GAINES, HOUSTON

RepublicanFEC reportedRepublican candidate · U.S. House · Georgia · District 10 · Election 2026 · Open seatH6GA10175

Overview

Raised: $2.8M
Spent: $1.8M
Cash on hand: $1.1M
Debts owed: $0

OpenFEC processed candidate totals through Oct 14, 2026, across every authorized committee; figures change when amended reports are filed.

Raised is total receipts and Spent is total disbursements as reported for the candidate's authorized committees together; both can include transfers, loans and refunds. Cash on hand and debts are the balances at the end of the last report. The comparison is the same figure for 2023–2024.

Race forecast

Chance of winning: 99%
Rating: Safe R
Predicted margin: R+14.3

VotePredictor gives Houston Gaines a 99% chance of winning as of October 30, 2026. No polls of the race: based on the district's lean, incumbency and the national environment, with published race ratings.

Houston Gaines’s chance of winning

Data

Date	Chance of winning
Sep 25, 2026	99%
Oct 1, 2026	99%
Oct 6, 2026	99%
Oct 9, 2026	97%
Oct 10, 2026	97%
Oct 16, 2026	97%
Oct 24, 2026	97%
Oct 25, 2026	97%
Oct 26, 2026	99%
Oct 30, 2026	99%

As VotePredictor published it each day since September 25, 2026, including changes to its model.

Forecast by VotePredictor , updated daily. Its probabilities stay between 1% and 99%; no race is called before it is decided.

Compliance review indicators

2 open

Automated review indicators, not findings of a violation. Exact reported records are linked; identity is not independently verified. Reported lobbyist-bundling disclosures are not counted as issues.

Latest cycle-wide scan: Oct 18, 2026 · Index refreshed: Oct 18, 2026. Coverage is limited to loaded records and implemented checks.

Scan coverage and freshness

Receipt eligibility: last successful scan Oct 18, 2026 · latest scheduled check skipped (Oct 18, 2026).
Integrity: last successful scan Oct 18, 2026 · latest scheduled check succeeded (Oct 18, 2026).
Fundraising patterns: last successful scan Oct 18, 2026 · latest scheduled check skipped (Oct 18, 2026).

0 receipt eligibility · 2 integrity · 0 fundraising patterns

Operating expenditures concentrated at one payee →Associated amount: $31,090
WINRED TECHNICAL SERVICES LLC received 58.5% of positive itemized operating spending in GAINES FOR CONGRESS's report. This is a concentration pattern for review.
Evidence date: Sep 30, 2025
Financial integrity review →Associated amount: $0
The FEC issued 1 notice(s) to GAINES FOR CONGRESS about reports it had not filed, most recently on 2026-06-23, and no filing covering those periods appears in the loaded archive.
Evidence date: Jun 23, 2026

Across the cycle, some findings could not be linked safely to entities; ambiguous identities are withheld.

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Candidate & race

Office & constituency: U.S. House · Georgia · District 10
Reported party: Republican
Election year: 2026
Race status: Open seat
Candidate status: Current candidate
Principal campaign committee: GAINES FOR CONGRESS (C00914168)

The principal campaign committee is the reported connection to this candidate. Transaction details below cover that committee; candidate-wide totals can also cover other authorized committees.

Money in

Who's funding Houston Gaines? Read the article →

Sources

Itemized individual contributions$2.2M
Unitemized individual contributions$85.7K
Other committees$372.8K
Other receipts$27.7K

Top contributors

TEAM GAINESRepublicanInferred from FEC-reported participants$92.1K3 contributions
MIRANDA, DANIEL MRRepublicanDerived from contributions$38.5K5 contributions
LEEBERN, DONALD MR. III

