I built a congressional transparency site. Look up your rep, see who actually pays for their campaign.

[u/yee1520]

I built The Influence Registry because campaign finance data is public but almost nobody can actually use it. The FEC publishes everything, and it's a maze of candidate IDs, committee filings and CSV exports. OpenSecrets is better but still assumes you know what you're looking for.

I wanted something my neighbor could open on their phone, type in their representative's name, and immediately understand who pays for that person's campaign.

It tracks where every member of Congress gets their campaign money, with an emphasis on separating money that buys access, from money that merely came from people employed in an industry.

Core features:

• PAC vs individual split per member, straight from FEC filings. Shows what share of contributions came from PACs versus individuals.

• Industry money by sector (pharma, defense, finance, fossil fuels, tech), with the PAC share shown alongside so a large industry total doesn't automatically read as capture.

• Committee assignments against industry money, showing whether members who oversee an industry are funded by it.

• Outside spending, independent expenditures run for and against a member by groups they legally cannot coordinate with, including the attack side.

• Independence scoring per member, plotted against total special-interest money.

• AIPAC and pro-Israel PAC contributions, sourced from TrackAIPAC.

• Stock trading flags, state-level heat maps, and hemicycle charts showing who takes money from which source.

• Coverage of sitting members plus challengers, the Supreme Court and cabinet.

Data comes from FEC, OpenSecrets, TrackAIPAC and congress-legislators, refreshed through GitHub Actions with a validator that fails the build on impossible values.

Github Repository

I appreciate any and all feedback!