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As Corporate Accountability Fight Heats Up, Groundwork Adds Senate, White House Veterans to Its Ranks

The corporate watchdog and economic think tank’s recent hires bring new legal and digital firepower to its work to expose Fortune 500 companies gouging working families and plot the future of progressive economic policy.

November 9, 2026 Groundwork Collaborative
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The oversight dossier that has K Street buzzing.

The document, compiled by progressive nonprofit advocacy group Groundwork Collaborative, singles out roughly 100 companies as “high-value oversight targets” that it alleges donated to or have documented ties to the Trump administration. Most of the companies fall into three buckets: Big Tech and AI; health care, including pharmaceutical and insurance companies; and oil and gas companies, which Groundwork accuses of profiting off of the Iran war.

November 6, 2026 Politico
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Outside groups urge congressional Dems to target corporate interests over Trump.

“We were pretty worried that we were going to repeat the same mistake of 2019, where Democrats came with a big new majority ... and they spent a year-plus on impeachment,” Alex Jacquez, a senior vice president of policy, advocacy and research at Groundwork Collaborative, a progressive think tank, told CNBC on Thursday.

November 6, 2026 CNBC
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Progressive group’s 182-page blueprint maps out potential Dem investigations into Trump, corporate allies.

Groundwork Collaborative's dossier, obtained and analyzed by Fox News Digital, maps Trump donors and corporate allies for potential Democratic congressional investigations. Leaders in big tech and CEOs of large corporations are likely to be among the targets of the anti-Trump crusade.

November 6, 2026 Fox News
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Corporate America courted Trump. Now a blitz of investigations is coming.

A memo from the Groundwork Collaborative, a think tank, noted that large tech companies, private-prison corporations and natural gas firms would be “high-value” targets because of what they may have given Trump, what they may have received, and what kind of behavior they may have engaged in, the memo noted. The Washington Sun earlier reported the document.

November 6, 2026 Washington Post
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Democrats Are Reviewing a Plan to Investigate Corporate America.

The document, drafted by the think tank Groundwork Collaborative and reviewed by The Washington Sun, argues that the party should respond to the results of the election by aggressively probing large corporations, including the biggest tech giants, artificial intelligence labs, natural gas firms, private prisons and nursing home operators, among dozens of others.

November 5, 2026 Washington Sun
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New DoorDash rival promises cheaper takeout — but can it deliver?

The popular delivery app has publicly been accused of surveillance pricing and hidden fees. In fact, Groundwork Collaborative president and CEO Lindsay Owens, testified in an August 2026 Senate hearing which exposed a now-abandoned patent.

October 31, 2026 New York Post
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High Inflation Haunts Trump and Republicans on Eve of Election.

Alex Jacquez, a former aide to Mr. Biden now serving as senior vice president of policy, advocacy and research at Groundwork Action, a liberal group, said the "conundrum" facing Mr. Trump this November bore some resemblance to the forces that swept Democrats out of power last time.

October 30, 2026 New York Times
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This Halloween, are king-sized candy bars a better deal than fun-sized ones?

And candy prices are up 15.3% over last year, according to data from Groundwork Collaborative and Century Foundation, which also looked at how individual candy brands have become more expensive.

October 30, 2026 MarketWatch
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Full List of Companies FTC Probing Over ‘Personalized Pricing’.

Instacart is one of the companies receiving an FTC order. Separately, Consumer Reports, Groundwork Collaborative and More Perfect Union tested the prices shoppers saw on Instacart. Their findings offer background on price variation on the platform, but they do not establish that the other eight companies named by the FTC use personalized pricing.

October 29, 2026 Newsweek
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