THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Tom Cotton's fundraising profile relies heavily on individual donors, who account for 84 percent of his $9.5 million total, with PACs and committees comprising 16 percent. His industry-tied contributions show substantial dependence on agriculture (33 percent of industry money), reflecting Arkansas's economic base, alongside significant support from securities and investment professionals (18 percent) and lawyers and lobbyists (11 percent). Among his employed individual donors, securities and investment professionals, lawyers and lobbyists, and real estate developers form a notable constituency separate from his political party funding.
Raised · all cycles$17.4M▼ 51% in ’24 vs ’22#14 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share33%Agriculture
Donor-sector votes21on bills touching top donor sectors
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Left: who funds Cotton (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 Cotton voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors · 6 of 21 shown, ranked by sector money
Each dollar figure is Cotton'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$599K
U.S. TREASURY
corporation
2$159K
CHARLES SCHWAB & CO. INC.
corporation
3$112K
CHAIN BRIDGE BANK
corporation
4$93K
BLACKSTONE
employees
5$85K
ENTREPRENEUR
employees
ALIGNMENT SIGNALS
LEGISLATION
2 sponsored
COMMITTEES
Armed Services
Energy and Natural Resources
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence · Chairman
SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS
Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
Austin Scott
R-GA · House
AgricultureSecurities & InvestmentReal Estate
Randy Feenstra
R-IA · House
AgricultureSecurities & InvestmentLawyers & Lobbyists
Gregory W. Meeks
D-NY · House
Securities & InvestmentLawyers & LobbyistsReal Estate
Brad Sherman
D-CA · House
Securities & InvestmentLawyers & LobbyistsReal Estate
Andy Barr
R-KY · House
Securities & InvestmentLawyers & LobbyistsReal Estate
John Boozman
R-AR · Senate
AgricultureSecurities & InvestmentLawyers & Lobbyists