THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Simpson's fundraising profile is heavily weighted toward PACs and committees, which account for 61 percent of his $4.2 million total, with the remaining 39 percent from individual donors; separately, $847,000 in party and leadership money reflects his position within Republican leadership structures. His industry-tied contributions show a dispersed donor base across legal services, health care, agriculture, and defense contracting sectors, each representing roughly 9–12 percent of non-political industry money. Individual donors employed in law, nonprofit work, and health services comprise his cleaner donor signal outside of organized committee structures.
Raised · all cycles$4.2M▼ 7% in ’24 vs ’22#115 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share12%Lawyers & Lobbyists
Donor-sector votes20on bills touching top donor sectors
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Left: who funds Simpson (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 Simpson voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors · 6 of 20 shown, ranked by sector money
Each dollar figure is Simpson'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$320K
ADPAC INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURES COMMITTEE
PAC
2$241K
NATIVE AMERICAN NATION
employees
3$156K
AMERICA PROUD PAC
PAC
4$155K
AMERICAN DREAM FEDERAL ACTION
PAC
5$92K
DEFENDING MAIN STREET SUPERPAC INC.
PAC
ALIGNMENT SIGNALS
COMMITTEES
Appropriations
SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS
Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
Julia Letlow
R-LA · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsHealth ServicesAgriculture
Robert B. Aderholt
R-AL · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsHealth ServicesAgriculture
Tommy Tuberville
R-AL · Senate
Lawyers & LobbyistsHealth ServicesAgriculture
W. Gregory Steube
R-FL · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsHealth ServicesAgriculture
Adrian Smith
R-NE · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsHealth ServicesAgriculture
Jimmy Panetta
D-CA · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsHealth ServicesAgriculture