About The Projects

The Projects is a collection of related analyses of our massive collection of authenticated documents from the DOJ, House, FBI, Panama Papers, ICIJ, flight records, court records, and more. Unlike the public Epstein file aggregator sites, The Projects draws from a web of documents and databases from every corner, and TESS analyzes them and shines a light on and reveals the dark points of connection.

The record does not lie. It accumulates. What governments release, we release — all of it, without exception. We follow power through public files: financial networks, government contracts, intelligence operations. We do not speculate. We do not editorialize. We connect dots and publish the roadmaps. Everything we publish carries the documents it came from. The files speak plainly. We make certain they are heard.

Each investigation The Projects undertakes builds its own dedicated database — purpose-built for that corpus, that set of questions, that body of public record. The databases are not public search engines. They are forensic tools, access-controlled, with every result tied to a citable primary source document.

The current active database covers the complete DOJ-released Epstein document corpus — 1,478,544 files (2.87 million pages) across all production sets — 1.124 million emails, 204,000 general documents, 42,000 financial records, 23,000 court filings, and 245,384 native media files with full text extracted and cross-referenced. The financial layer covers $2.308 billion in verified transactions linked directly to source documents. Audio transcripts from grand jury depositions, SDNY tip voicemails, and prison calls are indexed and searchable.

Every result ties to citable DOJ source documents with a live link, so anything surfaced is immediately usable for oversight — briefings, hearings, referrals. Nothing leaves the system unless a user deliberately exports it.

The Influenced Index measures what money buys in American politics. It scores every sitting member of Congress on a 10-axis evidence-weighted model that tracks not just who gives money, but whether it changes votes, when it arrives relative to legislative action, whether it flows through disclosed or dark-money channels, and whether it serves a foreign government’s policy agenda.

The Index is built on a searchable financial database spanning four election cycles, with future congresses added as they convene:

• 175 million individual contribution records
• 500,000+ independent expenditure filings across 4 cycles (2018–2026)
• 23,000+ sponsor network clusters (PACs, super PACs, and their coordinated donor networks)
• Complete roll-call voting records for the 116th through 119th Congresses
• $30+ billion in registered lobbying mapped to committee jurisdictions
• Congressional stock trade disclosures matched to committee oversight authority
• Revolving-door tracking: former staff and members now registered as lobbyists
• 16 canonical foreign-interest-aligned PACs tracked at the individual donor level

The database is not a search engine. It is an analytical platform — purpose-built to answer one question: does the money change the vote? Every score carries the methodology that produced it. Every finding is reproducible from public records.

Future congresses will be scored as they convene using the same methodology, building a longitudinal record of how financial influence in American politics evolves over time.