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Foreign influence in U.S. campaign finance.

Foreign nationals are legally prohibited from contributing to U.S. federal elections (52 U.S.C. § 30121). Foreign-agent lobbyists must register under FARA. Foreign-policy-aligned PACs are domestic but advocate specific foreign-country positions. This page tracks all four — every row links to a government primary source.

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Four distinct categories — not one undifferentiated "foreign money" story.

"Foreign donor" is a phrase that does heavy lifting in political discourse, often collapsing four very different stories. We separate them on purpose:

  1. Illegal foreign-national contributions — documented FEC or DOJ enforcement. Bulletproof.
  2. FARA-registered lobbyist contributions — legal, but the politician was funded by lobbyists paid to advance a foreign government's interests.
  3. Foreign state-owned-enterprise employees as donors — legal contributions from U.S. residents whose employer is a foreign government's business arm.
  4. Foreign-policy-aligned PACs (DOMESTIC) — these are U.S. domestic PACs, NOT foreign agents. Their contributions are legal. They are listed here because their advocacy is focused on U.S. policy toward a specific foreign country.

Source bar: every row links to fec.gov, justice.gov, efile.fara.gov, or govinfo.gov. Where a row covers an FEC Matter Under Review that resulted in a 2-2 deadlock, we say so — a deadlock is a procedural dismissal, not a finding of innocence.

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FEC committee filings · the biggest dollar amounts

Foreign-policy-aligned PACs (DOMESTIC) · 3

DOMESTIC U.S. PACs registered with the FEC, not foreign agents. Listed here because their advocacy is specifically focused on U.S. policy positions favoring a single foreign country. All contributions are legal domestic contributions. The dollars are the juice: AIPAC's super PAC (UDP) raised $87.2M in the 2023-2024 cycle alone. Cumulative since founding (2022): $176M+. We tie every foreign-policy PAC dollar to its influence on U.S. votes and U.S. lives.

United Democracy Project (UDP)

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Origin: Israel — UDP is a domestic super PAC advocating U.S. policy positions favoring Israel

AIPAC-affiliated super PAC raised $87.2M in the 2023-2024 cycle. Spent $37.9M on independent expenditures targeting Democratic House primary candidates including Bowman (NY-16, $9.9M against) and Bush (MO-01, $8.6M against). Cumulative receipts since founding (2022): $176M+.

Recipient: Wesley Bell (MO-01) defeating Cori Bush · George Latimer (NY-16) defeating Jamaal Bowman · ~318 federal candidates total in 2024

UDP is a DOMESTIC U.S. super PAC, not a foreign agent. Listed in the foreign-policy-aligned-PAC category because its advocacy is specifically focused on U.S. policy positions favoring a single foreign country (Israel). All UDP contributions and independent expenditures are legal under U.S. campaign finance law. The $87.2M cycle-receipt figure is from FEC committee C00799031 page for cycle 2024 (as of 2024-12-31). The $37.9M independent-expenditure figure is the apples-to-apples "election spending" number. Both verifiable via fec.gov/data/committee/C00799031/?cycle=2024.

FEC — Committee C00799031 → · 2024-12-31
$87.2M
cycle 2024
Domestic PAC

JStreetPAC

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Origin: Israel — domestic PAC advocating pro-Israel, pro-two-state-solution U.S. policy

Membership-organization PAC bundling individual contributions to candidates aligned with pro-Israel, pro-two-state-solution U.S. policy positions.

Recipient: Democratic House and Senate candidates supportive of two-state solution

Same framing as UDP: a domestic U.S. PAC whose advocacy is focused on U.S. policy toward a specific foreign country. Different policy position than UDP/AIPAC.

FEC — Committee C00441949 → · 2024-11-04
n/a
cycle 2024
Domestic PAC

Armenian National Committee PAC (ANCA PAC)

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Origin: Armenia — domestic PAC advocating U.S. policy aligned with Armenia and Armenian-American interests

Trade-association PAC affiliated with the Armenian National Committee of America.

Recipient: Federal candidates supportive of Armenia / Artsakh policy + Armenian Genocide recognition
FEC — Committee C00146969 → · 2024-11-04
n/a
cycle 2024
Domestic PAC
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