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2025–2026 federal committee · official FEC data

LEADERS WE DESERVE

Receipts, contributions, spending, cash, committee classification, and connected records from Federal Election Commission filings.

Party committeeFEC C00843110
Direct answer · 2025–2026 cycle

How much money has LEADERS WE DESERVE reported?

$13,143,534.20 in total receipts and $12,100,476.95 in total disbursements.

These are committee filing totals. They do not establish who benefited from every dollar; candidate support and opposition require transaction-level independent-expenditure records.

Source: Federal Election Commission · data through .

Total receipts$13,143,534
Total spending$12,100,477
Independent expenditures$2,075,407
Campaign money

Committee finance details

FEC COMMITTEE SUMMARY
2025–2026 federal-cycle totals through July 31, 2026.
MetricReported amountWhat it means
Total receipts$13,143,534.20All receipts reported by the committee for the cycle.
Individual contributions$10,578,962.84Contributions reported in the FEC individual-contribution category.
Other committee contributions$0.00Contributions received from other political committees.
Total disbursements$12,100,476.95All disbursements reported by the committee for the cycle.
Contributions to other committees$493,825.00Contributions the committee reported making to federal candidate committees.
Independent expenditures$2,075,407.46Spending expressly advocating the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate, made without coordination.
Cash on hand$1,968,961.96Cash reported at the end of the covered filing period.
Debts owed by committee$0.00Outstanding debts the committee reported owing.

“Not reported” means the current committee-summary file has no value for that field; it does not mean zero. Independent expenditures are distinct from contributions made directly to candidate committees.

Itemized political activity

Candidate giving and outside spending by LEADERS WE DESERVE

FEC ITEMIZED DATA

The categories below remain separate: contributions go to a recipient committee; independent expenditures are outside activity reported as supporting or opposing a candidate.

Direct candidate contributions$85,175.0021 transactions
Coordinated party spending$0.000 transactions
Independent spending to support$2,121,749.9471 transactions
Independent spending to oppose$213,732.1310 transactions
Direct contribution

Money reported as given to a candidate or candidate committee. It enters the recipient committee’s campaign-finance record.

Coordinated party expenditure

Party spending reported in the FEC’s coordinated-expenditure category. It is separate from a direct contribution.

Independent expenditure

Outside spending expressly supporting or opposing a candidate. By definition, it is not made in coordination with the candidate or party.

Direct contributions by candidate

Christian Menefee3 itemized transactions · latest Jan 28, 2026
$10,000.00FEC filing ↗
Nida Allam2 itemized transactions · latest Feb 6, 2026
Patrick Thomas Roath2 itemized transactions · latest Mar 26, 2026
Claire Valdez1 itemized transaction · latest Mar 25, 2026
Donavan Mckinney1 itemized transaction · latest Sep 30, 2025
FOXX FOR ARIZONA1 itemized transaction · latest Jul 3, 2025
Graham Platner1 itemized transaction · latest Oct 15, 2025
IRENE SHIN FOR CONGRESS1 itemized transaction · latest Jun 9, 2025
Justin J. Pearson1 itemized transaction · latest Nov 4, 2025
Lauren Babb Tomlinson1 itemized transaction · latest Dec 18, 2025
Mai Vang1 itemized transaction · latest May 19, 2026
Matt Little1 itemized transaction · latest Jun 22, 2026

Independent expenditures by candidate and position

supportLauren Babb Tomlinson8 itemized transactions · latest May 24, 2026
$474,939.34FEC filing ↗
supportRandy Villegas27 itemized transactions · latest May 26, 2026
$450,168.88FEC filing ↗
supportNida Allam5 itemized transactions · latest Feb 26, 2026
$386,000.00FEC filing ↗
supportChristian Menefee19 itemized transactions · latest Feb 23, 2026
$286,584.18FEC filing ↗
opposeStephen Lynch10 itemized transactions · latest Aug 21, 2026
$213,732.13FEC filing ↗
supportPatrick Thomas Roath8 itemized transactions · latest Aug 17, 2026
$199,057.54FEC filing ↗
supportClaire Valdez2 itemized transactions · latest May 26, 2026
$175,000.00FEC filing ↗
supportOPERANA-FOXX, DEJA2 itemized transactions · latest Jul 3, 2025
$150,000.00FEC filing ↗
SPONSOR-LEVEL SOURCE ROWS81 reported communication-spending records

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Source: FEC contributions-from-committees-to-candidates and independent-expenditure bulk files, checked Aug 24, 2026. The totals shown here sum the itemized current-file rows displayed by category; they are not substituted for the committee’s official summary totals.

