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DEFEATING COMMUNISM PAC

RepublicanFEC reportedSuper PAC · Unauthorized · Quarterly filerC00728386

Overview

Raised: $2.5Mvs $148.1K 2023–2024
Spent: $2Mvs $206.6K 2023–2024
Cash on hand: $432.1Kvs $449 2023–2024
Debts owed: $0vs $0 2023–2024

Other 100%

Other $822.5K (100%) · $822.5K total · contributions this committee made, by recipient party

OpenFEC processed totals through Oct 14, 2026; figures change when amended reports are filed.

Raised is total receipts and Spent is total disbursements as the committee reported them; 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.

Compliance review indicators

1 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 · 1 integrity · 0 fundraising patterns

Operating expenditures concentrated at one payee →Associated amount: $449,000
HAZLITT INDUSTRIES LLC received 83.3% of positive itemized operating spending in DEFEATING COMMUNISM PAC's report. This is a concentration pattern for review.
Evidence date: Oct 3, 2025

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

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Candidate connections

Associated candidate
DUDENHOEFER, DAVID ANTHONYRepublicanFEC reported
U.S. House · Michigan · District 13
Election 2020 · Challenger · Prior-cycle candidate
Candidate details & sources
FEC candidate ID: H0MI13471 · 2025–2026 reporting cycle

A registered candidate association does not make this an authorized campaign committee or establish that these contributions went directly to that candidate.

Money in

Sources

Itemized individual contributions$350.8K
Other committees$2.1M

Largest itemized receipts

CITIZENS ALLIANCE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE INC.77% Republican · 23% unclassifiedDerived from contributions$350KApr 10, 2026
CITIZENS ALLIANCE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE INC.77% Republican · 23% unclassifiedDerived from contributions$200KJun 12, 2025
CITIZENS ALLIANCE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE INC.77% Republican · 23% unclassifiedDerived from contributions$200KSep 29, 2025
CITIZENS ALLIANCE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE INC.77% Republican · 23% unclassified

Money out

Spending by kind

Operating expenditures$756K
Contributions to committees$10K
Independent expenditures$1M
Other disbursements$317K

Largest disbursements

HAZLITT INDUSTRIES LLC$450KApr 6, 2026
5411 LLC$350KApr 17, 2026
HAZLITT INDUSTRIES LLC$225KSTRATEGY CONSULTING · Oct 3, 2025
5411 LLC$164KDOOR KNOCKING GOTV · Jan 5, 2026
HAZLITT INDUSTRIES LLC$100KJun 18, 2026
HAZLITT INDUSTRIES LLC$100KSTRATEGY CONSULTING · Jul 3, 2025
HAZLITT INDUSTRIES LLC$90KSTRATEGY CONSULTING · Jul 16, 2025
5411 LLC$86KSTRATEGY CONSULTING · Jul 16, 2025

Over time

Itemized receipts and reported spending by month

Data

Month	Raised	Spent
Feb 25	$4,000	$0
Mar 25	$7,089	$0
Apr 25	$3,000	$0
May 25	$1,000	$0
Jun 25	$428,500	$0
Jul 25	$200,000	$0
Aug 25	$1,500	$0
Sep 25	$225,000	$0
Nov 25	$1,000	$0
Jan 26	$166,000	$0
Mar 26	$385,217	$0
Apr 26	$350,000	$800,000
May 26	$23,800	$22,500
Jun 26	$200,350	$129,285

Months follow the reported transaction date; itemized records only, so unitemized small-dollar giving is not in the bars.

Money network · top contributors and recipients as a graph

Records

Registration

Committee type: Super PAC
Designation: Unauthorized
Party affiliation: Republican
Treasurer: MAICHLE, KYLE MR.
Filing cadence: Quarterly filer
Organization type: Not reported
Connected organization: Not reported
Registration snapshot cycle: 2025–2026
Cycles loaded: 2026, 2024
Registered address: 38 S MAIN ST · #103 · OCONOMOWOC, WI, 53066

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.

DEFEATING COMMUNISM PACC00728386 Associated candidateDUDENHOEFER, DAVID ANTHONYH0MI13471
FEC reportedLoaded: Sep 7, 2026Official FEC source ↗
Cycle-specific FEC candidate–committee linkage. The date is local ingestion, not the original filing date.

FEC-reported relationships

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Political alignment

Registration, linked-candidate, and disclosed money-flow evidence

Evidence-based classificationRepublican affiliation reportedRepublicanFEC reported

FEC registration: Super PAC; Republican affiliation reported. Classification basis: FEC reported. This describes disclosed financial activity, not an official party registration or ideological score. The figures below separately preserve the filer’s Schedule E support and opposition designations.

Candidate partyRepublican

Supporting: $822,500
Opposing: $0

3 current Schedule E rows

$822,500 supporting · $0 opposing · 3 rowsOfficial FEC outside spending ↗

Overview

Candidate connections

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Money out

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Over time

Records

FEC-reported relationships

FEC-reported relationships

Political alignment

FEC-reported relationships

Independent expenditures

Cash, assets & liabilities

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Money network