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Power Research for Just Futures

Building stronger, more strategic campaigns to help us win what our communities need to thrive.

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New Report: The Darker Side of Consumers Energy

Extracting Profits, Causing Harm, and Damaging Democracy

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Billionaires Yass, DeVos Team Up to Dismantle Public Schools Across the US

Former Education Secretary Betsy Devos has teamed up with billionaire trader and TikTok investor Jeff Yass to dismantle public education by spending tens of millions on state elections to pass charter and private school voucher bills.

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New Report: New York’s Double Agents

Top fossil fuel lobbyists also work for environmental groups, hospitals, and leading cultural institutions.

LittleSis Power Research Database

LittleSis is a free, open-source research platform. It is a database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government and a powerful tool for strategic research.

Map the Power Toolkit

This toolkit is designed to provide people organizing for social change in their communities with the resources, tips, and framework they need to conduct power research for building campaigns.

Upcoming Trainings

LittleSis leads trainings and workshops, both in person and online, on how to do power research – to help researchers, activists, and journalists learn skills to map out the networks of power that shape our society, politics and economy.

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Billionaires Yass, DeVos Team Up to Dismantle Public Schools Across the US

Former Education Secretary Betsy Devos has teamed up with billionaire trader and TikTok investor Jeff Yass to dismantle public education by spending tens of millions on state elections to pass charter and private school voucher bills.

Alabama Power and the Corporate Utility Power Structure

With its vast networks, campaign donations, lobbyists and corporate philanthropy, Alabama Power is an emblematic example of the extensive power and influence of utilities.

Back-to-back rate hikes illustrate DTE Energy’s entrenched power in Michigan

Private utility corporation uses political donations, dark money, lobbying, and greenwashing to extract hundreds of millions in profits while providing unreliable service

  • The Darker Side of Consumers Energy

    Extracting Profits, Causing Harm, and Damaging Democracy

  • New York’s Double Agents

    Top fossil fuel lobbyists also work for environmental groups, hospitals, and leading cultural institutions

  • Pittsburgh’s Double Agents

    The Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Who Represent Climate Victims