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Name: Pro-Israel PAC money and Democrats in Congress
Creator: Primary Democrats
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The money, votes, trips and 2026 primary figures on this site, as spreadsheets you can sort, check and cite. Free to use under CC BY 4.0 (credit Primary Democrats). FEC data through August 31, 2026; files generated October 20, 2026.

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The data covers all 288 people the site tracks. That is every Democrat in the House and Senate, the two independents who caucus with them, and all Democratic governors. For each person it has money from AIPAC PAC, its super PAC United Democracy Project and the other tracked pro-Israel PACs. The money is split by source and by election cycle (2016–2026). It also has voting scores, AIPAC-funded trips and links to each person's page.

Files in the download, with what each contains, row count and size
File	What's in it	Rows	Size
people.csv	One row per person: money totals by source and cycle, separate (not-totaled) money, voting scores, trips, positions and a profile link.	288	80 KB
votes.csv	One row per person per scored roll-call vote, with how they voted and a link to the official roll call.	7,160	1.3 MB
races_2026.csv	One row per candidate in each 2026 Democratic primary on the 2026 page (18 scored races and 6 where the tracked groups only gave contributions), with tracked money for and against.	42	17 KB
trips.csv	One row per AIPAC-affiliated (AIEF) trip reported on House and Senate gift-travel filings (2017 on), linked to the filing or an archived copy of it.	119	18 KB
money_ledger.csv	One row per FEC-filed line behind the money totals (filing and transaction IDs, how each line was counted, and any correction). Adds up to the totals in people.csv (which are rounded to whole dollars, so within $1). No donor names.	69,055	14.5 MB
industry_pacs.csv	One row per person, industry PAC (drug makers, health insurers, oil and gas, guns, banks/finance/insurance, tobacco, labor unions) and receiving campaign committee: the total, how many FEC lines, and a link to the FEC's list of those payments. Adds up to the industry_pacs_* columns (PACs that refunded as much as they gave are listed but not counted). Separate: never part of the pro-Israel totals.	24,300	6.1 MB
README.txt	What every file and column means, sources and caveats.	–	23 KB

The README explains every column. No individual donor names are in these downloads: money_ledger.csv has a row for each earmarked contribution a PAC passed on, but never the donor’s name.

Earlier versions: each release is kept unchanged. So you can check a figure cited earlier against the data as it was then. released Oct 20, 2026 · released Oct 19, 2026 · released Oct 18, 2026 · released Oct 16, 2026 · released Oct 13, 2026 · released Oct 11, 2026 · released Oct 9, 2026 · released Oct 8, 2026 · released Oct 7, 2026 · released Oct 6, 2026 · FEC data through Aug 31, 2026 (released Sep 30, 2026).

Attribution

How to cite it

Suggested citation: Primary Democrats, 'Pro-Israel PAC money and Democrats in Congress,' primarydemocrats.com, data through August 31, 2026.

We compiled the data from public records. It is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). You are free to share and adapt it. Please credit Primary Democrats (primarydemocrats.com).

The underlying records are public. They are Federal Election Commission filings, official House and Senate roll calls, congress.gov and House Clerk disclosures.

For journalists and researchers

How to use it

Start with people.csv. total_pro_israel_pac is the headline number. It adds AIPAC PAC (direct and earmarked), United Democracy Project's supporting spending and the other tracked PACs, which are also broken out in their own columns and by cycle.
Don't add the separate columns to the total. The AIPAC donor network, affiliated committees, weapons makers' PACs, crypto and AI super PACs, and spending against someone are context, not part of the total.
Check the source before you publish. Each profile_url page links to the person's FEC records, and every row in votes.csv and trips.csv links to the official roll call or filing.
Join on person_id. Every file has it and it's never blank. Use bioguide (the standard congressional ID) only to match other congressional datasets: it's blank for governors who never served in Congress. fec_ids link to FEC candidate records.
Trace any total to the filings. money_ledger.csv has every FEC-filed line behind the totals, with filing and transaction IDs and a link to the filing. Summing amount where counted_in_total is yes, by person_id, gives total_pro_israel_pac to within $1, since totals are rounded to whole dollars (the build stops if it doesn't). Lines changed by a documented correction say so in adjustment.
Mind the caveats. Donor-network matches are made by name and ZIP code, so a few may be different people with the same name. The earmarked/direct split of AIPAC PAC money follows AIPAC PAC's own label on each contribution, and a voting score marked as a limited record rests on fewer than 3 votes.
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For the full method, including which PACs are tracked and why, see How we count.