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PAC money, by the people who represent you

Every number below comes out of an official’s own filing with the Federal Election Commission. We added them up by state. We did not score anyone, rank anyone, or decide what any of it means.

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Four things are wrong with it, and you should know all four before you quote it to anybody.

  1. It is missing of the 532 people in Congress. An official with no 2026 filing on record is not counted and not guessed at. A senator elected in 2024 is not raising money for a 2026 race, so they contribute nothing to their state’s total while still holding the seat and casting the votes.
  2. Coverage is wildly uneven, so states are not fairly comparable. Two states with the same real total can look completely different here purely because of who filed.
  3. The raw total mostly measures how many seats a state has. California has 53 people in this file; Wyoming has 3. California will “win” every time, and that tells you about the census, not about influence. That is why this page defaults to PAC share — PAC dollars as a fraction of every dollar those same officials raised. Both halves come from the same filings, so a 53-member state and a 3-member state are finally comparable. The other two views are one click away so you can watch the distortion appear for yourself. Share is still limited by the coverage problem above: it is a share of the people who filed, not of the whole delegation.
  4. PAC money is legal, disclosed, and normal. It is not a crime, a scandal, or a verdict. A large number here is a fact about fundraising, not a finding about a person. We publish the record. We do not publish the adjective.
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