Direct answer · current non-memo rows
How much did federal committees report paying Names In The News?
$851,080.28 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$851,080
Itemized payments94
Committees12
Committee → organization payee
Largest published committee relationships
This 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.
DSCC35 itemized payments · latest Jun 4, 2026 $334,163.60VOTEVETS8 itemized payments · latest Jun 29, 2026 $55,267.06Method 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Amendment-normalized5,103 superseded transaction versions were removed using committee, report, and transaction identifiers.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.
