How We Built This Tracker

This tracker draws on six primary data sources, all publicly available:

Federal Election Commission (FEC) — Bulk data downloads from FEC.gov covering all federal candidate committees, PAC receipts, PAC disbursements, and independent expenditures from 2019 through the current cycle.

NYC Campaign Finance Board (NYC CFB) — Bulk CSV exports covering New York City mayoral, council, and borough-wide races.

IRS Form 990 and Schedule B — Nonprofit tax filings. The Qatar Foundation's contribution to CAIR Foundation was identified through Schedule B filings and corroborated by congressional testimony.

DOJ Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) database — The DOJ's public FARA database lists registered foreign agents, their principals, and their activities.

Congressional testimony and court records — The Holy Land Foundation trial produced an extensive public record including the 1991 Muslim Brotherhood memorandum listing co-conspirators, including CAIR, ISNA, ICNA, MAS, and NAIT.

Public reporting — Where financial data was corroborated by reporting in the press, we note this in individual entries.

This tracker documents the electoral activities of a constellation of organizations, donors, and PACs connected to the Muslim Brotherhood and its ideological project of replacing Western democratic institutions with Islamic governance.

Islamism — sometimes called political Islam — is distinct from Islam the religion. It is a political ideology that holds Islamic law should govern public life and that Western democratic institutions are fundamentally incompatible with Islamic civilization.

We apply a specific definition for inclusion: documented organizational, ideological, or financial connection to this network as established through court records, government designations, or self-identification.

Tier 1 — Self-evidently network-affiliated: Organizations named in the 1991 Muslim Brotherhood memorandum (CAIR, ISNA, ICNA, MAS, MSA, NAIT), their affiliated PACs, and organizations with documented leadership or financial ties to these entities.

Tier 2 — Proven by donor and ideological chain: PACs and organizations connected to the network through their donor base, their endorsed candidates, or their stated goals. American Priorities PAC is the primary example — its donors are documented Tier 1 network participants, its endorsed candidates align with network priorities, and its spending patterns mirror established network PACs. We require multiple corroborating connections before placing any entity in Tier 2.

Campaign finance records are notoriously inconsistent. We used a combination of name, employer, zip code, and contribution pattern matching to identify likely duplicates.

The clearest example is Mohammed Javed, CEO of Showcase Commerce, who appears under three distinct name variations across three different giving vehicles. We matched these records based on employer, zip code, and distinctive contribution patterns.

The dollar amounts shown for each candidate represent total network electoral activity we have documented so far. This includes direct contributions, independent expenditures in support, independent expenditures in opposition, and PAC-to-PAC transfers.

Dark money routed through 501(c)(4) organizations is by definition invisible in public records. LLC and corporate donations may obscure beneficial ownership. State-level races outside New York are not currently covered. This tracker is a living document and is constantly growing. Expect a substantial data refresh after the July 31, 2026 FEC quarterly filing deadline.

If you have information not captured in this tracker, or believe we have made an error, contact us at tips@islamistinfluence.com. All correspondence is confidential.