Search US federal political candidates via the OpenFEC API. Filter by free-text q (name match), candidate ID (e.g. H0VA01076), state, district, party (DEM, REP, IND, LIB, GRE, etc.), office (P=President | S=Senate | H=House), election cycle (even years), election year, and hasRaised (only candidates with reported receipts). Returns FEC candidate ID, name, party, office, state/district, incumbency status, active-through cycle, first/last file dates, cycles, principal committee linkage. Use the candidate ID returned here to fetch their committees with /api/gov/fec-committee.