As an independent non-profit organisation, EU DisinfoLab gathers knowledge and expertise on disinformation in Europe. Through putting together research, investigative work and policy acumen, EU DisinfoLab is an active member of, and supports, a passionate and vast community that helps to detect, tackle, and prevent information disorders endangering citizens’ integrity, peaceful coexistence and democratic values.
MassMove is a group effort to sway public opinion towards the interests of the masses. There are multiple repositories in multiple languages.
FUR/HELP is a Furry LGBTQIA+ Refugee Initiative, that helps LGBTQIA+ furry lives in post-soviet region as well as American Trans lives in dangerous states flee persecution and seek safety. We strive to make sure each and every LGBTQIA+ person on the planet gets equal rights. Our vision is to be earth's most human LGBTQIA+ Initiative, we fight for each of our refugees and make sure they get to a safe haven. Our values are : Rights for every human, Responsibility for each action, Amplifying Voices, Planning before Action, Building a Safe Community.
We are refugee-centric with every decision and step we take towards our goals. We take pride in that.
The cryptocurrency industry has been throwing money into politics unlike ever before, and that’s even after political donations from the industry skyrocketed in the 2022 election cycle. Despite the relatively small size of the industry, it has become one of the biggest spenders in the upcoming elections in the United States.
Cryptocurrency companies have raised hundreds of millions of dollars to put towards buying crypto-friendly politicians and ousting those who have spoken up for stricter regulations to protect consumers in an industry that is fraught with hacks, scams, and fraud. Although parts of the industry have tried to portray this as a grassroots effort, the reality is that a very small number of crypto companies, and the billionaire executives and venture capitalists behind them, are spending millions with a singular goal: to obtain favorable crypto policy, no matter the cost.
WTF Just Happened Today is today's essential newsletter, blog, and community chronicling the daily shock and awe in national politics. Read in moderation. The goal is to capture the most important news coming out of the White House in a digestible form inspired by The Skimm, Techmeme, and tweetstorms. It’s like the Wirecutter for politics.
RSS: https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/rss.xml
Github: https://github.com/mkiser/WTFJHT
API: https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/api/v1/posts.json
AlgorithmWatch is a human rights organization based in Berlin and Zurich. We fight for a world where algorithms and Artificial Intelligence (AI) do not weaken justice, democracy, and sustainability, but strengthen them.
A free political research tool to study more than 100 million voter records.
Subversive ETFs are dedicated to investing in radical companies whose core missions subvert the status quo. Each Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) focuses on a different mission-driven emerging sector that we believe will shape the economy of the future. The companies we invest in are bold, daring, and uninhibited enough not to let the world as it exists today limit their imagination for opportunities of the future.
Subversive Capital Advisor LLC is an established investment advisor registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Leveraging our team’s track record in both the private and public sectors, we aim to bring all investors our institutional knowledge and network to help drive meaningful value for their portfolios.
The company at the centre of the "Panama Papers" leak which has exposed the tax-avoiding antics of all manner of high-profile, wealthy and powerful individuals. Complete here with an alternative slogan befitting the apparent ethos of the organisation - Mossack Fonseca: Because Taxes Are For Poor People.
America’s most comprehensive dictionary of campaign finance jargon.
UnusualWhales.com is the go to place for retail tooling in options, equities, and crypto markets. It helps retail traders, expose market wide corruption, does deep market research and also has cool memes. We have never received funding, have no outside network or support, and are trying to build the most affordable retail tooling available, while also fight for market transparency. The market needs a lot of work, to put it lightly. I have been quoted in every major news publication, my congress reports have been put into Congressional Hearings, interviews, and part of Josh Hawley's Congress Trading Ban.
Of interest: https://unusualwhales.com/politics/article/congress-trading-report-2022
A Place for Marsha is named after famous LGBTQ+ activist: Marsha P. Johnson. Here, we are connecting the Trans Community to help each other secure housing in states where Trans Rights are treated as Human Rights.
The mission of A Place for Marsha is to facilitate safe housing for trans individuals escaping transphobic states. Here, we connect trans people (18+) from states with heavy anti-trans legislation with volunteers in safer states who are willing to be their roommates.
A Place for Marsha is newly founded and needs your help getting off the ground. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact us. All donations will go directly to moving costs.
