# VigilData — Data source summary

VigilData is built on primary, public-record data. Every signal in the
platform is intended to link back to one of the categories below.

## Federal accountability data

- **Federal Election Commission (FEC)** — campaign finance: contributions,
  expenditures, committees, independent expenditures.
- **U.S. House and U.S. Senate financial disclosure portals** — member
  financial disclosures, stock and asset reporting.
- **Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA)** — registered lobbyists and clients.
- **USAspending.gov** — federal awards, contracts, and grant flows.
- **Congress.gov / GovTrack** — bills, votes, committee activity.

## Judicial

- **U.S. Supreme Court** — opinions and disclosures where publicly posted.
- **Federal judicial disclosure portals** — financial disclosures and
  recusal-related records to the extent publicly available.

## Regulatory & antitrust

- **FTC** — competition enforcement actions, press releases, public filings.
- **DOJ Antitrust Division** — case dockets and public actions.

## State (planned expansion)

- **State legislative tracking systems** — bills, votes, committee activity.
- **State campaign-finance and lobbying disclosure portals** — varies by
  state; coverage expanded under the State-Level Accountability Pilot.

## Editorial and methodology

- Each module documents the specific source endpoints in /methodology and
  /data-sources.
- Corrections are tracked at /corrections.
- Editorial independence policy at /editorial-independence.

## What we do not do

- We do not buy, ingest, or surface private surveillance data.
- We do not target private citizens.
- We do not represent AI-generated text as findings without source links.