What is AIPAC funding?
AIPAC — the American Israel Public Affairs Committee — is a pro-Israel lobbying group in the United States. Its political action committee (PAC) donates directly to candidates’ campaigns, and individual donors connected to the group give their own money too. PoliVion tracks these documented contributions and shows them on every candidate’s card, with amounts where they’re on the record.
It isn’t the only money in politics. Candidates also raise from small-dollar donors, other PACs, and their parties — and PoliVion shows each candidate’s total 2026 fundraising alongside the AIPAC figures so you can see the full picture.
How lobbying money shapes elections
Running for Congress is expensive. Candidates need money for ads, staff, offices, and travel — and the groups that write the biggest checks get the most attention. A large donation can be the difference between winning and losing, and candidates remember who helped put them there.
There’s a pattern to who gets this money — and it isn’t about party. How the AIPAC strategy works →
How it shapes the votes they cast
The influence doesn’t end on Election Day. Once in office, politicians who depended on a lobbying group’s money can feel pressure to vote the way the group wants — even when that goes against what the people in their state actually need.
The bottom line: the less influence politicians owe to outside funding groups, the freer they are to make decisions that line up with what their voters need. That’s why PoliVion marks both directions — candidates who received AIPAC-linked money, and the candidates AIPAC is spending money against.
The foreign-lobbying debate
AIPAC is currently at the center of a public debate: critics argue it functions as a foreign lobbying operation and have called for it to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act — the U.S. law for groups acting on behalf of foreign governments. Whatever label you use, its stated priority is the U.S.–Israel relationship, which doesn’t always line up with the everyday priorities of the American voters a candidate is supposed to represent.
See the money in your races
Every 2026 midterm race, every nominee, every documented dollar.
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