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Lindsay James

Democratic candidate · 2026 general election · Iowa

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Lindsay James

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Campaign finance

FEC data through Jun 30, 2026. Covering the 2026 two-year cycle only.

Possibly out of date. last refreshed 2026-08-20

The 2026 cycle at a glance

Total receipts
$1,628,201
Everything the campaign took in
Individual contributions
$1,410,099
Itemized and unitemized split not reported
PAC and other committees
$199,905
Received from political committees
Campaign spending
$872,363
Total disbursements
Cash on hand
$755,838
At the end of the reporting period

Where the money came from

These categories divide total receipts of $1,628,201 exactly once, so they add back up to the reported total.

Receipts by funding category for the 2026 cycle
Source Amount Share of receipts
Individual contributions $1,410,099 86.6%
PAC and other committee contributions $199,905 12.3%
Party committee contributions $10,600 0.7%
Candidate self-funding $0 0.0%
Loans $0 0.0%
Other receipts, including transfers $7,597 0.5%
Total receipts $1,628,201 100%

Financial position

Cash, debt, refunds, loans, and transfers as reported through Jun 30, 2026 for the 2026 cycle. These are factual reported values, not a judgement about whether a campaign is healthy, viable, or strong. Independent expenditures are never added to or subtracted from any of them: that money was never the campaign's.

Reported financial position for the 2026 cycle
Measure Amount
Cash on hand at coverage end $755,838
Debts and obligations owed by the committee $0
Debts and obligations owed to the committee Not reported
Contributions refunded to individuals $1,731
Contributions refunded to committees $250
Transfers received from other authorized committeesAlready raised money moving between the candidate's own committees, not new fundraising. $7,400
Transfers made to other authorized committees $0
Repayments of candidate loans $0
Repayments of other loans $0

Calculated from the reported values

Each row below is arithmetic MyRepTracker performed on the values above. Where the FEC published the figure itself, the row says so and no calculation was made.

Values calculated from the reported financial position, with the formula for each
Measure Amount How it was produced
Contributions net of refunds $1,618,624 Calculated as individual + committee + party + candidate contributions, minus contributions refunded to individuals and committees.
Operating expenditures net of offsets Not reported An input this calculation needs is not published by the source behind this record.
Outstanding candidate loans $0 Calculated as loans received from the candidate minus repayments of those loans.
Other outstanding loans $0 Calculated as other loans received minus repayments of those loans.
Total contributions refunded $1,981 Calculated as refunds to individuals plus refunds to committees.

Change since the previous filing

Both columns come from committee C00916452, so the two periods are comparable. A change is the difference between what 12P 2026 reported and what Q2 2026 reported, and the direction is stated in words rather than shown only as a sign. 12P 2026 reported through May 13, 2026 and Q2 2026 through Jun 30, 2026.

Financial position at the two most recent controlling filings of committee C00916452
Measure 12P 2026Reported through May 13, 2026 Q2 2026Reported through Jun 30, 2026 Change
Cash on hand at period end $239,225 $755,838 Up $516,613
Debts owed by the committee $0 $0 No change
Contribution refunds in the period $0 $250 Up $250

Cash compared with one period's spending

Cash on hand of $755,838 set beside the $238,974 this campaign spent during Q2 2026, through Jun 30, 2026, which is 3.2 times that period's spending. This is a ratio between two reported numbers over one named period. It is not a forecast of how long the money will last, and campaigns do not spend evenly across a cycle.

Outside spending

Independent expenditures are spending by other organizations that is not coordinated with the campaign. This money was never received or controlled by Lindsay James. Supporting and opposing spending are kept apart rather than combined into one number, and neither is added to campaign receipts.

Spent supporting

$53,203
Independent expenditures in the 2026 cycle

Spent opposing

$0
Independent expenditures in the 2026 cycle

What the money was spent on

These spending categories were produced by taxonomy spend-1.2 and the current rules are spend-1.3, so they are withheld until this record is refreshed.

Political committees that contributed directly

Money received by the authorized campaign committee from PACs and other political committees. This is not outside spending.

This total will usually differ from the PAC figure in the summary above. The summary is what the campaign reported receiving in total; this ranking adds up the individual contributions that were itemized, which is a different record made at a different time. Neither is a correction of the other, and the gap is not an error in either one.

All 38 shown $209,224 total

Itemized rows as published by the FEC on Aug 16, 2026. The summary figures above come from the candidate's own reports through the coverage date.

