FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AUSTIN, TX – July 2, 2026 (SMWIRE)— A new independent watchdog website, DirtyWashington.com, launched this month with a blunt mission statement: follow the money trail behind U.S. politics — for every party, without exception.
The site is the work of Kevin Dill owned by BridgeTechMedia, Corp., a self-described “frustrated taxpayer” who got tired of watching financial misconduct coverage get filtered through partisan media outlets that spotlight one side’s scandals while burying the other’s.
“I didn’t build this because I’m on a team. I built it because I’m not,” Dill said. “If you’re on the taxpayer payroll and your net worth is climbing because of your political connections and business affiliations, you belong on this site. Democrat, Republican, Independent — the database doesn’t care. Documented evidence goes in. Period.”
What Dirty Washington Tracks
The site catalogs the financial side of public office across 618 politicians — Presidents, Senators, Representatives and Governors the past several years — including:
- Campaign contributions and mega-donor concentrations
- Stock trades timed suspiciously close to policy decisions and briefings
- Book deals and post-office windfalls
- Gifts, bribery convictions, and fraud settlements
- Family business dealings that intersect with official duties
Entries range from criminal convictions — like a sitting Senator convicted on 16 federal counts after FBI agents found gold bars and cash-stuffed envelopes in his home — to legal-but-questionable patterns, like well-timed stock trades by congressional spouses and the multimillion-dollar book-deal economy that follows public office.
Government Records Only — No News Spin
What separates Dirty Washington from partisan outrage sites is its sourcing rule, which Dill describes as non-negotiable: every claim is sourced to government and court records — Department of Justice filings, inspector general reports, GAO audits, Senate Ethics Committee findings, FEC disclosures, and court documents. Not cable news segments. Not opinion columns. Not anonymous sources.
Where a case is legally contested or politically disputed, the site says so plainly — flagging contested prosecutions as contested, noting where no charges have been filed, and distinguishing proven misconduct from the appearance of conflict. Debunked claims don’t make the cut at all.
“All criminals are reported equally,” the site’s homepage declares. “This is a non-partisan watchdog site.”
Why It Matters
Public trust in both Congress and mainstream media sits near historic lows, and Americans increasingly believe financial self-dealing in Washington is bipartisan and systemic. Yet the tools to verify that belief are scattered across dozens of government databases most citizens never open — FEC filings here, STOCK Act disclosures there, DOJ press releases somewhere else.
Dirty Washington consolidates that public record into one searchable database — browsable by politician, party, state, office, and verification status — and invites readers to check the sources themselves. Every entry carries its citations, and the site’s methodology page encourages readers to “verify it yourself.”
“Transparency isn’t partisan,” Dill said. “Sunlight doesn’t check your voter registration. If this site makes one voter look up what their own representative did — not the other side’s — it’s doing its job.”
About Dirty Washington
DirtyWashington.com is an independent, non-partisan political transparency database tracking campaign money, stock trades, book deals, gifts, and documented financial misconduct across 618 U.S. Presidents, Senators, and Representatives from 2011 to today. Every claim is sourced exclusively to government and court records. The site is free to use: browse the politician database, documented money events, or the methodology and sourcing standards.
Media Contact:
Kevin Dill, Founder
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Austin, Texas
Web: https://dirtywashington.com
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