This site's central claim is verifiable: corporate PAC and mega-donor money is reaching Callie Barr's campaign through a middleman-PAC network, even though her own filings show no direct corporate PAC receipts. That claim rests on public Federal Election Commission filings. This page lists every committee cited, links to the specific filings we pulled numbers from, defines every technical term we use, and documents the limitations of the analysis.
Data pulled July 15, 2026 — the same day the Q2 2026 quarterly reports (coverage period 04/01/2026 – 06/30/2026) were filed with the FEC.
The FEC assigns every registered federal political committee a nine-character ID beginning with C.
The IDs below are the direct link between what this site says and the underlying public record. Click any ID to
view that committee's complete filing history on docquery.fec.gov.
| Committee | FEC ID | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Callie Barr for Congress | C00837054 | Democratic candidate, MI-01 primary — Barr's principal campaign committee |
| Blomquist for Congress | C00914523 | Democratic candidate, MI-01 primary — Kyle Blomquist's principal campaign committee |
| Bergman for Congress | C00614214 | Republican incumbent — Rep. Jack Bergman's principal campaign committee |
| Committee | FEC ID | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Motor City PAC | C00507574 | Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) leadership PAC. Wrote Barr $5,000 in Q2 2026. Corporate-PAC-heavy funding. |
| Mitten PAC | C00832147 | Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) leadership PAC. Wrote Barr $10,000 in Q2 2026. Funded by Majority Fund JFC. |
| Fight Like Hell PAC | C00842104 | Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) federal Carey hybrid PAC. Wrote Barr $5,000 on 06/10/2026. |
| A Pleasant Peninsula PAC | C00841908 | Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-MI) leadership PAC. Referenced in crossover analysis. |
| Democracy Summer LPAC | C00664318 | Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) leadership PAC. Wrote Barr $2,000 on 12/03/2025 and $2,000 on 05/12/2026. |
| PURPOSE PAC | C00696450 | Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) leadership PAC. Contributed to Barr in the 2026 cycle. |
| Midwest Values PAC | C00390567 | Sen. Al Franken (former, D-MN) leadership PAC. Contributed to Barr in the 2026 cycle. |
| SUMMIT PAC | C00538991 | Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) leadership PAC. Contributed to Barr in the 2026 cycle. |
| Michigan Independent PAC | C00799735 | Michigan-focused leadership PAC. Contributed to Barr in the 2026 cycle. |
| Committee | FEC ID | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Majority Fund | C00904607 | JFC that pooled $3.05M from 30 wealthy individuals in the 2026 cycle (zero corporate PACs) and routed $108,220 to Mitten PAC. |
| Democracy Summer JFC | C00898486 | JFC paired with Democracy Summer LPAC (C00664318). Pooled six-figure checks from individual mega-donors. |
These are examples of the corporate PACs one hop upstream of Barr's Q2 middleman checks. Every one appears on a middleman's Schedule A — visible on docquery.fec.gov filings for each middleman committee above. Full lists in the on-site tables under "See the evidence."
| Corporate/industry PAC | FEC ID | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| DTE Energy Company PAC | C00081547 | Michigan regulated utility |
| CMS Energy Employees for Better Government | C00113118 | Michigan regulated utility (Consumers Energy parent) |
| General Motors PAC | C00040998 | Automotive OEM |
| Microsoft Corporation PAC | C00227546 | Technology |
| BlackRock Inc. PAC | C00477136 | Asset management |
| Toyota Motor North America PAC | C00304202 | Automotive OEM |
| FedEx Corporation PAC | C00068692 | Transportation / logistics |
| Verizon Communications Good Government Club PAC | C00093054 | Telecommunications |
| National Association of Realtors PAC (RPAC) | C00030718 | Real estate industry association |
| American Bankers Association BANKPAC | C00004275 | Banking industry association |
Additional corporate PACs (Property Casualty Insurers, American Land Title Association, Airbnb, Alliance for Automotive Innovation, American College of Radiology, American Gaming Association, American Hotel & Lodging Association, and 20+ others) appear in the on-site "See the evidence" tables. Each row is verifiable against the middleman PAC's Schedule A on docquery.fec.gov.
These are the specific FEC filings the top-level numbers on this site were verified against. Each link opens the raw Schedule A or Schedule B filing on docquery.fec.gov — the exact page listing the itemized transactions.
