MERRIN FOR CONGRESS

RepublicanFEC reportedHouse campaign committee · Principal campaign committee · TerminatedC00863829

Overview

Raised: $3,801vs $1.7M 2023–2024
Spent: $80.5Kvs $1.6M 2023–2024
Cash on hand: $0vs $76.7K 2023–2024
Debts owed: $0vs $0 2023–2024

OpenFEC processed totals through Jul 15, 2025; 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 · No open linked indicators

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).

No open indicators are linked in the published index. This is not a compliance clearance.

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

Candidate connections

Principal candidate campaign
MERRIN, DEREKRepublicanFEC reported
U.S. House · Ohio · District 9
Election 2026 · Challenger · Current candidate
Candidate details & sources
FEC candidate ID: H4OH09169 · 2025–2026 reporting cycle

Money in

Sources

Unitemized individual contributions$16
Other receipts$213

Largest itemized receipts

EMMER MAJORITY BUILDERSRepublicanInferred from FEC-reported participants$3,571Feb 14, 2025
TANANBAUM, STEVEN A.99% Republican · 1% unclassifiedDerived from contributions$3,300GOLDEN TREE ASSET MANAGEMENT · Oct 9, 2024
EMMET, JACQUELINE99% Republican · 0% unclassifiedDerived from contributions$3,300NONE · Oct 28, 2024
LAKONISHOK, JOSEF

Money out

Spending by kind

Operating expenditures$19.6K
Contribution refunds$259
Other disbursements$5,812

Largest disbursements

THE COEFFICIENT GROUP LLC$6,500POLLING - TESTING THE WATERS · Jun 23, 2025
ARISTOTLE INTERNATIONAL, INC$4,500SOFTWARE · Jan 5, 2025
POLITICOIN$2,458DIGITAL FUNDRAISING · Jan 16, 2025
KEYSTONE PRESS$2,394PRINTING · Mar 31, 2025
RED CURVE SOLUTIONS, LLC$1,000COMPLIANCE CONSULTING · Jul 2, 2025
ZAINO HALL & FARRIN LLC$950LEGAL CONSULTING · Jul 10, 2025
MERRIN, DEREK$553TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENT: SEE ITEMIZATIONS IF REQUIRED - TESTING THE WATERS · Apr 29, 2025
ARISTOTLE INTERNATIONAL INC$500SOFTWARE · Apr 29, 2025

Over time

Itemized receipts and reported spending by month: $3,571 raised and $54.8K spent over 2 months.

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: House campaign committee
Designation: Principal campaign committee
Party affiliation: Republican
Treasurer: CRATE, BRADLEY T
Filing cadence: Terminated
Organization type: Not reported
Connected organization: Not reported
Registration snapshot cycle: 2025–2026
Cycles loaded: 2026, 2024
Registered address: PO BOX 75 · MONCLOVA, OH, 43542

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.

SCALISE LEADERSHIP FUND 2024C00857144 Joint fundraising participantMERRIN FOR CONGRESSC00863829
FEC reportedObserved: Sep 12, 2026Registration filing: 1788304Official FEC source ↗
Current registration observation; not a historical filing-date assertion.
MERRIN VICTORY COMMITTEEC00878827 Joint fundraising participantMERRIN FOR CONGRESSC00863829
FEC reportedObserved: Sep 12, 2026Registration filing: 1782639Official FEC source ↗
Current registration observation; not a historical filing-date assertion.
MERRIN FOR CONGRESSC00863829 Authorized candidateMERRIN, DEREKH4OH09169
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: House campaign committee; 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.

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 rowsOfficial FEC outside spending ↗

Overview

Candidate connections

Money in

Sources

Largest itemized receipts

Money out

Spending by kind

Largest disbursements

Over time

Records

FEC-reported relationships

FEC-reported relationships

Political alignment

FEC-reported relationships

Cash, assets & liabilities

Money network

Over time