PACIFIC DEFENSE STRATEGIES, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE
Mixed activity · 49% Democratic / 51% RepublicanInferred from activityPAC (not qualified) · Lobbyist or registrant PAC · Monthly filerC00848721
Overview
- Raised
- $50.5Kvs $53.5K 2023–2024
- Spent
- $52Kvs $47.2K 2023–2024
- Cash on hand
- $4,739vs $6,267 2023–2024
- Debts owed
- $0vs $0 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.
Candidate connections
Candidate campaign receiving transfers
ARENHOLZ, ASHLEY HINSONRepublicanFEC reportedU.S. Senate · Iowa · Statewide
Receiving campaign: ASHLEY FOR IOWA
Candidate details & sources
FEC candidate ID:
S6IA00314· 2025–2026 reporting cycleCandidate campaign receiving transfers
Money in
Sources
- Itemized individual contributions$49.9K
- Unitemized individual contributions$568
Largest itemized receipts
- MADER, KENT49% Democratic / 51% RepublicanDerived from contributions$5,000PACIFIC DEFENSE STRATEGIES INC · Mar 25, 2025
- GOODWIN, ADAM49% Democratic / 51% RepublicanDerived from contributions$5,000PACIFIC DEFENSE STRATEGIES INC · Mar 12, 2025
- LU, RICHARD49% Democratic / 51% RepublicanDerived from contributions$5,000PACIFIC DEFENSE · Feb 20, 2026
- KARLSSON, LARS
Money out
Spending by kind
- Contributions to committees$52K
Largest disbursements
Nothing reported.
All spending →Payments are reported transactions, largest first; noncash accounting entries are listed under Reconciliation, not as payments.
Money network · top contributors and recipients as a graph
Records
Registration
- Committee type
- PAC (not qualified)
- Designation
- Lobbyist or registrant PAC
- Party affiliation
- No party affiliation reported
- Treasurer
- THOMPSON, WAYNE
- Filing cadence
- Monthly filer
- Organization type
- Corporation
- Connected organization
- Not reported
- Registration snapshot cycle
- 2025–2026
- Cycles loaded
- 2026, 2024
- Registered address
- 400 CONTINENTAL BOULEVARD · SUITE 100 · EL SEGUNDO, CA, 90245
Relationships
FEC-reported relationships
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Political alignment
Registration, linked-candidate, and disclosed money-flow evidence
FEC registration: PAC (not qualified); no party affiliation reported. Classification basis: Inferred from activity. 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.