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This tool is designed to match a PAC of interest with donations made to specific federal election candidates. The use case that inspired this tool was checking historical donations of a PAC to federal candidates or elected officials that denied the legitimacy of the 2020 election.\n\n# Getting started\nCheck the jupyter notebook provided with this repository `demo.ipynb`. You will have to either request your own self-service API key from the OpenFEC project, or use their `\"DEMO_KEY\"` which has a stricter rate limit.\n\nRun the demo notebook yourself in-browser with Binder [here](https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/jlwhelan28/pac-hunter/main?filepath=demo.ipynb)\n\n##  Example: Raytheon Technologies' PAC donations to 2020 election deniers\n\n![](heatmap_example.png)\n\n# Future release\nI'm hopeful to provide a small service that runs a `streamlit` app providing a simple interface to use this tool for non-developers. 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