Here’s the latest finance numbers for our Fed elections

We’ve got seven Federal elections this year: one for Mitch’s Senate seat, and six for our six House seats. The last filing period with the Federal Election Commission closed out on 12/31/25, so these numbers are through the end of last year. (Except for Pam Stevenson’s, as she hasn’t filed her EOY report yet.)

The two tables below are for the two races out of the seven where there are enough candidates with enough money to need a table for the data. Both tables are sorted by receipts, but can be sorted differently by clicking on a column header.

U.S. Senate

As you can see, it looks like Barr and Morris had raised roughly the same, but what this report doesn’t show is the loans that candidates made to their own campaigns. Here’s a list of those loans:

• Morris – $4,452,000
• Romans – $230,000
• Willett – $200,000

So, when you take out the loans, the total receipts look quite different:

• Barr (R) – 6,489,657
• Cameron (R) – 1,604,449
• Morris (R) – 1,553,803
• McGrath (D) – 1,362,349
• Romans (D) – 532,958
• Willett (D) – 150,036
• Stevenson (D) – 266,293
• Booker (D) – 77,155
• Forsythe (D) – 46,938
• Faris (R) – 41,721

The other thing to note is “burn rate” – the rate a campaign is going through its money. Morris has been burning through his campaign funds and had much less than Barr in cash on hand (COH) at the end of the year. Cameron was far behind when it comes to money, but he still seems close or ahead in most of the polling.

On the Dem side, McGrath had out-raised everyone else, and almost as much as Cameron. However, she too has been burning through her campaign dollars and actually had less COH than Romans. Considering the polling, he might want to start spending some more. Booker, meanwhile, was near the bottom in amount raised, but his COH was better than both Stevenson and Willett.

House District 6

Right off the bat, you are probably asking the same question I have asked: “Who is this Arquette fellow, and where did he get that money?

The first thing you should know is that the entire amount Arquette has raised is from a loan he gave to his campaign. And, he has spent about half of that. And, almost all of that spending is for an in-kind expense to, apparently, himself.

Go take a look at his report yourself. If you can make heads or tails out of it, please share your conclusions with me. (Also, here is his Facebook page.)

And speaking of loans, we’ve apparently got a number of other candidates who have the wherewithal to fund their own campaign. Here’s the list:

• Plucinski – $305,000
• Gordon – $268,000
• Dotson – $260,000
• Kloiber – $127,000
• Alvarado – $57,245
• Petrey – $55,000

So, once again, if you take out the loans, the fund-raising numbers look pretty different:

• Dembo (D) – $552,182
• Alvarado (R) – $537,815
• Stevenson (D) – $453,005
• Dotson (R) – $156,884
• Petrey (D) – $119,307
• Gordon (R) – $104,271
• Plucinski (R) – $73,485
• Kloiber (D) – $68,955
• Jay (I) – $3,050
• Arquette (R) – $0

And finally, there are the same interesting stats when it comes to COH. Not counting Arquette, it looks fairly close on the Repub side, but Dembo is way out in front on the Dem side. It will be interesting to see what the next report (Q1) shows.

Other Congressional Races

For the remaining five U.S. House races, the numbers are so skewed that I’m just going to list the COH for the main candidates as of December 31.

District 1

• Comer (R) – 3,385,680
• Williams (D) – 8,722

District 2

• Guthrie (R) – 1,466,651
• Compton (D) – 8,072
• Linderman (D) – 13,942

District 3

• McGarvey (D) – 1,809,290
• Diallo (R) – 1,509

District 4

• Massie (R) – 2,188,729
• Gallrein (R) – 933,265
• Wells (R) – 19,090

District 5

• Rogers (R) – 1,059,139
• Pillersdorf (D) – 53,430

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