Phoenix, AZ × ACTBLUE FEC join

The join, not the Phoenix, AZ hub

FEC.gov itemized individual contributions are grouped by donor city and recipient committee. For PHOENIX, AZ × ACTBLUE, the published overlap is $581,654. Cycle splits, donor names, and receipt counts are absent from the packet. Do not invent a headcount from the dollar figure.

ACTBLUE is the stored name on C00401224. Repeat gifts, joint fundraising, and conduit memo entries can sit inside a city×committee total without this packet splitting them. Do not invent donor names. The committee title is a recipient label, not a roster of contributors in Phoenix. PHOENIX is not Tucson. This slice also carries a Tucson × ACTBLUE join; those dollars are omitted from $581,654. Scottsdale, Tempe, and other Valley city strings are other keys.

All-committee dollars stored as PHOENIX

The city book $181,090,127 is not a budget. It is a sum of Schedule A lines that stored this city string. PAC addresses, joint-fundraising addresses, and household streets that stored PHOENIX follow the same rule. Leftover after C00401224: $180,508,473.

Phoenix is displayed for readers; PHOENIX is the grouping key. Titles use Phoenix, AZ. The leftover $180,508,473 is $181,090,127 minus $581,654 on this extract only. The Arizona hub is a different roll-up.

C00401224 compared with look-alike names

C00401224 is disclosed as ACTBLUE. This page does not list independent expenditures the committee made, operating expenditures it paid, or earmark destinations beyond the labeled recipient. $581,654 is itemized individual receipts storing city PHOENIX and committee C00401224. Other cities giving to ACTBLUE appear on the committee hub. Adding them here would break the city filter.

Committee hubs roll up every city. This join does not. $581,654 is not the committee's national total. Researchers who need the all-city figure must leave this URL for the ACTBLUE hub.

Why 0.32% still leaves $180,508,473

0.32% of $181,090,127 is $581,654 to ACTBLUE (C00401224). That percentage describes overlap of two FEC groupings, not a finding that residents of Phoenix, AZ as a group preferred this committee. Most of the $181,090,127 city book went to other committees. Even when 0.32% is a visible slice, the slice is still only the C00401224 filter.

The leftover $180,508,473 under the PHOENIX city string went to other committees. The Phoenix, AZ hub holds that remainder. The ACTBLUE page holds receipts whose city field did not store PHOENIX. Do not stack this cell with another city's gifts to C00401224; each join is its own filter.

Independent expenditures and other omitted files

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $581,654. Arizona state-office filings sit outside it. Independent expenditures are a different FEC file; the source note on this packet says these aggregates are not independent expenditures. City labels are filer-entered. PAC or joint-fundraising addresses that stored this city string follow the same rule as household streets.

Do not read $581,654 as proof that Phoenix, AZ funded ACTBLUE as a municipal act, or that the committee spent the money in Arizona. The join is two fields. Correlation is not causation. FEC individual contributions are not USAspending awards. This packet has no obligation dollars and no award counts. Do not add $581,654 to federal spending in Arizona.

Internal links that keep both nouns

Internal links go to Phoenix, AZ, ACTBLUE, Arizona campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. The city page holds the $181,090,127 book and the committees that received the leftover $180,508,473. The committee page holds C00401224 receipts from every city. All FEC ties collects neighboring pairs without mixing independent expenditures into this cell.

Researchers citing the join should keep both nouns in the sentence: Phoenix, AZ and ACTBLUE (C00401224). Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $581,654 is the only overlap this extract published. A later amendment wave can move a dollar without this file rewriting itself. Treat the live LobbyVault hub as newer than this packet snapshot. Cite $581,654, $181,090,127, 0.32%, leftover $180,508,473, and C00401224.

Questions

What did FEC.gov record from Phoenix, AZ to ACTBLUE?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing city PHOENIX and recipient ACTBLUE (C00401224) total $581,654 in this extract. That is the join, not Phoenix, AZ's all-committee book of $181,090,127. These figures are not independent expenditures. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does LobbyVault recode PHOENIX to a Census place?

No. PHOENIX is the exact stored city string with state AZ. Other spellings, abbreviations, and neighboring places are other keys and are omitted from $581,654. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a Census place. Use the Phoenix, AZ hub for the all-committee book of $181,090,127.

Is 0.32% of Phoenix, AZ money going to ACTBLUE?

$581,654 is 0.32% of the $181,090,127 Phoenix, AZ city book. The leftover $180,508,473 went to other committees under the same city string. Quote both dollars and the committee ID C00401224. Do not upgrade 0.32% into a ranking of civic preference.

Is $581,654 independent expenditure spending by ACTBLUE?

No. The source note states these aggregates are not independent expenditures. $581,654 is itemized individual receipts storing city PHOENIX and committee C00401224. IE files, if any, live elsewhere on FEC.gov. Cite FEC.gov for $581,654 from PHOENIX to ACTBLUE (C00401224) and $181,090,127 for the Phoenix, AZ city book.