# ForgeMesh Political Money Lookup

> ForgeMesh Political Money Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from x402.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Resolves a federal candidate by name or FEC ID and returns their official campaign finance totals — receipts, disbursements, cash on hand, and debts — across election cycles.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402.forgemesh.io/political-money-lookup
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-political-money-lookup-5a2cbe40
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_yWa7vjaXJgN3EfFFAsl1T

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability forgemesh-political-money-lookup-5a2cbe40 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Pull up the FEC campaign finance picture for Nancy Pelosi in the House — I want to see how much she's raised, spent, and has on hand for recent cycles.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need official FEC campaign finance data for a specific federal candidate resolved by name or ID, especially for follow-the-money analysis, investigative research combining lobbying or congressional trade data, or any workflow requiring structured per-cycle fundraising and spending figures without needing to navigate the FEC website directly.

## Known failure modes

- Candidate name is ambiguous or too short (min 3 chars) — returns multiple matches or no match
- No FEC records found for the given candidate in the specified office
- Invalid or unrecognized candidate_id format — lookup fails
- Candidate exists but has no financial filings for recent cycles — totals may be zero or absent
- Office enum mismatch narrows results too aggressively, missing the correct candidate

## How this service works

Political money lookup: one call resolves a federal candidate and returns their official campaign finance picture — money raised, money spent, cash on hand, and debts across recent cycles. Useful joined with congressional trade and lobbying data for follow-the-money analysis.

## Output

A JSON object containing the matched candidate's name, party, state, office, district, and FEC candidate ID, plus an array of per-cycle financial totals (receipts_usd, disbursements_usd, cash_on_hand_usd, debts_usd) and a public-domain attribution to the Federal Election Commission.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "office": {
   "enum": [
    "president",
    "senate",
    "house"
   ],
   "type": "string",
   "description": "prefer matches for this office"
  },
  "candidate": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "candidate name, min 3 chars"
  },
  "candidate_id": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "exact FEC candidate id, e.g. 'P80001571' (alternative to name)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "candidate": {
   "name": "PELOSI, NANCY",
   "party": "DEMOCRATIC PARTY",
   "state": "CA",
   "office": "House",
   "district": "11",
   "candidate_id": "H8CA05035"
  },
  "attribution": "Federal Election Commission (public domain)",
  "totals_by_cycle": [
   {
    "cycle": 2026,
    "debts_usd": 0,
    "receipts_usd": 8123456.78,
    "cash_on_hand_usd": 2100000.5,
    "disbursements_usd": 6543210.99
   }
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

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