Money graph · dates, geography, and operating expenditures

How money moved through LEADERS WE DESERVE

FEC ITEMIZED FILES

These panels show privacy-thresholded itemized individual-receipt activity and amendment-normalized operating expenditures. They are descriptive slices of filings—not a complete substitute for the official financial summary.

Itemized individual receipt activity over time

Monthly transaction activity from the FEC individual-contributions file. Current-cycle files can contain earlier-dated transactions; signed amendments, refunds, reattributions, and memo entries remain in the source-defined analysis.

18 months

Where itemized contributor addresses were reported

State is taken from the contributor address on the FEC row. It does not prove residence, citizenship, employer location, or the ultimate economic source of funds.

99.3% outside District of Columbia
California1,437 distinct reported contributors · 8,359 rows$1,186,884.0025.5%
New York526 distinct reported contributors · 2,734 rows$603,325.0013.0%
Massachusetts366 distinct reported contributors · 1,834 rows$542,511.0011.7%
Florida399 distinct reported contributors · 2,157 rows$301,396.006.5%
Texas289 distinct reported contributors · 1,540 rows$279,465.006.0%
Nebraska24 distinct reported contributors · 75 rows$153,774.003.3%
Virginia206 distinct reported contributors · 1,247 rows$153,526.003.3%
Washington356 distinct reported contributors · 1,950 rows$148,620.003.2%
Utah28 distinct reported contributors · 211 rows$126,559.002.7%
Pennsylvania209 distinct reported contributors · 1,062 rows$102,094.002.2%
Illinois255 distinct reported contributors · 1,033 rows$97,356.002.1%
Connecticut93 distinct reported contributors · 469 rows$91,442.002.0%

Only committee/state groups with at least 5 distinct reported contributors are published. The percentages use only the displayed dataset’s publishable, state-coded itemized rows; they are not a percentage of all campaign receipts.

Reported operating-expenditure categories

FEC filer-selected categories from Schedule B operating expenditures. Memo-code X rows are excluded because the FEC says they are not included in the itemization total.

1 published categories
Category not reported779 current organization-payment rows$7,238,380.28

Top organization payees in operating expenditures

Organization payees only. Election.org excludes individual payees and conservatively normalizes names; similar names are not asserted to be one legal entity.

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Middle Seat74 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-11
$3,659,137.35
Gusto83 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-30
$669,468.74
Everyaction43 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-11
$405,058.50
Actblue Technical Services94 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-30
$380,073.86
Jemal S Mickelson LLC19 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-01
$236,561.81
American Express18 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-12
$219,442.55
Grassroots Analytics LLC1 current itemized payment · latest 2025-05-22
$159,000.00
State Street37 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-18
$155,443.51
New Deal Strategies LLC8 current itemized payments · latest 2025-09-18
$144,000.00
Amethyst Operations LLC18 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-05
$138,164.52
Bee Compliance LLC18 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-23
$130,508.86
Accelerate Political Advisors17 current itemized payments · latest 2026-04-30
$125,405.59
Kinship Methods LLC12 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-08
$96,048.77
Dc Health Link18 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-02
$93,365.95
Cat Eye Studios1 current itemized payment · latest 2026-02-05
$89,336.00

Source: FEC operating expenditures bulk file, checked 2026-08-24. These totals cover published current organization-payment rows after amendment normalization and are not equivalent to the committee’s total disbursements.

Aggregated individual giving · privacy threshold applied

Reported employers among contributors to LEADERS WE DESERVE

FEC SCHEDULE A
This is not company money.

These totals combine itemized contributions from individuals who reported the same employer. They do not show that the employer directed, funded, or endorsed any contribution.

Google20 distinct reported contributors · 128 current itemized transactions
$32,903.00
Apple9 distinct reported contributors · 32 current itemized transactions
$2,984.00
Amazon5 distinct reported contributors · 20 current itemized transactions
$2,025.00
Kaiser Permanente5 distinct reported contributors · 16 current itemized transactions
$1,123.00
Va6 distinct reported contributors · 32 current itemized transactions
$1,055.00

Only employer/recipient groups with at least 5 distinct reported contributors are published, with at most 50 groups per recipient committee. Individual names and addresses are not included. Totals are net current-file amounts after amendment normalization and may include refunds, reattributions, or memo entries.

Official registration

Committee details

2026 CYCLE
Committee type
Party committee — nonqualified · code W
Designation
Unauthorized committee · code U
Filing frequency
Monthly filer
Party affiliation
Not listed
Connected organization
NONE
Organization type
Not listed
Treasurer
VAN HALL, LAURIE
Mailing address
611 PENNSYLVANIA AVE SE #192, WASHINGTON DC 20003
FEC committee ID
C00843110
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