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Candidates › CO-08 race › 2025–2026
DemocraticU.S. House, CO-08Colorado
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Campaign committee · 2025–2026 · latest available filing · Official FEC bulk data
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Each group that spent in this race is followed to where its own money came from, and what it spent is split by those shares: a group whose money was 60% one person's counts as 60% of its spending theirs. Of what traced, 34% to named individuals, 30% to organizations, 24% to tax-exempt organizations that need not name their donors, 12% not itemized in the filings.
| Name | Amount |
|---|---|
| Organization · tax-exempt: need not name its donors · behind HMP | $2.5M |
| Organization · tax-exempt: need not name its donors · behind CLF | $2.1M |
| Person · CEO, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. · behind CLF and America PAC and 2 more | $1.4M |
| Organization · tax-exempt: need not name its donors · behind LCV Victory Fund and Mainstream Colorado Fund | $1.4M |
| Person · Founder, Bloomberg Inc. · behind HMP and 314 Action Fund and 3 more | $1.4M |
| Organization · behind Latino Victory Fund and Jobs and Democracy PAC | $1.2M |
| Person · Executive Chairman, Ripple, Inc. · behind You CAN Push Back and HMP | $1M |
| Person · Investments, Self-Employed · behind CLF | $673.3K |
| Person · Physician, Adelson Drug Clinic · behind CLF and Safety & Affordability PAC Inc. and 1 more | $553.6K |
| Organization · behind Somos PAC and Nuestro PAC and 1 more | $504.5K |
| Organization · behind Somos PAC and HMP and 2 more | $378.4K |
| Organization · behind Jobs and Democracy PAC | $368.6K |
Read for the 19 largest groups of 71, 91% of the $38.3M spent. Shares are of what each group received, not a record of which dollar went where; an organization that need not name its donors ends the trail; a person who gave by more than one route is counted once here. It shows who stood behind the money, not what it was for.
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