Political committees ranked by direct contributions
Rank Committee Amount Share Transactions Last activity
1 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SHEET METAL, AIR, RAIL AND TRANSPORTATION WORKERS POLITICAL ACTION LEAGUE C00007542 $15,000 7.2% 3 Jun 29, 2026
2 ZINC COLLECTIVE PAC C00679191 $10,500 5.0% 3 Jun 11, 2026
3 EMILYS LIST C00193433 $10,108 4.8% 9 Jun 25, 2026
4 CARPENTERS LEGISLATIVE IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE UNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS AND JOINERS C00001016 $10,000 4.8% 2 Mar 9, 2026
5 MACHINISTS NON PARTISAN POLITICAL LEAGUE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS & AEROSPACE WORKERS C00002469 $10,000 4.8% 2 Jun 15, 2026
6 UAW - V - CAP (UAW VOLUNTARY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM) 'INT'L UNION UNITED AUTOMOBILE AEROSPACE & AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT WORKERS OF AMERICA UAW C00002840 $10,000 4.8% 2 Jun 26, 2026
7 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE COUNTY & MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES P E O P L E C00011114 $10,000 4.8% 2 Jun 23, 2026
8 UA UNION PLUMBERS & PIPEFITTERS VOTE! PAC (UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN AND APPRENTICES OF THE PLUMBING & PIPEFITTING INDUSTRY OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA) C00012476 $10,000 4.8% 2 Jun 30, 2026
9 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE C00027342 $10,000 4.8% 2 Mar 31, 2026
10 DEFEND THE VOTE C00764233 $10,000 4.8% 2 Jun 24, 2026
11 ELECT DEMOCRATIC WOMEN C00685297 $6,000 2.9% 2 Jun 15, 2026
12 COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA - COPE POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS COMMITTEE C00002089 $5,000 2.4% 1 Jun 24, 2026
13 NEA FUND FOR CHILDREN AND PUBLIC EDUCATION C00003251 $5,000 2.4% 1 Jun 24, 2026
14 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF BOILERMAKERS CAMPAIGN ASSISTANCE FUND C00005157 $5,000 2.4% 1 Jun 10, 2026
15 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AAJ PAC) C00024521 $5,000 2.4% 1 May 22, 2026
16 INT'L ASSOCIATION OF BRIDGE, STRUCTURAL, ORNAMENTAL AND REINFORCING IRON WORKERS (IPAL) C00027359 $5,000 2.4% 1 Jun 29, 2026
17 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, AFL-CIO COMMITTEE ON POLITICAL EDUCATION C00028860 $5,000 2.4% 1 Jun 26, 2026
18 LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS ACTION FUND C00252940 $5,000 2.4% 2 Jun 1, 2026
19 NEW DEMOCRAT COALITION ACTION FUND C00409730 $5,000 2.4% 1 Jun 30, 2026
20 BLUE HEN FEDERAL PAC C00493700 $5,000 2.4% 1 Jun 30, 2026
21 PURPOSE PAC C00497131 $5,000 2.4% 1 Jun 5, 2026
22 FAIR SHOT PAC C00574970 $5,000 2.4% 1 Jun 16, 2026
23 MOMS FED UP C00651042 $5,000 2.4% 1 Jun 17, 2026
24 WAY BACK PAC C00824342 $5,000 2.4% 1 Jun 3, 2026
25 MITTEN PAC C00832147 $5,000 2.4% 1 Jun 22, 2026
26 END CITIZENS UNITED C00573261 $4,500 2.2% 3 Jun 26, 2026
27 BLUE MAJORITY PAC C00529693 $4,000 1.9% 2 Jun 17, 2026
28 KEVIN TECHAU FOR CONGRESS C00902676 $4,000 1.9% 2 Mar 20, 2026
29 VOTE MAMA C00692137 $2,500 1.2% 1 Jun 26, 2026
30 PATRIOT PAC C00832576 $2,500 1.2% 1 Jun 30, 2026
31 THERESA GREENFIELD FOR IOWA C00708164 $2,000 1.0% 1 Sep 28, 2025
32 DEFEAT EXTREMISTS C00829754 $2,000 1.0% 1 Dec 31, 2025
33 OVERSIGHT ACTION FUND C00904623 $2,000 1.0% 1 Jun 25, 2026
34 EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND, INC. PAC (EVERYTOWN PAC) C00640086 $1,500 0.7% 1 Jun 29, 2026
35 FRIENDS OF CHERI BUSTOS C00498568 $1,000 0.5% 1 Jun 16, 2026
36 SILICORN VALLEY PAC C00840462 $1,000 0.5% 1 May 27, 2026
37 MELTON FOR IOWA C00802827 $400 0.2% 1 Jun 30, 2026
38 SQUARE ONE POLITICS C00641555 $216 0.1% 5 Jun 25, 2026

Organizations spending independently

Supporting Lindsay James

1 organization shown $53,203 total

Itemized rows as published by the FEC on Aug 16, 2026. The summary figures above come from the candidate's own reports through the coverage date.

