Beginning Tuesday, every broadcast television station in the country will have to post online copies of contracts and other information about the political advertisements they are airing.
Continue readingPolitical chemistry: The legal magic that makes corporate donations disappear
Want to know what dark money is and what it can do? Here's a classic example.
Continue readingReporters: Apply by Friday for in-depth training on following the money in 2014
Reporters! The deadline to apply for a money in politics training hosted by Sunlight, OpenSecrets and the Center for Public Integrity has been extended to Friday, March 14. Sign up now!
Continue readingFive things to know about FL-13
The special election for Florida 13 looms. Find out how much out of state dough the candidates are getting, how many millions outside groups are dropping and relive all of your favorite attack ads in the battle for the bellwether.
Continue readingUpdate: Ad Hawk for iOS 7
Ad Hawk, Sunlight's free app to identify and learn more about political ads as they air, is now in the App Store with new iOS 7 optimization and other fixes.
Continue readingTraining for reporters covering election 2014: Turn dark money and hard dollars into good stories
Three investigative newsrooms well versed in covering campaign finance — including Sunlight — are teaming up to offer training that helps reporters make sense of all this data ahead of the 2014 elections.
Continue readingSink raises over $1 million in Fla. special, including from in-state frenemy Crist
Democrat Alex Sink is dominating fundraising in the special election for Florida's 13th District, even getting a $1,000 contribution from Republican-turned-Democrat Charlie Crist, whom she recently called a "disaster."
Continue readingPolitical advertisers and TV stations ignore disclosure rules
A decade after the Supreme Court predicted the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law would help promote transparency by making public information on campaign ad buys, most political advertisers and TV stations aren't providing the information at all.
Continue readingGet paid to learn: Apply for a summer Google Journalism fellowship at Sunlight!
Join our team of seasoned reporters and talented developers to follow political money wherever it flows in an election year. Apply to work at Sunlight this summer on a Google Journalism fellowship.
Continue readingFollow the gun money with Sunlight tools
How we did this guns series, and how you can follow the money too using Sunlight's tools.
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