Exactly one year ago, Amy Ngai of the Sunlight Foundation visited EFF‘s offices in San Francisco to introduce our staff to the rather large and versatile collection of transparency tools they‘ve developed. Midway through her presentation, there was a moment when you could clearly perceive several pieces click into place in our activism team‘s collective mind. Sunlight is developing new technologies for engaging with Congress and the legislative process, while EFF has been at the forefront of mobilizing the online community to defend Internet freedom. With a shared hacker and tinkerer mentality and a love of exposing government secrets, a natural partnership was formed.