What is Political Influence Network?
Political Influence Network is an MCP server that maps donor-politician-legislation relationships, detects conflicts of interest, and traces dark money flows across eight US government data sources. It is built for compliance teams, investigative researchers, and AI agents needing structured political intelligence without raw API complexity.
How to use Political Influence Network?
Add the server URL to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf) using the configuration shown in the README. No API key is required. Then call any of the eight MCP tools with a query string and optional source filters; each tool returns structured JSON with scored entities and findings.
Key features of Political Influence Network
- PageRank influence scoring on the full political graph
- Bipartite graph construction with 8 node and 7 edge types
- Temporal Granger causality for donation-to-legislation links
- Conflict of interest detection across stock trades and legislation
- Dark money path tracing through nonprofit intermediaries
- Revolving door analysis with influence potential scoring
- Lobbying ROI calculation (legislative wins per dollar spent)
- Multi-factor political risk scoring (6 weighted factors)
- 5‑minute TTL cache to avoid redundant API costs
- Supports both SSE and Streamable HTTP transports
Use cases of Political Influence Network
- Corporate political risk assessment for compliance and ESG teams
- Investigative journalism into regulatory capture or pay-to-play contracting
- Lobbying effectiveness benchmarking for trade associations and corporations
- Congressional trading oversight for ethics watchdogs and investors
- AI agent political intelligence workflows for due diligence and monitoring
- Nonprofit and dark money investigations via multi-hop funding tracing
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