Michael White2 contributions, latest Mar 16, 2026 · CONSULTANT · INDELIBLE · SARASOTA, FL$7,000
Catherine McKnightOne contribution on Nov 13, 2025 · ATTORNEY · ACCESS HEALTHCARE · DALLAS, TX$3,700
Ernest Angelo Jr.3 contributions, latest Mar 16, 2026 · PETROLEUM ENGINEER · SELF-EMPLOYED · MIDLAND, TX$3,500
Chris Byrd2 contributions, latest Feb 11, 2026 · ATTORNEY · CHRIS BYRD LAW · BULVERDE, TX$3,500
Brenda DentonOne contribution on Nov 25, 2025 · RETIRED · GRANBURY, TX$3,500
James Ellis2 contributions, latest Dec 11, 2025 · ALEXANDRIA, VA$3,500
Joe GrahamOne contribution on Jan 10, 2026 · ATTORNEY · NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT · HOUSTON, TX$3,500
Jack Guenther Jr.One contribution on Jan 29, 2026 · INVESTOR · SELF-EMPLOYED · SAN ANTONIO, TX$3,500
Caroline OldhamOne contribution on Feb 11, 2026 · RETIRED · LEXINGTON, SC$3,500
Michael C. PrinceOne contribution on Jan 22, 2026 · ENGINEER · FIRST BANK · WILLOW PARK, TX$3,500
Charles Saulsbury Jr.2 contributions, latest Mar 16, 2026 · RETIRED · ODESSA, TX$3,500
A donor who gave several times appears once. The 12 largest donors by total given are listed. In all, 118 itemized contributions were filed this cycle, totaling $133K.
PACs and other committeesPolitical action committees and other candidates' committees. Corporations and unions cannot give directly.$8,0005.3%
The largest of the committees is listed. In all, 2 committee contributions were filed this cycle, totaling $7K. Counted from the givers' own filings, which can run above the total the campaign itself reports.
Unitemized ($200 or less)Donors who have given $200 or less this cycle, so the FEC does not itemize (name) them.$7,8205.2%
The candidateMoney the candidate gave their own campaign.$2960.2%
Total reported receipts $151,643
Every dollar the committee reported receiving this cycle, split by the source the FEC filing attributes it to. FEC filings through Oct 19, 2026.
Who donated: where they live, their employers and jobs
Where the donors live $133,017 placed by state
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under $4K
$4K+
$16.1K+
$36.2K+
$64.4K+
none
Outlined: Texas, home state
Home state and away
Texas 76%TX 76%Elsewhere 24%
76% of the money placed by state came from inside Texas: $100.7K of $133K.
Top states
Top donor states
Name
Amount
Texas home92 contributions · 76%
$100,662
Virginia8 contributions · 6.1%
$8,111
Florida3 contributions · 5.6%
$7,500
South Carolina2 contributions · 4.9%
$6,500
California3 contributions · 2%
Money from groups, by interest $27,000
What the committees giving to Trainor’s campaign or spending on ads about Trainor are: a company or industry, a union, a cause, a party or politician. Money from individual donors is not included.
For Trainor $27,000
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Clearly political, but nothing yet shows a cause or a side: not their own words, their funders or a published source.Placed by our rules or a model’s suggestion, and not yet checked by a person. The money still counts here; a person may move it.$20K74%
PACs a politician sponsors or runs: a leadership PAC (the FEC’s designation D), a committee the FEC lists as sponsored by a candidate, or a super PAC the politician’s own team runs and press reports tie to them. One that exists only for that politician’s own race is under Groups spending on one race.$7K26%
“Proposed” marks money from groups whose place is not yet reviewed by a person. Each group is placed by its filings and its own words, never by which party it backs. Every interest · How groups are placed
Outside spending $988,168 across this race
Money groups spent on their own, not through a campaign. Each ad is filed against the candidate it names, so money attacking an opponent shows on the opponent’s row. Open a candidate to see who spent it.
RJames E. Trainor IIIthis candidate1 group▲Supporting $20K▼Opposing $0Total $20K
RMark Charles Teixeira4 groups▲Supporting $939.7K▼Opposing $0Total $939.7K
Who stands behind the outside spending: the people and organizations its money traces to
Who stands behind the outside spending $988.2K traced back through the groups that spent it
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, 41% to named individuals, 47% to organizations, 4.7% to tax-exempt organizations that need not name their donors, 1.5% to committees nothing more could be followed from, 5.3% not itemized in the filings.
People and organizations the race's outside spending traces to
Name
Amount
American Prosperity AllianceOrganization · behind Conservatives for American Excellence Inc.
$277.2K
Richard UihleinPerson · CEO, Uline · behind Club for Growth Action
$105.5K
Kenneth GriffinPerson · Founder & CEO, Citadel · behind Conservatives for American Excellence Inc.
