2020 U.S. Election Emails

The corpus contains emails from over 3,000 political campaigns and organizations in the 2020 election cycle in the U.S. The corpus aims to be comprehensive and includes coverage of emails from the candidates in prominent federal and state races as well as political organizations such as Political Action Committees (PACs) and political parties active in the 2020 cycle.

We automated the process of signing up to receive emails from the websites of the political campaigns and organizations. For each entity's website, if the bot discovered an email sign-up form, it filled it in with the information of a fictional recipient The entire dataset contains 317,366 emails.