AMERICAN MEDIA & ADVOCACY GROUP
AMERICAN MEDIA & ADVOCACY GROUP is a political services vendor. In the 2025-2026 cycle AMERICAN MEDIA & ADVOCACY GROUP was paid $140.34M across 50 client committees, of which $87.13M flowed through Independent Expenditures rather than direct committee payments.
Part I Identity
Stable facts about this entity. These figures do not change as you adjust the timeframe in Part II.
Source split
| Schedule B direct committee payments |
$53,208,410 | 569 rows | 37.9% |
| Independent Expenditures money this entity spent supporting candidates, NOT a committee paying them |
$87,134,684 | 259 rows | 62.1% |
- Activity span ALL TIME
- Oct 27, 2010 → Mar 9, 2026
- spans 15.4 years
- Disbursements ALL TIME
- 569
- Schedule B + IE rows
- Client committees ALL TIME
- 50
- distinct payers
Part II Activity in selected window
One timeframe control governs all three panels below. Change it once and the trajectory, top buyers, and party breakdown all update together.
Spend trajectory
Monthly spend to this vendor over the last 12 months.
Top buyers
Two views of the same data — diagram and table share the time-window control and the same top-buyers slice. Click "View all buyers in research" to drill in with the matching date range.
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Top buyers last 3 months · top 1
| Filer | Total spend | Disbursements |
|---|---|---|
| NUNN, ZACH IA · House REP |
$1,000 | 1 |
Top buyers last 6 months · top 1
| Filer | Total spend | Disbursements |
|---|---|---|
| NUNN, ZACH IA · House REP |
$4,000 | 4 |
Top buyers last 12 months · top 2
| Filer | Total spend | Disbursements |
|---|---|---|
| SWOBODA, GINA AZ · House REP |
$14,000 | 1 |
| NUNN, ZACH IA · House REP |
$5,000 | 5 |
Top buyers last 18 months · top 3
| Filer | Total spend | Disbursements |
|---|---|---|
| SWOBODA, GINA AZ · House REP |
$14,000 | 1 |
| NUNN, ZACH IA · House REP |
$5,000 | 5 |
| FLORES, MAYRA NOHEMI TX · House REP |
-$98,010 | 1 |
Top buyers last 24 months · top 10
| Filer | Total spend | Disbursements |
|---|---|---|
| NRSC C00027466 |
$7,717,395 | 22 |
| LAKE, KARI AZ · Senate REP |
$7,565,617 | 14 |
| BROWN, SAM NV · Senate REP |
$6,903,482 | 16 |
| CAO, HUNG VA · Senate REP |
$3,049,954 | 11 |
| LOGAN, GEORGE S CT · House REP |
$1,441,525 | 13 |
| KARI LAKE VICTORY FUND C00856120 |
$1,403,625 | 4 |
| DOBSON, CAROLEENE AL · House REP |
$1,013,440 | 11 |
| FLORES, MAYRA NOHEMI TX · House REP |
$894,729 | 14 |
| MACKENZIE, RYAN EDWARD PA · House REP |
$684,946 | 7 |
| NRCC C00075820 |
$640,262 | 8 |
By party
Revenue by party
| Party | Amount | % |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic | $0 | 0.00% |
| Republican | $112,621,755 | 80.25% |
| Non-partisan | $27,721,338 | 19.75% |
Part III Reference tables
Full all-time and cycle-to-date data.
