The top 1% of the top 1% wealthiest Americans contribute over half of all campaign funding in the US.
Only about half of one percent of Americans give more than $200 in a typical election.
There’s less than 100,000 people in the US giving the maximum to any candidate.
More donor demographics at OpenSecret.org
Political campaigns in the US are overwhelmingly funded by a tiny minority of rich donors. They get to decide who has the money to run, and who doesn’t. This creates a filter on who gets to run and who represents us. If we want congress to actually represent most Americans, then we have to make it possible for more people to run, and we can do that by giving more, to more people.