Methodology

How to read this file

Office & Ties shows 633 officials and 17,703 ties from a public compilation dated November 5, 2026. It is not a finding of wrongdoing.

Uncalled races

A race is uncalled only when race_called is exactly no. Values that start with yes, including a note about which desk called the race, are called. This file’s uncalled races are Jake Johnson (MN-1), Kristina Knickerbocker (OH-10), Victoria Broderick (TN-4), and Shannon Taylor (VA-1). Those four profiles are not presented as winners. Vote totals everywhere are unofficial until certification.

Ties

Each tie has a relationship, an amount when one was recorded, a date when one was recorded, and an evidence flag. Reported ties (17,297) are drawn as solid lines. Inferred ties (406) are dashed. An orbit shows one official’s ties, not all 17,703 at once. A shared name between two officials is not proof they met, coordinated, or influenced each other.

Sources

Records are described in generic terms: public filings, election returns, Wikipedia, or a news report. The downloadable CSVs are the public export. The pages do not name private data aggregators.

Sponsorship

The labeled Sponsored slots are first-party placeholders. This preview does not load an ad network, set an ad cookie, or sell political, candidate, or advocacy inventory. A future outbound sponsor link, if Marshall approves one, will use rel="sponsored". Sponsorship would not be an endorsement of a candidate in the file.

Map

The map draws simplified boundaries for the 50 states and the District of Columbia. American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands are listed by those names and are not drawn on that map. House districts are listed by the district number in the file. They are not drawn as polygons. “Jurisdictions” means those states, the District of Columbia, and the five territories together.

Watch

The Watch list is not part of the 92. An indictment on that list is a set of allegations. People named there are presumed innocent. Donor overlap is not coordination, and a shared name is not proof. Those pages do not change the roster, the map, or the headline counts.

Explore

The pathfinder uses reported rows only. It does not follow inferred ties, and it does not merge two different counterparty names. A shared filing name is not coordination or wrongdoing. Each hop names the relationship type in the file and the source link when one is published. The entity hive uses those same relationship types. A vendor disbursement, a committee identification, and a contribution are not all called donations. Side-by-side cards compare two profiles in the same cohort only. Missing amounts stay unavailable. Disclosed stock amounts stay ranges. This file has no verified hearing or committee-vote dates tied to a traded asset, so that comparison is unavailable rather than filled in.

What this file leaves out

PDF dossier binaries are not in this build; each profile links a printable summary and shows the pdfs/<slug>/ path the file should use. A full matrix of every official pair, and guided question pages, are not separate routes. The pathfinder answers one pair at a time.