Cycle-over-cycle trajectory
current cycle earlier election cycle off-cycle year quarterly · 10 years
| Year | Q | Cycle | Total | Txns | Top buyer · share | Top category · share | Cum. (cycle) | YoY % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Q1 | 2018 | $44K | 5 | C00633362 94% | Media 94% | $44K | — |
| 2017 | Q2 | 2018 | $2.61M | 15 | C00633362 97% | Media 100% | $2.65M | — |
| 2017 | Q3 | 2018 | $450 | 1 | BUCHANAN, VERNON 100% | Software & Tech 100% | $2.65M | — |
| 2017 | Q4 | 2018 | $69K | 5 | PITTENGER, ROBERT M THE HON… 98% | Media 98% | $2.72M | — |
| 2018 | Q1 | 2018 | $75K | 5 | PITTENGER, ROBERT M THE HON… 96% | Media 96% | $2.8M | — |
| 2018 | Q2 | 2018 | $987K | 21 | JOYCE, JOHN 69% | Media 100% | $3.79M | — |
| 2018 | Q3 | 2018 | $773K | 22 | WALDEN, GREGORY P. MR. 55% | Media 100% | $4.56M | — |
| 2018 | Q4 | 2018 | $2.26M | 37 | WALDEN, GREGORY P. MR. 35% | Media 100% | $6.82M | — |
| 2019 | Q1 | 2020 | $58K | 9 | C00699512 95% | Media 95% | $58K | +32% |
| 2019 | Q2 | 2020 | $52K | 16 | C00699512 90% | Media 90% | $110K | -98% |
| 2019 | Q3 | 2020 | $6K | 14 | HAWLEY, JOSHUA DAVID SEN 35% | Software & Tech 91% | $116K | +1254% |
| 2019 | Q4 | 2020 | $10K | 20 | SCOTT, RICK SEN 20% | Software & Tech 73% | $126K | -86% |
| 2020 | Q1 | 2020 | $25K | 26 | C00715847 40% | Software & Tech 46% | $151K | -67% |
| 2020 | Q2 | 2020 | $71K | 24 | C00739144 86% | Media 86% | $222K | -93% |
| 2020 | Q3 | 2020 | $2.6M | 48 | C00716571 40% | Media 99% | $2.83M | +237% |
| 2020 | Q4 | 2020 | $3.15M | 59 | C00729335 25% | Media 100% | $5.98M | +40% |
| 2021 | Q1 | 2022 | $7K | 15 | HAWLEY, JOSHUA DAVID SEN 24% | Software & Tech 78% | $7K | -88% |
| 2021 | Q2 | 2022 | $3K | 5 | SCOTT, RICK SEN 37% | Software & Tech 82% | $10K | -95% |
| 2022 | Q1 | 2022 | $49K | 4 | C00802629 60% | Media 100% | $59K | +97% |
| 2022 | Q2 | 2022 | $789K | 9 | FLORES, MAYRA NOHEMI 88% | Media 100% | $847K | +1014% |
| 2022 | Q3 | 2022 | $951K | 8 | POLIQUIN, BRUCE 89% | Media 100% | $1.8M | -63% |
| 2022 | Q4 | 2022 | $3.63M | 32 | POLIQUIN, BRUCE 37% | Media 93% | $5.43M | +15% |
| 2023 | Q4 | 2024 | $4K | 1 | MCCORMICK, DAVE 100% | Media 100% | $4K | — |
| 2024 | Q1 | 2024 | $733K | 15 | DOBSON, CAROLEENE 100% | Media 100% | $737K | +1391% |
| 2024 | Q2 | 2024 | $2.85M | 29 | NRSC 32% | Media 95% | $3.59M | +262% |
| 2024 | Q3 | 2024 | $12M | 42 | NRSC 37% | Media 93% | $15M | +1131% |
| 2024 | Q4 | 2024 | $20M | 75 | LAKE, KARI 23% | Media 99% | $35M | +442% |
| 2025 | Q4 | 2026 | $15K | 2 | SWOBODA, GINA 93% | Media 93% | $15K | +244% |
| 2026 | Q1 | 2026 | $4K | 4 | NUNN, ZACH 100% | Software & Tech 100% | $19K | -99% |
Revenue by service category
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| Category | Total spend | Txns | Avg check | % of total | Top buyer · share | Last paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Media | $51,746,739 | 363 | $143K | 97.4% | NRSC 16% | 6mo ago |
| Digital | $1,046,807 | 42 | $25K | 2.0% | MACKENZIE, RYAN EDWARD 48% | 19mo ago |
| Fundraising | $277,813 | 3 | $93K | 0.5% | KARI LAKE VICTORY COMMITTEE 96% | 20mo ago |
| Software & Tech | $78,688 | 131 | $601 | 0.1% | HAWLEY, JOSHUA DAVID SEN 26% | 3mo ago |
| Strategy & Research | $36,180 | 1 | $36K | 0.1% | MCCORMICK, DAVE 100% | 2y ago |
| Other / Unclassified | $22,183 | 28 | $792 | 0.0% | SCOTT, RICK SEN 34% | 3y ago |
| Contributions & Transfers | -$98,010 | 1 | $-98K | -0.2% | FLORES, MAYRA NOHEMI 0% | 13mo ago |
Client retention
Sticky-relationship signal: how many clients keep coming back across cycles vs one-time buyers.
