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, and institutional relationships into one system — enabling structured analysis across candidates, legislation, committees, donors, and influence networks.

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

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
  • State-level executive and performance data
  • Prediction markets (where applicable)

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.

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.

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.

Race Ratings

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