Even as many Democratic candidates rail against the dangers of secret spending in elections, if the party wins control of one or both chambers of Congress in the midterms, ...

WASHINGTON – Today, a bipartisan group of 26 former elected officials from Issue One’s ReFormers Caucus — including 13 Republicans and 13 Democrats — lent their support to an ...

Our system of checks and balances depends on Congress exercising its full authority under Article I of the Constitution. Yet today, critical oversight mechanisms are being undermined or ignored ...

AI companies cast themselves as champions for the public good, but lobbying and campaign finance records reveal how they have worked behind the scenes to block the guardrails that would hold them ...

For decades, unlimited money in politics, gerrymandering, and a broken information environment have shifted power from the hands of the many into the hands of the few, undermining incentives for ...

In a new national poll released today by Issue One and the Council for Responsible Social Media (CRSM), an overwhelming majority of Americans across the political spectrum hold social media ...

Against this backdrop, several major tech companies and their affiliated trade associations have invested record-breaking sums into influence operations on Capitol Hill, a new Issue One analysis of ...

In the wake of a contentious presidential election in November 2020 that led to harassment and death threats against many once-obscure election administrators, droves of local election officials have ...

Update, July 21, 2026, 6:00 p.m.: This analysis has been updated to include the second quarter filing from TikTok USDS, which wasn’t previously available on the Senate’s website. This filing increased ...

American democracy depends on a system that has proven remarkably resilient in administering free and fair elections across our vast and diverse country. That resilience comes from a network of ...

Nearly one year before the 2026 midterm elections, Big Tech’s influence machine shows no signs of slowing or shrinking. The industry’s largest players are growing their war chests, fine-tuning their ...