pac.dog

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A mechanical tour of U.S. federal campaign finance + Congress. Seven modules, read in order; every term appears defined before it's reused.

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1. Elections + candidates
   The four kinds of elections, the federal offices, and what makes someone a candidate under FEC rules.
2. Committees
   How money flows through registered committees — candidate committees, PACs, super PACs, JFCs, party committees, and the 501(c) adjacents.
3. Contributions + limits
   Federal dollar caps, state-by-state divergence, deposit + refund + best-efforts rules, solicitation language, personal use, and the enforcement ladder.
4. Bills + sponsors
   What a federal bill is, how it is identified, and the difference between a sponsor and a cosponsor.
5. Actions, votes, congresses
   The lifecycle of a bill as a sequence of actions, what a roll-call vote records, and what a Congress actually is.
6. Filings
   Periodic FEC financial reports — Form 3, Form 3X, Form 6, and the schedules that itemize receipts + disbursements.
7. Lobbying
   LDA registration, the quarterly LD-2, the semiannual LD-203, FARA for foreign agents, and how to read a filing.
8. History + how pac.dog mirrors it
   A short legal history (FECA → BCRA → Citizens United → SpeechNow) and how every concept above maps to a pac.dog page.
9. Using pac.dog
   A tour of every surface — search, ask, watchlists, connections, trends, threads, tools — and what each one is for.