Money out

Spending by kind

Operating expenditures$1.6M
Contribution refunds$142.3K
Other disbursements$32K

Largest operating payments

STRATEGIC MEDIA SERVICES INC$178KMEDIA BUY · Apr 24, 2026
STRATEGIC MEDIA SERVICES INC$168KMEDIA BUY · Apr 2, 2026
STRATEGIC MEDIA SERVICES INC$142.7KMEDIA BUY · May 4, 2026
STRATEGIC MEDIA SERVICES INC$114.6KMEDIA BUY · Apr 13, 2026
STRATEGIC MEDIA SERVICES INC$112.7KMEDIA BUY · May 11, 2026
STRATEGIC MEDIA SERVICES INC$108.9KMEDIA BUY · Apr 20, 2026
ACQUIRE DIGITAL LLC$62.5KDIGITAL MARKETING · Apr 17, 2026
STRATEGIC MEDIA SERVICES INC$50.5KMEDIA BUY · Mar 26, 2026

Over time

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Financial timeline

2025–2026 election cycle · dated records

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Money network · top contributors and recipients as a graph

Records

Registration

Office sought: U.S. House
State / district: Georgia · District 10
Party affiliation: Republican
Race status: Open seat
Candidate status: Current candidate
Election year: 2026
Registration snapshot cycle: 2025–2026
Cycles loaded: 2026
Registered address: PO BOX 48013 · ATHENS, Georgia, 30604
Compliance screening: View review flags

Relationships

FEC-reported relationships

Registration evidence · 2025–2026

Reported relationships are not contributions or transfers. They do not establish that any money changed hands. The reporting committee and related entity are shown separately. Only loaded relationship types are shown; this is not a complete organization chart.

TEAM GAINESC00941039 Joint fundraising participantGAINES FOR CONGRESSC00914168
FEC reportedObserved: Sep 12, 2026Registration filing: 2002999Official FEC source ↗
Current registration observation; not a historical filing-date assertion.
THE 218 FUNDC00963363 Joint fundraising participantGAINES FOR CONGRESSC00914168
FEC reportedObserved: Oct 11, 2026Official FEC source ↗
Current registration observation; not a historical filing-date assertion. Observed in the FEC API; the public FEC registration page is linked for inspection.
GAINES FOR CONGRESSC00914168 Authorized candidateGAINES, HOUSTONH6GA10175
FEC reportedLoaded: Sep 7, 2026Official FEC source ↗
Cycle-specific FEC candidate–committee linkage. The date is local ingestion, not the original filing date.
GAINES FOR CONGRESSC00914168 Connected organizationTEAM GAINESReported name only · no identity match assumed
FEC reportedLoaded: Sep 6, 2026Official FEC source ↗
Cycle-specific FEC committee master: reported connected organization / affiliated committee name. This name-only field does not establish an entity identity match. The date is local ingestion, not the original filing date.
GROWING AMERICA INTO A NEW ERA OF STRENGTH PACC00940106 Leadership PAC sponsorGAINES, HOUSTONH6GA10175
FEC reportedObserved: Sep 12, 2026Registration filing: 2001871Official FEC source ↗
Current registration observation; not a historical filing-date assertion.

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Filings

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Reconciliation

Coverage: Jul 1, 2025 to Oct 14, 2026
Contribution refunds: $142,319
Debts owed by committees: $0
Last report: PRE-GENERAL

Source and provenance

Source agencyFederal Election Commission

Local row ingestedSep 6, 2026

Source row hash9626306d72e17ff04cb5899155aeeb1ac8415ad85baa424df22d6496c51e5823

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Month	Raised	Spent
Jul 25	$481,358	$0
Aug 25	$117,235	$0
Sep 25	$541,553	$0
Oct 25	$25,068	$0
Nov 25	$64,312	$0
Dec 25	$64,009	$0
Jan 26	$13,390	$0
Feb 26	$26,781	$0
Mar 26	$131,248	$0
Apr 26	$238,864	$0
May 26	$90,031	$0
Jun 26	$23,609	$0

GAINES, HOUSTON

Overview

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Candidate & race

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Sources

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FEC-reported relationships

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Money network

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