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DEFEND THE DREAM

DemocraticLinked candidatePAC (qualified) · Leadership PAC · Monthly filerC00771238

Overview

Raised: $1.5Mvs $1.5M 2023–2024
Spent: $1.5Mvs $1.3M 2023–2024
Cash on hand: $128.2Kvs $201.5K 2023–2024
Debts owed: $495vs $3,346 2023–2024

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 · 0 integrity · 1 fundraising patterns

Fundraising pattern for review →Cluster total: $50,000
Multiple reported donors associated with the same normalized employer gave to this recipient on one date. Repeated amounts and concentration within the loaded cycle warrant a review of possible fundraising activity. The pattern does not establish a bundler, coordination or wrongdoing.
Evidence date: May 1, 2025

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

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Candidate connections

Candidate campaign receiving transfers
AGUILAR, PETEDemocraticFEC reported
U.S. House · California · District 33
Election 2026 · Incumbent · Current candidate
Receiving campaign: PETE AGUILAR FOR CONGRESS
Candidate details & sources
FEC candidate ID: H2CA31125 · 2025–2026 reporting cycle
Candidate campaign receiving transfers
BOOKER, CORY A.

Money in

Sources

Itemized individual contributions$592.9K
Unitemized individual contributions$674
Other committees$632.4K

Largest itemized receipts

ADELANTE FUNDDemocraticInferred from FEC-reported participants$79.7KSep 30, 2025
ADELANTE FUNDDemocraticInferred from FEC-reported participants$75KOct 31, 2025
ADELANTE FUNDDemocraticInferred from FEC-reported participants$60.8KJun 30, 2026
ADELANTE FUND

Money out

Spending by kind

Operating expenditures$1M
Contributions to committees$531K
Other disbursements$40K

Largest disbursements

BERTOLINA & BARNATO, INC.$28KCAMPAIGN CONSULTING FEES. · Feb 10, 2025
THE RITZ-CARLTON BACARA, SANTA BARBARA$23.7KPAC FUNDRAISING EVENT EXPENSES · May 27, 2026
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF OMAHA$17.3KCREDIT CARD PAYMENT - SEE MEMO ITEMIZATION BELOW · Jun 4, 2026
SGR CONSULTING, LLC$15KFUNDRAISING CONSULTING FEE · Mar 28, 2025
BERTOLINA & BARNATO, INC.$14KPAC CONSULTING FEES · Feb 4, 2026
BERTOLINA & BARNATO, INC.$14KCAMPAIGN CONSULTING FEES · Sep 3, 2025
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF OMAHA$12.3KCREDIT CARD PAYMENT - SEE MEMO ITEMIZATION BELOW · Mar 27, 2025
KESWICK HALL AND GOLF CLUB$11.6KFUNDRAISING EVENT · Apr 1, 2025

Over time

Itemized receipts and reported spending by month

Data

Month	Raised	Spent
Jan 25	$1,500	$0
Feb 25	$41,500	$30,000
Mar 25	$149,426	$10,000
Apr 25	$126,200	$0
May 25	$114,750	$15,000
Jun 25	$65,500	$47,500
Jul 25	$12,000	$10,000
Aug 25	$28,000	$10,000
Sep 25	$127,746	$40,000
Oct 25	$91,478	$2,500
Nov 25	$13,000	$15,000
Dec 25	$46,000	$87,500
Jan 26	$9,000	$12,500
Feb 26	$94,750	$5,000
Mar 26	$117,500	$42,500
Apr 26	$33,500	$0
May 26	$44,000	$0
Jun 26	$159,041	$25,000
Jul 26	$63,500	$2,500
Aug 26	$42,300	$15,000

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: PAC (qualified)
Designation: Leadership PAC
Party affiliation: No party affiliation reported
Treasurer: KAUFMAN, STEPHEN J
Filing cadence: Monthly filer
Organization type: Not reported
Connected organization: PADILLA
Registration snapshot cycle: 2025–2026
Cycles loaded: 2026, 2024
Registered address: 445 S. FIGUEROA ST., STE. 2400 · LOS ANGELES, CA, 90071

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.

