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National links

· Public Campaign (www.publicampaign.org)
The national leader and advocate for Clean Money Campaign Finance Reform. Its work and research has led to the building of a state by state movement for Clean Money campaign reform.

· National Voting Rights Institute (www.nvri.org)
A non-profit legal organization that seeks to advance campaign finance reforms through the courts. NVRI helped to file suit in North Carolina in October 2000 for a historic lawsuit against the state for sanctioning a campaign system where money is a prerequisite to competing.

· Center for Responsive Politics (www.opensecrets.org)
Your guide to who's giving and who's getting in Federal Election campaigns - wonderful to search industry giving on a state by state as well as national level. Excellent website for researching who's giving and who's getting in politics today.

· FECinfo.com (www.fecinfo.com)
The best on-line electronic library of political money in Federal elections - you can search the huge database of Federal Elections Commission campaign finance information.

· The National Institute on Money in State Politics (www.followthemoney.org)
A nonpartisan, nonprofit program dedicated to accurate, comprehensive and unbiased documentation and research on campaign finance at the state level.

· Alliance for Better Campaigns (www.bettercampaigns.org)
A nonprofit, nonpartisan public interest group that seeks to improve the discourse of elections by encouraging broadcasters to cover campaigns beyond sound bites and attack ads.

· Common Cause (www.commoncause.org)
Citizens' lobbying group which tracks the influence of money in congressional and presidential politics and advocates various campaign finance reforms.

· League of Women Voters Education Fund (www.lwv.org)
National organization works to encourage the informed and active participation of citizens in government and increase understanding of major policy issues.

· New Politics Project (www.ncl.org/ncl/npp.htm)
A National Civic League project that studies and promotes innovative political reforms implemented across the country at the state and local level.

· NAACP (www.naacp.org) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is one of the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the United States. The principal objective of the NAACP is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority group citizens of the United States.

· Public Citizen (www.citizen.org)
The Ralph Nader-founded consumer group monitors Congress and lobbies on a range of consumer, health, safety, and good government issues -- including campaign finance.

· U.S. Public Interest Research Group (www.pirg.org)
National advocacy office for the state PIRGs, non-partisan research and advocacy groups promoting reforms and tracking money in politics at the state level.

Democracy South : Links : National