Observed arrival · 2026-09-09
Dark Money Map
An interactive California map that connects campaign receipts, outside spending, lobbying payments, organizations, donors, bills, and legislation.
Field notes
The project organizes California campaign, lobbying, and legislative material as a graph of relationships among committees, donors, firms, organizations, bills, and positions. Its examples include a Housing CA/Bay Area Council legislative neighborhood and a Tom Steyer financing network, while the sources section points readers back to official records. The homepage reports $58.0 million in outside spending and $7.8 million in lobbying-service payments for the displayed snapshot.
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