D-CA·U.S. House·District 43

Maxine Waters

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$3.5M

raised· #166 in party

votes recorded

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trade disclosures

votes with party· loyal

TRAIL AI

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Waters' fundraising profile is heavily weighted toward PACs and committees, which account for 76 percent of her $3.5 million in direct contributions, with the remaining 24 percent coming from individual donors. Industry-tied PAC money shows diversified support across insurance (23 percent), real estate (15 percent), labor unions (14 percent), commercial banks (13 percent), and securities and investment firms (12 percent), while her individual donors are concentrated in securities and investment, legal services, and banking sectors. Her voting record spans 331 recorded votes with no stock trade disclosures on file.

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

DONOR MIX

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

$2.0M

tagged $

Insurance24.9%

Real Estate16.1%

Labor Unions15.2%

Commercial Banks14.6%

Securities & Investment13.0%

Lawyers & Lobbyists6.7%

Retail & Consumer5.9%

Single-Issue Advocacy3.7%

How to read this: percentages are shares of the 57% 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

$3.5M

classified

Insurance24.9%

Real Estate16.1%

Labor Unions15.2%

Commercial Banks14.6%

Securities & Investment13.0%

Lawyers & Lobbyists6.7%

Retail & Consumer5.9%

Single-Issue Advocacy3.7%

TOP SOURCES

Employers (individuals) & PACs · excludes aggregators

Individual Donors (no employer)

individuals

$210,782

U.S. TREASURY

corporation

$121,914

WHOLESALE & SPECIALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION (WSIA) PAC

PAC

$40,000

THE COUNCIL OF INSURANCE AGENTS & BROKERS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC

$30,000

EQUALITY PAC

PAC

$30,000

AMERICA'S CREDIT UNIONS PAC OF CREDIT UNION NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, INC.

PAC

$30,000

KINECTA FEDERAL CREDIT UNION FEDERAL PAC

PAC

$28,000

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL ADVISORS POLITICAL ACTION COMM

PAC

$27,500

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE COUNTY & MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES P E O P L E

PAC

$27,500

AFLAC POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AFLAC PAC)

PAC

$27,500

AMERICAN LAND TITLE ASSOCIATION TITLE INDUSTRY PAC (TIPAC)

PAC

$25,000

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC

$25,000

RECENT ACTIVITY

Most recent recorded contributions · PAC and itemized individual donors

AMERICAN OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC · Apr 28, 2026

−$2,500

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AAJ PAC)

PAC · Apr 15, 2026

+$2,500

RADKINS, GRACE (STUDS TERKEL RADIO ARCHIVE)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$200

NARPM PAC (NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY MANAGERS)

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$1,500

AMERICAN POSTAL WORKERS UNION (APWU COPA)

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$1,500

NARPM PAC (NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY MANAGERS)

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$3,500

SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS

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

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D-MO · House

InsuranceReal EstateLabor Unions

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D-IL · House

InsuranceReal EstateLabor Unions

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.

EDPAC

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,500

KHAN, ADNAN (7-ELEVEN)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,000

WEINSTEIN, MICHAEL (SELF EMPLOYED)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,500

NATIONAL ASSOC. OF REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS, INC. PAC

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,500

MASOOD, SOHAIL (KABAFUSION)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,000

DELOITTE FEDERAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$5,000

STRUCTURED FINANCE COALITION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,500

HALE, GENE (G & C EQUIPMENT)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$3,500

HALE, GENE (G & C EQUIPMENT)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$3,500

MOHMOUD, GAMAL (RAPID SECURITY SERVICE INC.)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,000

MANAZIKSTAH, MOHAMED (MOHAMED MANAZIKSTAH)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$1,000

COMING SOON

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We're migrating to a fresh data source for daily STOCK Act disclosures. Historical filings shown below are accurate but not currently refreshed nightly. Full real-time coverage returning shortly.

No historical stock trade disclosures on file for this member.

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.

43,200

Lobbying filings

that overlap top donor industries

$10.1B

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.

Securities & Investment

19,298 filings$4.2B

Retail & Consumer

4,319 filings$2.1B

Commercial Banks

8,039 filings$1.3B

Insurance

4,832 filings$1.2B

TOP LOBBYING FIRMS

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

WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC.

7 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

THE BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE, INC.

13 filings

$76.3M

Real Estate

5,781 filings$710.6M

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

10,079$2.7B

2018

2,297$423.6M

2019

2,286$377.9M

2020

3,424$477.3M

2021

2,196$336.1M

2022

2,229$374.9M

2023

3,172$474.7M

2024

3,308$470.0M

2025

2,851$476.6M

2026

3,310$523.1M

YEARspend ($)filingsreported $

GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY

15 filings

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

10 filings

$63.0M

AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC

14 filings

$56.3M

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.