ADELANTE FUNDC00868117 Joint fundraising participantDEFEND THE DREAMC00771238
FEC reportedObserved: Sep 12, 2026Registration filing: 1928608Official FEC source ↗
Current registration observation; not a historical filing-date assertion.
DEFEND THE DREAMC00771238 Connected organizationPADILLAReported name only · no identity match assumed
FEC reportedLoaded: Sep 22, 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.
DEFEND THE DREAMC00771238 Leadership PAC sponsorPADILLA, ALEXS2CA00955
FEC reportedObserved: Sep 12, 2026Registration filing: 1937785Official FEC source ↗
Current registration observation; not a historical filing-date assertion.

FEC-reported relationships

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Political alignment

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

Evidence-based classificationDemocraticDemocraticLinked candidate

FEC registration: PAC (qualified); no party affiliation reported. Classification basis: Linked candidate. 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.

No candidate support/oppose spending foundThis cycle has no locally ingested Schedule E rows for this committee. Registration, linked-candidate, committee-transfer, and recipient-reported conduit evidence can still establish the alignment shown above.

$0 supporting · $0 opposing · 0 rows

Reported counterparty	Date	Reported value	Asset / units	Reported purpose	Source
GILBERT-LURIE, LESLIE	Jun 20, 2026	$1,856	Other in-kind	FUNDRAISING EVENT EXPENSES * IN-KIND RECEIVED Derived classification: in-kind-offset	FEC filing ↗ Provenance FEC reported description · source row 6093646faf153d3ed772b202aae41107ec9a97498cc23180c917b3ae035efb26 Raw artifact: data/raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/d6108c0a87ca0a02a72d333e1c0fad879a14af446f39504772d0d9369940ee7a.zip
ARAUJO, JAIME	Apr 9, 2025	$750	Other in-kind	FUNDRAISING EVENT EXPENSES * IN-KIND RECEIVED Derived classification: in-kind-offset	FEC filing ↗ Provenance FEC reported description · source row 4116755bf7c2ded1d81a390b1596d1cec7aadf4ace2f4c5530fca1478883ea70 Raw artifact: data/raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/d6108c0a87ca0a02a72d333e1c0fad879a14af446f39504772d0d9369940ee7a.zip
SAZERAC COMPANY, INC. PAC (SAZERAC PAC)	Mar 25, 2025	$370	Other in-kind	FUNDRAISING EVENT EXPENSES * IN-KIND RECEIVED Derived classification: in-kind-offset	FEC filing ↗ Provenance FEC reported description · source row 91fefefc5b5c69ffa182548481d94a8ff19f4829b6a1b7ff46cd94514aa23f69 Raw artifact: data/raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/d6108c0a87ca0a02a72d333e1c0fad879a14af446f39504772d0d9369940ee7a.zip

Reported counterparty

Date

Reported value

Asset / units

Reported purpose

Source

GILBERT-LURIE, LESLIE

Jun 20, 2026

$1,856

Other in-kind

FUNDRAISING EVENT EXPENSES

* IN-KIND RECEIVED

Derived classification: in-kind-offset

FEC filing ↗

Provenance

FEC reported description · source row 6093646faf153d3ed772b202aae41107ec9a97498cc23180c917b3ae035efb26

Raw artifact: data/raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/d6108c0a87ca0a02a72d333e1c0fad879a14af446f39504772d0d9369940ee7a.zip

ARAUJO, JAIME

Apr 9, 2025

$750

Other in-kind

FUNDRAISING EVENT EXPENSES

* IN-KIND RECEIVED

Derived classification: in-kind-offset

FEC filing ↗

Provenance

FEC reported description · source row 4116755bf7c2ded1d81a390b1596d1cec7aadf4ace2f4c5530fca1478883ea70

Raw artifact: data/raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/d6108c0a87ca0a02a72d333e1c0fad879a14af446f39504772d0d9369940ee7a.zip

SAZERAC COMPANY, INC. PAC (SAZERAC PAC)

Mar 25, 2025

$370

Other in-kind

FUNDRAISING EVENT EXPENSES

* IN-KIND RECEIVED

Derived classification: in-kind-offset

FEC filing ↗

Provenance

FEC reported description · source row 91fefefc5b5c69ffa182548481d94a8ff19f4829b6a1b7ff46cd94514aa23f69

Raw artifact: data/raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/d6108c0a87ca0a02a72d333e1c0fad879a14af446f39504772d0d9369940ee7a.zip

DEFEND THE DREAM

Overview

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