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Christian D. Menefee: Donations & Spending 2026

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2026 federal candidate record

Christian D. Menefee

Texas U.S. House District 18

Democratic Party

Christian D. Menefee is included in the 2026 FEC filing records for Texas U.S. House District 18. Explore the available source records below. A federal filing does not establish ballot qualification.

Direct answer · 2025–2026 cycle

How much has Christian D. Menefee raised?

$3,739,142.72 in total campaign receipts.

$3,445,925.61 is reported as individual contributions. Total receipts can also include transfers, offsets, loans, and other FEC receipt categories, so it is broader than donations alone.

Total receipts
$3,739,143
Total spending
$3,675,883
Cash on hand
$63,260

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PERMANENT PERSON IDENTITY

This campaign record connects to Christian D. Menefee's public CV.

The connection uses exact FEC candidate ID H6TX18232, not a name match. Office history, votes, election results, disclosures, and campaign finance remain separate source lanes.

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Contact

Christian D. Menefee · public office

Office mailing address 1318 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515-4318

For constituent services and government business—not campaign inquiries.

House Clerk + congress-legislators ↗ · Source checked
Activity timeline
Filing-driven activity & election calendar

Christian D. Menefee 2026 timeline

REAL DATES

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Scheduled primary election

Congressional primary date listed in the FEC's 2026 calendar.

Official election schedule · schedule subject to change
Scheduled runoff, if required

Runoff date listed in the FEC's 2026 congressional calendar; whether it applies depends on the election outcome and state rules.

FEC election-date calendar · schedule subject to change
Latest included PAC or party transaction

Most recent itemized direct contribution or coordinated-party-expenditure row involving this candidate in the current FEC transaction release.

FEC · included source coverage
Latest included campaign summary

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FEC · included source coverage
Latest included independent expenditure

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FEC · included source coverage
Federal general election

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Official election schedule · schedule subject to change

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Personal financial disclosures
House Clerk · personal filings

Personal financial disclosure filings

5 NAME/DISTRICT MATCHES

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Campaign finance details
Campaign money

Christian D. Menefee campaign finance details

FEC BULK DATA
2025–2026 federal-cycle totals through September 30, 2026.
MetricReported amountWhat it means
Total receipts$3,739,142.72All campaign receipts reported in the FEC summary, not only individual donations.
Individual contributions$3,445,925.61Contributions reported in the FEC individual-contribution category.
Candidate contributions$100.00Contributions from the candidate in the summary record.
Total disbursements$3,675,882.87Campaign spending and other disbursements reported for the cycle.
Cash on hand$63,259.85Reported campaign cash remaining at the end of the covered period.
Debts owed by campaign$0.00Outstanding debts the campaign reported owing.
Net cash after reported debt$63,259.85Electionpedia calculation: cash on hand minus debts owed by the campaign.

Dollar amounts preserve the cents in the FEC record. These figures are campaign-finance totals, not personal wealth, polling, odds, endorsements, or Electionpedia scores.

PAC contributions and outside spending
Who gave · who spent · what the filing says

PAC contributions and outside spending involving Christian D. Menefee

FEC ITEMIZED DATA

Direct campaign support and independent spending are not combined. Support and opposition below are the positions reported by the spender to the Federal Election Commission.

Direct committee contributions$249,500.0090 transactions
Coordinated party spending$0.000 transactions
Independent spending to support$7,108,053.8870 transactions
Independent spending to oppose$0.000 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.

Federal committees reporting direct contributions

JANE FONDA CLIMATE PAC4 itemized transactions · latest May 5, 2026
$20,000.00FEC filing ↗
MEDICARE FOR ALL3 itemized transactions · latest Feb 27, 2026
$15,000.00FEC filing ↗

Showing 5 of 52 groups, ordered by absolute reported amount. Totals include all accepted source rows.

Outside spenders reporting support or opposition

supportPROTECT PROGRESS27 itemized transactions · latest May 23, 2026
$6,468,076.21FEC filing ↗
supportLEADERS WE DESERVE19 itemized transactions · latest Feb 23, 2026
$286,584.18FEC filing ↗
supportPROJECT 2183 itemized transactions · latest May 21, 2026
$199,999.87FEC filing ↗
supportCONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS PAC1 itemized transaction · latest Jan 17, 2026
$100,000.00FEC filing ↗
supportTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE20 itemized transactions · latest Oct 7, 2026
$53,393.62FEC filing ↗
SPONSOR-LEVEL SOURCE ROWS70 reported communication-spending records

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Source: FEC contributions-from-committees-to-candidates and independent-expenditure bulk files, checked Oct 16, 2026. Committee transactions retain only the latest filing version for stable transaction IDs. Independent-expenditure rows from superseded filings are removed through the FEC previous-filing chain. Memo entries remain included because the FEC bulk-file documentation instructs analysts to include them.

Campaign money graph
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How money moved through Christian D. Menefee

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.

