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I had a back and forth with Molly on Bluesky about this and the source of the data

https://bsky.app/profile/verdverm.bsky.social/post/3kvjythgh...

There is a lot of nuance to the data and the context, so "dwarf" is probably not the best term, especially in a more general PAC context

https://www.fec.gov/data/committees/pac-party/?cycle=2024

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“Dwarf” was my word, not hers.

Even so, if you click through she has another page that lists hybrid PACs. I have no idea if even that is the full picture; US politics are complicated. The project is open source so perhaps you can submit a PR to make it better.

(Molly here.) I added the “All PACs” page largely thanks to that Bluesky conversation with verdverm (thank you!) The “all PACs” page is the full picture.

It’s showing the same data that verdverm linked over at the FEC, which places Fairshake at #9 out of any kind of committee. Arguably ActBlue and WinRed shouldn’t really be listed there, since they are fundraising platforms that serve as an intermediary.

It was an informative discussion and a nice instance of constructive discourse of a political topic on social media. I learned some things too!

I've found that it requires self-discipline on both parties making an effort to break the pattern-matching/automatic-thinking to emotional pipeline that is so easy to fall into.

Kudos to both of you for having that.

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