Moments ago the campaign Twitter account for Curtis Coleman, a Republican running for Governor of Arkansas, deleted a tweet saying, "CONFIDENTIAL - Happy Birthday Curtis Money Bomb!" and a link to an email intended for campaign bundlers.
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Welcome to a rare two-week review of the deleted tweets from U.S. politicians caught by our Politwoops project.
Continue readingFarm bill allows Congress to keep crop subsidies secret
The farm bill that President Barack Obama signs today will violate his own promises of transparency.
Continue readingToday in #OpenGov 2/7/2014
Keep reading for today's look at #OpenGov news, events and analysis including public financing, Turkish transparency, and a census of local open data.
Continue readingLook who’s benefiting from Citizens United: Unions wrote more big checks than corporations in 2013
Unions gave more than twice as much in political donations as corporations in 2013, according to a Sunlight analysis of $10,000-plus contributions to super PACs.
Continue readingFive opengov takeaways from the Coalition Against Corruption Conference
Last month, a few Sunlighters headed to Bangalore for the Coalition Against Corruption Conference. It's impossible to fully summarize all we learned much about the challenges facing reformers around the globe, but five themes stuck out.
Continue readingCodeAcross is here!
Sunlight Foundation together with Code for America are partnering to take data beyond transparency through CodeAcross 2014.
Continue readingToday in #OpenGov 2/6/2014
Keep reading for today's look at #OpenGov news, events and analysis including PAC spending, public participation, and more.
Continue readingHow 60,000 bills tried to become law – in one graph
While working on OpenCongress, one of the questions we've been tackling is how close a given bill is to actually passing into law. So we made a graph to help find out.
Continue readingApply for TransparencyCamp 2014 international!
Be a part of the TCamp experience: Apply now for an international travel stipend to attend TransparencyCamp and the international program on May 29-June 2!
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