Mission
Founded in 1982 by Ralph Nader, Essential Information is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization. We are involved in a variety of projects to encourage citizens to become active and engaged in their communities. We provide provocative information to the public on important topics neglected by the mass media and policy makers.
Essential Information has published the Multinational Monitor Magazine, books and reports, sponsored investigative journalism conferences, provided writers with grants to pursue investigations and operated clearing houses which disseminate information to grassroots organizations in the United States and throughout the world.
Project Updates
Republic Report
Republic Report is dedicated to rooting out the corruption that is so corrosive to American values. We investigate and uncover the buying and selling of politicians and of institutions entrusted with upholding the public interest. We expose how big money distorts major policy decisions – harming our economy and our people.
- Who Kavanaugh is Really For: Big Corporations
- What Brett Kavanaugh’s Supporters Are Saying About the Sexual Assault Charge
- Republican Attorneys General Use Corporate Cash To Lobby for Kavanaugh
- Trump, Inevitably, Adds Kavanaugh to List of Those Treated Very Unfairly
- Betsy DeVos Had A Plan to Prop Up For-Profit College Cronies. It’s Unraveling.