Announcing NRA Funded
See if the NRA is funding your Congresspeople
Last year, the United States had 332 mass shootings, and 13,449 people died from guns. In 2014, the NRA spent $3,360,000 on federal lobbying to put legislators into Congress to prevent gun control. Almost a third of Congress members received NRA funding in 2014.
I’ve built a new website, called NRA Funded, where you can see if your Congresspeople are being funded by the NRA. Check it out on Product Hunt.
Pulling data from the Center for Responsible Politics and the Gun Violence Archive, the site shows you all the Representatives and Senators currently in Congress, grouped by state. On each person’s profile, you can see if they received NRA Funding, their term dates, and a variety of ways to contact them (including by phone, Twitter, their contact form, and their website).
You can also enter your US address and jump to the Senators and Representatives that represent you in Congress:
Processing the data, I found a few interesting statistics:
- 30.5% of Congress members received NRA funding in 2014
- The NRA spent a total of $27,024,618 on just federal elections in 2014
- 56.4% of US Congress members are Republicans, but 96.9% of those funded by the NRA are Republicans
- 80.5% of US Congress members are men, but 90.8% of those funded are men
Visit the site at nrafunded.us (Product Hunt link), and start speaking out against the NRA’s political funding.
Our representatives should represent us, not the gun lobby.
→ Also, the site’s code is open source on GitHub, so please contribute!
