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David Messer

Cycle

Tracked direct giving

$915,400

Connections

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The Money Trail

How money flowed from David Messer

$915K
11 transactions across 4 counterparties
sum of 11 tracked donations shown

David Messer directed $700K to United Democracy Project across 3 contributions between June 2022 and July 2024.

Jun 2022 – Jul 2024individual

David Messer directed $159K to AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE across 5 contributions between November 2024 and September 2025.

Nov 2024 – Sep 2025individual

David Messer directed $52K to DSCC across 2 contributions.

Nov 2024individual

David Messer directed $5K to MR. SOUTHERN MISSOURIAN IN THE HOUSE PAC.

Jun 2023individual
$915K tracked across 4 counterparties (sum of 11 tracked donations shown)
PAC Chain Attribution

Where David Messer’s money ended up

Attributed amounts are modeled estimates of how money flowed through intermediary PACs, computed by proportional apportionment of FEC-reported transactions. They are not reported transactions themselves. How we compute this

$189K
modeled estimate
20 paths across 19 counterparties
$46Kmodeled estimateattributed to Jamaal Bowman
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$46Kmodeled estimateDavid Messer→United Democracy Project→Jamaal BowmanmediumOpposeindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $11K

$41Kmodeled estimateattributed to Cori Bush
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$41Kmodeled estimateDavid Messer→United Democracy Project→Cori BushmediumOpposeindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $6K

$25Kmodeled estimateattributed to Dave Min
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$25Kmodeled estimateDavid Messer→United Democracy Project→Dave MinmediumOpposeindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $10K

$21Kmodeled estimateattributed to Sarah Elfreth
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$21Kmodeled estimateDavid Messer→United Democracy Project→Sarah ElfrethmediumSupportindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $11K

$20Kmodeled estimateattributed to Wesley Bell
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$20Kmodeled estimateDavid Messer→United Democracy Project→Wesley BellmediumSupportindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $6K

$8Kmodeled estimateattributed to John Hostettler
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$8Kmodeled estimateDavid Messer→United Democracy Project→John HostettlermediumOpposeindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $38K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$7Kmodeled estimateattributed to Jimmy Gomez
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$7Kmodeled estimateDavid Messer→United Democracy Project→Jimmy GomezmediumSupportmultiple

smallest single documented leg $23K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$5Kmodeled estimateattributed to Brandon Herrera
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$5Kmodeled estimateDavid Messer→United Democracy Project→Brandon HerreramediumOpposeindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $16K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

Plus 11 additional chains totaling $15K.

$189K attributed (modeled estimate) across 20 paths·Up to 1 hop deep·Source FEC filings (Schedules A, B, E)·How we compute this
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Donations Given and Outside Spending

Largest 50 records. Rows badged “Spent to support” or “Spent to oppose” are independent expenditures this entity paid to vendors for or against the named candidate. That money was not given to them.

Relationships

TypeConnected ToDetailsSource
Funder ofAMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEEDavid Messer donated $151,700 to AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE PAC (QPQ tracked total)Editorial