What's new on OpenPolitical

Tonight's Texas refresh pulled the current bulk dump and merged it into the platform. 1,709 new expenditures ($814K in spend activity not previously captured) and 42 new contributions ($2K in donor activity). Coverage of Texas expenditure data freshened from 2024-02-25 through 2026-07-22 — a 5-day jump on the most-recent activity visible in the platform.

This week's FEC bulk ingest merged 39,639 new federal disbursement rows ($75.7M in spend activity) into the platform. Federal Schedule B coverage now runs through 9201-10-02.

Tonight's California refresh pulled the current bulk dump and merged it into the platform. 10,057 new expenditures ($84.8M in spend activity not previously captured) and 50,197 new contributions ($36.4M in donor activity). Coverage of California expenditure data refreshed through 2026-07-31.

Three connected features: a Prospects view ranking vendors by who is actively placing political ads right now (velocity-ranked, live IE data); connect your own LinkedIn to see your 1st/2nd/3rd-degree paths to the people behind each firm, with one-click contact reveals; and outreach drafting that writes from their real FEC spend - every dollar figure verified against the source before a draft is shown.

Buyer rankings on IE-heavy vendor pages changed: 76,848 independent-expenditure records ($4.1B) filed as 24/48-hour notices - the closing-weeks money of every cycle - now carry their FEC dissemination dates instead of being invisible to date-bounded panels.

Tonight's Texas refresh pulled the current bulk dump and merged it into the platform. 295 new expenditures ($169K in spend activity not previously captured) and 0 new contributions ($0 in donor activity). Coverage of Texas expenditure data freshened from 2026-01-02 through 2026-07-17 — a 3-day jump on the most-recent activity visible in the platform.

The federal Schedule B pipeline ingested the current FEC bulk files: 263,645 new 2026-cycle disbursement rows (+$912M), closing a freshness gap back to March. The weekly ingest is now scheduled, so this stays current automatically.

Tonight's Texas refresh pulled the current bulk dump and merged it into the platform. 171 new expenditures ($437K in spend activity not previously captured) and 2,239 new contributions ($358K in donor activity). Coverage of Texas expenditure data refreshed through 2026-05-22.

Tonight's Texas refresh pulled the current bulk dump and merged it into the platform. 68 new expenditures ($37K in spend activity not previously captured) and 1,426 new contributions ($58K in donor activity). Coverage of Texas expenditure data refreshed through 2026-05-25.

Tonight's Texas refresh pulled the current bulk dump and merged it into the platform. 13 new expenditures ($1K in spend activity not previously captured) and 0 new contributions ($0 in donor activity). Coverage of Texas expenditure data refreshed through 2026-05-21.

Tonight's Texas refresh pulled the current bulk dump and merged it into the platform. 61 new expenditures ($83K in spend activity not previously captured) and 3,704 new contributions ($178K in donor activity). Coverage of Texas expenditure data refreshed through 2026-05-25.

Tonight's Texas refresh pulled the current bulk dump and merged it into the platform. 535 new expenditures ($504K in spend activity not previously captured) and 3,147 new contributions ($807K in donor activity). Coverage of Texas expenditure data freshened from 2025-07-21 through 2026-05-27 — a 2-day jump on the most-recent activity visible in the platform.

Tonight's Texas refresh pulled the current bulk dump and merged it into the platform. 116 new expenditures ($47K in spend activity not previously captured) and 1,007 new contributions ($585K in donor activity). Coverage of Texas expenditure data refreshed through 2026-05-22.

Tonight's Texas refresh pulled the current bulk dump and merged it into the platform. 0 new expenditures ($0 in spend activity not previously captured) and 185 new contributions ($1.8M in donor activity). Coverage of Texas expenditure data refreshed through (none in this batch).

Tonight's Texas refresh pulled the current bulk dump and merged it into the platform. 47 new expenditures ($57K in spend activity not previously captured) and 0 new contributions ($0 in donor activity). Coverage of Texas expenditure data refreshed through 2026-05-25.

Tonight's Texas refresh pulled the current bulk dump and merged it into the platform. 170 new expenditures ($49K in spend activity not previously captured) and 562 new contributions ($719K in donor activity). Coverage of Texas expenditure data freshened from 2025-07-06 through 2026-05-25 — a 4-day jump on the most-recent activity visible in the platform.

Tonight's Texas refresh pulled the current bulk dump and merged it into the platform. 0 new expenditures ($0 in spend activity not previously captured) and 3 new contributions ($13K in donor activity). Coverage of Texas expenditure data refreshed through (none in this batch).

Tonight's Texas refresh pulled the current bulk dump and merged it into the platform. 163 new expenditures ($893K in spend activity not previously captured) and 252 new contributions ($3.3M in donor activity). Coverage of Texas expenditure data freshened from 2024-07-10 through 2026-05-21 — a 2-day jump on the most-recent activity visible in the platform.

Tonight's Texas refresh pulled the current bulk dump and merged it into the platform. 8,104 new expenditures ($37.7M in spend activity not previously captured) and 78,842 new contributions ($37.8M in donor activity). Coverage of Texas expenditure data freshened from 2025-07-11 through 2026-05-19 — a 4-day jump on the most-recent activity visible in the platform.

