Sunlight Labs is having three "Hack-a-Thons" coming up. One at Transparency Camp, one at PyCon, and Web2.0 expo. Heck, a few of us are going to SxSW this year and we may do one there, too. Please vote on these ideas and let us know what you think we should be working on at these hack-a-thons. A note: we're naturally averse to advocacy type ideas. We'll likely not do them. It isn't that we don't believe in democracy though! It is because we're a c3 organization, and are legally prohibited in certain ways from doing very much in the form of advocacy.
Build blog plugins in WordPress, MovableType, etc. that allow bloggers to pull in data about lawmakers in blog posts (for instance, widgets from sunlightmediaservices.com) Could also provide, pull data from other sources like Watchdog.net, OpenSecrets, etc.
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Could this be easily generalized to just pull in generic content from a foreign source? I.e., a widget (or content-rewriting) plugin where you give a URL, and some kind of selector (e.g., of an element id), and it pulls that content, strips out just the selected piece of content, and caches the result. From the other direction, at theopenplanningproject.org we've provided a general service we can install to allow content to be included like this with a script tag: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ScriptTranscluder -- we've used this a lot for our own projects, and it doesn't require any special integration with either the data source or the consuming site.