Investigations
Each investigation traces documented money flows from donors through PACs and lobbyists to policy outcomes. It walks through the record step by step: who gave, who spent for or against whom, and what was voted or enacted. Every stop carries its source. The trails show sequence and proximity, not cause.
Curated Paths
Fairshake PAC and the 2024 Elections
Crypto-industry money, the races it was spent in, and the vote that followed
In the 2024 cycle the crypto super PAC Fairshake reported $177.5M in receipts across 85 tracked contributions, led by Coinbase ($68.5M) and the Andreessen Horowitz founders ($33.5M each). Follow the FEC-reported money from Coinbase and Ripple through Fairshake and its two affiliates to specific races, then to the House vote on FIT21 on May 22, 2024.
United Democracy Project in the 2024 Democratic Primaries
AIPAC's super PAC, the incumbents it spent against, and the challengers it spent for
AIPAC's super PAC, United Democracy Project, took in $86.8M in the 2024 cycle across the 1,345 contributions tracked here (FEC: $87.2M) and reported $24.0M in independent expenditures opposing candidates and $14.2M supporting them. Trace the money from AIPAC to UDP, then to the New York primary where most of it was spent.
Pharmaceutical Lobbying and Drug-Pricing Policy
PhRMA's reported lobbying and Pfizer's PAC giving during the Medicare negotiation debate
The pharmaceutical industry lobbied against Medicare drug-price negotiation before and after the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. PhRMA alone reports $141.3M in LDA lobbying across the 505 filings tracked here (whole-filing totals, all issues). Follow the pipeline from the trade group to Pfizer and its corporate PAC's giving to members of Congress.
Defense Contracts and Defense-Industry Giving
The largest Pentagon contractors and their PACs' giving to Congress
The Department of Defense awards the largest contracts in the federal government; the 230 DoD awards tracked here total $624.4B. Follow the contract dollars to Lockheed Martin, RTX and Boeing, and the giving by their PACs to the members of Congress who authorise and appropriate defense spending.