Given the renewed attention to foreign influence on this year’s presidential election, we put together a quick guide on FARA.
Continue readingSunlight honored to receive Knight Prototype Funds for foreign influence project
Sunlight is happy to share that we have been chosen as one of 22 recipients of the Knight Foundation's Prototype Fund, supporting our work on a new foreign influence tracker.
Continue readingKeystone XL: Senate caught between big donors
A handful of moderate Democrats could decide the bill's fate. A vote in either direction could trigger special interest attacks on the campaign trail.
Continue readingInfluence Analytics: protecting farm workers from pesticide exposure
A controversial proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to strengthen protections for farm workers from adverse effects of pesticide exposure has drawn hundreds of thousands of comments.
Continue readingLast chance training on Aug. 13 to help you follow the money in 2014 elections
Sunlight and the Asian American Journalists Association is offering one of the last chances to get hands-on, in-person training on a whole host of new and improved money-in-politics tracking tools before the 2014 elections.
Continue readingThe money behind the Keystone XL pipeline
Lots of campaign and lobbying spending preceded today's vote in which Mary Landrieu, a vulnerable southern Democrat and chair of the Senate Committee on Energy, looked to silence critics who say she hasn't done enough to advance a vote on Keystone XL.
Continue readingAustralia wants to buy $3.8 billion worth of weapons from the U.S., spent $200K lobbying on its naval port
President Obama and Vice President Biden sit down with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott Thursday to discuss a range of issues, but chief among them will be Australia's interest in beefing up its military and weapons capacity.
Continue readingSunlight’s Foreign Influence Explorer influences DOJ policy
When Sunlight and our coalition partners were invited to meet with Associate Attorney General Tony West in April to discuss transparency initiatives, FARA reform was what Sunlight brought to the table. And, perhaps to some surprise, it has led to some tangible results.
Continue readingTwenty five years after Tiananmen Massacre: Whom China pays to polish its image in the USA
This week marks the 25-year anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests. China continues to prohibit discussion about the event, but that hasn’t stopped the government from polishing its image and pushing its interests in the United States.
Continue readingWhat countries spent the most to influence the USA in 2013
Sunlight's new Foreign Influence Explorer allows you to see which countries are spending the most to raise their profiles in the USA.
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