This article is Part 4 of a four-part series demonstrating how the money in a lobby sector can impact state politics and legislation. Read the first three articles here, here, and here.
Equity Action
Texas Committee
$180,126Cash on Hand
$2,341,442Total Contributions
$2,181,292Total Expenditures
Financial Activity
Top Contributors
Total Contributions | Name |
|---|---|
| $600,000.00 | Heising-Simons Foundation |
| $500,000.00 | Open Society Policy Center Inc |
| $325,000.00 | Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies |
| $289,328.38 | The Fairness Project |
| $125,000.00 | Stacy Schusterman |
| $100,000.00 | Sixteen Thirty Fund Federal |
| $80,000.00 | Marguerite Steed Hoffman |
| $25,000.00 | AFSCME Texas Correctional Officers PAC |
| $25,000.00 | Anne Glickman |
| $25,000.00 | Patrick Curry |
Top Payees
Total Expenditures | Payee |
|---|---|
| $391,000.00 | City Lights Group |
| $226,023.98 | Stronger than Communications LLC |
| $224,302.81 | Collective Campaigns |
| $190,556.58 | Jtx Strategies |
| $152,702.29 | Kelly Graphics |
| $94,041.99 | Kathy Mitchell |
| $75,000.00 | Digital Advance |
| $73,207.71 | Department of US Treasury IRS |
| $52,675.00 | Ground Game Texas PAC |
| $47,611.04 | Laura Hernandez Consulting LLC |
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Over the course of the 2020 election cycle, more than $662.5 million dollars were reported as contributions to Texas state-level candidates and PACs. Of that total, an astounding $46.9 million in donations went to Governor Greg Abbott’s campaign account. To put that number in context, Abbott’s donations account for seven percent of all Texas campaign contributions — and over 15 percent of candidate contributions — in an election cycle when he was not up for election.