@CoyoteConscious Actually there is a way to follow the money, there's a few sites and extensions that tracks donations and funding for candidates and politicians that I learned about a few years ago and been using ever since to decide on votes.
Here's just a few I'm aware of.
https://www.opensecrets.org/
https://accountable.us/projects/corporate-donations-tracker/
https://progressiveshopper.com/how-it-works/
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