The Federal Election Commission marked this one-year anniversary of the Citizens United case by failing to do anything to provide... View Article
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Friday marks the one year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision giving corporations the right to make unlimited... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Urges Congress to Pass Streamlined DISCLOSE Act During Lame Duck
Because the Senate failed to pass the DISCLOSE Act before the 2010 election, American voters do not know the full... View Article
Continue readingThe Citizens United Effect: 40 percent of outside money made possible by Supreme Court ruling
In 2002 former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld once flippantly described connections between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda terrorists by saying,... View Article
Continue readingFirst and Foremost: Find the Money
Now we know—with only a few exceptions—the results of the 2010 midterms in terms of who’s in and who’s out.... View Article
Continue readingCrowdsourcing Your Way to a More Open Election
Crowdsourcing makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Think about it: tapping into the ingenuity of your peers to... View Article
Continue readingDISCLOSE Act Fails Again in Senate
This afternoon, the Senate failed to reach the 60 votes necessary to cut off debate and proceed to vote on... View Article
Continue readingVoters will be Victims of DISCLOSE Act Defeat
The Senate is expected to vote again tomorrow on the DISCLOSE Act, the bill passed by the House and supported... View Article
Continue readingBecome a Sunlight Campaign Ad Monitor
In January, I noted that the Supreme Court’s decision in the Citizens United v. FEC case would open the “floodgates... View Article
Continue readingPost-Citizens United disclosure is down significantly
The Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling opened up a massive hole in the disclosure regime governing campaign spending. According to... View Article
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