DEMOCRATS VOTE

DemocraticLinked candidatePAC (not qualified) · Leadership PAC · Monthly filerC00887588

Overview

Raised: $1.8Mvs $1.3M 2023–2024
Spent: $2Mvs $1.1M 2023–2024
Cash on hand: $35Kvs $234.2K 2023–2024
Debts owed: $0vs $0 2023–2024

FEC bulk summary totals through Aug 31, 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

7 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 · 7 integrity · 0 fundraising patterns

Operating expenditures concentrated at one payee →Associated amount: $407,331
MOTHERSHIP STRATEGIES received 80.8% of positive itemized operating spending in DEMOCRATS VOTE's report. This is a concentration pattern for review.
Evidence date: Jun 30, 2025
Operating expenditures concentrated at one payee →Associated amount: $338,308
MOTHERSHIP STRATEGIES received 81.2% of positive itemized operating spending in DEMOCRATS VOTE's report. This is a concentration pattern for review.
Evidence date: Dec 16, 2025
Operating expenditures concentrated at one payee →Associated amount: $64,467
MOTHERSHIP STRATEGIES received 70.2% of positive itemized operating spending in DEMOCRATS VOTE's report. This is a concentration pattern for review.
Evidence date: May 28, 2026
Operating expenditures concentrated at one payee →Associated amount: $48,762

Candidate connections

Associated candidate
RUIZ, RAUL DR.DemocraticFEC reported
U.S. House · California · District 25
Election 2026 · Incumbent · Current candidate
Candidate details & sources
FEC candidate ID: H2CA36439 · 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

Nothing reported.

Top contributors

DAVIS, ABIGAIL99% Democratic · 1% unclassifiedDerived from contributions$6,00012 contributions
KING, SHARON98% Democratic · 1% unclassifiedDerived from contributions$4,423356 contributions
ARTIS, STEPHANIE88% Democratic · 12% unclassifiedDerived from contributions$4,138170 contributions
APPLEMAN, KENNETH96% Democratic · 3% unclassifiedDerived from contributions$4,132229 contributions

Money out

Spending by kind

Transfers to affiliates$585K
Contribution refunds$60.8K

Largest disbursements

MOTHERSHIP STRATEGIES$46.6KFUNDRAISING CONSULTING · Aug 11, 2025
MOTHERSHIP STRATEGIES$45KLIST RENTAL · Feb 7, 2025
MOTHERSHIP STRATEGIES$40KLIST RENTAL · Jan 13, 2025
MOTHERSHIP STRATEGIES$35KTEXTING SERVICES · Aug 11, 2025
MOTHERSHIP STRATEGIES$35KLIST ACQUISITION · Aug 4, 2025
MOTHERSHIP STRATEGIES$32.4KFUNDRAISING CONSULTING · Feb 18, 2025
MOTHERSHIP STRATEGIES$30KLIST RENTAL · Apr 14, 2025
MOTHERSHIP STRATEGIES$30KLIST ACQUISITION · May 28, 2026
MOTHERSHIP STRATEGIES$27.2KFUNDRAISING CONSULTING · Apr 14, 2025

Over time

Itemized receipts and reported spending by month

Data

Month	Raised	Spent
Jan 25	$31,046	$0
Feb 25	$29,948	$0
Mar 25	$29,979	$250,000
Apr 25	$26,470	$0
May 25	$33,265	$0
Jun 25	$29,585	$0
Jul 25	$50,966	$0
Aug 25	$34,083	$0
Sep 25	$28,082	$115,000
Oct 25	$23,264	$0
Nov 25	$20,995	$0
Dec 25	$21,287	$70,000
Jan 26	$4,625	$0
Feb 26	$5,079	$50,000
Mar 26	$12,839	$80,000
Apr 26	$10,243	$0
May 26	$12,098	$20,000
Jun 26	$10,023	$0
Jul 26	$11,931	$0
Aug 26	$12,538	$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: PAC (not qualified)
Designation: Leadership PAC
Party affiliation: No party affiliation reported
Treasurer: MELE, STEVEN
Filing cadence: Monthly filer
Organization type: Not reported
Connected organization: DOING RIGHT - RESULTS ACTION UNITY LEADERSHIP PAC
Registration snapshot cycle: 2025–2026
Cycles loaded: 2026, 2024
Registered address: PO BOX 1566 · INDIO, CA, 92202

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.

MORE DEMOCRATIC DISTRICTSC00955385 Joint fundraising participantDEMOCRATS VOTEC00887588
FEC reportedObserved: Sep 12, 2026Registration filing: 1987935Official FEC source ↗
Current registration observation; not a historical filing-date assertion.
DEMOCRATS VOTEC00887588 Associated candidateRUIZ, RAUL DR.H2CA36439
FEC reportedLoaded: Sep 7, 2026Official FEC source ↗
Cycle-specific FEC candidate–committee linkage. The date is local ingestion, not the original filing date.
DEMOCRATS VOTEC00887588 Connected organizationDOING RIGHT - RESULTS ACTION UNITY LEADERSHIP PACReported name only · no identity match assumed
FEC reportedLoaded: Sep 6, 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.

FEC-reported relationships

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Political alignment

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

Evidence-based classificationLinked to a Democratic candidateDemocraticLinked candidate

FEC registration: PAC (not 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 rowsOfficial FEC outside spending ↗

DEMOCRATS VOTE

Overview

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Political alignment

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Cash, assets & liabilities

Money network

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