THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Wyden's $11.5M fundraising profile is heavily weighted toward individual donors, who comprise 72% of contributions compared to 28% from PACs and committees. Among industry-tied money, his donor base reflects concentrations in Lawyers & Lobbyists (15%), Securities & Investment (14%), and Health Services (14%), with these same sectors represented prominently among his individual employed donors. He received $1.1M in party and leadership-directed contributions and has disclosed 321 stock trades during his tenure.
Raised · all cycles$11.5M▼ 90% in ’24 vs ’22#27 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share15%Lawyers & Lobbyists
Donor-sector votes11on bills touching top donor sectors
FOLLOW THE MONEY
Left: who funds Wyden (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 Wyden voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors · 6 of 11 shown, ranked by sector money
Each dollar figure is Wyden'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$309K
OREGON VICTORY FUND
PAC
2$215K
NIKE
employees
3$208K
UMPQUA BANK
corporation
4$83K
INTEL
employees
5$68K
MULTICOIN CAPITAL
employees
ALIGNMENT SIGNALS
Spouse Trading85%
94% of the trades disclosed by Ron Wyden are attributed to their spouse's account
Of 189 disclosed trades that state whose account they were made in, 177 (94%) are attributed to Ron Wyden's spouse, totaling $4.3M–$11.0M in disclosed ranges. The STOCK Act requires members to disclose trades by themselves, their spouse, and dependent children; the attribution shown here is stated on the face of each filing and carries no implication about who directed the trades.
Sector-Aligned Voting75%
Ron Wyden (D) voted YEA on just 2 of 8 bills classified as favoring their own donor sectors
Ron Wyden voted in favor of 2 of 8 bills classified by an AI model as favoring his top donor sectors—Securities & Investment ($1.42M) and Technology ($0.81M)—representing 25% alignment. He voted against HJRES25-119, a bill classified as favoring Securities & Investment, and voted against the sole tracked bill classified as limiting those sectors.
Sponsor–Industry Alignment66%
Ron Wyden (D) is primary sponsor of Retail & Consumer bill sjres49-119; Retail & Consumer is a top donor industry (5%)
SJres49-119 would terminate the national emergency that imposed 10% tariffs on most imports, directly affecting the Retail & Consumer industry. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced this bill. Retail & Consumer ranks as Wyden's 14th largest donor industry among Democrats, accounting for 5.0% of identifiable contributions ($0.57M).
LEGISLATION
2 sponsored
COMMITTEES
Energy and Natural Resources
Finance · Ranking Member
Budget
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS
Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
Suzan K. DelBene
D-WA · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentHealth Services
Gary C. Peters
D-MI · Senate
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentHealth Services
Christopher Murphy
D-CT · Senate
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentHealth Services
Tina Smith
D-MN · Senate
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentHealth Services
Bill Cassidy
R-LA · Senate
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentHealth Services
Andy Kim
D-NJ · Senate
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentHealth Services