Super PACs backing some potential presidential contenders seemed to be spending this year with 2016 in mind.
Continue readingLast-minute giving: Four days, $4 million to House candidates
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton is one of the top recipients of last-minute campaign cash. Sunlight looks at the weekend's biggest givers and getters.
Continue readingCampaign Intelligence: Election 2014 by the numbers
Some key data points on the money being spent to influence Tuesday's elections.
Continue readingOutside spending in campaign’s final three weeks tops $300 million
The potential for an upset of veteran Sen. Pat Roberts is drawing millions in late contributions to Kansas, some of the more than $300 million outside spenders are investing to influence the outcome of Tuesday's races.
Continue readingLate money flooding “sleeper” House races
Election season has almost reached its costly, bitter end, but the spigot of money that runs from PACs and special interests to federal campaigns is still running.
Continue readingStalking the shadowy money behind campaign 2014
Happy Halloween election 2014
Continue readingFederal open data audit: Defense downright dismal, Interior immense yet imperfect
As we audit the public data catalogs of federal agencies, we found a wide variety in quantity and quality of data. Here, we look at the departments of Defense and the Interior.
Continue readingContest for the Senate in charts: Outspent Dems lean on super PAC donors in homestretch
The story of outside money in this year's contest for control of the Senate, told in handy, embeddable charts.
Continue readingInfluence Analytics: What interests public most at SEC, CFTC? More data disclosure
Proposals to improve public disclosure of corporate and government accountability data attracted the most interest from members of the public, a Sunlight Foundation analysis of 10 years of public comments shows.
Continue readingJoint fundraisers ballooning after McCutcheon decision
Months since the rule change we have seen a fundamental shift in the ways candidates and parties raise money as joint fundraising committees grow and candidates and parties take advantage of the new money limits.
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