Who's Funding What

Following the money behind the message. Who funds which politicians, which ad campaigns, and what the spending is actually trying to say. Receipts, not rants.

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Current funding reporting

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No new funding finding has cleared editorial review. The dated dossiers below remain available.

Funding source health: partial. FEC refresh: degraded. Last successful source check 2026-09-23. Manual refresh only. 9 incomplete coverage assertions.

An illustration of a suit jacket wearing three generic sponsor patches, labelled Donor, PAC and Industry. The patches name no real person or organisation. — Excerpt from How .05% of Americans buy our elections, Hightower Lowdown, August 1999.
Published there in August 1999; this is the publication we verified, not a claim about who first said it. The line is a 1999 editorial analogy, not a finding about anyone's funding — the sourced figures are below.
Illustration: Original illustration created for Hypocrisy Now. Original vector artwork; no third-party photo, cartoon, logos, or likeness reused.

Committee finances

Ten years of FEC-reported receipts, disbursements and closing cash for 3 political action committees, with the gaps shown as gaps and every figure traceable to the filing it came from. PAC finances only — not the affiliated company or trade association's own money.

All tracked committees · PhRMA Better Government Committee · Pfizer Inc. PAC · American Petroleum Institute PAC

Relationship network

Who gave to which committee, which committee transferred to which, and what was reported as independent spending — drawn as a graph and listed in full, with the filing behind every edge. Selected disclosed transactions, each shown at its own stage: nothing on that page traces a dollar from one filing to the next or adds two stages together.

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