Timeline of Money in PoliticsThe political patronage system, in which favors and federal jobs were promised in exchange for donations, remained alive and well during much of the 19th century, having ...

NOTE: All the numbers on this page are for the 2019-2024 Senate election cycle and based on Federal Election Commission data available electronically. Feel free to distribute or cite this material, ...

Here are the individuals who have dipped deepest into their own pockets for campaign contributions to federal candidates, parties, political action committees, 527 organizations, and Carey committees.

Here at OpenSecrets.org, we provide breakdowns of data reported by outside spending groups to the Federal Election Commission (see menu at left). We have a separate section devoted to dark money ...

CSX Corp raised $1,084,463 in the 2021-2022 election cycle. See the details.

METHODOLOGY: The numbers on this page are based on contributions from donors (individuals as well as corporations and unions that give directly from their treasuries) to outside groups and from PACs ...

As with federal lobbying, state lobbying spending demonstrates stability among the top economic sectors. Just as they had in 2019 and 2020, the top five state lobbying sectors matched the federal list ...

Top Contributors, federal election data for Elizabeth Warren, 2020 cycle This page shows contributions grouped by contributor to the candidate's campaign committee plus any super PACs or hybrid PACs ...

The breakdown of large and small individual contributions comes directly from the candidate campaign's FEC filings. The FEC requires that the campaigns itemize contributions of $200 or more, and this ...

While contributions represent political engagement by both organized interests and the general population, money spent on lobbying is dominated by organizations and their efforts are often directed ...

2020 financial activity for super PACs2020 Outside Spending, by Super PAC 2020 financial activity for super PACs ...

Learn more about the outside influence of "dark money" groups, which spend millions of dollars on elections without revealing where their money comes from. Get the full picture of who is lobbying ...