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POLITICAL DONORS

Your political donation is public record. Your home address doesn't have to be one search away.

Federal and state disclosure laws attach your name, address, and employer to every reportable contribution — and that data gets copied onto searchable sites across the web. We can't unpublish the filing, but we find the broker and people-search listings that expose where you live and file to take them down.

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Broker + people-search removal Full address-history cleanup Household coverage included CCPA/GDPR legal requests Viewpoint-neutral protection
WHY THIS MATTERS

How a public donation record becomes a private-address problem

Disclosure law was built for transparency, not targeting. But once your name and address sit in a downloadable public file, the broker layer does the rest — turning a donation record into a searchable path to your home, phone, and family.

Disclosure attaches your address to your name

Federal committees must publicly itemize the name, mailing address, employer, and occupation of anyone whose contributions pass $200 in a cycle. Many states require the same disclosure at their own thresholds, some lower. It's public record, and there's no opt-out.

Searchable sites republish the filing

Campaign-finance data is published in bulk, and third-party donor-lookup sites repost it in a format built for casual search. A single name query returns your address, employer, and giving history in seconds — the friction transparency law assumed is gone.

The record cross-links to your broker profile

A donation lookup hands someone your name and city. From there, people-search and data-broker sites give up your current home address, phone, household members, and every place you've lived. A campaign contribution leaves your address exposed far beyond the filing itself.

Targeting doesn't care which side you gave to

Donors across the spectrum have been contacted at home and at work over their giving. The broker sites that publish where you live don't check your politics, and neither do we — the exposure is the same for every donor, on every side.

Background reading:Identity theft and data brokers

See what a donation-record lookup can pull about you — home address, phone, family, and every place you've lived.

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HOW DELIST HELPS

How Delist removes your personal information from the internet

1

See what a name search really returns

The free scan covers data brokers, people-search sites, and aggregators. You see exactly what someone can pull about you starting from your name — the home address, phone, family, and address history that sit beyond the public filing.

2

File removals across the broker layer

We file removals and opt-outs on the sites that republish your home address, phone number, household links, and previous addresses. If you want to protect your address after a political donation, this is the surface you can actually control — the public filing stays, the broker copies come down.

3

Escalate when a broker stalls

Non-compliant brokers get legal deletion requests under CCPA and similar state laws. We keep pushing past a submitted status toward a confirmed removal, and re-file when a listing reappears.

4

Watch through every cycle

Brokers re-list from fresh public-records feeds, and each election cycle you give again generates new records. We're detecting new appearances and re-filing automatically, so your exposure doesn't quietly rebuild after your next contribution.

COMPARE APPROACHES

Why donors choose managed protection

Manual opt-outsGeneric privacy toolsDelist
Places covered10-20 (if you find the time)50-200Brokers, AI, search, dark web
Re-listing detectionYou notice it yourselfPeriodicContinuous
Household coverageRepeat for each personVariesFamily plans
Legal deletion requestsDraft and send yourselfRarelyCCPA/GDPR
New-cycle monitoringStart over after each cycleCurrent data onlyOngoing scans
Time investmentHours per month, indefinitelySetup + periodic check-insFully managed
FAQ

Common questions from donors

No. Federal law requires committees to publicly itemize the name, mailing address, employer, and occupation of anyone whose contributions pass the $200 aggregate threshold in a cycle. That filing is public record, and there's no opt-out. What you can control is the broker layer — the people-search and data-broker sites that republish your address, add your phone and family, and make a casual name search lead straight to your door. That's the surface we remove.
No, and it isn't meant to. Your public filing and the donor-lookup databases that pull from it stay exactly as they are — that's transparency law, and we don't touch it. What we remove is the personal information brokers publish around your name: your current home address, phone number, household members, and every place you've lived. Someone can still see that you gave; they just can't use a broker profile to find where you live now.
Possibly. Below the federal itemization threshold, your individual contribution usually isn't listed with your address in federal filings. But many states set their own campaign-finance disclosure thresholds, and some are lower. And your home address is already published across broker and people-search sites regardless of whether you ever donated — the donation just makes your name easier to search for. The broker-layer cleanup applies either way.
No. Exposure works the same for a donor on any side of any race. People have been contacted at home and at work over contributions to campaigns and causes across the spectrum, and the broker sites that publish your address don't check your politics. Delist is viewpoint-neutral — we remove your personal information from the internet, whoever you support.
We catch it and re-file. Brokers rebuild profiles from fresh public-records feeds, and each new giving cycle generates new records. Our monitoring watches for re-listings and re-submits removals automatically — you're mostly hands-off, and we loop you in only when a broker needs you to verify your identity.

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Situation

Before running for office

The candidate's side of the same disclosure regime — get the broker layer down before the announcement.

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Audience

High-net-worth households

Major giving often tracks wealth. Remove the address and household data that make you a target.

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Situation

After being doxxed

If your giving already put your address in front of the wrong person, start here.

See post-doxxing steps

See what your donation record exposes

Start with a free scan. We'll show you which sites publish your home address and how far your exposure goes beyond the filing itself.

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