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The most powerful politicians in America don’t want their trades tracked.

CapitolExposed cross-references every congressional stock trade, campaign donor, lobbying contact, and federal filing — built from public records, free for journalists and the public, with no corporate money behind it. Your donation is what makes that possible.

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One 24-core server runs CapitolExposed, EpsteinExposed and DataCentersExposed, plus the Postgres instance all three read from. It is the largest single bill and the reason the site is not on a per-request platform.

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Postgres storage and backups

Roughly 10 GB of trades, filings, votes and source documents, dumped nightly and mirrored off-box to Cloudflare R2 with 28-day retention.

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