Campaign-finance methodology
The Congress Money Tracker requests processed records from the Federal Election Commission’s OpenFEC API. The tracked committee registry is published separately so the scope is visible rather than implied.
Direct contributions
Direct committee-to-candidate receipts are drawn from FEC Schedule A records where a tracked committee appears as the contributor. These amounts are shown in the “Direct” column.
Independent expenditures
Schedule E records are separated according to the filing’s support-or-oppose indicator. Support and opposition are never netted together and are not described as direct candidate receipts.
Cycles and totals
The selected two-year election cycle controls the request. With the public FEC DEMO_KEY, pagination is intentionally limited to reduce rate-limit failures. When that limit is reached, the interface labels the result as a preview rather than a complete total.
Important limitations
- The tracker covers only committees in the published registry.
- It does not represent all money related to Israel policy, lobbying, nonprofits, individual donors or state elections.
- FEC amendments, late filings and processing updates can change totals.
- Independent expenditures are reported as not coordinated with candidates.
Open official FEC receipts data · Open official FEC independent-expenditure data
Public-records methodology
The Epstein records browser does not copy, mirror or permanently cache the underlying PDFs, images, audio or video. The browser reads the current DOJ listing and displays the file name, data-set number and official Justice.gov URL.
Source changes
If DOJ removes, corrects or replaces a source file, Civic Threat does not preserve the prior copy. The browser should be understood as a navigation layer, not an independent archive.
Privacy and sensitive information
The DOJ warns that its high-volume disclosure may inadvertently contain nonpublic personal information or sensitive content. Civic Threat does not extract or publish victim names, create face galleries or automatically generate accusations from the records.
A person appearing in, communicating with, or being named in a released record is not by itself evidence of criminal conduct.
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