D-NM·U.S. Senate

Ben Ray Luján

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$8.0M

raised· #30 in party

votes recorded

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SOON

trade disclosures

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TRAIL AI

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Luján's fundraising profile is heavily weighted toward PAC and committee money, which comprises 63 percent of his $8.0 million in direct contributions, with the remainder from individual donors. Industry-tied PAC money clusters in Lawyers & Lobbyists (13 percent), Health Services (12 percent), and Telecommunications (11 percent), while individual donor employment patterns show concentration in the same sectors plus Securities & Investment. As a newly elected senator with no recorded votes, his legislative record does not yet provide a basis for assessing alignment between contribution patterns and voting behavior.

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

FUNDING PROFILE

Where the money comes from · what it's tied to

WHO GAVE IT

$8.0M raised

PACs & committees$5.0M· 63%

Individuals$3.0M· 37%

+ $1.6Mvia pass-through platforms (ActBlue/WinRed/party) — not counted in “raised”

WHAT IT'S TIED TO

Industry-tied$3.4M· 43%

Party & political$1.5M· 19%

Untraced (small donors)$3.1M· 38%

Two views of the same $8.0M — who gave it vs whatit's tied to. (Most industry money comes from PACs, so the two don't add together.)

Top sectors: Lawyers & Lobbyists, Health Services, Telecommunications

Full breakdown →

FUNDING PROFILE

Source breakdown · industry signal · political money — shown separately

WHO GAVE IT

$8.0M raised

PACs & committees$5.0M· 63%

Individuals$3.0M· 37%

+ $1.6Mvia pass-through platforms (ActBlue/WinRed/party) — not counted in “raised”

WHAT IT'S TIED TO

Industry-tied$3.4M· 43%

Party & political$1.5M· 19%

Untraced (small donors)$3.1M· 38%

Two views of the same $8.0M — who gave it vs whatit's tied to. (Most industry money comes from PACs, so the two don't add together.)

INDUSTRY SIGNAL

The $3.4M industry-tied portion, by sector

$3.4M

industry-tied

Other sectors33.2%

Lawyers & Lobbyists13.3%

Health Services11.6%

Telecommunications11.4%

Labor Unions8.8%

Agriculture7.4%

Securities & Investment7.4%

Technology7.0%

PARTY & POLITICAL

The $1.5Mparty/leadership & single-cause portion — not an industry signal

Party & Leadership$1.2M

Single-Issue Advocacy$252K

How to read this: “Raised” is direct contributions ($8.0M). We trace it to an industry or political category via PAC names and donor employers; small online donors without an employer can't be traced. Industry and political money are shown separately so the economic-interest signal isn't drowned out by party and advocacy money.

TOP SOURCES

Employers (individuals) & PACs · excludes aggregators

Individual Donors (no employer)

individuals

$1,054,219

LUJAN VICTORY FUND

PAC

$925,500

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (NABPAC)

PAC

$77,370

SAGE MEDIA PLANNING & PLACEMENT, INC.

corporation

$55,882

JSTREETPAC

PAC

$37,750

BLUE SENATE 2026

PAC

$37,120

AMERICAN PISTACHIO GROWERS PISTACHIO POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC

$36,000

CAPITAL GROUP

employees

$32,500

M-PAC

PAC

$25,000

MITTEN PAC

PAC

$25,000

FORBES TATE PARTNERS

employees

$22,725

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (NABPAC)

PAC

$22,550

RECENT ACTIVITY

Most recent recorded contributions · PAC and itemized individual donors

YUSPEH, KAY (NOT EMPLOYED)

Individual · May 13, 2026

+$50

HENSLER, CARL (NOT EMPLOYED)

Individual · May 13, 2026

+$100

URVANEJO, MARY IRENE (NOT EMPLOYED)

Individual · May 13, 2026

+$50

ARCHULETA, ADELMO E. P.E. (NOT EMPLOYED)

Individual · May 13, 2026

+$1,000

MONTERO, ANDREA (CAPITAL GROUP)

Individual · May 13, 2026

+$2,500

PATTERN ENERGY GROUP INC. PAC (PATTERN PAC)

PAC · May 13, 2026

+$5,000

SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS

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

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D-FL · House

Lawyers & LobbyistsHealth ServicesTelecommunications

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D-NJ · House

Lawyers & LobbyistsHealth Services

HOW WE CALCULATE THIS

Funding Profile

“Raised” counts direct contributions from PACs and itemized individual donors. The Industry Signal donut shows only money traceable to an economic sector (via PAC names and donor employers); its center dollar figure always equals the sum of its slices. Party, leadership, and single-issue money is shown separately as political money, not industry — so it can't distort the economic-interest picture.

What we exclude from “raised”

FEC memo entries (informational subtotals that double-count money already reported elsewhere) are excluded — counting them inflated totals by tens of millions per member. Pass-through platforms (WinRed/ActBlue) that bundle many small donors are also shown apart from raised totals to avoid double-counting.

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.

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.

128,269

Lobbying filings

that overlap top donor industries

$18.9B

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

Securities & Investment

19,298 filings$4.2B

Telecom & Broadcasting

23,495 filings$4.0B

Technology

20,580 filings$3.3B

TOP LOBBYING FIRMS

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

WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC.

11 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