Rainbow Railroad is a global not-for-profit organization that helps LGTBQI+ people facing persecution based on their sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics. In a time when there are more displaced people than ever before, LGBTQI+ people are uniquely vulnerable due to systemic, state-enabled homophobia and transphobia. These factors either displace them in their own country or prevent them from escaping harm.
As a result of Rainbow Railroad, more LGBTQI+ individuals will be able to access lives free from persecution.
Since our founding, we’ve helped over 7,621 LGBTQI+ individuals find safety through emergency relocation and other forms of assistance. Our story has received international media attention, including a feature on CBS 60 Minutes.
Capital Research Center conceived of this project after identifying a need for more fact-based, accurate descriptions of all of the various influencers of public policy issues. Many so-called “watchdog” groups are instead opponents of the outlets they are watching. Armed with 30-years of research and data on advocacy organizations, foundations, and donors, CRC utilizes a universe of well-trained contributors to help build the individual and organizational profiles that populate the website.
CRC has a perspective on the public policy process as well, but this resource is more important than that. We let the information speak for itself—information that frequently is not cited in reports about these individuals and organizations.
InfluenceWatch strives to be comprehensive, and profiles are frequently updated and written in a manner that’s accurate and measured. InfluenceWatch brings unprecedented transparency to the funding, motives, and interconnections of the entities profiled.
The InfluenceWatch team constantly edits published profiles to present up-to-date facts, add new connections, provide more information or context, improve sources, and otherwise strengthen the value of all of the information on the website.
Metaculus is a forecasting technology platform that optimally aggregates quantitative predictions of future events. Research shows that with the right incentives and feedback, groups of people can make remarkably accurate predictions of the probability of future events. Enabling this capacity is the aim of Metaculus.
Collective intelligence is at the heart of Metaculus. Our community has written thousands of questions and created hundreds of thousands of forecasts. The aggregation of the predictions of many forecasters is more accurate than that of (almost) any individual.
In addition to forecasting performance, the caliber of community discourse is very high on Metaculus. Through discussion, we can all learn from each other.
For these reasons, we will always welcome forecasting questions, suggestions, ideas, and input from our forecasters. We care about their experience, and we want to keep making it better.
RSS: https://www.metaculus.com/questions/rss/
REST API: https://www.metaculus.com/api2/
Congress.gov shares its application programming interface (API) with the public to ingest the Congressional data. Sign up for an API key that you can use to access web services provided by Congress.gov.
Github (with better documentation): https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/api.congress.gov/
The nonpartisan, nonprofit National Institute on Money in Politics (NIMP) promotes an accountable democracy by compiling comprehensive campaign-donor, lobbyist, and other information from government disclosure agencies nationwide and making it freely available at FollowTheMoney.org.
The Institute researches and archives a 50-state federal/state database of contributions documenting $100+ billion, plus more than 2 million state lobbyist-client relationships that are registered annually. Recent expansions include selected local-level data, collecting independent spending reports for federal campaigns and in 31 states, and lobbying spending in 20 states.
Has a REST API: https://www.followthemoney.org/our-data/apis
You have to register for a free API key to use it. By default, you can pull up to 1000 records per year.
How to find your API key:
- Log in.
- https://www.followthemoney.org/show-me
- Scroll down to Data Export.
- Click JSON.
- A modal will pop up with a link that contains, among other things, your API key.
- Click the link.
- Grab your API key out of the URL.
Corporate Watch is a research group that helps people stand up against corporations and capitalism.
We investigate exploitative bosses, landlords and property developers, companies profiting from prisons, deportation flights, animal exploitation and more, as well as the mega-corporations devastating our planet – and the wider systems of power and profit they work within.
At the heart of everything we do is our idea of “information for action”. We know that people can fight and win, even against powerful enemies like corporations and governments. Good information helps to understand the forces we’re up against, spot their weaknesses, and so campaign effectively.
The Commercial Military Actor Database (CMAD) is able to support research on civil war and commercial military actors. First, the CMAD covers all civil wars from 1980 to 2016 across all of the world’s regions except Europe, which enables the investigation of long-term regional and global trends. Second, the CMAD encompasses the corporate market segment and mercenary outfits, which facilitates the analysis of how those actors have impacted conflicts differently. Third, containing detailed information about the relationships behind exchanges, the CMAD allows users to disaggregate market exchanges.