ECHOLS FOR CONGRESS

RepublicanFEC reportedHouse campaign committee · Principal campaign committee · Quarterly filerC00938654

Overview

Raised: $3.2M
Spent: $2.3M
Cash on hand: $889K
Debts owed: $1.6M

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

3 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).

2 receipt eligibility · 1 integrity · 0 fundraising patterns

Foreign-address eligibility →Associated amount: $1,000
The filing uses FEC foreign-address code ZZ. A foreign address does not establish foreign-national status; verify eligibility without inferring citizenship from geography.
Evidence date: Mar 13, 2026
Foreign-address eligibility →Associated amount: $1,000
The filing uses FEC foreign-address code ZZ. A foreign address does not establish foreign-national status; verify eligibility without inferring citizenship from geography.
Evidence date: Mar 31, 2026
Financial integrity review →Associated amount: $0
The FEC issued 3 notice(s) to ECHOLS FOR CONGRESS about reports it had not filed, most recently on 2026-08-11, and no filing covering those periods appears in the loaded archive.
Evidence date: Aug 11, 2026

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

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Candidate connections

Principal candidate campaign
ECHOLS, MICHAEL CHARLESRepublicanFEC reported
U.S. House · Louisiana · District 5
Election 2026 · Open seat · Current candidate
Candidate details & sources
FEC candidate ID: H6LA05242 · 2025–2026 reporting cycle

Money in

Sources

Itemized individual contributions$554.4K
Unitemized individual contributions$3,784
Other committees$44K
Transfers from affiliates$122K
Loans received$2.4M
Other receipts$7,730

Top contributors

ECHOLS, MICHAEL CHARLES$2.4M3 contributions
ECHOLS VICTORY FUNDRepublicanInferred from FEC-reported participants$122K12 contributions
PRICE, TEDDY R.

Money out

Spending by kind

Operating expenditures$1.4M
Loan repayments$850K
Contribution refunds$3,000

Largest disbursements

ECHOLS, MICHAEL CHARLES$850KApr 28, 2026
MEDIA AD VENTURES$50.6KMEDIA · Mar 18, 2026
MEDIA AD VENTURES$50.1KMEDIA · Mar 25, 2026
MEDIA AD VENTURES$47.9KMEDIA · Apr 1, 2026
MEDIA AD VENTURES$40KMEDIA · Apr 16, 2026
NUNGESSER CONSULTING$36.9KFINANCE CONSULTING · Apr 1, 2026
NUNGESSER CONSULTING$32.8KFINANCE CONSULTING · Jun 18, 2026
MEDIA AD VENTURES$32.2KMEDIA · Apr 22, 2026
MEDIA AD VENTURES$25.9K

Over time

Itemized receipts and reported spending by month

Data

Month	Raised	Spent
Feb 26	$298,734	$0
Mar 26	$1,359,388	$0
Apr 26	$48,966	$850,000
May 26	$41,188	$0
Jun 26	$1,035,346	$0
Jul 26	$6,705	$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: House campaign committee
Designation: Principal campaign committee
Party affiliation: Republican
Treasurer: PLISHKA, JOHN
Filing cadence: Quarterly filer
Organization type: Not reported
Connected organization: ECHOLS VICTORY FUND
Registration snapshot cycle: 2025–2026
Cycles loaded: 2026
Registered address: PO BOX 1074 · DENHAM SPRINGS, LA, 70727

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.

ECHOLS VICTORY FUNDC00953174 Joint fundraising participantECHOLS FOR CONGRESSC00938654
FEC reportedObserved: Sep 12, 2026Registration filing: 1982311Official FEC source ↗
Current registration observation; not a historical filing-date assertion.
ECHOLS FOR CONGRESSC00938654 Authorized candidateECHOLS, MICHAEL CHARLESH6LA05242
FEC reportedLoaded: Sep 7, 2026Official FEC source ↗
Cycle-specific FEC candidate–committee linkage. The date is local ingestion, not the original filing date.
ECHOLS FOR CONGRESSC00938654 Connected organizationECHOLS VICTORY FUNDReported 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 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 ↗

ECHOLS FOR CONGRESS

Overview

Candidate connections

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Money out

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FEC-reported relationships

Political alignment

FEC-reported relationships

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Registration filings

Cash, assets & liabilities

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Money network