Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group

Super PAC spending crosses $100 million: Where did it all go?

Now that super PACs' spending in the 2012 election has just crossed the $100 million spending mark—more than twice the amount spent in independent campaign expenditures by all outside groups at this point in the 2008 election--Sunlight decided to reflect on what else voters might have gotten for all that money.

Facebook in Washington: Baby steps of a giant

Super PAC profile: Ending Spending aids Palin-endorsed Senate hopeful in Nebraska

Super PAC profile: Twenty-something Ron Paul supporters found Liberty for All

A new super PAC funded almost entirely by a 21-year-old Ron Paul supporter and run by a 24-year-old political consultant is putting big bucks behind a tea party candidate running in a Kentucky congressional race.

Stealthy Wealthy: Jerry Perenchio speaks softly, carries a big checkbook

Ad buys mostly outside of FCC's new disclosure rule

New rules requiring greater online disclosure of political TV advertisements in the country's top 50 markets wouldn't have applied to the majority of ads aired by the Obama campaign during an 11 day period in April, according to a new analysis.

FCC requires online posting of political ad files

Handing open-government advocates a partial victory in a better than decade-long battle, the Federal Communications Commission voted Friday to require major network affiliates in the top 50 TV markets to post information about their political ads online.

FCC ruling could exempt 160 markets from posting political ad data

Presidential campaign donors moving to super PACs

A few weeks after some individual donors hit their campaign contribution limits to President Obama’s reelection campaign, they made donations to the super PAC supporting him, extending their financial support to the shadow campaign that's backing his bid for another four years in the White House.

Coincidence? Sunlight map shows how Obama fundraising crosses paths with his super PAC

Gingrich super PAC backers pulled the plug before he did?

The latest news reports say that Newt Gingrich plans to drop his roller coaster of a presidential bid next week but Sunlight's Follow the Unlimited Money tracker suggests that the former House speaker's biggest money backers may already have pulled the plug.

Pennsylvania Rep. Tim Holden is a magnet for outside spending

Tuesday's battle for the Democratic nomination in Pennsylvania's newly-redrawn 17th Congressional District has emerged as the biggest money magnet so far for outside groups spending on House primaries, data compiled by the Sunlight Foundation's Follow the Unlimited Money tracker shows. 

Super PACs first quarter haul: More than $100 million in political contributions

Super PACs raised more in the first three months of 2012 than they did in all of 2011, and after just two years of existence have emerged as a financial force that rivals the political parties and candidates' campaign committees.

Who funded pro-Romney ad in South Carolina? We may never know

The ever-hard to track Citizens for a Working America, last seen in Iowa making a big Christmas Eve ad buy on behalf of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, has resurfaced in a new-old incarnation.