A people's SuperPAC · San Diego

A SuperPAC built to destroy SuperPACs.

AI traces the money behind local politics — every figure to a public filing — and publishes it as a sourced fact sheet. Members vote on who we investigate next. $1–8 a month. No billionaires.

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Exhibit A Documented · traces to a public filing
23 disclosure rules that failed to catch a single violation
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Exhibit B Documented · traces to a public filing
$3.4M in contracts awarded to top donor firms
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Exhibit C Documented · traces to a public filing · Todd Gloria · Democrat
0 safeguards that stopped the money
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Exhibit D Documented · traces to a public filing
14 insiders hired from donor-connected firms
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Exhibit E Documented · traces to a public filing · Todd Gloria · Democrat
$847K in developer donations before key housing votes
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Exhibit F Documented · traces to a public filing
$1.2M from a single PAC to Council campaigns
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Exhibit G Documented · traces to a public filing · Todd Gloria · Democrat
1 : 812 Gloria's lifetime arts patronage vs. his single-year arts cut
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Exhibit H Documented · traces to a public filing · Todd Gloria · Democrat
162,513 donor-to-politician connections mapped
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Exhibit I Documented · traces to a public filing · Nora Vargas · Democrat
Zero Form 803 filings by SD County Supervisors since 2022
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Exhibit J Documented · traces to a public filing · Todd Gloria · Democrat
$2.1M raised across four campaign committees
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Exhibit K Documented · traces to a public filing
$6.33M City's first flood payout — all to insurers, $0 to survivors
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Exhibit L Documented · traces to a public filing · Sara Jacobs · Democrat
0 Sara Jacobs NDAA amendments on semiconductors / chips / RAMP-C / microelectronics across five fiscal years (FY22–FY26)
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Exhibit M Documented · traces to a public filing · Todd Gloria · Democrat
$30,513,332 SDPD FY26 GF increase while sworn officers fell by 9.88
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Exhibit N Documented · traces to a public filing
15 APPOINTEES 0 RAN ON TRANSIT
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Exhibit O Documented · traces to a public filing
3 MAYOR PICKS 0 YOURS
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Exhibit P Documented · traces to a public filing
7 COMMISSIONERS 0 ELECTIONS
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Exhibit Q Documented · traces to a public filing
21 MEMBERS WEIGHTED VOTES
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Exhibit R Documented · traces to a public filing
$8B 5 SEATS
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Exhibit S Documented · traces to a public filing
1 VOTE IN A 9-SEAT ROOM
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Exhibit T Documented · traces to a public filing
1 PERSON. 4 APPOINTMENT LEVERS.
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Exhibit U Documented · traces to a public filing
43% Share of SDCRAA total revenue dependent on ground-access activities (FY25, audited)
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Exhibit V Documented · traces to a public filing
$1.3B The revenue-forecast gap SANDAG staff didn't disclose before the 2004 vote
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Exhibit W Documented · traces to a public filing
7 Linked donors connect Moreno 2018 to Molina 2026
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Exhibit X Documented · traces to a public filing
$46,361 BIA PAC donations to Building Strong Communities PAC
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Exhibit Y Documented · traces to a public filing
$127K Unverified senate campaign funds
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Exhibit Z Documented · traces to a public filing · Jennifer Campbell · Democrat
$247K IE spending to seat a Democratic incumbent in D2
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Exhibit 27 Documented · traces to a public filing · Sean Elo-Rivera · Democrat
$425M free arena offer disclosed to Council President before he voted for the taxpayer alternative
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The Council Files
The System: How San Diego's Rules Were Written to Keep You From Seeing What Your Money Buys
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AI FACT SHEET
The Lawson-Remer Files
The Gap in the Shape of a Marriage
Terra Lawson-Remer · Democrat
AI FACT SHEET
The Vargas Files
The Architecture of Not Knowing: Why the Vargas Files Reopened Themselves
Nora Vargas · Democrat
AI FACT SHEET
The Defense Dollar
The Returns
AI FACT SHEET
The Lawson-Remer Files
The Meetings You Can't Attend
Terra Lawson-Remer · Democrat
AI FACT SHEET
The Council Files
The Returns: What San Diego's Money Machine Produces for the People Who Pay Their Bills
$3.4M
AI FACT SHEET
The Kent Lee Files
The Policy Pipeline
Kent Lee · Democrat
AI FACT SHEET
The Lawson-Remer Files
The $36 Million Handshake
Terra Lawson-Remer · Democrat
AI FACT SHEET
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The receipts, in scale
25,381
Evidence records
230,767
Connections mapped
141
Case files
114
Politicians tracked
Every figure traces to a public filing.