Research & Analysis

Dangerous by Design

How Social Media Companies Are Hurting Our Kids, National Security, and Democracy — and What We Can Do About It...

The High Cost of High Turnover

When local election officials leave their positions in record numbers, the costs to institutional knowledge and running elections are significant...

Who Profited from Election Deniers?

As election-denying secretary of state candidates raised large sums in 2022, political consultants behind the scenes were raking in the dough....

Fair Pay

Why Congress Needs to Invest in Junior Staff...

Social Media Platforms Assemble Influence Army in D.C.

Meta, ByteDance, X, Snap, and Discord combined to spend a staggering $30 million on lobbying last year — and employed one lobbyist for roughly every four members of Congress...

The Congressional Fundraising Treadmill

13 key numbers to know about the money raised by lawmakers for the 2022 election...

Election-denying secretary of state candidates on the ballot have raised $8.9 million

21 Things to Remember about January 6th and its Aftermath

An Issue One Index...

Politico: PhRMA gave big to dark money groups boosting drug pricing critics

Cites Issue One analysis of PhRMA's contributions to a dark money group...

Los Angeles Times: Election officials are quitting in droves. Here’s why you should care

Issue One's "The High Cost of High Turnover" report cited...

Roll Call: Shutdowns of the past were ‘emotional,’ ‘terrible’ for Hill staffers

Cites Issue One's "Fair Pay" report...

NPR: In some states, more than half of the local election officials have left since 2020

Exclusive about Issue One's new report, "The High Cost of High Turnover"...