Delotrope Public records research & political intelligence

I find out
who’s actually
behind it.

Every group that lobbies, spends on a campaign, or moves money through a nonprofit has to file compliance reports with various regulatory agencies. I scrape and clean these unstructured filings, cross-reference the different organizations to map out the connections, and deliver a verifiable model you can audit claim by claim.

What I do
01

Records research

Lobbying filings, IRS 990s, campaign finance, and ethics disclosures. I pull what’s public and organize what’s scattered.

02

Network mapping

Shared officers, aliases, and money moved between organizations, traced and matched.

03

Verified reporting

A report where every line links back to the filing it came from, prepared for independent review.

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Public records. Real research.
Current case

Who’s behind the fight over the Summit Carbon pipeline?

A pipeline company wants eminent domain to cross Iowa farmland. Four bills and three legislative sessions later, the legislature still hasn’t settled it.

Tracking the eminent domain fight over the Summit Carbon Solutions CO2 pipeline across four Iowa bills and three legislative sessions.

In progress, report due October 2026
4

Bills tracked

3

Sessions

2023

Case opened

HF565
2023

Sets a 90% voluntary-easement threshold before a CO2 pipeline company can use eminent domain.

Study committee created
HF2664
2024

Lets landowners challenge a pipeline’s eminent domain authority in court before permits are issued.

Passed House 86 to 7
HF639
2025

Omnibus common-carrier and eminent domain standards bill.

Passed, vetoed
HF2104
2025 to 2026

Bans eminent domain for CO2 pipelines outright. Passed the House 64 to 28.

Pending in Senate
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Pull the filings

Lobbying declarations, IRS 990s, campaign finance, state ethics filings.

02

Match the organizations

I clean the raw data, resolve discrepancies and “almost matches”, then trace money and shared officers between them.

03

Check every claim

Every line in the report links to the filing it came from. If it’s on the map, you can open the document behind it.

Iowa is one of eight states that requires a lobbyist to disclose which side of a bill they’re on, and one of only eighteen that requires naming the bill number at all.

That’s a large part of why this started here, but send me your fight regardless of where it is or which side you’re on.

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