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Battleground States
Most Competitive
The highest-investment battlegrounds in the country, where every dollar counts and any outcome is possible.
  • Arizona
  • Georgia
  • Michigan
  • Nevada
  • North Carolina
  • Pennsylvania
  • Wisconsin
Emerging Battlegrounds
Calculated Investment
States drawing growing attention and strategic spending, competitive enough to matter, watched closely by both parties.
  • Texas
  • Florida
  • Ohio
  • Minnesota
  • Alaska
  • New Hampshire
  • Nebraska
  • Virginia
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Live FEC Data Explore the Money
Live FEC Data · 2026 Election Cycle

Follow the Money shaping the 2026 swing state elections.

A nonpartisan, real-time look at who is funding the most competitive U.S. Senate and House races in the country, with every figure pulled straight from Federal Election Commission filings.

Know who is funding the race, and where every dollar goes.
Follow the money. Demand transparency.
Your vote matters. So does knowing who's paying for it.
Real numbers. Real candidates. Real accountability.
Campaign cash, tracked down to the dollar.
Don't just follow the race. Follow the money.
Who funds them shapes who they serve.
Raised, spent, and on hand: nothing hidden.
Explore the Tracker → How the money works
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Battleground States
The most competitive states where both parties are pouring in the most money, resources, and national attention.
AZ · GA · MI · NV · NC · PA · WI
Emerging Battlegrounds
States receiving targeted support that could become higher priority depending on how the political environment develops.
TX · FL · OH · MN · AK · NH · NE · VA
Three ways in

Everything you need to follow the money

Start with the live tracker, learn how campaign finance actually works, or see exactly what we cover.

The Tracker

Live, candidate-by-candidate fundraising for every 2026 battleground race — total raised, cash on hand, and where the money comes from, straight from FEC filings.
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Learn

Plain-language guides to PACs, Super PACs, the Citizens United decision, and how money actually moves through American elections — no jargon, no spin.
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What We Track

The exact races, offices, and figures we cover across 15 battleground states — and an honest account of the limits of the public record.
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The 2026 Money Race

Where the money is flowing, and why it matters

Control of the United States Senate and House of Representatives in 2026 will be decided in a relatively small number of competitive states and districts. In those places, fundraising is one of the earliest and most measurable signals of a campaign's strength. A candidate's receipts reveal how much support they have assembled; their cash on hand shows how much firepower they can still deploy; and the split between small individual donors and political action committees hints at where that support is coming from. Long before a single vote is cast, the money tells a story about which races the two parties believe are truly winnable.

Money is not destiny. The best-funded candidate does not always win, and a wave of late spending can reshape a race in its final weeks. But fundraising is one of the few hard numbers available months before an election, and it is remarkably revealing. Party committees and outside groups study these filings closely to decide where to commit their own resources, which means a candidate's early haul can become self-fulfilling: strong numbers attract more money, national attention, and volunteer energy, while weak numbers can quietly starve a campaign before voters ever tune in.

MoneyTalks.Vote organizes the competitive landscape into two groups. The Battleground States group covers the seven states where both parties are concentrating the most money and attention: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The Emerging Battlegrounds group covers states such as Texas, Florida, Ohio, Minnesota, Alaska, New Hampshire, Nebraska, and Virginia, where spending is heavy in specific races even if the statewide outcome looks more settled. Every figure on this site comes straight from Federal Election Commission filings and is shown exactly as the campaigns reported it.

The seven battleground states

Each battleground has its own political history and its own reasons for being close. These nonpartisan guides explain what is driving the contest in each state and what to watch in the money:

Wisconsin Michigan Pennsylvania North Carolina
Nevada Arizona Georgia
Money in Politics, Explained

Make sense of the numbers

Campaign finance has its own vocabulary and its own rules. These plain-language explainers give you the context behind every figure in the tracker.

What the FEC Is and What It Does

Meet the independent agency that has administered the nation's campaign finance disclosure laws since 1975 — and why it exists.

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How to Read an FEC Filing

Receipts, disbursements, cash on hand, itemized donors: what each line in a campaign's report actually means.

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What Political Action Committees Are

Where PACs came from, how connected and nonconnected committees differ, and the limits that govern what they can give.

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Super PACs & Independent Expenditures

How unlimited outside spending works, why it stays "independent," and how it reshapes races the candidate filings can't show.

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The Citizens United Decision

The 2010 Supreme Court ruling that reshaped American campaign finance and opened the door to today's outside money.

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Where Campaign Money Comes From

Individual donors, PACs, party committees, dark money, and self-funding — the real sources behind the totals.

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A Reader's Guide

How to read a candidate's campaign finances

When you select a race in the tracker, each candidate is shown with the same handful of numbers. They come directly from that campaign's own filings, but they are easy to misread without a little context. Here is what each figure actually tells you, and the traps to avoid.

Total raised is momentum, not a bank balance

Total raised, or total receipts, is the cumulative amount a campaign has brought in during the cycle. It is the headline figure, and it captures momentum: a candidate who out-raises a rival is usually attracting broader or more enthusiastic support. But total raised is not money in the bank. A campaign can raise an impressive sum and spend nearly all of it, which is why the next number matters just as much.

Cash on hand is the real firepower

Cash on hand is the balance a campaign still holds after its spending to date. It is arguably the single most telling number in a filing, because it shows how much a candidate can still deploy on advertising, staff, and turnout in the closing stretch. A campaign with a smaller total raised but a larger war chest may be in a stronger position than a flashier rival that has already burned through its receipts.

Where the money comes from

The tracker breaks receipts into their major sources, and the mix says a lot about a campaign's character. A heavy reliance on small-dollar individual gifts points to a broad grassroots base; a large share from political action committees signals organized institutional support; and candidate self-funding can prop up a total that donors have not supplied on their own. None of these sources is inherently good or bad, but the balance among them is one of the clearest windows into who is really behind a campaign.

What these numbers do not capture

The figures in this tracker come from each candidate's own campaign committee. They do not include the enormous sums spent by Super PACs and other outside groups, because that money is reported separately and is not controlled by the candidate. A race can look close in the candidates' own filings while being reshaped by millions in outside spending. To understand that layer, read our guide to Super PACs and independent expenditures, and see exactly what we track.

About This Project

About the 2026 Campaign Finance Tracker

MoneyTalks.Vote is a nonpartisan transparency tool that tracks campaign fundraising in the most competitive United States Senate and House races of the 2026 election cycle. Every figure is drawn directly from the Federal Election Commission and is presented exactly as candidates reported it. The platform does not editorialize and does not endorse any candidate or party. Its purpose is simply to make the public record of political money easy to read.

Where our data comes from

Every number on this site originates with the Federal Election Commission. When you open a race, the tracker queries the FEC's public data interface in real time and displays the totals from each candidate's most recent report, so you are always looking at the latest available filing rather than a stale snapshot. We do not alter, estimate, or supplement the numbers; where the public record is incomplete, our tracker reflects that gap rather than filling it in. For the full scope, see our coverage and methodology page.

Our commitment to neutrality

MoneyTalks.Vote is independent and is not affiliated with any candidate, party, campaign, political action committee, or government agency. We present the same categories of information for every candidate in a race and let the numbers speak for themselves. Read more about who we are and the standards we hold ourselves to on our About page, or browse the frequently asked questions.

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