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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 Resource: Fossil Fuel Finance Hub
How does Wall Street drive the climate crisis? Learn about the role of the financial industry in propping up fossil fuels. Plug into ongoing campaigns resisting fossil finance. Locate tools and resources so you can research Wall Street actors.

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Everybody Vs. Billionaires
Our latest research guide – Everybody Vs. Billionaires – outlines research tools and tricks you can use to identify and understand how billionaires are influencing how you live, where you live so that you can take them on.

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Hochul stalls climate action amid multi-million dollar lobbying effort by fossil fuel industry
A look at the multi-million dollar political influence campaign by fossil fuels and other polluters that has led Governor Kathy Hochul to abandon New York's plans to mitigate climate change.

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.

News: Eyes on the ties

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Power Research and the Military-Industrial Complex: An Interview with Bill Hartung

By Derek Seidman

An interview with the longtime researcher and author on his history doing movement research around militarism and the critical connections between research and organizing.

Who is bankrolling New York’s gubernatorial candidates?

By Rob Galbraith

Real estate and finance still top the list, but AI and gambling have been pouring money into the 2026 race.

Lessons from a Life of Power Research: An Interview with Mike Locker

By Derek Seidman

A deep-dive interview with the longtime power structure researcher Mike Locker.

Reports

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  • How New Jersey Taxpayer Dollars are Fueling the U.S. Surveillance System

    Public pensions in the Garden State are invested in Palantir, the billionaire-owned corporation getting rich off of mass surveillance, detention, and war

  • NEW ZINE! How does Wall Street fuel the climate crisis?

    Today, we are excited to share the Fossil Fuel Finance Hub zine! Learn about the role commercial banks, insurance corporations, private equity, and asset managers all play in propping up the fossil fuel industry.

  • Companies run by Pennsylvania billionaires among top recipients of state’s school voucher tax credit program

    Top beneficiaries of the tax credit include entities led by Jeffrey Yass, Joel Greenberg, and Arthur Dantchik of Susquehanna Investment Group