How Follow the Money works
Campaign money that candidates must report to the government, in one place. Everything comes from official records. A contribution is a matter of public record; it does not by itself show that anyone was influenced.
Records last refreshed from the FEC: November 8, 2026.
The most recent attempt to refresh these records was only partly successful. What you see is the last data we received on November 8, 2026. We'll attempt to update these records during a future import.
Where the numbers come from
Federal candidates: the Federal Election Commission OpenFEC service. A scheduled importer copies records into FloorHoller's database; your page views never call the government. Each page shows when the records were last refreshed and what period the campaign's reports cover. Texas state candidates will be added from the Texas Ethics Commission.
What each label means
- Total receipts and total spending: the campaign committee's own reported totals for a two-year election cycle, as computed by the FEC from filed reports.
- Individual donors: money from people, including small gifts under the itemizing threshold. A person's gift is never treated as a company's gift, even if the donor names an employer.
- PACs and other committees: contributions from political action committees and similar committees.
- Party committees: contributions from political party committees.
- Candidate's own money, transfers, loans: reported separately from outside contributions.
- Independent expenditures: spending by outside groups to support or oppose a candidate without coordinating with the campaign. These are not contributions and are never added to receipts. Support and opposition are shown apart.
- Other reported receipts: only ever a labelled difference between the total and the lines shown.
Accuracy, corrections and gaps
- Records are matched by FEC identifiers (candidate IDs, committee IDs and record numbers), never by name alone. People who share a name are never combined.
- Records are replaced by key each refresh, so nothing is counted twice. Memo entries, which are copies of other lines, are dropped. When a campaign amends a filing, the FEC's figure changes and ours follows; the page notes when a figure was revised.
- Reports are filed on a schedule, so the newest money can be missing, and some committees file late. Pages show the "reported through" date. Where a figure is missing the page says "Not reported", not zero.
- Lists of the largest contributions are partial by design and say so. Totals are the complete figures.
- Nobody at FloorHoller, and no visitor, can edit an official amount. Administrators can only link a FEC candidate to a rated politician, switch a source off, or start a refresh.
About individual donor information
Information about individual contributors is public record, but federal law forbids using it to solicit contributions or for any commercial purpose (52 U.S.C. § 30111(a)(4)). People who share a name are never combined here, and no street addresses are shown. FloorHoller does not sell or share this information, shows no street addresses, phone numbers or emails, has no donor profile pages or search by donor name, and does not use it to ask anyone for money.
Discussion
Each candidate page has a discussion that uses the same free-account replies as the rest of FloorHoller. Reading is open to everyone.