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Campaign Finance
The campaign money files for California's 2026 races in one place: candidate committees, the donors behind them, the independent expenditure committees, the vendors the campaigns pay, behested payments, and the filings feed that tracks new reports as they land. The files are built from Cal-Access and Federal Election Commission records and organized by the 172 congressional, State Senate and Assembly districts.
Candidate finance
Every candidate committee in the 172 districts in one searchable table: what each committee raised and spent, the cash it still holds, and the independent expenditures made for and against each candidate.
Top donors
The largest donors across the 2026 district races, with a donor's giving combined across the races it appears in and candidate self-funding flagged.
IE committees
The outside groups spending independently in the district races: what each committee spent, the candidates it supported or opposed, and the funders behind it.
Vendors
The firms and consultants the campaigns pay: the top vendors across all 172 districts, what they were paid for, and which candidate committees paid them.
Behested payments
The FPPC Form 803 payments officeholders asked others to make to charities and nonprofits: who asked, who paid, which organizations received the money, and where the same payers also appear as campaign donors. A public summary of the behested analysis is at Behested Payments.
Recent filings
The filings feed: late contribution reports, late independent expenditure reports, federal contribution notices and campaign statements filed by or about the districts' candidates, matched daily from the Secretary of State and the Federal Election Commission, newest first.
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The campaign finance portal covers the 2026 money in all 172 California districts: candidate committees, donors, independent spending, vendors, behested payments and the daily filings feed.