About PoliStack

What PoliStack Is

PoliStack is a structured political intelligence platform built for campaigns, consultants, PACs, and policy strategy teams.

It connects governing records, campaign finance data, electoral activity, federal regulations, government spending, ethics disclosures, and institutional relationships into one system — enabling structured analysis across candidates, legislation, committees, donors, influence networks, and federal accountability records.

PoliStack is designed for professionals who need to move beyond documents and headlines to understand how political power actually operates — and where public money flows.

Why It Exists

Political data is fragmented.

Legislative records, committee assignments, voting history, campaign finance filings, independent expenditures, and demographic indicators all exist in separate systems. Analyzing them together typically requires manual research, multiple tools, and significant time.

PoliStack was built to connect these datasets into a unified structure — so users can analyze relationships, measure influence, and generate intelligence in seconds rather than hours.

How It Works

PoliStack organizes structured congressional, electoral, and campaign finance data into a connected system.

Users interact through natural-language questions. Queries are interpreted and executed against structured records to generate grounded outputs — including:

  • Member and candidate dossiers
  • Legislative effectiveness and committee power analysis
  • Collaboration and cross-party network mapping
  • Campaign finance comparisons and donor concentration modeling
  • Super PAC and independent expenditure profiling

Outputs are generated from structured data, not scraped summaries or opinion content.

Primary Data Sources

PoliStack draws from publicly available structured datasets, including:

  • U.S. Congress legislative records
  • Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings
  • Voteview ideology scores
  • Center for Effective Lawmaking metrics
  • U.S. Census and economic indicators
  • Public lobbying disclosures
  • Federal regulations and rulemaking records
  • Federal spending and contract awards
  • Government ethics filings and disclosures
  • State-level executive and performance data
  • Prediction markets (where applicable)
  • Live election results via civicapi.org

Data is continuously structured and integrated into the PoliStack system for cross-domain analysis.

Independence & Neutrality

PoliStack is an independent platform.

It is not affiliated with any government agency, political party, campaign, or advocacy organization. The platform is designed to provide structured political intelligence across parties, institutions, and election cycles.

Intended Users

PoliStack is built for:

  • Political consultants
  • Campaign strategy teams
  • Super PAC operators
  • Government affairs professionals
  • Policy research teams

Select tools and datasets may be available in public-facing formats, while advanced intelligence capabilities are designed for professional workflows.

Comprehensive Data Sources

Official government, academic, and vetted open-source data

Legislative Data

Legislative bill data, bill summaries, vote information, and comprehensive member profiles are partially sourced from the Congress.gov API, provided by the Library of Congress. Accessed 2025.

Member biographical and service data sourced from the @unitedstates/congress-legislators project, a public domain dataset maintained by the civic community.

Bills and individual roll-call votes sourced from the @unitedstates/congress project, a public domain collection of congressional data scrapers.

Member & Candidate Priorities

Incumbent member priorities are sourced directly from official congressional websites maintained by each member's office.

Candidate priorities and policy positions are sourced from official campaign websites.

Legislative Effectiveness

Volden, Craig, and Alan E. Wiseman. 2014. Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress: Center for Lawmakers. New York: Cambridge University Press; updated at www.thelawmakers.org.

Volden, Craig, and Alan E. Wiseman. 2018. “Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Senate,” Journal of Politics 80(2): 731–735; updated at www.thelawmakers.org.

Ideology

Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2021). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com.

Executive Orders

Presidential executive orders sourced from the Federal Register API, Office of the Federal Register, National Archives. https://www.federalregister.gov.

Federal Regulations

Federal rulemaking data, proposed and final rules, and public comments sourced from Regulations.gov, the U.S. federal government's public rulemaking portal managed by the eRulemaking Program.

Campaign Finance

Campaign finance data is sourced from the Federal Election Commission (FEC). https://www.fec.gov.

Lobbying Data

Lobbying disclosure data is sourced from the U.S. Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) Database. https://lda.senate.gov.

Federal Spending

Federal award spending data including contracts, grants, loans, and other financial assistance sourced from USAspending.gov, the official source for spending data for the U.S. government, maintained by the Bureau of the Fiscal Service.

Government Ethics

Financial disclosure reports and ethics data sourced from the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE), the independent agency responsible for executive branch ethics program oversight.

Crime Statistics

Crime statistics are sourced from the FBI Crime Data Explorer API, Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program. https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov.

Demographics & Census

Demographic and equity-related metrics are sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS).

Economic & Market Data

Economic indicators sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) from the St. Louis Federal Reserve, and the National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO).

Stock market and sector performance data tied to presidential terms sourced from Yahoo Finance. Fed funds rates and quantitative easing balance sheet data sourced from the FRED API.

Prediction Markets

Kalshi. (n.d.). Kalshi API Documentation. Retrieved February 3, 2026, from https://docs.kalshi.com.

Live Election Results

Live election results data provided by civicapi.org. Free, open-source election data API for research, publication, and commercial use.

Race Ratings

Sabato's Crystal Ball. Center for Politics, University of Virginia. https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/.