16 calendar months · 16 published cells

Only committee/month cells with at least 5 distinct reported contributors are published. A missing cell can reflect source absence or the privacy threshold; it does not mean zero activity. Published amounts are unchanged.

Source: FEC individual-contributions bulk file ↗, imported . This panel does not include PAC receipts.

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.

15.6% of published positive state-cell amounts outside Texas
Texas1,282 distinct reported contributors · 2,489 rows$2,237,249.0084.4%
California95 distinct reported contributors · 186 rows$99,874.003.8%
Illinois25 distinct reported contributors · 51 rows$42,650.001.6%
New York54 distinct reported contributors · 92 rows$39,127.001.5%
Massachusetts22 distinct reported contributors · 49 rows$27,446.001.0%
Florida23 distinct reported contributors · 54 rows$26,241.001.0%
Virginia24 distinct reported contributors · 38 rows$24,466.000.9%
Colorado12 distinct reported contributors · 30 rows$20,050.000.8%
Maryland16 distinct reported contributors · 37 rows$19,725.000.7%
Connecticut9 distinct reported contributors · 12 rows$19,075.000.7%
District of Columbia31 distinct reported contributors · 42 rows$17,075.000.6%
Louisiana13 distinct reported contributors · 20 rows$14,067.000.5%

Only committee/state groups with at least 5 distinct reported contributors are published. Percentages divide by the sum of all positive published, privacy-thresholded committee/state cells, including cells beyond the top 12 shown. Zero and negative state cells are excluded from this denominator; these shares do not describe all contributions or all campaign receipts.

Source: FEC individual-contributions bulk file ↗, imported .

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 reported998 current organization-payment rows$3,023,725.01

Top organization payees in operating expenditures

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

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Buying Time Media11 current itemized payments · latest 2026-05-21
$994,240.00
Grassroots Analytics13 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-03
$361,952.74
Vote Shift11 current itemized payments · latest 2026-05-19
$238,600.57
Resonance Campaigns18 current itemized payments · latest 2026-05-27
$229,945.12
North Star Digital17 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-16
$154,830.97
Lake Research9 current itemized payments · latest 2026-04-20
$130,555.44
Orlattle LLC2 current itemized payments · latest 2026-05-22
$109,589.62
Actblue255 current itemized payments · latest 2026-03-31
$108,797.76
Gusto72 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-18
$69,468.61
Oriatte LLC1 current itemized payment · latest 2025-10-07
$53,155.31
Onward Strategy Group11 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-04
$49,500.00
Ngp Van35 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-05
$43,012.61
Pcms13 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-16
$35,000.00
J And N Enterprises16 current itemized payments · latest 2026-05-28
$33,300.39
Flywire4 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-02
$31,871.01

Source: FEC operating expenditures bulk file, checked 2026-10-16. These totals cover published current organization-payment rows after amendment normalization and are not equivalent to the committee’s total disbursements.

Reported employers
Aggregated individual giving · privacy threshold applied

Reported employers among contributors to Christian D. Menefee

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.

Aza16 distinct reported contributors · 38 current itemized transactions
$50,850.00
Kirkland And Ellis LLP26 distinct reported contributors · 53 current itemized transactions
$47,110.00
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP23 distinct reported contributors · 48 current itemized transactions
$42,743.00
Kirkland And Ellis14 distinct reported contributors · 26 current itemized transactions
$40,100.00
Harris County22 distinct reported contributors · 32 current itemized transactions
$31,125.00
Norton Rose Fulbright23 distinct reported contributors · 31 current itemized transactions
$24,750.00
Susman Godfrey LLP6 distinct reported contributors · 9 current itemized transactions
$14,750.00
City Of Houston6 distinct reported contributors · 12 current itemized transactions
$12,900.00
Yetter Coleman LLP5 distinct reported contributors · 7 current itemized transactions
$9,500.00
Rice University9 distinct reported contributors · 11 current itemized transactions
$6,400.00
Shell5 distinct reported contributors · 10 current itemized transactions
$5,000.00
Jackson Walker LLP5 distinct reported contributors · 8 current itemized transactions
$4,000.00
Nrf7 distinct reported contributors · 8 current itemized transactions
$3,500.00

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.

Calculated financial context
Transparent calculations

What the reported totals show

92.2%Individual-contribution shareIndividual contributions ÷ total receipts
98.3%Spending-to-receipts ratioTotal disbursements ÷ total receipts
$63,259.85Net cash after debtCash on hand − debts owed by campaign

These are Electionpedia calculations from the displayed FEC totals, included to make the filing easier to understand. They are descriptive, not a score or comparison.

Official filing details
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Candidate filing details

2026 CYCLE
Candidate
Christian D. Menefee
Office sought
U.S. House — Texas District 18
Party affiliation
Democratic Party
Incumbency
Incumbent
Candidate status
Current candidate
Principal committee
CHRISTIAN D. MENEFEE FOR CONGRESS →
FEC candidate ID
H6TX18232
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