The Influence Registry

A free, open-source, public-data tool for tracking corporate money in U.S. government.

🌐 Live site: keep-dc-honest.com

The Influence Registry profiles every member of Congress, the Cabinet, and the Supreme Court using publicly available campaign finance and ethics data. It's built so anyone can decide for themselves whether their representatives are working for them.

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Screenshots

Hemicycle charts showing how corporate money is distributed across Congress

Each member has a full profile with donations, voting record, education, and conflicts of interest

Generate shareable cards for any profile

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What It Tracks

• AIPAC and pro-Israel PAC contributions (TrackAIPAC.com, FEC)
• Fossil fuel industry donations (OpenSecrets, FEC)
• Pharmaceutical and healthcare PACs (OpenSecrets, FEC)
• Defense contractor donations (OpenSecrets, FEC)
• Big Tech contributions (OpenSecrets, FEC)
• Wall Street and finance industry money (OpenSecrets, FEC)
• Net worth disclosures (Congressional financial disclosures)
• Voting records (Congress.gov, GovTrack)
• Ethics concerns and conflicts of interest (ProPublica, public reporting)
• Stock trading activity (House and Senate disclosure databases)

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Data Sources

All data comes from open-source, public records. No proprietary or paywalled sources are used.

Source	What we use it for
FEC.gov	Campaign finance, PAC contributions
OpenSecrets	Career sector donation totals
TrackAIPAC.com	AIPAC and pro-Israel PAC contributions
ProPublica	SCOTUS financial disclosures
Congress.gov	Voting records, biographical data
Bioguide	Member IDs, photos
GovTrack	Legislative activity

For the full methodology behind the Corporate Money Score and how each metric is calculated, see METHODOLOGY.md.

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How it's built

• Frontend: Vanilla HTML/CSS/JS — no framework, no build step, no JavaScript bundler
• Hosting: Netlify (static site)
• Data pipeline: Python scripts in /scripts that pull from FEC, OpenSecrets, and TrackAIPAC into the JSON files in /data
• Updated regularly as new FEC filings and disclosures become available

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Running the data pipeline locally

If you want to refresh the data yourself:

1. Get a free FEC API key at api.data.gov/signup
2. Clone this repo
3. Copy .env.example to .env and add your key: