Using personal financial disclosure records, two reporters revealed a candidate’s conflicting history.

MuckRock and Sunlight Search partnered to help dozens of newsrooms.

Take advantage of new resources to help your election reporting.

MuckRock is working to obtain PPP loans by candidates in the 2024 election by using public records.

See what you might have missed from this year’s NICAR conference.

The special election to fill the congressional seat of disgraced and expelled former U.S. Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) is on Tuesday, with New York state legislator and “rising star” Mazi Melesa Pilip, an Ethiopian-born Israeli émigré, competing against an establishment Democrat, former U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi.

The congressional campaign of TV executive Margarita Wilkinson in California’s 49th District, despite being a political novice and never having held elected office, is a case study in what major political parties are looking for, above all else, in a hyper-politicized 2024 campaign season, experts say: Wealth and a blank political slate.

With its new elections project, MuckRock is providing training and support for journalists and the public to explore political races and candidates.

With competitive Congressional races across the country and state and local candidates fighting to keep or take elected office, there are endless stories that can be reported out to help the public make informed decisions when heading to the polls.

A federal lawsuit filed in November against the Department of Defense and Air Force claims the military’s vaccine mandate violated both the First Amendment and religious freedoms. The sitting congresswoman and her husband seek an unspecified amount in damages.