The Freedom of Information Act has a long history of liberating information. Now, anyone can celebrate this crucial opengov tool with #FOIApoetry, a new Sunlight project to craft your own personal poetry using real FOIA documents.
Continue readingAn upgrade for our State of the Union Machine
In preparation for President Obama's annual address to Congress next week, our State of the Union Machine just got an upgrade.
Continue readingIntroducing Sunlight’s new tools page
Unveiling a new design for the page listing Sunlight tools so you can find something that fits your interests, see our featured projects and look back at our previous work.
Continue readingCongress for iOS 1.5: now with Push Notifications!
We're tremendously excited to announce the next version of Congress for iOS! Download and update for free right now to get push notifications on the bills, votes and politicians you care about.
Continue readingIntroducing the State of the Union Machine
Tomorrow, President Obama will give the annual State of the Union Address to Congress. Today, you can generate your own random speech with Sunlight's new State of the Union Machine, modeled on language from different presidents' previous addresses.
Continue readingIntroducing Congress for iOS
As Congress returns for their July session, the Sunlight Foundation is excited to announce our free Congress app for iOS devices that allows anyone to get the latest from Washington. Download it here.
Continue readingOpen States: Find and Follow Your State Capitol
After more than four years of work from volunteers and a full-time team here at Sunlight we're immensely proud to launch the full Open States site with searchable legislative data for all 50 states, D.C. and Puerto Rico.
Continue readingDocket Wrench: Exposing Trends in Regulatory Comments
Today the Sunlight Foundation unveils Docket Wrench, an online research tool to dig into regulatory comments and uncover patterns among millions of documents.
Continue readingSitegeist: Uncover the Data Around You
Today the Sunlight Foundation unveils our latest app to reinforce the power of the data around you. It's called Sitegeist, a simple iPhone and Android app that presents a huge amount of information from disparate sources in straight-forward infographics.
Continue readingInbox Influence: Another Tool for the Elections
The folks who enjoy actively researching the influence behind the election turn to Sunlight's tools like Follow the Unlimited Money, Ad Hawk or our Elections hub page. For everyone else, there's Inbox Influence.
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