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Every dollar reported to the FEC for the 2026 elections, traced from donors and PACs to who won.

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Money we track

CalculatedUpdated Nov 8, 2026

$3.40T

traced to a name across 5 sets of public records. For every $1 in campaign money, federal agencies committed $121 to their biggest contractors.

What this counts: dollars the site traces to a named company, group or politician, each counted once. Donor gifts to super PACs, political ads and nonprofit revenue are left out because the same money is already in campaign money. The pools cover different years and are not all political spending. The total updates whenever new filings, race calls or data refreshes reach the site.

Daily FTM · November 6

AI super PACs spent 83% of their money in primaries

Two rival AI-policy networks each ran a Democratic and a Republican super PAC. FEC records show 83% of their $59M in independent expenditures went into primaries and runoffs, and more than a third into a single Manhattan primary.

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Follow one donor's money
Donor gaveElon Musk$178M
Super PAC spent opposing James TalaricoAmerica PAC$41M

Elon Musk America PAC TX Senate
In that race, James Talarico won.

Reported gifts and spending through Oct 14, 2026. A super PAC pools money from many donors, so this shows where the money went, not that one donor paid for one ad.

Reported to the FEC

Start with a question

Who gave

The biggest donors of the cycle and the super PACs that took their money.

Where it went

Every outside group, what it spent, which races it picked and whether its side won.

The totals so far

Filings through Oct 14, 2026
Calculated

$6.10B

Receipts plus outside spending

470 races · receipts counted once per candidate

Reported

$2.82B

Campaign receipts

What the campaigns reported raising

Reported

$3.28B

Outside money

Super PACs and party groups, for or against

Reported

449 / 470

Races called

As of Nov 8, 2026

Money is what campaigns reported receiving plus what outside groups reported spending around them, from FEC filings through Oct 14, 2026; the last weeks of the race are not in yet. It is not the same as what was spent. Results are as of Nov 8, 2026.

Three things the money did

  1. 01

    91% of contested races went to the bigger war chest

    Of the 361 contested races called so far, the candidate who raised more won 91% of the time.
  2. 02

    Senate Leadership Fund spent the most: $353M

    1. 1Senate Leadership Fund$353M
    2. 2House Majority PAC$283M
    3. 3WinSenate$282M
  3. 03

    $387M reached super PACs as dark money

    From nonprofits that do not have to say who funds them, among the donors traced so far.

Did the money win?

Biggest winners and losers

Outside groups by money on the winning or losing side, in called races as of Nov 8, 2026.
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✓ Backed the winners

  1. WinSenate$275M100% win rate
  2. House Majority PAC$253M93% win rate
  3. Lower Costs Now$75M99% win rate

✗ Backed the losers

  1. Senate Leadership Fund$320M4% win rate
  2. No Going Back PAC$251M2% win rate
  3. Congressional Leadership Fund$213M4% win rate