Alexandria, VA contributions to ACTBLUE (C00401224)

$587,804 as a two-field overlap

This page is a JOIN. One side is the filer-entered city ALEXANDRIA in Virginia. The other side is ACTBLUE on C00401224. $587,804 is what remains after both filters. Opening only the Alexandria, VA hub restates $251,483,471. Opening only the committee hub restates every city that gave to C00401224. Adding those hubs together double-counts.

City labels are filer-entered. ALEXANDRIA is the stored string, not a Census place recode and not a metro-area roll-up. A neighboring municipality is another hub. A ALEXANDRIA line to a different committee ID sits in the leftover $250,895,667, not in $587,804. ALEXANDRIA in Virginia is not Washington, DC and is not Arlington. The city book is $251,483,471; ACTBLUE’s $587,804 is the committee filter on that string. Do not fold Northern Virginia city keys together.

ALEXANDRIA without the C00401224 filter

Take the committee filter off and ALEXANDRIA still shows $251,483,471 itemized. $587,804 is the slice tagged to C00401224. Open the Alexandria, VA hub for the remainder $250,895,667. Do not subtract by hand from a different extract dated on another night.

Alexandria is displayed for readers; ALEXANDRIA is the grouping key. Titles use Alexandria, VA. The leftover $250,895,667 is $251,483,471 minus $587,804 on this extract only. The Virginia hub is a different roll-up.

Reading the ACTBLUE label

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. $587,804 is itemized individual receipts storing city ALEXANDRIA and committee C00401224. Other cities giving to ACTBLUE appear on the committee hub. Adding them here would break the city filter.

Long or truncated FEC names stay as stored. DBA clauses, AKA clauses, slashes, and parentheticals are part of the label on C00401224. Short titles on this page still point at that ID. Do not invent a cleaner legal name.

0.23% is a share, not a ranking

0.23% of $251,483,471 is $587,804 to ACTBLUE (C00401224). That percentage describes overlap of two FEC groupings, not a finding that residents of Alexandria, VA as a group preferred this committee. Most of the $251,483,471 city book went to other committees. Even when 0.23% is a visible slice, the slice is still only the C00401224 filter.

The leftover $250,895,667 under the ALEXANDRIA city string went to other committees. The Alexandria, VA hub holds that remainder. The ACTBLUE page holds receipts whose city field did not store ALEXANDRIA. Do not stack this cell with another city's gifts to C00401224; each join is its own filter.

Rows that never enter $587,804

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $587,804. Virginia 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 $587,804 as proof that Alexandria, VA funded ACTBLUE as a municipal act, or that the committee spent the money in Virginia. 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 $587,804 to federal spending in Virginia.

Doors out of the Alexandria, VA × C00401224 page

Internal links go to Alexandria, VA, ACTBLUE, Virginia campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. The city page holds the $251,483,471 book and the committees that received the leftover $250,895,667. 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: Alexandria, VA and ACTBLUE (C00401224). Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $587,804 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 $587,804, $251,483,471, 0.23%, leftover $250,895,667, and C00401224.

Questions

What is the Alexandria × ACTBLUE FEC total?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing city ALEXANDRIA and recipient ACTBLUE (C00401224) total $587,804 in this extract. That is the join, not Alexandria, VA's all-committee book of $251,483,471. These figures are not independent expenditures. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Is ALEXANDRIA merged with nearby cities?

No. ALEXANDRIA is the exact stored city string with state VA. Other spellings, abbreviations, and neighboring places are other keys and are omitted from $587,804. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a Census place. Use the Alexandria, VA hub for the all-committee book of $251,483,471.

How much of the $251.5M Alexandria book is C00401224?

$587,804 is 0.23% of the $251,483,471 Alexandria, VA city book. The leftover $250,895,667 went to other committees under the same city string. Quote both dollars and the committee ID C00401224. Do not upgrade 0.23% into a ranking of civic preference.

Do Alexandria donations to ACTBLUE fund USAspending awards?

No. The series is FEC individual contributions. USAspending awards are a different dataset. This packet publishes no obligation dollars. Geography on a contribution line does not convert the gift into a federal award in Virginia. Cite FEC.gov for $587,804 from ALEXANDRIA to ACTBLUE (C00401224) and $251,483,471 for the Alexandria, VA city book.