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Who is paying for your representative?
Every member of Congress must report the money they take. Those reports are public, but they’re written for lawyers, so almost nobody reads them. We read them and write down what they say in plain English, with a link to the original filing next to every figure.
$10.92 billion
raised by the campaigns of the 535 current members of Congress, every election on file added together.
22%
of it came from organized groups rather than from people giving on their own: at least $2.42 billion from PACs, plus donations that organizations collected and directed.
$4.1 billion
was spent about them by outside groups. These are ads for or against candidates that no campaign controls, and none of it is part of the money above.
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Who moves the most money
An organization can reach a candidate three ways, and counting only the first badly understates the biggest players. AIPAC gives about $8.7 million directly. It also bundles $85.8 million more through its donors, and its super PAC spends another $50.5 million. Look at the PAC checks alone and you miss almost seventeen times that much money.
- 1FF PACFuture Forward, the main super PAC supporting the Democratic presidential ticket in recent elections.$509.6 million
- 2MAGA Inc.$377 million
- 3Winsenate$311.3 million
- 4Protect the House 2024$216.9 million
- 5Senate Leadership FundA super PAC aligned with Senate Republican leadership, spending to win or hold Republican Senate seats.$216.1 million
- 6House Majority PACA super PAC aligned with House Democratic leadership, spending to win or hold Democratic House seats.$200.8 million
- 7America PACA super PAC founded and largely funded by Elon Musk that supported Donald Trump in 2024.$173.8 million
- 8Americans for ProsperityThe political network founded by the Koch family, which backs candidates favoring lower taxes and less regulation.$171.4 million
- 9AIPACThe American Israel Public Affairs Committee's political arm. It backs candidates of both parties it considers strong supporters of the U.S.-Israel relationship.$145 million
- 10Preserve America PACA super PAC supporting Donald Trump, funded largely by megadonor Miriam Adelson.$112.3 million
- Given directly its PAC to the campaign
- Bundled individual gifts it directed
- Spent for ads supporting
- Spent against ads opposing
The four columns are legally different things, so we never add them into one number. A campaign controls the money it is given but has no say over what outside groups spend, and money spent to defeat a candidate is obviously not a gift to them. Bundled totals exist only for the organizations we have measured so far (AIPAC, Senate Conservatives Fund, SBA Pro-Life America, NORPAC, Maggie's List, EMILY's List, JStreetPAC, Club for Growth, GiveGreen), so an organization showing none may simply run no conduit. Giving to campaigns is legal and ordinary, and appearing on this list is not evidence of wrongdoing.
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