| Client | Cycles | All-time spend | Txns | First paid | Last paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NRCC | 4 | $1,514,089 | 23 | 2017-05-22 | 2024-10-29 |
| GIMENEZ, CARLOS | 3 | $1,212,588 | 16 | 2020-09-11 | 2024-10-23 |
| HAWLEY, JOSHUA DAVID SEN | 3 | $26,714 | 32 | 2018-05-30 | 2021-04-06 |
| SCOTT, RICK SEN | 3 | $18,548 | 27 | 2018-09-21 | 2021-04-06 |
| BUCHANAN, VERNON | 3 | $15,423 | 33 | 2017-03-06 | 2021-04-06 |
| HUDSON, RICHARD L. JR. | 3 | $14,073 | 35 | 2017-03-03 | 2021-04-07 |
Geographic concentration
Where this vendor's clients are based — federal committees by state, plus implicit jurisdiction for CA and TX state filers.
| State | Total spend | % of revenue | Clients | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DC | $10,017,869 | 19.2% | 2 | |
| AZ | $9,991,315 | 19.2% | 4 | |
| Unknown | $8,700,078 | 16.7% | 17 | |
| NV | $7,245,892 | 13.9% | 1 | |
| VA | $3,197,454 | 6.1% | 1 | |
| TX | $2,667,596 | 5.1% | 3 | |
| ME | $2,224,867 | 4.3% | 1 | |
| CT | $2,007,720 | 3.8% | 1 | |
| AL | $1,927,914 | 3.7% | 1 | |
| PA | $1,482,251 | 2.8% | 3 | |
| OR | $1,442,305 | 2.8% | 1 | |
| FL | $1,252,671 | 2.4% | 4 |
Notable disbursements
5 largest all-time · 5 largest in the current cycle · 5 most recent. Each row earns its place.
| Reason | Date | Filer | Category | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Largest all-time | 2024-10-28 | LAKE, KARI | Media | PLACED MEDIA | $1,352,891 |
| Largest all-time | 2024-10-31 | BROWN, SAM | Media | MEDIA ADVERTISEMENT | $1,214,100 |
| Largest all-time | 2024-10-25 | CAO, HUNG | Media | ADVERTISING | $1,032,904 |
| Largest all-time | 2024-10-21 | LAKE, KARI | Media | PLACED MEDIA | $933,880 |
| Largest all-time | 2024-10-15 | BROWN, SAM | Media | MEDIA ADVERTISEMENT | $893,476 |
| Largest this cycle | 2025-11-12 | SWOBODA, GINA | Media | ADVERTISING | $14,000 |
| Largest this cycle | 2025-11-12 | NUNN, ZACH | Software & Tech | WEBSITE SERVICES | $1,000 |
| Largest this cycle | 2026-01-05 | NUNN, ZACH | Software & Tech | WEBSITE SERVICES | $1,000 |
| Largest this cycle | 2026-02-04 | NUNN, ZACH | Software & Tech | WEBSITE SERVICES | $1,000 |
| Largest this cycle | 2026-03-09 | NUNN, ZACH | Software & Tech | WEBSITE SERVICES | $1,000 |
| Recent | 2026-01-20 | NUNN, ZACH | Software & Tech | WEBSITE SERVICES | $1,000 |