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OpenSecrets is a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that tracks and publishes data on campaign finance and lobbying, including a revolving door database which documents the individuals who have worked in both the public sector and lobbying firms and may have conflicts of interest.
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OpenSecrets and Sunlight Foundation; Former publisher of TomPaine.com [1] Ellen S. Miller is an American political activist. [ 2 ] A proponent of open government , she co-founded the Sunlight Foundation in 2006, serving as the group's executive director until her retirement in 2014.
In 1989, she was hired as an associate editor by the predecessor of OpenSecrets, a research group based in Washington, D.C., eventually moving to research director. [2] She served as the executive director of the organization from 2006 until her retirement in 2023. [3] [1]
An open secret is a concept, fact, or idea that is widely known yet officially undeclared.. Open Secret(s) may also refer to: Open Secret, a 1948 film; Open Secrets (short story collection), a 1994 short story collection by Alice Munro
According to OpenSecrets, "The Hopewell Fund gave $1.72 million to an organization called News for Democracy that was at the crux of a network of seemingly independent Facebook pages disguised as news outlets that started spending on digital ads in 2018." In 2020, OpenSecrets described these types of activities as "some of the biggest ...
One famous open secret is that of Area 51, a United States military base containing an aircraft testing facility. [3] The U.S. government did not explicitly affirm the existence of any military facility near Groom Lake, Lincoln County, Nevada, until 2013, when the CIA released documents revealing that the site was established to test spy planes. [4]
According to data from OpenSecrets, the top 100 individual super PAC donors in 2011–2012 made up just 3.7% of contributors, but accounted for more than 80% of the total money raised, [33] while less than 0.5% of the money given to "the most active super PACs" was donated by publicly traded corporations. [34]