It's two weeks until election day and most candidates are raising and spending like mad. Some incumbents, however, are going the extra mile and doling out hundreds of thousands helping their colleagues along the fundraising trail.
Continue readingGetting serious about protecting access to public email
If we do not wish to see our rights to public records entirely erode, now is the time to get serious about protecting public access to official public email.
Continue readingTom Steyer’s flood of campaign money hits $55 million to NextGen
Now that quarterly and monthly campaign finance reports are in at the Federal Election Commission, Sunlight is crunching the numbers to see who's got the money edge. The top contributor has now given $55 million to super PACs.
Continue readingToday in #OpenGov 10/21/2014
Keep reading for today's look at #OpenGov news, events, and analysis including campaign finance in Africa, public records in New Jersey, and some big news from us.
Continue readingToday in #OpenGov 10/20/2014
Keep reading for today's look at #OpenGov news, events, and analysis including plenty of IG news, owning big data, and judicial elections.
Continue readingFor some House incumbents, traditional PACs are super
Sunlight's analysis of the most recent campaign finance data finds Rep. Bobby Rush has raised a larger chunk from political action committees than any other House member.
Continue readingThe Week on Politwoops: musical regrets, bulk campaign deletions and more
This week's roundup of Politwoops includes musically inclined deletions, an accidentally shared b-roll ad, a rash of old campaign tweets that tried to be scrubbed and more.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Migrant workers are making government information more transparent
Migrants and advocates are organizing online to make government information transparent in order to protect workers' rights.
Continue readingInfluence Analytics: Ebola edition
Sunlight tools allow you to track the government response to Ebola.
Continue readingToday in #OpenGov 10/17/2014
Keep reading for today's look at #OpenGov news, events, and analysis including the future of the Office of Congressional Ethics, recreating a vital federal spending dataset, attempts to crack down on Russian bloggers, and more.
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