The FEC's searchable database at fec.gov/data/ is the friendlier interface, but it lags the raw filing pipeline. In the days immediately after a filing deadline, numbers on fec.gov/data/ can be incomplete or out of date. docquery.fec.gov posts filings the moment committees submit them. When you want the primary record, use docquery.
A political action committee established, financed, maintained, or controlled by a candidate or officeholder. Corporate PACs cannot contribute directly to federal candidates in the general fund sense that matters here, but they can contribute to leadership PACs, which then contribute to candidates. This is the mechanism the site documents. See the FEC's own definition.
A committee formed by two or more political committees (candidate committees, party committees, PACs) to jointly raise money in a single transaction. A donor writes one large check to the JFC; the JFC then allocates the money out to member committees within legal per-recipient limits. The effect is that one $134,000 check from a single donor can support 15 downstream committees at once without the individual's name appearing on any of the recipient candidates' own filings. See the FEC guidance.
A political action committee with two accounts: a traditional (federally regulated) account that contributes to candidates within federal limits, and a non-contribution ("Super PAC") account that can raise unlimited sums for independent expenditures. Named after the 2011 D.C. Circuit case Carey v. FEC. Fight Like Hell PAC (C00842104) is a Carey hybrid.
Schedule A lists receipts — money coming into a committee, itemized by contributor. Schedule B lists disbursements — money going out, itemized by recipient. Every FEC filing includes both. A contribution from Committee X to Committee Y appears on both committees' filings: on X's Schedule B as a disbursement, and on Y's Schedule A as a receipt. The site cross-checks both sides where possible.
A separate segregated fund established by a corporation, labor union, or trade association. Federal law prohibits corporations from contributing to candidates from their treasury funds, but corporate PACs — funded by voluntary employee/member contributions — can contribute to candidates up to $5,000 per election. When we say "corporate PAC" or "corporate/industry PAC" on this site, we mean these SSF-type PACs, plus the industry trade association PACs (Realtors, Insurance, Bankers, etc.) that function similarly.
"2026 cycle" means the election cycle running roughly from 01/01/2025 through the 2026 general election. "2024 cycle" runs from 01/01/2023 through the 2024 general election. Where the site cites "cycle-to-date" totals, they run through the Q2 2026 coverage cutoff of 06/30/2026 unless otherwise noted.
Direct check = a PAC writes a check to a candidate's principal campaign committee, which appears on the candidate's Schedule A. Routed check = the money reaches the candidate through an intermediary PAC or JFC, so the candidate's filing shows the intermediary's name (not the original donor's). The routing itself is legal; the site documents that it occurs, at what dollar amounts, and from which sources.
The $202,000 figure in the crossover section is the sum of 2024 + 2026 cycle receipts from the 13 corporate/industry PACs listed in the crossover table to the three Michigan-Democrat leadership PACs (A Pleasant Peninsula, Mitten, Motor City) that make up the LPAC pool feeding Barr. It is a network-level number, not a Barr-only number. Of that pool, roughly $7,000 has been passed downstream to Barr specifically; the remainder has been passed to roughly 30 other Democratic candidates. Both facts are shown on the four-column crossover diagram.
This is the sum of Schedule A · line 11C entries on Barr's Q2 2026 report. All nine intermediary PACs listed on the site appear on that page, at those amounts, on that filing. The math adds to $26,250.
A federal PAC can contribute $5,000 per election to a candidate committee. Primary and general are separate elections. So a $10,000 PAC check to a candidate this cycle is normally $5,000 for the primary + $5,000 for the general. If the candidate loses the primary, the general-election portion must be refunded. See the FEC's contribution limits chart.
The site should be read with these caveats:
MI-01 Money Trail is an independent citizen review of Federal Election Commission filings in Michigan's 1st Congressional District. It is not authorized by, endorsed by, coordinated with, or paid for by any candidate, candidate's campaign committee, political party, or political action committee.
The site does not solicit or accept donations. It is not an independent expenditure or an electioneering communication under 52 U.S.C. § 30104. It contains no express advocacy for the election or defeat of any candidate.
All dollar figures on this site are derived exclusively from public filings made by candidate committees, political action committees, and joint fundraising committees with the Federal Election Commission. Every figure can be independently verified by any reader at docquery.fec.gov.
Nothing on this site constitutes an allegation of illegal conduct by any candidate, committee, donor, or officeholder. Every transaction described is a legal contribution under current federal campaign finance law.
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