pac.dog is free, independent, and non-partisan. Donations cover ~$150/mo in infrastructure (Neon Postgres for the mirrored data, Vercel for compute, DigitalOcean for the ingest worker, Voyage AI embeddings for search, SendGrid for sign-in mail).
100% of donations go to operating costs. No salary, no profit, no compensation. Surplus carries over to the next month.
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pac.dog is a free, independent, non-partisan research tool. Every candidate, committee, bill, vote, member, and nonprofit on this site is mirrored from primary U.S. government sources (FEC, congress.gov, govinfo.gov, IRS) and each state's Secretary of State / election commission — no third-party data vendors, no paywall, no editorial intermediation. Citations to the originating source are on every detail page.
Estimated value: $180/mo per user — but we made it free.