Friends of LittleSis,

Since 2009, the LittleSis power research database has served as a tool for investigating networks of influence. The site houses 4,428,709 connections between: paid for politicians, corporate fat cats, revolving door lobbyists, secretive super PACs, and elite think tanks— making the beloved 15 year old database an important resource for campaigners taking on corporate power.

Just in 2024, our community of editors added 11,553 new entities and 47,358 new relationships to the database. Users also created 995 new maps using the Oligrapher data visualization tool.

To mark 15 years of the LittleSis power research database we’ve made some exciting updates to the editing interface on the site as well as a design refresh to accompany these new updates. We hope these changes will offer LittleSis users a more streamlined way to edit relationships and add new data to profiles. 

We invite you to join us on Thursday, February 13th at 11am PT/2pm ET for a short demonstration of how to use our new LittleSis editing interface and to hear more about what LittleSis Tech has been up to!

Hochul positions as a “fighter” as she takes money from billionaire Republican donors

Hochul has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from billionaire Republican donors including Ken Langone, Jeremy Jacobs, and John Catsimatidis. 

Learning and Researching our Movement History

Maggie Corser and writer Derek Seidman delve into the power of movement research and its ongoing impact on campaign strategy throughout movement history in this piece for The Forge.

Mapping the Billionaire Winners of the 2024 Election

Wall Street, crypto and fossil fuel billionaires – and of course Elon Musk – are set to benefit from a new Trump administration. 

This is the first in a new series of LittleSis posts mapping out billionaire power in current U.S. politics, including the new Trump administration.

Visit our news site Eyes On The Ties for more of our research on billionaire ties to government stakeholders. 

Onward,

LittleSis