Civic Forecast

Money and Influence

Follow the flow of political money through PACs, lobbying registrations, and federal spending, surfaced from primary disclosure databases and translated into plain language.

What you can track

• Top PAC contributions into competitive races
• Lobbying spend by issue area and registrant
• Federal spending flows by agency, program, and recipient

Questions it answers

• Who is funding the candidates and committees in my state?
• Which industries are lobbying hardest on a given issue?
• Where are federal dollars actually landing?

Primary sources

• FEC — Candidate, committee, and PAC filings
• OpenSecrets — Aggregated contribution and industry data
• Senate LDA / House LD-2 — Lobbying registrations and reports
• USAspending.gov — Federal awards and contracts