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Fabio 5b0712c31f Add elections + demographics layer: candidates and jurisdictions
Two new entity types, built deterministically from the raw exports:

  Candidate (2,494)     — 2026 federal candidates as files under
                          us/states/<st>/candidates/, with office,
                          district, party, incumbent/challenger stance,
                          campaign committee, FEC id.

  Jurisdiction (3,494)  — demographic nodes carrying ACS 2023 data:
                          3,131 counties (deduped from 3,231 mixed-format
                          fips keys) + 363 congressional districts.

This completes the county skeleton nationwide: every US county is now a
browsable node with population, income, poverty, race, education and
housing — even where no officeholders are mapped yet. In Florida the
county index.md merges into the existing dir and reports its officeholder
count alongside demographics (St. Lucie: 33 officeholders + ACS profile).

build.py now reads seven raw inputs in one deterministic pass
(byte-identical on rerun). The mirror now answers: who holds power, who
runs this institution, who is running, and what each place is made of.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-03 23:35:00 -04:00

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type, title, description, office, state, party, stance, election_year, status, committee, ids, sources, confidence, tags, timestamp
type title description office state party stance election_year status committee ids sources confidence tags timestamp
Candidate Jeffrey Vincent Kessler U.S. Senate candidate, WV (2026) U.S. Senate WV DEM challenger 2026 statutory candidate
name id
KESSLER 2026 C00937854
fec
S6WV00196
field source
filing FEC (Federal Election Commission)
official
candidate
federal
senate
wv
2026-07-03

Jeffrey Vincent Kessler

Democratic challenger for U.S. Senate (WV), 2026.

Campaign Committee

  • KESSLER 2026 (C00937854)

Source

  • filing: FEC (Federal Election Commission)

Federal candidate filing; not yet linked to an officeholder record.