inseparable from Vought-led attacks on the non-military federal workforce ... and his unlawful moves to freeze hundreds of billions of dollars in socially beneficial funding appropriated by Congress."
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James Goodwin
about 1 month ago
"Vought is the connective tissue linking different elements of the MAGA coalition... into a machine for advancing the interests of a small minority of oligarchs." Really hard to overstate how important this point is.
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/democra...
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Democrats Shouldn’t Let Russell Vought Fly Under the Radar
This post is a part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/democrats-shouldnt-let-russell-vought-fly-under-the-radar
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James Goodwin
about 1 month ago
Vought is the one person who is welcome in every faction of the Trumpist coalition. Everyone sees him as "their guy."
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James Goodwin
about 1 month ago
It really is political malpractice that Democrats haven't made Vought famous yet. He is the perfect avatar for all the awful things the Trump administration is doing. He can be used to explain the motive, means, and opportunity.
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In These Times
about 1 month ago
Before OSHA, workers were exposed to toxic chemicals with almost no protection. Tony Mazzocchi helped change that by connecting workplace safety to environmental justice and forcing lawmakers to listen to workers themselves.
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Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Tony Mazzocchi, a Working-Class Hero
A lifelong champion of workers’ rights and union democracy, Mazzocchi envisioned and worked to build a transformative U.S. labor movement.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/tony-mazzocchi-labor-unions-life-legacy
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Emily Drabinski
about 1 month ago
The Republican Party is unified behind this, in complete and total support of the corrupt looting of the public purse. Not a single significant voice of opposition.
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Nick Turse
about 1 month ago
EXCLUSIVE: Ebola Outbreak Rages After Trump Gutted Global Health Safeguards “The outbreaks of Ebola and hantavirus in the past two weeks show why international threats need an international response.”
theintercept.com/2026/05/19/e...
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Ebola Outbreak Rages After Trump Gutted Global Health Safeguards
“The outbreaks of Ebola and hantavirus in the past two weeks show why international threats need an international response.”
https://theintercept.com/2026/05/19/ebola-outbreak-trump-who/
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Revolving Door Project
about 1 month ago
Despite being the nerve center of Trump 2.0, OMB Director Russell Vought continues to fly under the radar. Vought’s lack of notoriety reflects a failure by Democrats to consistently and effectively communicate to the public how he is orchestrating the Trump regime’s assault on the common good. 🧵⬇️
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Democrats Shouldn’t Let Russell Vought Fly Under the Radar
This post is a part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/democrats-shouldnt-let-russell-vought-fly-under-the-radar
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Revolving Door Project
about 1 month ago
Democrats are failing to foreground Vought as the nucleus of Trumpian chaos. Democratic lawmakers mentioned Vought in just 78 e-newsletters sent between January 20, 2025 and April 30, 2026. Musk, by contrast, was invoked in 858 emails during the same period.
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Revolving Door Project
about 1 month ago
Unlike Musk, Vought is strategically reclusive. This means that Democratic members of Congress must go to far greater lengths to convey to the public how destructive Vought has been and how dangerous he is.
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Revolving Door Project
about 1 month ago
Popular education aimed at exposing the mortal impacts of Voughtism needs to become a priority for federal Democratic lawmakers, who can connect the dots between the OMB director’s actions and their constituents’ preventable suffering.
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Revolving Door Project
about 1 month ago
Because they represent geographically limited areas, House Democrats are especially well-positioned to identify specific Vought victims living in their districts. From there, it should be possible to recruit ordinary people who are willing to talk about how Vought’s policies harmed their lives.
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Revolving Door Project
about 1 month ago
Senate Democrats might elevate the most compelling examples from their states, and they could also assemble statewide and nationwide data to ensure that an individual’s suffering is properly contextualized as part of a broader phenomenon affecting millions of people.
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Revolving Door Project
about 1 month ago
The aforementioned information could form the basis for an incessant stream of congressional letters demanding that Vought answer hard-hitting questions and press conferences exposing OMB’s intransigence.
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Revolving Door Project
about 1 month ago
If Democrats take back one or both chambers in the midterms, they can haul Vought in front of a different committee every week to make him publicly justify his cruelty. After each hearing, they can hold rallies where clips of Vought’s answers are played, interspersed w/ commentary from his victims.
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Revolving Door Project
about 1 month ago
Democrats can write op-eds and talk to news anchors and podcasters, perhaps even alongside affected constituents. They should ensure that all of this material is adapted for and then mass-distributed on every social media channel.
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Revolving Door Project
about 1 month ago
Filing a motion to impeach would give House Democrats an opportunity to outline the case against Vought in a public forum — and force House Republicans to go on record in support of the OMB’s onslaught against the public good.
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Revolving Door Project
about 1 month ago
The purpose of such maneuvers is to shed as much light as possible on Vought’s power grab and make lawmakers pick a side: the people or the man who is single-handedly eviscerating Congress’ power of the purse with devastating effects.
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