A fraction of one percent of Americans pays for our politics.
The Quid Pro Quo (QPQ) Tracker is a free, nonpartisan public database from Anti-Corruption Action, a 501(c)(3), that shows where political money comes from and which votes, rules and contracts follow.
In the 2024 federal elections, donors who gave $3,300 or more supplied $8.1 billion. That is more than three-quarters of all itemized individual giving. Those donors are roughly 0.14% of U.S. adults, by our arithmetic from OpenSecrets’ donor counts. (OpenSecrets) Eight in ten Americans, across both parties, say those donors have too much influence in Washington. (Pew Research Center)
You can check that debate yourself. The tracker is a graph of 525,763 entities and 649,130 documented connections. It traces money from donor to PAC to candidate, then on to the votes, regulations, federal contracts, and lobbying campaigns that follow. The data comes from FEC filings, the Federal Register, USASpending.gov, Congressional voting records, and lobbying disclosures.
American politics has an epidemic of money and a transparency problem.
Americans who try to track the money in politics find it spread across many databases. Each is difficult to access and built for a narrow use. The Quid Pro Quo (QPQ) Tracker combines those separate, tedious datasets into one database that every American can search.
We start from campaign-finance filings. We parsed and labeled federal regulations and the comments filed with regulators such as the SEC and CFTC. We added the federal lobbying disclosure database, the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) database, and election results. You can follow money into the political system and see who it supported. You can see which lobbying and regulatory fights it was part of. And you can follow it all the way to how the outcome affects you.
Fighting a corrupt system requires transparency. It also requires citizens to understand how that system affects them. The QPQ Tracker exists to show American citizens how money in politics affects them directly.
Who paid for the data centers and what they received
The payer of record is usually the utility, not the hyperscaler. Dominion gave $33.7 million in Virginia. PG&E gave $30.4 million in California. Both are corporate and PAC direct giving in the state filing systems. Georgia Power’s treasury gave Gov. Brian Kemp $1.125 million in six contributions from November 2023 to June 2026. Of that, $50,000 came before his May 7, 2024 veto of the bill that would have paused the sales-tax exemption. Two $500,000 cheques, $1.0 million in all, came on October 10, 2025 and January 19, 2026, 17 and 20 months after the veto. Its employee PAC gave him another $25,000 in October 2023. We read the filings beside the votes, the vetoes and the commission orders in 16 states, and beside the two floor votes in Congress. We verified every figure against the record it came from.
Before the 2026 lettuce outbreak, the produce-safety rules had already been rolled back
Before contaminated lettuce reached American consumers, the numeric water-safety standard had been deleted. The traceability rule had been defunded. This study reads the contribution ledger, the lobbying filings, and the rulemaking calendar side by side. Every figure is verified against the FEC and the Senate lobbying database.
OpenSecrets found $52 million of outside money in one Senate primary. We traced it one layer further.
The United Democracy Project’s $80.3 million war chest is usually described as pro-Israel donor money. The itemized receipts are more specific. AIPAC’s own 501(c)(4) treasury supplied $30 million of it this cycle, including $25 million on a single day in September 2025. Across the 2022–2026 cycles, it supplied $51.6 million in direct transfers. That 501(c)(4) is a nonprofit and does not disclose its own donors. Thus more than a third of the money behind the spending cannot be traced further through public disclosures.
Ten donors account for $971.3M in tracked giving.
These ten are among the largest individual donors tracked in this database. The graph holds 308,191 individual federal donors, duplicate records combined by name. Their giving spans both parties and every major spending vehicle. Each card shows where the largest share of their tracked money went. Click through to see the donor's full network: the PACs they fund, the candidates those PACs support or oppose, and the policy record that follows.
Tracked totals are FEC-itemized federal contributions ingested into this database. They are deduplicated for amended filings and span the 2016–2024 cycles. Coverage varies by donor, so these are a floor, not a full-cycle total. They will differ from figures reported elsewhere. Cross-reference: OpenSecrets, Biggest Donors, 2024 cycle. See methodology.
