Money Trail NM - New Mexico Campaign Finance Site

This site brings greater transparency to New Mexico politics by providing an overview of campaign contributions, expenditures, and the people, businesses, and organizations involved.

Development

Development requires a local installation of Docker and Docker Compose.

To run the application, first build the app image:

docker-compose build

Next, load in data and build your search index:

docker-compose run --rm app python make nightly 
docker-compose run --rm app python manage.py make_search_index

To enable candidate merging for local development, create an admin user (python manage.py createsuperuser) and turn on database caching by adding DJANGO_CACHE_BACKEND: "db.DatabaseCache" to the environment block in docker-compose.yml. (django-select2 requires a persistent cache.) This step is not necessary if you do not need to test merge functionality.

Finally, run the app:

docker-compose up

The app will be available at http://localhost:8000. The database will be exposed on port 32001.

Resetting the database

The data import scripts for this app will automatically recognize if you have data imported, and add or update new data accordingly. However, if you'd like to start over from scratch but don't want to delete your user and page data, you can start by running the flush_camp_fin command to flush campaign finance data from the database:

docker-compose run --rm app python manage.py flush_camp_fin

ETL

The nightly and quarterly ETL scripts are run in a separate repo, through github actions: https://github.com/datamade/nmid-scrapers

Errors / Bugs

If something is not behaving intuitively, it is a bug, and should be reported. Report it here: https://github.com/datamade/openness-project-nmid/issues