Inside Maplight
Updates on MapLight's work and accomplishments.
February 28, 2015
February 13, 2015
In 2014, more than one million voters visited MapLight’s nonpartisan voting information site Voter’s Edge. This nonpartisan guide to candidates and ballot measures provided voters with campaign finance data, candidate biographies, and other meaningful information about national and state elections in all 50 states.
September 04, 2014
MapLight is pleased to announce the launch of its new federal lobbying database. MapLight's searchable dataset on federal lobbying is made freely available through both a Web interface and a CSV downloadable format, and provides timely information on unions, companies, and organizations that are lobbying the federal government.
December 03, 2013
October 25, 2012
October 11, 2012
MapLight Voter's Edge for California, a nonpartisan guide to ballot measures, is now available in Spanish. The guide shows each proposition's funding data, summary information, the projected financial impact of the proposition, campaign arguments by proponents and opponents, endorsements, news, editorials, and advertisements.
October 09, 2012
MapLight, a nonpartisan research organization that reveals money's influence on politics, announces the national expansion of Voter's Edge, a nonpartisan guide to ballot measures. MapLight has joined forces with partner organizations across the country to provide a reliable, nonpartisan source for ballot measure information.