Organizations ranked by independent spending supporting this candidate
Rank Committee Amount Share Transactions Last activity
1 Project 218 C00871368 $53,203 100.0% 2 May 22, 2026

Opposing Lindsay James

No opposing independent expenditures are reported for this cycle.

What that outside spending purchased

Each independent expenditure carries a short description the spending committee wrote, and these categories are those descriptions sorted under taxonomy outside-1.0. Spending supporting Lindsay James and spending opposing them are broken down separately and never combined, and every share below is a share of that one direction's total.

The largest category is usually "Advertising, medium not specified". That is not a leftover: it is spending the committee described only as a media buy or as advertising, without saying whether it aired on television, ran online, or arrived in the mail. MyRepTracker reports what was filed rather than assigning it a medium.

Supporting Lindsay James

Independent spending supporting this candidate, by reported purpose for the 2026 cycle, ranked by amount
Purpose Amount % Share Transactions
Direct mail $53,203 100.0% 2
Classified $53,203 100.0%
Unclassified filing descriptions $0 0.0%
Total independent spending $53,203 100% 2

Opposing Lindsay James

No independent expenditures in this direction are reported for this cycle.

Who the committees behind this money were

Every committee here is placed by the registration it filed with the FEC for the 2026 cycle: its designation, its committee type, and the organizational form it reported. That is the FEC's own record and involves no judgement by MyRepTracker, so this covers every itemized dollar. A committee's registration can change between cycles, and each cycle is judged by its own.

Contributed to Lindsay James

Committees itemized $209,224 in contributions to this campaign.

Political committees contributing to this campaign, grouped by who the FEC says runs them in the 2026 cycle, ranked by amount
Kind of committee Amount % Share Committees Transactions
Labor union PACs $100,000 47.8% 12 20
Non-connected committees $57,824 27.6% 11 29
Leadership PACs $27,500 13.1% 7 8
Other candidates' committees $12,400 5.9% 5 6
Membership organization PACs $11,500 5.5% 3 4
Itemized total for this direction $209,224

Spent supporting Lindsay James

Committees itemized $53,203 in independent spending supporting Lindsay James.

Independent spenders supporting this candidate, grouped by who the FEC says runs them in the 2026 cycle, ranked by amount
Kind of committee Amount % Share Committees Transactions
Non-connected committees $53,203 100.0% 1 2
Itemized total for this direction $53,203

What interests those committees advance

The FEC publishes no industry or interest field, so unlike the section above this one is a claim MyRepTracker makes. A committee is placed here only when there is a document behind the claim that a reader can open: its own statement of organization, its own published mission statement, or a named third party. Every assignment carries that document on the committee's own page. A committee's name is never evidence of anything.

Categorized is not the same as reviewed. Most of these sectors were assigned by machine from the committee's own filing rather than read by a person. Each committee's own page says which of the two its assignment is, and names the document behind it either way.

Coverage is partial on purpose, and the part that is not covered is shown at full size rather than left out. Leadership PACs, party committees, and other candidates' committees are excluded outright: their giving is an officeholder's or a party's decision, so no interest label describes it. Categories are taxonomy interest-1.7.

Contributed to Lindsay James

Committees itemized $209,224 in contributions to this campaign. $39,900 of that came from leadership PACs, party committees, and other candidates' committees, which are not interest groups. Of the remaining $169,324, committees categorized as advancing an interest account for $109,500 and committees not yet categorized account for $59,824.

Political committees contributing to this campaign, grouped by the interest they are categorized as advancing in the 2026 cycle, ranked by amount
Interest Amount % Share Committees Transactions
Building trades unions Labor $35,000 20.7% 4 7
Public sector unions Labor $20,000 11.8% 3 4
Industrial unions Labor $15,000 8.9% 2 3
Transportation unions Labor $15,000 8.9% 1 3
Automotive Transportation $10,000 5.9% 1 2
Lawyers and law firms Professional services $5,000 3.0% 1 1
Telecommunications Communications and technology $5,000 3.0% 1 1
Democracy and election reform Ideological and single-issue $4,500 2.7% 1 3
Committees not yet categorized $59,824 35.3% 12 29
Leadership PACs, party committees, and other candidates' committees Not part of the base the shares beside it are taken over. $39,900 Not applicable 12 14
Base the shares are taken over $169,324 100%
Itemized total for this direction $209,224

Spent supporting Lindsay James

Committees itemized $53,203 in independent spending supporting Lindsay James. Of that, committees categorized as advancing an interest account for $53,203 and committees not yet categorized account for $0.

