Methodology

This dashboard is a read-only public view of 2026-cycle federal campaign-finance data. It tracks selected pro-Israel political committees, outside-spending groups, donor funding, race-linked spending, and candidate support/opposition labels. Totals are presented as loaded from the project database and should be read with the methodological notes and source trails in the dashboard.

What the data covers

• Committee-level receipts and reported spending for tracked pro-Israel committees.
• Independent expenditures supporting or opposing federal candidates.
• Race and state mappings for spending records where the underlying data can be mapped.
• Itemized donor contributions to tracked committees, with individual names normalized where possible.

Limitations

Campaign-finance data changes as filings are submitted and processed. Donor names may be reported with variants; same-name individuals can be difficult to distinguish without additional identifiers. Rankings should be read as cumulative totals within the loaded 2026 dataset, not as a complete statement about all political spending in a race.

Related book: Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power, by Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick, provides the broader reporting and analysis behind this project.