Each page preserves one current or retained historical FEC independent-expenditure filing row. Historical rows remain accessible but are excluded from current spending totals. A filing may describe advertising, mail, calls, canvassing, production, or another expressly advocated communication or activity. Election.org does not claim that every row contains a viewable ad creative.

Amendment policy543 superseded filing versions excluded from current rowsRetained history238 earlier public rows remain accessible and excluded from current spending totalsQuarantined spending rows174 current rows excluded from spending totalsSource-date alerts1,185 import/receipt-date anomalies retained and flaggedAPIJSON records ↗

Source: Federal Election Commission bulk data ↗, checked Oct 16, 2026. Purpose and payee text reproduce filer-supplied source fields. Election.org does not infer a platform, audience, targeting geography, creative content, or service actually delivered from those fields.

About these records and sources

Search current 2026 FEC independent-expenditure rows and retained historical records. Historical rows are excluded from current spending totals. The directory preserves the filer's purpose and payee text, but never pretends a finance filing contains the ad creative, audience, or proof that anyone saw it.

Current FEC filing rows25,284

Historical rows retained238

Outside spenders across all rows725

Named candidates across all rows743

All rows with purpose text25,519

WHAT THE FILING PROVES

A filer reported this spending row.

The page can reproduce the spender, candidate, amount, position code, dates, purpose, payee, election fields, and exact FEC filing image.

WHAT IT DOES NOT PROVE

What the creative said—or who saw it.

An independent-expenditure filing proves only that the filer reported the fields shown. It does not prove coordination, persuasion, effectiveness, audience exposure, candidate approval, motive, or wrongdoing.