Independent spenders supporting this candidate, grouped by the interest they are categorized as advancing in the 2026 cycle, ranked by amount
Interest Amount % Share Committees Transactions
Fiscal conservatism Ideological and single-issue $53,203 100.0% 1 2
Base the shares are taken over $53,203 100%
Itemized total for this direction $53,203

Last-minute contributions reported before an election

In the days just before an election, a campaign must tell the FEC within 48 hours about any contribution or loan of $1,000 or more. These notices arrive faster than the regular reporting schedule, and the same money is reported again in the report covering those days. Nothing here is added to receipts: it is a preview of money the ordinary reports will carry, not money beside them.

Reported on notices

$59,700
Across 5 notices, received May 14, 2026 to May 29, 2026

Still only provisional

$0
Every notice is now covered by a regular report

The most recent notice was filed on May 31, 2026. A notice stops being the only record of its money once a regular report covers the same days; those are marked reconciled below and the amounts appear in Lindsay James's reported totals through the ordinary schedule.

48-hour notices filed for the 2026 cycle, newest first
Filed Amount Entries Covers State Filing
May 31, 2026 $14,000 4 May 29 to May 29, 2026 Covered by a regular report FEC filing ↗
May 28, 2026 $11,700 5 May 26 to May 27, 2026 Covered by a regular report FEC filing ↗
May 24, 2026 $7,000 2 May 22 to May 22, 2026 Covered by a regular report FEC filing ↗
May 20, 2026 $19,000 6 May 18 to May 18, 2026 Covered by a regular report FEC filing ↗
May 16, 2026 $8,000 3 May 14 to May 14, 2026 Covered by a regular report FEC filing ↗

Where the individual money was reported from

Contributions from individuals that the campaign itemized, grouped by the state each contributor gave as their address. Contributions of $200 or less in aggregate are not itemized and carry no address, so they are not here at all. These places account for $1,231,207 of the $1,417,499 this campaign reported from individuals and from transfers by its other authorized committees, across 1,842 itemized contributions.

From Iowa

$547,714
44.5% of the itemized money that has a place

From everywhere else

$683,493
55.5% of the itemized money that has a place

Money from outside Iowa is not money from outside the country, and neither figure is evidence that anything unlawful happened. People may contribute to campaigns in states they do not live in, and United States citizens living abroad may contribute at all.

What kind of place it came from

Itemized individual contributions by kind of place, 2026 cycle
Kind of place Amount Contributions Share
States and the District of ColumbiaContributors who gave an address in one of the fifty states or the District of Columbia. $1,231,207 1,842 100.0%

Places, largest first

Top 10 of 40 places shown as bars. Every place is in the table below.

  • Iowa this campaign's state $547,714
  • California $296,832
  • New York $85,781
  • Massachusetts $46,098
  • Washington $37,484
  • District of Columbia $25,288
  • Texas $25,000
  • Oregon $19,575
  • Florida $19,450
  • Georgia $17,000
Every place with itemized individual contributions reported for the 2026 cycle
Place Amount Contributions Share
Iowa this campaign's state $547,714 1,101 44.5%
California $296,832 262 24.1%
New York $85,781 92 7.0%
Massachusetts $46,098 63 3.7%
Washington $37,484 53 3.0%
District of Columbia $25,288 46 2.1%
Texas $25,000 13 2.0%
Oregon $19,575 16 1.6%
Florida $19,450 13 1.6%
Georgia $17,000 7 1.4%
Pennsylvania $16,500 7 1.3%
Illinois $11,871 26 1.0%
Nebraska $10,750 5 0.9%
Connecticut $10,415 14 0.8%
Colorado $9,832 13 0.8%
Kentucky $7,000 2 0.6%
Maryland $6,152 13 0.5%
Missouri $5,097 14 0.4%
Michigan $4,830 5 0.4%
Wyoming $3,500 1 0.3%
Wisconsin $3,150 13 0.3%
New Hampshire $3,119 11 0.3%
New Jersey $2,654 7 0.2%
Virginia $2,520 12 0.2%
Minnesota $2,130 7 0.2%
Arizona $1,990 4 0.2%
Ohio $1,500 3 0.1%
West Virginia $1,000 1 0.1%
Rhode Island $950 5 0.1%
Delaware $900 1 0.1%
Montana $750 2 0.1%
New Mexico $750 2 0.1%
Kansas $700 1 0.1%
North Carolina $625 1 0.1%
Idaho $500 1 <0.1%
South Carolina $500 1 <0.1%
Vermont $500 1 <0.1%
Nevada $300 1 <0.1%
Arkansas $250 1 <0.1%
Louisiana $250 1 <0.1%
Reported with a place $1,231,207 1,842 100%

Contributions are transactions, not people: one contributor giving every month is counted once for each contribution. No contributor's name, address, employer, or occupation is stored or shown anywhere on this site.