$100.9K
Jeff YassPerson · Managing Director, SIG · behind Club for Growth Action
$74K
Paul SingerPerson · Co-CEO & President, Elliott Investment Management · behind Conservatives for American Excellence Inc.
$65.6K
What the payments were for $151,643 itemized
The campaign also refunded $3,500 in contributions, which the categories below do not include.
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Printing, mail, and shippingPrinted literature, direct mail, postage, design, and delivery.$43,51729%
Filed as
POSTAGE EXPENSE$27,749
DIRECT MAIL AND WEBSITE DESIGN$11,116
PRINTING EXPENSE$2,139
COLLATERAL: SIGNS$1,949
IN KIND: COLLATERAL: SIGNS$500
PRINTING EXPENSE: FLYERS$65
Paid to
Taylor Print Impressions$27,617
American Made Media Consultants, LLC$11,116
Sign and Banner Texas$1,299
Largest vendors
Largest vendors
Name
Amount
The Herries Group, LLC6 payments · 18% of all spending
$27,632
Taylor Print Impressions3 payments · 18% of all spending
$27,617
American Made Media Consultants, LLC3 payments · 18% of all spending
$27,233
Ranch Radio Marketing Group3 payments · 6.5% of all spending
$9,928
RED Curve Solutions LLC11 payments · 6.3% of all spending
$9,558
Lacourse, Jeff8 payments · 4.8% of all spending
$7,250
LMK Strategies, LLC1 payment · 3.3% of all spending
$5,078
Ascend LLC1 payment · 3% of all spending
$4,500
The people, firms and committees paid the most, across every kind of payment. Each share is of everything the committee reported spending this cycle, not only the itemized payments above. A payee that is itself a committee links to its own profile.
EndorsementsWho does Trainor’s campaign say backs them?
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We have not found a campaign site for James E. Trainor III yet.
BallotWhen is Trainor on the ballot?
Unconfirmed match. This filing was tied to the ballot entries below by surname alone, because the filed forename does not appear on the ballot. They may belong to someone else with the same surname.
Every contest for this seat that named this candidate, most recent last; a result is shown once the race is called. Election dates and results from civicAPI (civicapi.org). civicAPI aggregates results from Secretaries of State and equivalent election bodies, and makes its own race calls. civicapi.org ↗
Official FEC filing record for the current cycle. The priorities they publish are quoted from their own site, in their order.
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$2,601
New York1 contribution · 1.5%
$2,000
Illinois2 contributions · 1.2%
$1,541
North Carolina2 contributions · 1%
$1,291
By the state each donor wrote on the filing, across 12 states and territories. Donors who have given $200 or less this cycle are not itemized, so they cannot be placed on a map. The FEC’s grouping also counts joint-fundraising memo lines, so these rows can add up to more than the itemized total.
Donors’ employers as filed
Donors’ employers
Employer as filed
Amount
RetiredWritten instead of an employer · 28 contributions · 23% of ranked
$25,105
Self-employedWritten instead of an employer · 15 contributions · 16% of ranked
$16,755
Indelible2 contributions · 6.5% of ranked
$7,000
Discovery Operating3 contributions · 5.1% of ranked
$5,500
Access Healthcare1 contribution · 3.4% of ranked
$3,700
Saulsbury Industries1 contribution · 3.4% of ranked
$3,643
First Bank1 contribution · 3.2% of ranked
$3,500
Norton Rose Fulbright1 contribution · 3.2% of ranked
$3,500
A further $25,300 came from donors whose answer names no employer (blank), so it is not ranked. Itemized gifts over $200, grouped by the words donors filed: not an industry classification, and a gift from an employee is not a gift from the employer. The FEC’s grouping also counts joint-fundraising memo lines, so these rows can add up to more than the itemized total. Gifts of $200 or less ($7,820) are not itemized, so no employer or occupation is filed for them.
Donors’ occupations as filed
Donors’ occupations
Occupation as filed
Amount
RetiredWritten instead of an occupation · 28 contributions · 23% of ranked
$25,105
Attorney14 contributions · 16% of ranked
$17,192
Consultant4 contributions · 7.2% of ranked
$7,708
Engineer3 contributions · 6.5% of ranked
$7,000
Investor2 contributions · 6.5% of ranked
$7,000
Petroleum Engineer4 contributions · 5.6% of ranked
$6,000
CEO5 contributions · 4.9% of ranked
$5,270
Self-employedWritten instead of an occupation · 2 contributions · 3.6% of ranked
$3,903
A further $25,300 came from donors whose answer names no occupation (blank), so it is not ranked. Itemized gifts over $200, grouped by the words donors filed: not an industry classification, and a gift from an employee is not a gift from the employer. The FEC’s grouping also counts joint-fundraising memo lines, so these rows can add up to more than the itemized total. Gifts of $200 or less ($7,820) are not itemized, so no employer or occupation is filed for them.
Support and oppose are each group’s own labels, not a judgment made here.
$968,168 of the race total was filed about other candidates, so it would not show on Trainor’s own record.
