Hey folks, today you'll be listening to an interview that we conducted with Nico Agosta of stocking the capital, someone you might have seen on social media bravely asking the question.

Is you a member of Congress?

We talked to him about all things campaign finance and broad corporate political corruption.

We talked to him about his political integrity super PAC and the integrity index to projects that he's been working on.

Members of Congress being able to trade stock and the clear conflict of interest there, as well as the differences between Jay Street and APEC and how he tracks those things, and maybe some of the critiques he has for organizations that might play a little fast and loose with how they track similar stuff. But anyways, if you want to support his work, you can do so down in the description. I think it's a very important project. And we should celebrate people when they decide to niche down because campaign finance and political corruption because of money in politics is a big issue and not enough people focus intimately on that. So it's always good to see support his work down in the description. And if you want to support us here at Head in the Office, you can do so on patreon.com

slash head in the office pod.

That's where this episode was available first for early access.

So we'd really appreciate it if you support us.

But enough of my yapping.

Here is Nico Agosta of Stocking the Capital.

Nico, thanks for coming on the show.

Excited to be here.

So some time ago, you started the Political Integrity Super Pack and the the integrity index after your series of ranking

members of Congress based on, at least from my perspective, political corruption turned out to be

a pretty big success.

So tell us about your work, why you started it, and how it's going now.

Yeah, yeah.

So it really started out of frustration due to misinformation I was seeing online. Money in politics, corruption has always interested me.

But then I really saw a lot of misinformation about this topic.

People obviously super angry about this.

Everyone feels that politicians are on the take, but that anger wasn't seemingly directed in the right place.

And just out of frustration, I started making TikToks about it, where I said, you know,

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