How this compares

Compared with U.S. House campaigns in Iowa, 2026 cycle: 30 campaigns with a complete Federal Election Commission record for the cycle. This is a position in that group, not a score, a grade, or a judgement about the campaign.

Total receipts

Everything the authorized campaign committee took in for this cycle, including contributions, loans, and transfers.

  • This campaign $1,628,201
  • Cohort median $168,072
Total receipts for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in Iowa, 2026 cycle
Measure Value
This campaign $1,628,201
Lowest in the cohort$0
25th percentile$26,117
Median$168,072
75th percentile$1,117,087
Highest in the cohort$10,217,845
Campaigns counted 30

23 of the 30 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 77th percentile of the cohort. Campaigns reporting the same value sit at the same position.

Share of receipts from political committees

Direct contributions from PACs and other political committees as a share of total receipts. Campaigns reporting no receipts at all have no share and are left out of this measure.

  • This campaign 12.3%
  • Cohort median 4.3%
Share of receipts from political committees for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in Iowa, 2026 cycle
Measure Value
This campaign 12.3%
Lowest in the cohort0.0%
25th percentile0.1%
Median4.3%
75th percentile13.6%
Highest in the cohort53.5%
Campaigns counted 29

20 of the 29 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 69th percentile of the cohort. Campaigns reporting the same value sit at the same position.

Cash on hand

The balance reported at the end of the coverage period. Campaigns report at different times, so this compares balances as of each campaign's own coverage end.

  • This campaign $755,838
  • Cohort median $10,955
Cash on hand for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in Iowa, 2026 cycle
Measure Value
This campaign $755,838
Lowest in the cohort$0
25th percentile$415
Median$10,955
75th percentile$328,850
Highest in the cohort$6,749,491
Campaigns counted 30

23 of the 30 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 77th percentile of the cohort. Campaigns reporting the same value sit at the same position.

Outside spending supporting

Independent expenditures by other organizations supporting the candidate. This money was never received or controlled by the campaign.

  • This campaign $53,203
  • Cohort median $0
Outside spending supporting for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in Iowa, 2026 cycle
Measure Value
This campaign $53,203
Lowest in the cohort$0
25th percentile$0
Median$0
75th percentile$0
Highest in the cohort$329,017
Campaigns counted 30

26 of the 30 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 87th percentile of the cohort. Campaigns reporting the same value sit at the same position.

Outside spending opposing

Independent expenditures by other organizations opposing the candidate, not coordinated with any campaign.

  • This campaign $0
  • Cohort median $0
Outside spending opposing for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in Iowa, 2026 cycle
Measure Value
This campaign $0
Lowest in the cohort$0
25th percentile$0
Median$0
75th percentile$0
Highest in the cohort$702,696
Campaigns counted 30

0 of the 30 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 0th percentile of the cohort. Campaigns reporting the same value sit at the same position.

Every comparison is drawn from one two-year cycle and one office. Only campaigns whose FEC record for that cycle is complete are counted; the rest are reported beside the cohort and are never counted as zero. One authorized committee is counted once however many candidacies report it, so where a candidate's committees are all reported by another FEC record, that record supplies the figures for both. A campaign is never compared with another cycle, with a career total, or with a candidate for a different office.

What these numbers mean

Receipts are not the same as contributions
Total receipts include everything the campaign took in, such as contributions, loans, and transfers. Contributions are only the money given by people and committees.
Direct contributions are not outside spending
A direct contribution is money received by the campaign's own authorized committee. An independent expenditure is money another organization spent on its own, without coordinating with the campaign. The Federal Election Commission treats these as different activities, and so does this page.
The organizations named here are political committees
Direct rankings count what one political committee gave to a campaign; outside-spending rankings count what a committee spent independently. A separate conduit section groups individual contributions only when the campaign's memo record supplies a registered conduit committee's FEC ID. It never attributes donors to employers or interest groups, and it never exposes contributor names. Sites using broader attribution rules may therefore report different organization totals.
A cycle may be only partly reported
Filings arrive throughout a two-year cycle. A current cycle shows only what has been filed and processed through the coverage date shown above, so it is not comparable with a finished cycle.
This view is cycle specific
It covers the 2026 two-year cycle only.

Source: Federal Election Commission ↗. MyRepTracker ingests FEC records directly and does not add its own influence, risk, or corruption score.