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How You Can Keep Track of the Money Political Committees Spend at Trump Properties
Our FEC Itemizer Database now tracks spending at hotels, restaurants and other facilities owned by the Trump Organization.
What Is Congress Talking About?
We’re using data to track the things Congress talks a disproportionate amount about every week.
New in Nonprofit Explorer: People Search
You can now search for people who work for nonprofit organizations.
New Widget Helps You Follow the Money in the Illinois Governor’s Race
We’ve created a widget you can use to track fundraising and spending in the Illinois governor’s race, which is on track to break records.
Reinventing Represent
We asked readers to help us reconceive and redesign an interactive database that tracks Congress. Here’s how the process worked.
Lobbying Database Reporting Recipe
We’ve made it easier to sift through thousands of lobbying registration disclosures. Here’s a guide for journalists, researchers and citizens looking for stories in the data.
Covering the Midterms With Election DataBot
It’s not too early to think about reporting on the midterm elections. Get a head start using our free, near-real-time database.
More Machine Learning About Congress’ Priorities
We keep training machine learning models on Congress. Find out what this one learned about lawmakers’ top issues.
Announcing Free Videos and Training Materials From the ProPublica Data Institute
Couldn’t come to the ProPublica Data Institute? Now you can learn some of the lessons from home.
City Bureau and ProPublica Illinois Partner on Public Meeting Data
Why City Bureau and ProPublica are partnering on a community tool to make public meeting data more accessible.
Introducing Our Data Journalism Advisers
Announcing four researchers who will advise us on our data-journalism projects.
Bulk Downloads of Congressional Data Now Available
Download information on every bill introduced in each session of Congress, in a single file, with our new bulk bill data set.
Nonprofit Explorer Update: Full Text of 1.9 Million Records
We’ve updated Nonprofit Explorer. Here’s what’s new.
Keep an Eye On Your State’s Congressional Delegation
We’ve added new features to our Represent project, including full-text bill search, and a way to keep track of your state’s entire congressional delegation on one page. We’ve also got news about the Congress API.
How (and Why) We’re Collecting Cook County Jail Data
ProPublica Illinois is restarting a collaborative data collection project to better understand what happens to inmates at Cook County Jail.
Authenticating Email Using DKIM and ARC, or How We Analyzed the Kasowitz Emails
Last week we needed to authenticate some emails sent by the President’s lawyer, Marc Kasowitz. Here’s how we did it.
New in Our Congress API: Bill Subjects, Personal Explanations and Sunsetting Sunlight
What you need to know about some new features in our Congress API, as well as details on our plans to turn off the Sunlight Congress API on Aug. 31.
New in the Congress API: Congressional Statements and More
Get data on House and Senate press releases and more bill information.
Congress API Update
Here’s a status update for developers who use the Sunlight Congress API.
Introducing the Vital Signs API
We made one tool for patients — and another one for computers.
