R-TX·U.S. House·District 11

August Pfluger

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$16.4M

raised· #23 in party

votes recorded

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trade disclosures

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Pfluger's fundraising profile is 60% dependent on PAC and committee contributions, with the remaining 40% drawn from individual donors. Industry-tied money shows concentration in energy and natural resources, with oil and gas accounting for 21% of his industry contributions, followed by smaller shares in agriculture, health services, telecommunications, and legal services; individual donors employed in oil and gas, securities and investment, and legal fields represent the clearest non-PAC economic signal. Party and leadership-aligned contributions comprise $5.3M of his $16.4M total, a substantial political component distinct from his sectoral donor base.

Based on FEC donor data and voting records. Statistical patterns only — does not imply causation.

ALIGNMENT FLAGS

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Lobbying-Donor Overlap91%

August Pfluger (R) sponsored hjres35-119; Oil & Gas is their largest tracked donor sector (11%) with 7320 active lobbying filings

Representative August Pfluger is the primary sponsor of hjres35-119, which would nullify an EPA rule requiring Oil & Gas companies to pay annual charges on methane emissions exceeding specified thresholds. Pfluger sponsored this bill to facilitate congressional disapproval of the EPA's Waste Emissions Charge rule. Oil & Gas donors represent 10.7% of Pfluger's identifiable donor base ($1.85M, ranking fourth among their party), and Oil & Gas industry groups filed 7,320 lobbying reports since 2022 on related issues.

DONOR MIX

Industry shares of CLASSIFIED contributions only · the long tail of small-dollar individual donors isn't tagged

$10.2M

tagged $

Party & Leadership60.0%

Oil & Gas13.6%

Agriculture5.2%

Health Services4.9%

Single-Issue Advocacy4.6%

Telecommunications4.2%

Lawyers & Lobbyists4.1%

Insurance3.4%

How to read this: percentages are shares of the 62% of contributions we can trace to an industry (via PAC names and donor employers). Most political money comes from small online donors who don't list an employer, so it can't be traced — that portion isn't shown here.

DATA SOURCES

Financial: FEC · 2022–2026 cycles

Profile: Congress.gov

Votes: House Clerk / Senate · 2021–present

Lobbying: Senate LDA · 2017–present

Trades: STOCK Act disclosures · live ingestion rebuilding

117th–119th Congress. Statistical patterns only.

DONOR MIX

Industry shares of CLASSIFIED contributions only · hover a slice for detail

$16.4M

classified

Party & Leadership60.0%

Oil & Gas13.6%

Agriculture5.2%

Health Services4.9%

Single-Issue Advocacy4.6%

Telecommunications4.2%

Lawyers & Lobbyists4.1%

Insurance3.4%

TOP SOURCES

Employers (individuals) & PACs · excludes aggregators

PFLUGER VICTORY COMMITTEE

PAC

$3,214,089

Individual Donors (no employer)

individuals

$3,065,770

PFLUGER VICTORY FUND

PAC

$1,326,552

AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE PAC

PAC

$186,569

AMERICAN BATTLEGROUND FUND

PAC

$157,682

CEO

employees

$80,050

TEXAS STATE BANK

corporation

$71,419

OWNER

employees

$56,100

NATIONAL CATTLEMEN'S BEEF ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (NCBA-PAC)

PAC

$55,000

EXECUTIVE

employees

$50,100

EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (EXXONMOBIL PAC)

PAC

$50,000

OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC

$50,000

RECENT ACTIVITY

Most recent recorded contributions · PAC and itemized individual donors

BRINGING REPUBLICAN EXCELLENCE TO TOWN PAC

PAC · Apr 28, 2026

+$2,500

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (SKINPAC)

PAC · Apr 22, 2026

+$1,000

BEEF-PAC (BEEF POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE OF TEXAS CATTLE FEEDERS ASSOCIATION)

PAC · Apr 17, 2026

+$1,000

ONE GAS, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC · Apr 10, 2026

+$1,000

TRINITY INDUSTRIES EMPLOYEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (SF) INC.

PAC · Apr 6, 2026

+$3,000

DELL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC · Apr 1, 2026

+$2,500

SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS

Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.

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R-LA · House

Party & LeadershipOil & GasAgriculture

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Lauren Boebert

R-CO · House

Party & LeadershipOil & Gas

HOW WE CALCULATE THIS

Donor Mix Donut

Shows PAC contributions and employer-attributed individual donations grouped by industry — as a share of classified giving only. Contributions that could not be matched to an industry are excluded from the donut but included in the dollar totals above. Advocacy/ideological PACs are excluded from industry breakdown.

What are aggregators?

