ai money in politics tracker, day 1

shipped the ai lobbying tracker at sunshine.fm/super-pacs from scratch in a single session. tracks 9 ai super pacs through the 2026 midterms across two factions: pro-ai (leading the future network, innovation council action, meta) and pro-regulation (public first / anthropic-backed). cloudflare worker + kv architecture with daily cron at 9am utc.

fec api pulling committee totals, schedule e independent expenditures, and schedule a donor receipts. newsapi monitoring 24 trusted sources for pac name mentions. expanded card design with top donors, active races with for/against tags, leadership sections, and badge annotation system distinguishing fec-verified from self-reported from pledged from 501c4-restricted numbers.

full sunshine.fm branding — barlow condensed, syne, exact aviator svg path extracted verbatim from index.html, colors from source. pro-ai column in deep navy, pro-regulation in sky blue. added as third card in the lab section on the sunshine.fm homepage replacing the desert chat placeholder.

10 deploys across the session.

tools: claude, claude code, cloudflare workers, fec api, newsapi, wrangler.