How We Built This Tracker

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

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

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 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, fincancial records, or self-identification.

Tier 1 — Self-evidently network-affiliated: Organizations named in the 1991 Muslim Brotherhood memorandum as co-conspirators (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 a prime 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 can be frustratingly 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 used at least three distinct name variations across six documented contributions — including a $1,050,000 gift to American Priorities PAC and a $50,000 gift to Justice Democrats PAC. We matched these records based on employer, zip code, and distinctive contribution patterns.

We do not merge donor records unless we have at least two corroborating data points beyond name similarity. A shared surname alone is not sufficient. If you believe we have incorrectly merged two distinct individuals, please contact us.

Every donor match and dollar figure in this tracker is independently re-verified against primary-source bulk data before publication.

The dollar amounts shown for each candidate represent total network electoral activity documented in support of that candidate: independent expenditures in support and direct contributions. Independent expenditures made in opposition to candidates outside this tracker, and transfers between PACs, are documented on the relevant PAC's own profile rather than folded into any candidate's total.

For organizations in the Network directory that are 501(c)(3) nonprofits — such as CAIR, ICNA, and MAS — any revenue figure referenced in their profile description reflects annual revenue from the most recent available IRS Form 990, not direct electoral spending. These organizations are legally prohibited from making direct campaign contributions.

Dark money routed through 501(c)(4) organizations is by definition invisible in public records. LLC and corporate donations may obscure beneficial ownership. This tracker currently covers a small number of high-profile congressional and Senate races plus the New York City mayoral race — the races where documented network involvement is clearest. Verifying each additional race takes real work, and coverage is growing accordingly

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