Direct answer · current non-memo rows
How much did federal committees report paying Critical Mention?
$26,520.83 across current organization-payment rows in the 2026 FEC operating-expenditures file.
This is an aggregate by normalized filing name. It is not revenue, profit, a verified contract total, or proof that similarly named legal entities are the same organization.
Source: Federal Election Commission Schedule B operating expenditures.
Current amount$26,521
Itemized payments21
Committees4
Committee → organization payee
Largest published committee relationships
FEC OPERATING EXPENDITURESThis page publishes at most 75 committee relationships for a payee-name group. The global amount above includes every current eligible row in the source aggregate.
FAIRSHAKE16 itemized payments · latest May 18, 2026 $11,741.66L PAC3 itemized payments · latest Jul 23, 2025 $1,899.17Method boundary
Payee names are evidence, not conclusions.
Organizations onlyIndividual payees are excluded from this published store.
Amendment-normalized5,103 superseded transaction versions were removed using committee, report, and transaction identifiers.
Memo rows excluded343,673 memo-code X rows are excluded from totals because the FEC says they are not included in the itemization total.
Conservative matchingPunctuation and a small set of corporate suffixes are normalized. Election.org does not perform unverified corporate-family resolution.