Organization
FEC
8 mentions across 1 edition.
Mentioned in
- Added the section "Direction 1: Following the contracts," with USAspending and FEC pulls, two charts, a revolving-door table and murky items 18–21. Data files are in contracts/
Changelog (v3 → v4)October 2026- [V-s]
…[V]/[V-s]: - Vance–Yarvin quote (exact wording, from a court-filed transcript) - Thiel's $15M to Protect Ohio Values (FEC/OpenSecrets dates) and the $15M→$20M to Masters's PAC - Andreessen's "patron saints" list, which does name Nick Land, and Ray Kurzweil - Trump's Ohel…
Changelog (v1 → v2)October 2026 - Evidence: primary documents first (FEC, Federal Register, court filings, official releases), then mainstream or scholarly reporting. Interpretation is labelled as interpretation. A…
1. Method noteOctober 2026…the USAspending API (contract award types A–D; other transaction agreements, or OTAs, are not included) and the FEC API (itemized Schedule A, top 100 records per person per cycle). Files are in contracts/ usaspending obligations by top awards since…
Direction 1: Following the contractsOctober 2026- [V]
…(about $50M), Senate Leadership Fund/SLF PAC, CLF and Fight for Kentucky ($10M each), and MAGA Inc. ($5M) [V; FEC API] 8. Andreessen and Horowitz: $33.5M each to Fairshake (crypto super PAC) in 2024; Andreessen $25M to "Leading the Future" (AI super PAC) and…
Political money (FEC itemized, top records)October 2026 …not a single deal. - Data limits. OTAs, classified awards, subcontracts and state/local contracts are missing. FEC data is itemized and capped at the top 100 records per person.
What this doesn't showOctober 2026…21. Karp switched from Harris ($360K, 2023) to MAGA Inc. ($1M, Dec 2024) right after the election. DOCUMENTED (FEC). The motive is interpretation; it's a common post-election access pattern.
New murky itemsOctober 2026…America's AI Action Plan (July 2025) - DOJ Epstein Library; DOJ OIG report 23-085 (June 2023) - OpenSecrets / FEC (Protect Ohio Values; Saving Arizona) - CourtListener exhibit (Vance–Murphy transcript) - a16z, The Techno-Optimist Manifesto (2023) - Pew Research…
7. BibliographyOctober 2026