r/Sunlight • u/HenryCorp • Apr 14 '17
Trump to discontinue Obama policy of voluntarily releasing White House visitor logs
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r/Sunlight • u/[deleted] • Apr 07 '16
"Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" covers the absurd world of congressional fundraising, a practice that "turns our lawmakers into telemarketers." (Citing data from the Sunlight Foundation!)
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r/Sunlight • u/quantumcipher • Mar 30 '20
Pentagon Asks to Keep Future Spending Secret
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r/Sunlight • u/kev097 • May 10 '11
Back from a 15-month deployment to Iraq, Alex Horton penned a 1,000-word rant against the Department of Veterans Affairs on his blog. Now the VA has hired him to keep blogging and criticizing from the inside.
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r/Sunlight • u/[deleted] • Apr 22 '16
A pro-Hillary super PAC has found a loophole allowing it to coordinate directly with Clinton's campaign. Now it's pledged to spend $1 million to "correct" internet commenters who "personally attack" the candidate
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r/Sunlight • u/[deleted] • Aug 01 '13
Colbert Report - After hearing about a plan to keep senators’ suggestions on tax breaks secret for 50 years, Stephen Colbert says elections should be decided by blindly throwing darts: "If our lawmakers get to make their policy suggestions in secret, we don't know who we're voting for anyway."
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r/Sunlight • u/PinkSlimeIsPeople • Mar 02 '15
This is not a democracy: How the 1 percent rigged the game. Money is speech, dollars have more influence than people -- it's time to be honest about the plutocracy we live in
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r/Sunlight • u/quantumcipher • Apr 02 '14
Court Orders Government Not to Destroy Evidence in EFF Cases Against the NSA
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r/Sunlight • u/quantumcipher • Mar 25 '14
The CIA Doesn’t Want You to Know How Badly It Botched Torture
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r/Sunlight • u/quantumcipher • Mar 21 '14
FBI refuses to turn over documents on alleged plot to assassinate 'Occupy' leaders
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r/Sunlight • u/BlueOrange • Nov 07 '11
"We demand a vapid, condescending, meaningless, politically safe response to this petition."
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r/Sunlight • u/SeeShawnShout • Feb 14 '14
NYPD rejects Freedom of Information request... for its Freedom of Information handbook. Really?!
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r/Sunlight • u/BlueOrange • Nov 02 '11
Constitutional amendment introduced to overturn Citizens United
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r/Sunlight • u/BlueOrange • Sep 30 '11
Stephen Colbert demonstrates c4 money laundering
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r/Sunlight • u/CitizenJosh • Sep 21 '16
Sunlight Foundation to Discontinue Activities and Cut Staff
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r/Sunlight • u/TwylaSohen • Feb 19 '15
A Whistleblower's Horror Story: Years after blowing the whistle on Countrywide, Michael Winston is bogged down in the courts, and fighting for his life. By Matt Taibbi
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r/Sunlight • u/[deleted] • Sep 12 '13
Unknown (until now) group called Freedom Partners secretly gave $250 million to groups promoting conservative causes - everyone from the NRA to the US Chamber got cash. Guess who's behind it? The Koch Bros., of course.
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r/Sunlight • u/BlueOrange • Sep 21 '11
House Democrats push legislation to overturn Citizens United ruling
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r/Sunlight • u/BlueOrange • Feb 22 '11
Chris Dodd Breaking Promise Not To Become A Lobbyist Just Weeks After Leaving Senate; Joining MPAA As Top Lobbyist
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r/Sunlight • u/zubie • Feb 07 '11
Speaker John Boehner denies C-SPAN access to record House proceedings
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r/Sunlight • u/DoremusJessup • May 07 '15
A multimillionaire, first-term Florida congressman flipped shares in a solar company the same day he acquired them in an initial public offering, despite a federal law that generally prohibits members of Congress from participating in IPOs
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r/Sunlight • u/DoremusJessup • Mar 17 '15
The White House is removing a federal regulation that subjects its Office of Administration to the Freedom of Information Act, making official a policy under Presidents Bush and Obama to reject requests for records to that office
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r/Sunlight • u/Mayvillain • Dec 17 '14
X-post from r/nonprofit: Cards Against Humanity Donates $250k to the Sunlight Foundation
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r/Sunlight • u/[deleted] • Jun 11 '13
Sunlight is now part of an 86-member coalition-including reddit!-requesting Congress put an end to NSA spying.
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