Politwoops, Sunlight's project to track deleted tweets from U.S. politicians that was recently named one of TIME Magazine's 50 Best Websites of 2012, is getting a big refresh and expansion today.
Continue readingTIME Names Politwoops a ‘Best Website of 2012’
We are surprised and thrilled to see that TIME Magazine named the Sunlight Foundation's Politwoops project as one of their selections for the 50 Best Websites of 2012.
Continue readingNew Features for Ad Hawk
Since we launched Ad Hawk a few weeks ago it's been downloaded thousands of times, featured as an Essential App by Gizmodo and praised by many media outlets. We're most excited to see users actively using it to learn more about congressional and presidential ads as they air - download the app here if you haven't already.
Continue readingAd Hawk: Identify Political Ads As They Air
Ad Hawk is our new iPhone and Android app that empowers you to identify political ads as they air and immediately learn about the secretive groups spending money to influence your vote.
Continue readingCheck Out the Open States Beta Site
If you don't read the Sunlight Labs blog as religiously as I do (you should!), you might miss that our Open States project now has a public beta site up and running.
Continue readingScout: Sunlight’s New Custom Alert Service
A core mission of the Sunlight Foundation is to enable citizen participation through technology and lower the bar to access government. Through our free tools we're constantly looking for ways to produce a more transparent and accountable government. Today, we're proud to introduce Scout, a tool that allows you to create customized keyword alerts to notify you whenever issues you care about are included in legislative or regulatory actions.
Continue readingAnnouncing Call on Congress: Bringing Capitol Hill to Any Phone
Call on Congress is the Sunlight Foundation's new free service to help anyone with a telephone connect with and learn about their lawmakers. Simply dial 1-888-907-6886 to find out how your representatives are voting on bills and raising campaign money.
Continue readingMedia Spotlight on Congress Stalling Open Access to Legislation
The media's magnifying glass is concentrating attention on actions by the House Appropriations Committee that could stall progress on the public's access to legislative information.
Continue readingAnnouncing Politwoops: Deleted Tweets from U.S. Politicians
Today we're proud to unveil Politwoops, the only comprehensive collection of deleted tweets by U.S. politicians.
Continue readingTax Day: Time for Government to Return the Favor and Accurately Disclose
Why is it acceptable for citizens to stress about reporting every dollar they earn to the government, but government doesn't return the favor and accurately disclose every dollar they spend?
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