Documented money flows through disclosure-anonymous channels — 501(c)(4) "social welfare" organisations that legally refuse to disclose donors, Super PACs whose donor pool is partially anonymised through sister 501(c)(4)s, and shell-layer Super PAC stacks. The ledger answers the question: what fraction of an official's war chest is sourced to traceable individuals, and what fraction is hidden by intermediate layers Congress chose to permit?
"Dark" is a legal-disclosure classification, not a finding of wrongdoing. 501(c)(4) nonprofits and the affiliated Super PAC structures documented here operate under existing FEC and IRS rules. The ledger documents what the disclosure regime allows to be hidden — not that any particular contribution was illegal.
