Politics

• ACLU: American Civil Liberties Union
  • EchelonWatch: news and information on the world-wide Echelon electronic eavesdropping network
• BustPatents: legal resources and tools for surviving the patenting frezny of the Internet, bioinformatics, and electronic commerce
• Cato Institute
• Center for Democracy and Technology
• Center for Public Integrity
• ChillingEffects.org, whose purpose is to combat the chilling effect of Cease & Desist letters with ungrounded legal threats
• Commonwealth Club: the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum
• Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference
• Counterpunch: Tells the Facts and Names the Names
• CPSR: Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
• Creative Commons
• Democratic Party
• Disinfopedia: the encyclopedia of propaganda
• EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Electoral Vote: monitors electoral vote counts for Presidential election based on polls in all U.S. states
• Encryption Policy Resource Page
• EPIC: Electronic Privacy Information Center
• Fact Check: Annenberg Political Fact Check
• FIRE: defending individual rights in higher education
  • FIRE's Guide to Free Speech on Campus
• Free Market
• Freedom Forum
• Fund Race: See maps of political contributions or find out what your neighbors gave.
• GIA: Government Information Awareness, whose mission is to empower citizens by providing a single, comprehensive, easy-to-use repository of information on individuals, organizations, and corporations related to the government of the United States of America
• International Free Press Society: an international advocacy group for free speech
• Libertarians
• LPF: League for Programming Freedom
• Nolo Press
• Open Secrets: Find out who contributes to your senators and representatives and how much they give.
• Patently Absurd, an interesting article on software patents, etc. by James Gleick
• Planetary Society
  • Mars Earthdial
  • Planetary Society Blog
• Political Cartoons: Today's Best Cartoons from Slate
• Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
• Privacy.org, the site for information, news, and action on privacy. Run by EPIC and Privacy International.
• Project Vote Smart
• Public Knowledge: an organization that advocates a fair and balanced approach to copyright and technology policy
• Republican Party (GOP)
• Scorecard.org: the Environmental Defense Fund's Chemical Information Service
• Slow Food USA
• Software Freedom Law Center
• Space Access Society
• Theocracy Watch