Independent expenditures (Schedule E) only. Electioneering communications and corporate or union member communications file separately; they are counted for Trainorunder “Other outside spending” in the full finance detail, but not for the rest of the field, so every other row is a floor.
Friends of Joe GrutersOrganization · behind Conservatives for American Excellence Inc.
$57.5K
GOPAC IncOrganization · behind GOPAC Election Fund
$30.8K
Ardleigh Impact Corp.Organization · tax-exempt: need not name its donors · behind Conservatives for American Excellence Inc.
$25.2K
Lone Star Freedom Project, IncOrganization · behind Conservatives for American Excellence Inc.
Portage Capital LLCOrganization · behind Conservatives for American Excellence Inc.
$11.8K
Knaster Consulting IncOrganization · behind Stand for Freedom PAC
$10.5K
Read for all 8 groups that 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.
Thermopylae Consulting, LLC$1,200
P3 Imaging Solutions, LLC$919
Print and Pixel$734
Advertising and mediaBroadcast, digital, and print advertising, and the media buying behind it.$32,67522%
Filed as
MEDIA PRODUCTION$16,117
RADIO ADVERTISING$12,858
ONLINE ADVERTISING$2,900
DIGITAL ADVERTISING$800
Paid to
American Made Media Consultants, LLC$16,117
Ranch Radio Marketing Group$9,928
Intouch Design$3,700
Texas Rebel Radio$1,656
Bofars Media Group, LLC$1,274
Fundraising and eventsThe cost of raising money: finance consultants, donor list rental and acquisition, event venues, catering, and donor processing.$31,63221%
Filed as
FUNDRAISING CONSULTING$27,632
IN KIND: EVENT SPONSORSHIP$2,000
IN-KIND: CATERING SERVICES$2,000
Paid to
The Herries Group, LLC$27,632
Fisher, Stephanie$2,000
Mcnutt, Will$2,000
Consulting and strategyStrategic, political, legal, and compliance consulting, and campaign management.$11,8597.8%
Filed as
MANAGEMENT CONSULTING$7,250
COMPLIANCE CONSULTING$3,064
COMPLIANCE CONSULTING, POSTAGE EXPENSE$1,545
Paid to
Lacourse, Jeff$7,250
RED Curve Solutions LLC$4,609
Polling and researchSurveys, opposition research, voter file work, and analytics.$10,5727%
Filed as
POLLING EXPENSE$4,500
COMPLIANCE CONSULTING & DATA PROCESSING SERVICES$3,140
COMPLIANCE CONSULTING, DATA MANAGEMENT$1,510
DATA ACCESS AND MESSAGING SERVICES$1,333
DATA PROCESSING SERVICES$89
Paid to
RED Curve Solutions LLC$4,740
Ascend LLC$4,500
I360$1,333
Digital and technologyWebsites, hosting, software subscriptions, databases, email, and texting platforms.$9,2136.1%
Filed as
TEXTING SERVICES$5,078
SOFTWARE SUBSCRIPTION$3,634
IN-KIND: WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT$500
Paid to
LMK Strategies, LLC$5,078
I360$2,665
Slybroadcast$969
Ellis, James W$500
Taxes, fees, and bank chargesPayroll and income taxes, filing fees, bank and merchant processing charges.$6,4994.3%
Filed as
MERCHANT FEES$3,147
BALLOT ACCESS FEE$3,125
BANK FEE$125
BANK CHARGE, DATA PROCESSING SERVICES$77
BANK FEES$25
Paid to
WinRed Technical Services LLC$3,147
Republican Party of Texas$3,125
Chain Bridge Bank$150
RED Curve Solutions LLC$77
Refunds and redesignationsContributions returned to donors or reassigned to another election.$3,5002.3%
Filed as
CONTRIBUTION REFUND TO COMMITTEE$3,500
Paid to
Victory and Nation PAC$3,500
OtherPayments whose filed description does not match any category above. Every one is listed so it can be read directly.$2,1761.4%
Filed as
CANDIDATE REIMBURSEMENT: SEE ITEMIZATION IF REQUIRED$1,545
COLLATERAL: INFORMATION CARDS$336
IN-KIND: PO BOX RENEWAL$280
IN-KIND: DELIVERY SERVICES$16
Paid to
Trainor, Trey$1,545
P3 Imaging Solutions, LLC$336
Trainor, James$296
Total itemized disbursements $151,643
Every itemized payment the committee reported this cycle, sorted by what it said each one was for. The categories are ours; the wording they are matched against is the committee’s own. Open a category to read the filed descriptions and who was paid. FEC filings through Oct 19, 2026.
All 143 itemized payments filed this cycle. Spending below the itemization threshold is not filed line by line.
2 payments were reported as a lump sum, such as a card or payroll bill, with the detail filed underneath as memo entries. Those entries, $1,560 in all, are counted under the payee and purpose they name rather than under the processor that was paid. The total is the same either way.