Public accountability · America 250

They track us. We track them back.

Citizen money vs institutional money. Every disclosed industry. Every vote we can tie to the dollars — from legal public FEC filings and GovTrack records.

TrackBack's view: Congress should be funded by the people it serves — not by concentrated PACs and outside spenders. Scores are opinionated analytics of public records, not criminal findings.

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Citizen money vs institutional money

Who funds this office?

People = itemized individual receipts. Institutions = PACs, party committees, and transfers — FEC 2024 cycle. Not a legal finding; a transparent split of public filings.

Mostly people-funded this cycle

American people

Individual itemized donors

74%

$2725.7M

Institutions

PACs, parties & transfers

26%

$982.2M

National aggregate across members with FEC receipt data this cycle — not a single candidate.

No industry is invisible

Influence classes we track

Original icons. Public FEC classifications. Every concentrated interest treated the same way — we show the dollars, not a hit list of countries or logos.

Pharma & biotech

Drugmakers, biotech PACs, trade groups

Healthcare

Insurers, hospital systems, health PACs

Finance

Banks, asset managers, fintech PACs

Auto & manufacturing

Automakers and industrial committees

Gambling industry

Casino and gaming-linked contributions

Energy

Oil, gas, and energy-sector money

Defense

Defense and aerospace committees

Super PACs

Outside spend for or against candidates

TrackBack's view: members should be funded by the people they represent — not by concentrated institutional money. How scoring works →

National Leaderboards

Who's cleanest — and who's most institution-funded — in Congress right now

Cleanest in Congress

Highest Purity Scores — hover score for FEC formula

Most Compromised

Lowest Purity Scores — top industries & donors dragging score

Purity Scores are analytical interpretations of public FEC and GovTrack data — not official government ratings, legal findings, or accusations of corruption.

What we expose — and how

TrackBack maps every FEC-reported contribution we can classify into 25+ sectors: advocacy spenders, pharma, fossil fuels, agriculture, fintech, defense, labor, civic groups, and more. No accounts. No spin. Just public records, linked to voting behavior.

→Committee & PAC contributions (FEC pas2)
→Itemized individual donors + employers (FEC indiv)
→Outside super PAC spending for/against (FEC IE)
→Nay votes on donor-industry legislation (GovTrack)

Purity Score

A 0–100 measure of how independent a politician is from special interest money. Higher is cleaner.

All inputs are derived from publicly filed FEC campaign finance data and GovTrack congressional voting records — fully legal, fully transparent.

Base Formula

Base score = 100 minus the percentage of total receipts from non-individual sources (PACs, party committees, transfers) per FEC filings. This is the primary signal — we do not double-penalize the same PAC money twice.

100 − (non-individual FEC contributions %)

Bonuses

Small-donor bonus (+3 to +8) when itemized individual FEC money is a large share of receipts. Voting bonus (+3 to +8) only for Nay votes clearly tied to a top donor industry (GovTrack).

+10 to +20 pts

Penalties

LD-203 lobbyist contributions (−3 to −15), outside super PAC spending ratio (−4 to −12), excess PAC dependence, controversial industries, and tracked lobbying org ties (FEC + LDA.gov). Scores cap at 95 unless outside money, LD-203, and lobbying exposure are all minimal.

−5 to −30 pts

80–100: Clean60–79: Moderate40–59: Compromised0–39: Heavily Compromised

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Know your government — official sources

FEC filings, STOCK Act disclosures, federal spending, fraud reporting, tax policy, and foreign influence — every link goes to a real .gov source or TrackBack's public data.

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