THOMAS LAEHN EXPLORATORY COMMITTEE, INCORPORATED

LibertarianFEC reportedSenate campaign committee · Principal campaign committee · Quarterly filerC00872903

Overview

Raised: $61.1Kvs $22.5K 2023–2024
Spent: $66.7Kvs $7,964 2023–2024
Cash on hand: $9,035vs $14.6K 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.

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
LAEHN, THOMAS RAYMOND DR.LibertarianFEC reported
U.S. Senate · Iowa · Statewide
Election 2026 · Open seat · Current candidate
Candidate details & sources
FEC candidate ID: S6IA00181 · 2025–2026 reporting cycle

Money in

Sources

Itemized individual contributions$49.4K
Unitemized individual contributions$11.5K
Candidate contributions$196

Top contributors

EFROYMSON, DEBRA40% Democratic · 50% unclassifiedDerived from contributions$3,5001 contribution
HESS, LAWRENCE94% Democratic · 1% unclassifiedDerived from contributions$3,5001 contribution
JAMPEL, JAMES96% DemocraticDerived from contributions$3,5001 contribution

Money out

Spending by kind

Operating expenditures$66.7K

Largest disbursements

SMARTPRESS$6,835POSTCARD POSTAGE · Sep 12, 2025
LAEHN, THOMAS$2,700REIMBURSEMENT FOR HOTEL AND REGISTRATION FEE FOR NATIONAL CONVENTION · May 27, 2026
LAEHN, SARA$2,472REIMBURSEMENT FOR YARD SIGNS · Jul 16, 2025
LAEHN, SARA$2,377REIMBURSEMENT FOR CLERMONT INVITATIONS · Nov 15, 2025
SMARTPRESS$2,017POSTCARD INVITATIONS · Sep 9, 2025
ART OF ARIES STUDIOS$1,193ANNOUCEMENT VIDEO FILMING · Sep 25, 2025
ART OF ARIES STUDIOS$1,193ISSUE STATEMENT FILMING · Nov 21, 2025
STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF IOWA$1,000FACILITY RENTAL · Oct 10, 2025
LAEHN, SARA$914REIMBURSEMENT FOR INDEPENDENCE/WILLIAMSBURG INVITATIONS · Feb 25, 2026
FUNSTON, GRANT$862

Over time

Itemized receipts and reported spending by month

Data

Month	Raised	Spent
Jan 25	$100	$0
Feb 25	$2,000	$0
Apr 25	$10	$0
May 25	$1,500	$0
Jun 25	$564	$0
Jul 25	$1,060	$0
Aug 25	$133	$0
Oct 25	$3,500	$0
Nov 25	$4,600	$0
Jan 26	$600	$0
Feb 26	$1,350	$0
Mar 26	$700	$0
Apr 26	$340	$0
May 26	$350	$0
Jun 26	$8,055	$0

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: Senate campaign committee
Designation: Principal campaign committee
Party affiliation: Libertarian
Treasurer: HEISTERKAMP, TIMOTHY JAMES
Filing cadence: Quarterly filer
Organization type: Not reported
Connected organization: Not reported
Registration snapshot cycle: 2025–2026
Cycles loaded: 2026, 2024
Registered address: 2961 100TH ST · SUITE 5 · URBANDALE, IA, 50322

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.

THOMAS LAEHN EXPLORATORY COMMITTEE, INCORPORATEDC00872903 Authorized candidateLAEHN, THOMAS RAYMOND DR.S6IA00181
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 classificationLibertarian affiliation reportedLibertarianFEC reported

FEC registration: Senate campaign committee; Libertarian 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 ↗

Reported counterparty	Date	Reported value	Asset / units	Reported purpose	Source
LAEHN, THOMAS	Jun 4, 2026	$33	Other in-kind	IN-KIND - FACEBOOK ADVERTISINGDerived classification: in-kind-offset	FEC filing ↗ Provenance FEC reported description · source row 0ac89235da12d8af6d0419d2109d8bf376d1539548df2e9f49f68a6b802c5410 Raw artifact: s3://fec-raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/6a2264fe395104be646a24e72e457cd950e4e82eda415dc1ab6190055c0bb1b7.zip
LAEHN, THOMAS	Jun 14, 2026	$27	Other in-kind	IN-KIND - FACEBOOK ADVERTISINGDerived classification: in-kind-offset	FEC filing ↗ Provenance FEC reported description · source row 8fa50ded32f587b07545057d5329241a879910ebdbddaf61d3f736eb7860330a Raw artifact: s3://fec-raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/6a2264fe395104be646a24e72e457cd950e4e82eda415dc1ab6190055c0bb1b7.zip
META PLATFORMS INC.	Jun 14, 2026	$27	Other in-kind	IN KIND - FACEBOOK ADVERTISINGDerived classification: in-kind-offset	FEC filing ↗ Provenance FEC reported description · source row a2a0afab6e37f956c41dce80986135f1a6d171d02ebac693c47367531649d5d7 Raw artifact: s3://fec-raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/6a2264fe395104be646a24e72e457cd950e4e82eda415dc1ab6190055c0bb1b7.zip
LAEHN, THOMAS	Jun 12, 2026	$26

THOMAS LAEHN EXPLORATORY COMMITTEE, INCORPORATED

Overview

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Political alignment

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Cash, assets & liabilities

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Money network