WinRed, ActBlue, and similar platforms bundle contributions from many individual donors before passing them to campaigns. Because these don't represent a single entity's interests, they are excluded from the Donor Mix and Top Sources views — but they are counted in total fundraising figures.

Data sources

FEC Schedule A & bulk PAC filings · 2022–2026 cycles · Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) filings · 2017–present · Congress.gov / House Clerk voting records.

Important disclaimer

All data is sourced from public records. Analysis reflects statistical patterns only — it does not imply corruption, intent, or quid pro quo. Donor relationships show financial alignment, not control. Capitol Trail makes no claims about the motivations or character of any individual or organization.

PFLUGER VICTORY COMMITTEE

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$66,729

UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED PAC (UNITEDHEALTH GROUP PAC)

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,500

CONSTELLATION BRANDS INC POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$5,000

FIRST FINANCIAL BANK

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$797

PFLUGER VICTORY COMMITTEE

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$212,135

TEXAS STATE BANK

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$419

CHAMBERS, ELIZABETH E (SELF-EMPLOYED)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$600

GENTILE, BRADLEY (HILL EAST GROUP, LLC)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$500

ATMOS ENERGY CORPORATION PAC

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,500

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD LLP CIVIC ACTION COMMITTEE (AKA AKIN GUMP PAC)

PAC · Mar 30, 2026

+$1,000

HART, MOLSON (VIAHART LLC)

Individual · Mar 29, 2026

+$1,000

ENTERGY CORPORATION EMPLOYEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (ENPAC)

PAC · Mar 29, 2026

+$2,500

HARRISON, MYRON (HARRISON IND)

Individual · Mar 29, 2026

+$104

KLIEWER, WILLIAM (RETIRED)

Individual · Mar 28, 2026

+$250

KOPELWITZ, BRIAN (KO)

Individual · Mar 27, 2026

+$1,667

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COMING SOON

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purchases

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+3 unparsed PTRs — Some older PTR filings exist as metadata only (asset details locked in PDFs). They are not included in the holdings estimate above. House-side parsing landing in a future update.

DATA SOURCES

House: housestockwatcher.com · daily-refreshed PDF parses · 2013–present

Senate: senatestockwatcher.com · daily-refreshed PDF parses · 2013–present

Required under the STOCK Act of 2012. Disclosure regime reports amount ranges, not exact share counts.

WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT

Lobbying is when companies, unions, and trade associations pay firms to influence laws and regulations — and the law requires them to disclose it. Every quarter, registrants file a report with Congress detailing who hired them, how much they spent, and which issues they pushed.

This page filters those filings to the industries that also fund this member's campaign. If commercial banks gave 30% of this member's donations and also filed 5,000 lobbying reports on bank-related issues last year, that's a financial pattern worth knowing about. It does not mean the member is corrupt — it means the industries paying to elect them are also paying to influence the laws they vote on.

107,598

Lobbying filings

that overlap top donor industries

$15.9B

Reported spend

across those filings

Donor industries

tracked here

2017–2026

Years covered

10 years

LOBBYING BY DONOR INDUSTRY

only industries that also fund this member

Each row = an industry that donated to this member AND has lobbyists pushing on Congress. Bar width = reported lobbying spend.

Health Services

46,475 filings$4.9B

Telecom & Broadcasting

23,495 filings$4.0B

Oil & Gas

16,560 filings$3.7B

Agriculture

15,305 filings$1.5B

TOP LOBBYING FIRMS

The firms doing the most spending in this member's donor industries

WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC.

12 filings

$1.0B

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.

14 filings

$242.0M

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS

12 filings

$159.5M

PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA

13 filings

$113.6M

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

14 filings

$91.7M

Insurance

4,832 filings$1.2B

Legal Services

931 filings$571.0M

LOBBYING SPEND BY YEAR

How much lobbyists in this member's donor industries have reported spending each year

2017

25,546$3.5B

2018

5,759$594.1M

2019

5,602$549.0M

2020

9,096$746.0M

2021

6,189$551.1M

2022

6,366$597.2M

2023

8,993$796.9M

2024

9,171$797.0M

2025

7,536$752.2M

2026

8,310$851.2M

YEARspend ($)filingsreported $

THE BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE, INC.

13 filings

AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION

13 filings

$68.7M

SOUTHERN COMPANY

21 filings

$65.9M

SOURCES & CAVEATS

Data: LDA (Lobbying Disclosure Act) quarterly filings · 2017–present

Amounts are self-reported by registrants. Issue codes are mapped from the LDA's 80+ general issue codes to our 19-industry taxonomy.

An industry showing up here means it both (a) funds this member's campaign and (b) lobbies Congress on issues affecting it. That overlap is a factual pattern, not proof of any quid-pro-quo.