Campaign money
How much has each campaign raised and spent?
—candidates with receipts, spending and cash on hand
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Watchdog shows the campaign money reported to the Federal Election Commission for the 2026 races: what campaigns raised and spent, and what outside groups reported spending for or against candidates. Committee totals only, each with its report date.
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Each card answers one question and opens the full table, with a source on every line.
Follow the money
Outside spending
Who is spending for and against candidates?
—in independent expenditures on 0 candidates
Where it goes
Where does campaign money go?
—in operating expenditures across 0 categories
Not built yet
Political ads · not built
Who ran which political ads and how much was spent.
No free, license-safe, structured source exists for ad placement and spend. Independent expenditures reported to the FEC are on the Outside spending page.
Endorsements · not built
Who has endorsed which candidate.
Endorsement data is held in licensed products or scattered across news pages. No free, license-safe, structured source exists.
Media coverage · not built
Coverage of candidates by outlet.
No free, license-safe, structured source exists. The News section links to named outlets with dates.
Campaign trail · not built
Candidate events and appearances.
No free, license-safe, structured source exists. Campaign calendars are published in many different formats.
Connections · not built
Links between candidates, committees and organizations.
Such links would rest on individual donor records, which VoterIQ does not publish (52 USC 30111(a)(4)), or on licensed data. No suitable source exists.
County money · not built
Campaign money by county.
The free FEC files used here are committee-level. County breakdowns need individual contribution records, which VoterIQ does not publish.
What the filings show today
A first look from the FEC files. Open a tool for the full table.
Outside money by state
// Outside spendingSupportingOpposing
Operating spending by category
// Where it goesCategories are grouped from the purpose each committee wrote on its filing. Other or unspecified is left out of this list.
Operating spending by month
// Where it goesAs filed. Recent months fill in as late reports arrive.
Watchdog reads public FEC filings and shows committee-level totals. It never lists individual donors: federal law (52 USC 30111(a)(4)) bars using donor details from FEC reports for solicitation or commercial purposes. Source: FEC bulk data.