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Financial transparency overlay — surfaces public donor data on political speakers. FactFlow — Financial Transparency Overlay When a senator speaks on healthcare, who are their top donors? When a pundit argues against climate legislation, who funds them? The data to answer these questions is public — filed with the FEC, tracked by OpenSecrets, disclosed by law. But almost nobody looks, because almost nobody has time to. FactFlow closes that gap. Activate the overlay on any page — a news article, a YouTube hearing, a C-SPAN stream — type a name or pick from recent searches, and get a real-time panel showing that person's total fundraising, top contributing industries, PAC vs. individual donation split, and more. All figures are sourced directly from public government databases and nonprofit watchdog organizations. Nothing is inferred. Nothing is editorially framed. Just the record. What it shows: — Total funds raised (current and historical cycles) — Individual contributions vs. PAC money — Top donor industries and organizations — Chamber, party, and state — Direct source citations (FEC, OpenSecrets) What it doesn't do: — No facial recognition or biometric data of any kind — No tracking, no accounts, no data collection — No political framing or editorial commentary — Works on retired and current federal legislators Who it's for: Journalists fact-checking a source in real time. Educators teaching students how campaign finance actually works. Researchers and watchdog organizations accelerating investigation workflows. Anyone who's ever wondered whose interests are really being served. Financially motivated speech isn't a scandal — it's a structure. FactFlow doesn't make that argument. It just makes the structure visible. Data sources: FEC.gov · OpenSecrets.org · Congress.gov Open source. No ads. No tracking.