Sludge is an investigative journalism startup focused on money in politics. Sludge has been accepted to be part of the First Fleet of newsrooms on Civil, a blockchain-based publishing platform for ad-free and independent journalism. Sludge comes from the team behind OpenCongress, which was from 2007-2013 the most-visited non-profit site for tracking bills and money in the U.S. Congress. Co-founders David Moore and Donny Shaw bring over eleven years of experience in analyzing campaign contribution data, reporting on lobbyist influence, and designing