Tonight's CA data ingestion added 1,978 new expenditures ($69.2M in spend activity not previously captured) and 4,525 new contributions ($55.8M in donor activity). Coverage of CA expenditure data freshened from 2026-05-04 through 2026-05-14 — a 10-day jump on the most-recent activity visible in the platform. The full snapshot is 1.34M committees, 689K filings, 19.36M contributions, 15.10M expenditures, 695K independent expenditures.

California's full state campaign-finance dataset now refreshes automatically every week. The cleanup pipeline (amendment supersede logic, blank-date fallback, sentinel validation) runs end-to-end without manual hand-off, and the freshest numbers land directly on every CA profile.

Tonight's Texas refresh pulled the current bulk dump and merged it into the platform. 911 new expenditures ($746K in spend activity not previously captured) and 5,274 new contributions ($874K in donor activity). Coverage of Texas expenditure data freshened from 2022-07-29 through 2026-05-15 — a 7-day jump on the most-recent activity visible in the platform.

Vendor profiles now split agency contacts into two sections:

- Operators & buyers (shown first) — Account Directors, Media Buyers, Senior Strategists, Directors of Digital. The people who actually make day-to-day vendor calls.
- Leadership — Founders, Partners, Chiefs. For strategic / partnership conversations.

Junior contacts (Associates, Coordinators) hide behind a disclosure unless you expand them. The radial spider graph also surfaces operators first.

Three upgrades to the campaign tech-stack spider:

1. 3 mo / 6 mo / 12 mo toggle — same pill UI as the Sankey. Switch windows to see how a campaign's stack evolves (a 3-mo→6-mo→12-mo flip on Ossoff's stack instantly shows which vendor categories filled in recently vs. which were already locked).
2. Unified gold/silver/bronze/lapsed tier scheme — replaces the opaque "Foundational/Established/Active" labels with a simple cycle-count rule that's the same on the spider AND /research. Gold = 3+ cycles & active; silver = 2 cycles & active; bronze = single cycle (new); lapsed = was multi-cycle but stale. No dollar thresholds, no black box.
3. Vendor category override layer — surgical fix for misclassifications (Intuit pinned to Software & Tech instead of Legal; Delta/UHC/Amazon/banks/telcos excluded from stack views entirely since they're not political-services vendors). Combined manual + LLM (V4 Flash) pass currently re-pinning ~4,600 stack-eligible vendors.

New widget on /dashboard: the 10 vendors with the most active Tier-1 (multi-cycle) committee relationships in the last 90 days, filtered to operator-targetable categories. Surfaces who's actually winning the political services market right now — not who has the loudest reputation.

The campaign tech stack visualization upgraded from a 13-card grid to a double-sided spider graph. Candidate at center, 8 strategic categories radiating out as legs (4 left, 4 right), each terminating in a label "rack" with 2 vendor bricks. Trusted (★ multi-cycle) bricks are highlighted; empty slots show as dashed-outline placeholders. A muted "supporting categories" strip below covers the 4 non-strategic buckets.

Every campaign profile now shows the campaign's tech stack — a 13-cell grid laying out the top 1-2 vendors in each service category (Media, Digital, Strategy, Fundraising, Software, Print/Mail, Field, Legal, etc.) over the last 90 days. Multi-cycle vendors are marked with a ★ "trusted" badge; current-cycle-only vendors are marked "new"; empty cells are flagged as gaps.

Every top-100 political vendor profile now shows the senior people who work at the agency — name, title, location (where known), LinkedIn URL, and pattern-inferred email — rendered as a green hub-and-spoke contact graph plus an iPhone-style contact-card grid below.

Sankey diagrams, top-vendors fans, top-payers fans, and category bars on campaign + vendor profiles all gained a 12 mo / 6 mo / 3 mo toggle. Switching windows re-syncs both sides of the Sankey so "money in" and "money out" cover the same time frame.

Every section on a campaign or vendor profile (Sankey, contacts, category bars, recent activity, race context, etc.) now has a stable anchor URL. Hover any section header to reveal a # link you can copy.

Three readability tiers shipped: a defensive-baseline pass that lifts contrast and tightens font sizing on /research, an opt-in "Larger text" toggle that persists across visits, and an AAA-contrast pass on every muted-text element platform-wide.

Filtering, purpose-tag preferences, and column controls used to be scattered across three different places on /research. They now live in a single right-edge tabbed slideout that opens with one click.

Vendor profile hub-and-spoke fan flipped so the buyers (committees that pay the vendor) sit on the left and the vendor sits on the right. Matches the money-flow reading direction. Also renamed "Top paying committees" → Top buyers because that's what operators actually call them.

Independent expenditures (Schedule E) used to live in a separate table you had to switch to. They're now folded into the main /research table alongside Schedule B disbursements. Schedule is now a filter, not a separate page. Tiered relationship badges + a vendor-stack tooltip help you spot strong relationships at a glance.

Federal Schedule E (independent expenditures by PACs / super PACs) backfilled from a sparse 1,136 rows to 668,626 rows covering 2010 through 2026. That's 16 years of PAC spending — for or against — every federal candidate.

The OpenPolitical homepage is now an interactive cartogram of national political spending — every state sized by spend, timeline scrubber going back 4+ years, scenario annotations explaining the notable shifts. Click any state to deep-link into /research filtered to that state.

The dashboard now shows the same "data last updated" banner as /research — green timestamp visible at the top of every page, with one click to see the full update history at /data-updates.