Donors

This page shows where campaign money goes, seat by seat. It isn’t a claim that anyone did anything wrong. Each election cycle, we pull Federal Election Commission records and sort them three ways. PACs, short for political action committees, give money directly to a candidate and must itemize every dollar. Outside spending groups run their own ads and mailers, separate from any campaign. Employers are grouped from donations that a company’s own workers gave as individuals; a company can’t write a check directly to a candidate, but its employees can, and the FEC records where each donor works.

Pick a name from the donor panel and the seat map lights up, showing exactly who that donor or group backed that cycle, colored by party, with the amount shown on hover. One rule is worth knowing: PAC money must be itemized by law, but many outside spending groups aren’t required to disclose who funded them. So you can see what a group spent without always knowing who paid for it. That’s simply how campaign finance law is written today, not a gap we’re hiding or hinting is shady.

Switch the cycle selector to view an earlier election, when there’s enough data to make the comparison fair. A lit-up seat only means the support was disclosed and reported. It says nothing about the official who holds that seat.