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2025–2026 federal committee · official FEC data

DEFEND THE VOTE

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

Party committeeFEC C00764233
Direct answer · 2025–2026 cycle

How much money has DEFEND THE VOTE reported?

$4,313,220.09 in total receipts and $4,374,715.83 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$4,313,220
Total spending$4,374,716
Independent expenditures$0
Campaign money

Committee finance details

FEC COMMITTEE SUMMARY
2025–2026 federal-cycle totals through July 31, 2026.
MetricReported amountWhat it means
Total receipts$4,313,220.09All receipts reported by the committee for the cycle.
Individual contributions$3,903,610.35Contributions reported in the FEC individual-contribution category.
Other committee contributions$0.00Contributions received from other political committees.
Total disbursements$4,374,715.83All disbursements reported by the committee for the cycle.
Contributions to other committees$794,000.00Contributions the committee reported making to federal candidate committees.
Independent expenditures$0.00Spending expressly advocating the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate, made without coordination.
Cash on hand$26,047.63Cash reported at the end of the covered filing period.
Debts owed by committee$120,798.89Outstanding 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 DEFEND THE VOTE

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$640,000.00234 transactions
Coordinated party spending$0.000 transactions
Independent spending to support$0.000 transactions
Independent spending to oppose$515,672.001 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

Christina Bohannan3 itemized transactions · latest Dec 30, 2025
$10,000.00FEC filing ↗
Haley Stevens2 itemized transactions · latest Jun 27, 2025
$10,000.00FEC filing ↗
Janelle Stelson3 itemized transactions · latest Jun 29, 2026
$10,000.00FEC filing ↗
Lindsay James2 itemized transactions · latest Jun 24, 2026
$10,000.00FEC filing ↗
Maura Corby Sullivan3 itemized transactions · latest Mar 6, 2026
$10,000.00FEC filing ↗
Yevgeny 'Eugene' Vindman4 itemized transactions · latest May 15, 2026
$10,000.00FEC filing ↗
Adam C. Gray3 itemized transactions · latest Dec 16, 2025
Derek Tran3 itemized transactions · latest Dec 16, 2025
Don Davis3 itemized transactions · latest May 15, 2026
Greg Landsman3 itemized transactions · latest Dec 30, 2025
John W Mannion3 itemized transactions · latest May 15, 2026
Katherine Clark3 itemized transactions · latest May 15, 2026

Independent expenditures by candidate and position

opposeLuke Bronin1 itemized transaction · latest Aug 6, 2026
$515,672.00FEC filing ↗
SPONSOR-LEVEL SOURCE ROWS1 reported communication-spending record

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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 DEFEND THE VOTE

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.

99.7% outside District of Columbia
California549 distinct reported contributors · 9,472 rows$174,235.0016.0%
Florida174 distinct reported contributors · 3,266 rows$73,959.006.8%
Washington156 distinct reported contributors · 4,047 rows$66,326.006.1%
Texas123 distinct reported contributors · 2,997 rows$63,599.005.8%
New York197 distinct reported contributors · 2,969 rows$61,157.005.6%
Massachusetts108 distinct reported contributors · 1,755 rows$57,626.005.3%
Virginia91 distinct reported contributors · 1,790 rows$37,542.003.4%
Michigan93 distinct reported contributors · 1,536 rows$35,057.003.2%
Pennsylvania100 distinct reported contributors · 1,769 rows$34,606.003.2%
Minnesota75 distinct reported contributors · 1,545 rows$32,421.003.0%
Ohio76 distinct reported contributors · 1,500 rows$30,937.002.8%
Illinois104 distinct reported contributors · 1,327 rows$30,539.002.8%

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.

2 published categories
Category not reported574 current organization-payment rows$2,539,391.38
Administrative/Salary/Overhead Expenses6 current organization-payment rows$180,000.00

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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Mothership Strategies42 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-12
$857,023.00
Defend The Vote Action Fund23 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-29
$494,552.88
American Express21 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-11
$322,691.03
Anticipate Public Affairs18 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-03
$189,134.00
Actblue Technical Services244 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-30
$141,563.16
Everyaction Incorporated20 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-03
$121,304.81
Thematic Campaigns LLC13 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-03
$97,500.00
Mission Strategies LLC19 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-12
$80,044.23
Capitol Compliance Associates Incorporated16 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-11
$61,623.12
Yarmouth Management11 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-23
$53,382.31
Fitzgerald Properties12 current itemized payments · latest 2025-11-03
$45,992.50
Gbao Strategies2 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-16
$42,440.00
Three Marie LLC10 current itemized payments · latest 2025-10-20
$36,325.00
Olson Remcho LLP16 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-03
$31,671.00
Harmon Murphy Creative11 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-03
$27,500.00

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.

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
DEFEND THE VOTE LEADERSHIP FUND
Organization type
Not listed
Treasurer
LEMEK, BRIAN
Mailing address
600 PENNSYLVANIA AVE SE, #15180, WASHINGTON DC 20003
FEC committee ID
C00764233
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