Crypto industry money in the 2024 elections, and the 2025 law that followed
This case follows one industry through one election cycle. It runs from donors to PACs, PACs to races, races to legislation, and legislation to agency rules. Every step below links into the graph. Crypto corporations put more than $170M into intervening in 2024 congressional races. That was more than a third of all disclosed corporate election spending that cycle (Public Citizen).
The money goes in
The money is spent
The seats change
The rules change
Every link in this chain is a public record: an FEC filing, a certified election result, a roll-call vote or a Federal Register entry. All of the conduct on this page is lawful and publicly disclosed. We allege no violation of law and make no causal claim.
Open this network in the graph→Concentrated money is also spent to defeat incumbents.
Independent-expenditure campaigns funded by a handful of donors spent heavily against three Democrats in 2024 primaries. All three lost: two incumbents and one open-seat candidate. The fourth card shows a split result.
Jamaal Bowman
Cori Bush
Katie Porter
Peter Thiel, 2022
"Tracked" figures are the independent-expenditure filings ingested into this database. They can undercount full-cycle totals reported by the FEC. Every figure links to its filings on the entity page.
Americans of both parties think money runs Washington. This data lets you check.
Polls show what Americans believe about money in politics. Public records show what was given and what happened next. The QPQ Tracker puts the two side by side.
Start with an investigation
Each of these opens the graph at a key entity. Click any node to expand its connections. Donors lead to their PACs, PACs to their candidates, and candidates to their votes and to federal contracts. Corporate records are available for any donor.
Follow AIPAC’s money
$150M+ in tracked receipts to AIPAC’s PAC and the United Democracy Project, 2022–2026 cycles, followed into the Democratic primaries
Trace crypto to the Senate
Fairshake and affiliates spent $135M+ for and against candidates in 2024. See who gave, where it was spent and what legislation followed
Defense contractor loop
Defense contractor PACs give to members of the committees that authorize Pentagon spending. Trace the donations beside the USASpending.gov contract awards
The same pattern appears across industries
Crypto super PACs spent against the Senate Banking chairman and for his challenger. Defense contractor PACs give to the members who sit on the committees that authorize their programs. We track both the donations and the federal contracts, via USASpending.gov. Israel-lobby PACs spend heavily for and against candidates in Democratic primaries. Each card lays the money beside the policy record that followed. Every donor carries corporate records from OpenCorporates.
Crypto super PACs spent $135M+ in the 2024 congressional races
AIPAC-aligned PACs set spending records in Democratic primaries
Defense contractor PACs give to the members who write the Pentagon budget
Who funds the think tanks whose papers reach Congress
Figures are tracked FEC and state filings ingested into this database, one hop from the sector's own firms and PACs. Direct giving to candidates, independent expenditures for, independent expenditures against, and independent expenditures whose filing does not record a direction are reported separately and never summed. Party, candidate and joint-fundraising committees are not counted as sector donors. Win/loss tallies are withheld until the election results table has been verified. See methodology.
Rules under review and rules rolled back
Each comment period draws lobbyists, trade associations, and citizen groups. They argue for and against the rule. Below are the proposed rules with the most recorded positions. Beside them are the rules rolled back this cycle.
MARCH-IN Rights Proposal (NIH Framework)
proposed58 positions recorded+ INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OWNERS ASS…+ NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR RARE D…DOE Section 403 directive and FERC large-load interconnection ANOPR (Docket RM26-4-000)
proposed3 positions recorded+ CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A…+ AMERICAN PUBLIC POWER ASSOCIATIO…Rescinding Regulations Regarding Management Systems Pertaining to the National Park Service and the Park Roads and Parkways Program
proposedTransportation DepartmentAirworthiness Directives; Airbus Helicopters
proposedTransportation DepartmentHUBZone Appeal Process
proposedSmall Business AdministrationReal-Time Public Reporting Requirements and Swap Data Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements
proposed
Rescission of Policy Relating to the Acceptance of Settlements in Administrative and Civil Proceedings
repealedCommodity Futures Trading CommissionInterstate Commerce Commission Regulations; Removal of Chapter
repealedFederal Register OfficeElectric Reliability Organization Performance Assessments; Withdrawal
withdrawnEnergy Department