Where the Democratic nominee’s money comes from, straight from her own FEC filings.
Almost all of Alani’s money comes from people, and most of her named donors live in Montana. Nearly half of what individuals gave came in gifts from donors who have given $200 or less in total.
| Source | Amount | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Small-dollar donors | $86,905 | Donors who have given $200 or less in total. The law does not require their names to be listed. |
| Larger individual donors | $93,217 | 179 people, each listed by name on her FEC reports. No one can give more than $3,500 per election. |
| Alani herself | $4,106 | Her own money. |
| County Democratic parties | $2,575 | Six county parties: Yellowstone, Dawson, Hill, Sanders, Gallatin and Powell. |
| PACs | $525 | National Farmers Union PAC ($500) and a congressional candidate’s campaign ($25). |
| Corporate PACs | $0 | None, ever. |
Of the 179 donors listed by name, 115 live in Montana, and they gave 60% of those dollars. The next-largest states are California (13%), Colorado (8%, from two donors) and Virginia (5%).
Small-dollar donors are not listed by address on FEC reports, so these shares cover the named donors only.
* That is only what groups reported as spending against her. Independent PAC filed its attack mailers and ads against Alani as spending for Bodnar, so none of them are counted here. The real number is higher. See the mailers.
Groups spending on their own cannot coordinate with a campaign. Alani did not ask for any of this, and none of it has been spent for her since the June 2 primary. Read the full story.
| Group | Amount | What it paid for | Who funds it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Progressive Vet PAC C00948521 | $2,326,396 | TV ads ($1.02 million), mail ($576,000), online ads ($571,000), phone calls ($150,000) and texts | Contours, Inc., the same dark-money source behind the groups now backing Bodnar. The PAC formed weeks before the primary, sent its last $47,500 to a Kansas super PAC funded by the same network, and shut down in July. |
| More Jobs, Less Government C00693838 | $901,179 | TV ads ($692,000 with production), online ads ($105,000), mail ($92,000) and texts | Republican donors: Restoration of America PAC, Club for Growth Action and the Daines Senate Majority Fund. The same PAC has spent $1.96 million against Bodnar and gave Alme’s campaign $10,000. |
| VoteRise C00890400 | $6,316 | Texts | A Los Angeles super PAC |
Since the primary, the only spending reported for her is $1,298 in texts and emails from Field Team 6.