We believe that a disaffected, disengaged, cynical public threatens democracy in the United States as few other things can. At its heart, our campaign is about building the political and community clout necessary to combat this problem. We think we can invigorate democracy by coming together, demanding transparency with serious political muscle, using the very latest in technology to make government information more meaningfully accessible to us, and holding government accountable with it.
Continue readingOpen Government Directive: Looking Forward
As Daniel noted, Friday was a big day for the Open Government Directive. On the timeline (WH version) of what... View Article
Continue readingOGD /Open Pages Come to Life
Meeting or surpassing the White House’s deadline, the 20 agencies we monitored launched their /open pages by this past Saturday... View Article
Continue readingImprovements Needed For High Value Datasets On Data.gov
This morning a number of organizations — POGO, OMB Watch, CREW, National Security Archive, the Center for Democracy and Technology ... View Article
Continue readingMike Stern Uncovers “Treasury’s Lobbying Loopholes”
Mike Stern has found some answers to the question of how, and on what terms, did “Mark Patterson, the former... View Article
Continue readingNew Batch of White House Visitor Logs Released
Last Friday, the White House released a new batch of visitor logs covering last October, fulfilling a pledge they made... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Testimony for Senate Rules Committee
Today the Senate Rules Committee held the first of what’s likely to be a series of hearings on Capitol Hill... View Article
Continue readingKey Dates in the Fiscal 2011 Budget Process
When it comes to open, transparent government, there are few things more important to many of our readers than shining some sunlight on the federal budget. Put simply, people want to know how our money is spent - especially since just about every dollar we make between January and May is "spent" on our taxes. And for all that "investment" in our government, it's one of the only things in our lives we don't get a receipt for.
Continue readingCitizens United Response, Part 1 – Independent Expenditures
As Ellen noted last Friday, we’ve crafted an agenda in response to the Citizens United decision, setting up the disclosure... View Article
Continue readingAM Links
1) Weekend getaways with lobbyists during recessions tend to be bad ideas. Someone should have told that to the Democratic... View Article
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