{"version":2,"state":"MN","account_count":47,"account_count_label":"accounts with independent-spending rows","checked_at":"2026-10-02T09:32:07.987109+00:00","period_label":"Reporting year 2026; frozen October 2 source extract","coverage_start":"2026-01-22","coverage_end":"2026-09-15","hero_record_label":"independent-spending source rows","hero_scope_note":"Independent-spending disclosures for source reporting year 2026, captured October 2, 2026. Monetary amounts include unpaid obligations. Latest-report and amendment reconciliation is incomplete. This is a frozen source-row view, not complete Minnesota spending or a current campaign total.","records_scope_note":"Independent-spending disclosures for source reporting year 2026, captured October 2, 2026. Monetary amounts include unpaid obligations. Latest-report and amendment reconciliation is incomplete. This is a frozen source-row view, not complete Minnesota spending or a current campaign total.","records_title":"Inspect independent spending.","records_lead":"Search 1,648 independent-spending disclosures by spender, payee, named candidate, date and ledger.","spending_page_title":"Minnesota independent-spending charts | W4POLITICS","spending_description":"Explore 2026 Minnesota independent-spending source rows, unpaid obligations, in-kind values, support and opposition charts, and exact official source controls.","records_page_title":"Minnesota independent-spending records | W4POLITICS","records_description":"Search 1,648 Minnesota independent-spending source rows by spender, payee, candidate and date. Exact amounts include separately identified unpaid obligations.","primary_ledgers":["monetary_ie_obligations","in_kind_ie"],"default_ledger":"monetary_ie_obligations","receipt_ledgers":[],"comparison_note":"Independent-spending disclosures for source reporting year 2026, captured October 2, 2026. Monetary amounts include unpaid obligations. Latest-report and amendment reconciliation is incomplete. This is a frozen source-row view, not complete Minnesota spending or a current campaign total.","scope_note":"All 1,648 reporting-year 2026 occurrences in two matching official independent-expenditure downloads and the matching public API selection for the 47 observed spenders. Eight repeated safe-value occurrences are preserved. Source occurrence counts are not unique payments.","source_note":"Every account count, obligation sum and included unpaid sum matches the frozen extract controls. Equality of the three extracts does not establish the latest controlling report for every account.","usage_note":"For public-interest reporting. Addresses, cities, ZIP codes, contact details, employer, occupation and free-text purposes are omitted. Public names and registration identifiers are retained as filed.","date_note":"Source transaction dates are not report coverage cutoffs. Accounts have different filing calendars; this is not a complete election cycle.","geography_available":false,"geography_note":"This release contains independent spending, not donations. A payee state is not a donor state, so no donor-origin map is shown.","top_receiving_ledger":"in_kind_ie","top_spending_ledger":"monetary_ie_obligations","top_receiving_accounts":[{"label":"Columbia Heights Federation of Teachers Political Fund","rows":1,"reported_rows":1,"amount":"2339.43","account_id":"mn-cfb:account:30797"},{"label":"Credit River Residents for Change","rows":1,"reported_rows":1,"amount":"21.66","account_id":"mn-cfb:account:41423"}],"top_spending_accounts":[{"label":"Restore Sanity","rows":47,"reported_rows":47,"amount":"7091846.11","account_id":"mn-cfb:account:41412"},{"label":"Alliance for a Better Minnesota State PAC","rows":17,"reported_rows":17,"amount":"3121918.62","account_id":"mn-cfb:account:41360"},{"label":"Minnesotans for Justice","rows":12,"reported_rows":12,"amount":"2117400.00","account_id":"mn-cfb:account:41414"},{"label":"Advance Minnesota Independent Expenditure Committee","rows":88,"reported_rows":88,"amount":"2029306.67","account_id":"mn-cfb:account:41205"},{"label":"First Principles PAC","rows":11,"reported_rows":11,"amount":"1697230.00","account_id":"mn-cfb:account:41428"},{"label":"Renew Minnesota","rows":154,"reported_rows":154,"amount":"1627763.28","account_id":"mn-cfb:account:41337"},{"label":"Pro Jobs Majority","rows":51,"reported_rows":51,"amount":"1585509.00","account_id":"mn-cfb:account:41047"},{"label":"DFL House Caucus","rows":69,"reported_rows":69,"amount":"740770.00","account_id":"mn-cfb:account:20006"},{"label":"Safer Minnesota Fund","rows":1,"reported_rows":1,"amount":"500000.00","account_id":"mn-cfb:account:30800"},{"label":"DFL Senate Caucus","rows":46,"reported_rows":46,"amount":"355222.99","account_id":"mn-cfb:account:20011"}],"receipt_rank_title":"Accounts reporting in-kind independent spending","receipt_rank_note":"Noncash source-row values, not fundraising or cash receipts.","expense_rank_title":"Largest monetary independent-spending row sums","expense_rank_note":"Obligations by exact public spender registration ID, including unpaid amounts. Not official current-report totals.","monetary_stance":[{"label":"oppose","rows":563,"reported_rows":563,"amount":"15188269.55"},{"label":"support","rows":1083,"reported_rows":1083,"amount":"8549812.81"}],"payment_components":[{"label":"Amount less unpaid component","rows":1646,"amount":"22238643.33"},{"label":"Unpaid component included in amount","rows":116,"amount":"1499439.03"}],"charts":[{"id":"ie-stance","title":"Did independent spending support or oppose?","field":"monetary_stance","note":"Monetary obligations only. Source For and Against become support and oppose. Independent spending is not a donation received by a candidate."},{"id":"ie-unpaid","title":"How much remains unpaid in the extract?","field":"payment_components","note":"Two components of the same $23,738,082.36 monetary-obligation sum. Amount less unpaid is derived subtraction, not a separately verified statewide cash total. Do not add unpaid again. In-kind is excluded."}],"quality_notes":["Two complete official CSV extracts and the API extract match every privacy-safe occurrence, not just their totals.","All 47 account-level counts, amount sums and unpaid sums reconcile; signs and source duplicates are retained.","Reported negative affected registration IDs are retained without inventing a candidate-profile match."],"limitations":["Donation receipts, ordinary campaign expenses, loans and cash balances are not included in this release.","The latest report and amendment chain is not verified for all 47 accounts. These source-row observations must not be represented as final or current campaign totals.","Unitemized spending, federal spending and comprehensive local-election filings are not included.","A name or reported contribution alone does not establish an agreement, corruption or control."],"source_links":[{"label":"Official CFB download catalog","url":"https://cfb.mn.gov/reports-and-data/self-help/data-downloads/campaign-finance/"},{"label":"Official interactive record search","url":"https://cfb.mn.gov/reports/"},{"label":"How to use Board data","url":"https://cfb.mn.gov/citizen-resources/self-help/education-and-tools/exploring-and-using-board-data/"}],"transaction_count":1648,"ledger_totals":[{"ledger":"monetary_ie_obligations","label":"Monetary independent-spending obligations","rows":1646,"reported_rows":1646,"amount":"23738082.36","note":"Includes $1,499,439.03 unpaid. Not a cash-paid total."},{"ledger":"in_kind_ie","label":"In-kind independent spending","rows":2,"reported_rows":2,"amount":"2361.09","note":"Noncash value in two source rows. Kept separate from monetary obligations."}]}