Largest current-file totals
Candidates with the most outside spending
Candidate totals group current independent-expenditure rows naming that candidate, excluding rows quarantined for source anomalies.
CandidateSupportOpposeRecords
READING THIS ENTRYCampaign money
How to interpret this record
2026 PAC and Outside Spending by Candidate
Campaign-finance records describe reported financial activity. Their meaning depends on the committee, reporting period, transaction type and filing version—not just the size of a headline number.
Four numbers answer different questions
Receipts describe money coming into a reporting entity. Disbursements describe money going out. Cash on hand is a balance at a particular reporting date, and debts are obligations reported under the relevant rules. These figures are not interchangeable. A committee can have activity in more than one cycle, so a comparison needs matching dates and the same type of reporting entity.
Read the period and the amendment
Campaign reports cover stated periods and can later be amended. A recently imported file is not necessarily a report about recent activity. Look for the coverage-through date as well as the date Electionpedia checked or imported the source. When a source identifies a replacement or amendment, adding every version together can overstate the underlying activity.
Read the full campaign money guide →Money & influence · official FEC filings
Who is spending
to support or oppose?
Independent expenditures are outside spending, not candidate receipts. Electionpedia preserves the position the spender reported to the FEC and keeps support, opposition, and unclassified records separate.
Current itemized records25,284
Reported to support$927,872,099.86
Reported to oppose$1,553,511,995.82
Position not reported$30,339.27
Source anomalies · 174 rows excluded from spending totals.
These rows exceed the amount threshold, conflict with the candidate’s reported office, or have no named spender in the connected FEC registry. Original amounts and identifiers remain available for review. This flag does not establish wrongdoing.
Inspect the source rows and reasons →NEW SOURCE-ROW LIBRARYInspect all 25,284 sponsor and communication-spending records.
Open political ad filings →Search the filer-supplied purpose, payee, amount, dates, candidate, position, and original filing. A finance row is not presented as an ad creative.
Independent means outside the campaign.
The FEC defines these expenditures as expressly advocating the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate without coordination. They are not added to the candidate’s campaign receipts.
Positions are filer-reported.
“Support” and “oppose” reproduce the spender’s filing. Electionpedia does not infer intent from a committee name, party, payee, or dollar amount.
Amendments are normalized.
Rows from superseded filings are removed through the FEC previous-filing chain so amended versions are not silently double-counted.
Largest current-file totals
Committees reporting the most outside spending
Spender totals group current independent-expenditure rows filed under that committee ID, excluding rows quarantined for source anomalies.
SpenderSupportOpposeRecords
AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTIONFEC C00687103$49,300,318.31$37,926,742.221,105
Source: Federal Election Commission independent-expenditure file ↗, checked Oct 16, 2026. Displayed totals exclude quarantined source anomalies and sum the remaining current itemized rows after amendment normalization; negative amendments or corrections remain signed.