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Republican PartyThomas James Smith is included in the 2026 FEC filing records for Michigan U.S. House District 8. Explore the available source records below. A federal filing does not establish ballot qualification.
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$547,681.97 in total campaign receipts.
$10,902.26 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.
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Displayed as “Thomas James Smith” using the state election-authority list. Original FEC name: “SMITH, THOMAS JAMES MR.” The FEC ID and reported financial totals are unchanged.
This chronology combines dated FEC filing coverage with the official 2026 congressional election calendar. It does not predict qualification, outcomes, or whether a conditional runoff will occur.
Congressional primary date listed in the FEC's 2026 calendar.
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| Metric | Reported amount | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Total receipts | $547,681.97 | All campaign receipts reported in the FEC summary, not only individual donations. |
| Individual contributions | $10,902.26 | Contributions reported in the FEC individual-contribution category. |
| Candidate contributions | $5.00 | Contributions from the candidate in the summary record. |
| Total disbursements | $137,135.40 | Campaign spending and other disbursements reported for the cycle. |
| Cash on hand | $410,546.57 | Reported campaign cash remaining at the end of the covered period. |
| Debts owed by campaign | $7,600.00 | Outstanding debts the campaign reported owing. |
| Net cash after reported debt | $402,946.57 | Electionpedia 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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Organization payees only. Electionpedia excludes individual payees and conservatively normalizes names; similar names are not asserted to be one legal entity.
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.
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.
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Thomas James Smith: Donations & Spending 2026
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