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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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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Oo, | separated txt files! It ain't the most exciting but it's definitely usable and they've got a published schema as wellhttps://www.fec.gov/campaign-finance-data/all-candidates-file-description/ …
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Actually, they have a REST api as well. Rate limits might be an issue if you're looking to pull everything but for prototypes and targeted queries that might be more than enough: https://api.open.fec.gov/developers/
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