Candidates targeted
1
races with outside spending
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An outside-spending committee: $75K in independent expenditures ($0 supporting, $75K opposing candidates) - reported to the FEC, and by law not contributions to any campaign.
The verdict
PRINCIPLED LEADERS is an outside-spending committee: it made $75K in independent expenditures across 1 candidate, mostly opposing ($75K).
Candidates targeted
1
races with outside spending
Supporting
$0
independent expenditures for
Opposing
$75K
independent expenditures against
Money this committee spent independently to support or oppose candidates, reported to the FEC, and by law not contributions to any campaign and not coordinated with it.
| Candidate | Supporting | Opposing |
|---|---|---|
| Victoria Spartz | - | $75K |
PRINCIPLED LEADERS is an outside-spending committee: rather than contributing to candidates' committees, it reported $75K in independent expenditures to the Federal Election Commission - $0 advocating for candidates and $75K opposing them, across 1 race. By law these expenditures are made independently of, and uncoordinated with, any campaign, and they are not subject to contribution limits, which is how a single committee can deploy this scale of money. They are reported here separately from contributions because they are a fundamentally different mechanism of political influence.
Viewing contributions, lobbying, and contracts side-by-side is the key to reading this organization's relationship with the federal government: campaign giving signals which lawmakers are prioritized, lobbying expenditures signal which policy outcomes are being pursued, and contract awards signal where procurement decisions have already landed. Each component is independently sourced from official government disclosures covering the 2023-2024 period.
PRINCIPLED LEADERS has a combined political influence footprint of $0, which includes $0 in campaign contributions, $0 in lobbying expenditures, and $0 in federal contracts. This data comes from FEC filings, Senate LDA disclosures, and USAspending.gov records for 2023-2024.
PlainInfluence aggregates data from three federal sources: the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for campaign contributions, the Senate Office of Public Records for lobbying disclosures under the Lobbying Disclosure Act, and USAspending.gov for federal contract awards. Data covers the 2023-2024 reporting period.
Total influence is the sum of an organization's campaign contributions, lobbying spending, and federal contract values. It provides a single metric for comparing the overall political and economic footprint of organizations in the federal arena. Each component is independently sourced from official government filings.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified. Verify the underlying filings at fec.gov/data.