THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Derek Tran's contribution profile is predominantly individual-donor driven, with 83 percent of his $10.0 million raised coming from individual contributors rather than PACs and committees. Among industry-tied donations, lawyers and lobbyists account for half of the total, followed by smaller shares from securities and investment, labor unions, health services, and technology sectors; individual donors employed in legal, financial, and health services fields mirror this pattern. With $2.4 million in party and leadership money and no recorded stock trades on file, his economic-sector concentration centers on legal and financial services professionals.
Raised · all cycles$10.0M#45 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share50%Lawyers & Lobbyists
Donor-sector votes5on bills touching top donor sectors
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Left: who funds Tran (ribbon width = dollars) · right: their votes on bills classified as favoring vs limiting those sectors
“Favors / limits” is an AI classification of each bill's likely effect on the sector — a factual reading of the bill, not a claim about motive. Correlation, not causation. The named bills are in DOES THE MONEY MATCH THE VOTES? below.
DOES THE MONEY MATCH THE VOTES?
How Tran voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors
Each dollar figure is Tran's total from that donor sector — shown on each related vote, not a per-vote amount. Correlation between funding and votes, not causation; many factors shape any single vote.
TOP SOURCES
1$720K
CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP FUND
PAC
2$532K
HMP
PAC
3$343K
CHISPA PAC, SPONSORED BY CHISPA, A PROJECT OF TIDES ADVOCACY.
PAC
4$307K
HOUSE VICTORY PROJECT 2024
PAC
5$251K
ORANGE COUNTY PAC
PAC
COMMITTEES
Armed Services
Small Business
SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS
Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
Alex Padilla
D-CA · Senate
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentLabor Unions
Jason Crow
D-CO · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentLabor Unions
Edward J. Markey
D-MA · Senate
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentLabor Unions
Andy Kim
D-NJ · Senate
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentLabor Unions
Ted Lieu
D-CA · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentLabor Unions
Sheldon Whitehouse
D-RI · Senate
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentLabor Unions