If you're a programmer and want to do something politically powerful, write a tool that takes FEC bulk data and dereferences the chains of PAC-to-PAC donations used to obfuscate giving, so we can see clearly which corporations donated to which candidate.
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You can find the bulk data you need on the FEC website. https://www.fec.gov/data/advanced/?tab=bulk-data … You can find anything on the FEC website! It takes some getting used to, but it is such a great website
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Feel free to ping me on DM, or maciej@ceglowski.com if you want help, or have questions about how FEC filings and payment limits work. I am no expert, but I have been banging my head against it long enough to leave an insightful bruise
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Where’s the data?
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FEC website. There's a bulk download link.
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Sample data set?
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I would expect the folks at https://www.followthemoney.org/ to have work on this
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And I'll say that non profit orgs like follow the money often need programming work done and have a lot of domain expertise, but can't pay market rate for devs. If programmers want to do the world a solid they could do worse than seeing what civic data orgs can do with your time.
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I've been working with FEC data for 20 years and I'm not sure the problem you're trying to solve here. The data already has this information. Can you say more?
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My own interest is tracing dollars given by a specific corporate PAC to the candidate pockets they end up in. Being able to say that Google PAC funds Steve King (via Eye of the Tiger PAC) is useful to me, but I had to follow the chain by hand
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