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.
The point of what I'm asking for is to get this down to one query. Follow the chained PAC donations until all that's left is a list of candidate committees, possibly with a weighting.
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To give an analogy—you can't link a specific raincloud in Minnesota to a liter of water entering the Gulf of Mexico, but you can draw a map of the Mississippi River. I'm asking for tools to help with that mapping project
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