# Charter Oak Families First **Charter Oak Families First** (FEC committee **C00964171**) registered with the Federal Election Commission on e-file receipt date **2026-10-26**, eight days before the general election. The name is Connecticut's — the Charter Oak is the state's emblem and appears on its quarter. ## What the registration says | Field on the form | Value | |---|---| | FEC committee ID | **C00964171** | | Address of record | **15 Farm Springs Rd, Apt 129, Farmington, Connecticut 06032** | | Treasurer and custodian | **Rozan S. Hopkins**, same address | | Contact phone on the form | a **312** (Chicago) area code | | Depository | **[[Chain Bridge Bank]], N.A.**, 1445-A Laughlin Avenue, McLean VA | | Joint-fundraising representatives | **none** | | Money disclosed at registration | **none** | Form 1 file **2042093**, signed and received 2026-10-26. ## 🔴 The bank is the detail worth keeping **[[Chain Bridge Bank]], N.A.** is a small McLean, Virginia institution that functions as a depository of choice for Republican committees and campaigns. It is the same bank that **extended $20,000,000.00 of credit to the National Republican Senatorial Committee** in September 2026 — $17,000,000.00 dated 2026-09-01 and $3,000,000.00 dated 2026-09-22, disclosed on FEC file 2032982. A newly registered committee with no money, a state-themed name, a residential apartment as its address of record and an out-of-state contact number is not by itself remarkable; several arrive in every closing fortnight. **The depository is the one field on this form that places it in a network**, and it is recorded for that reason. > [!warning] What this does not establish > Banking at [[Chain Bridge Bank]] indicates a choice of depository and nothing more. The bank has many > account holders, and a shared bank is not evidence of shared funding, shared control or coordination. > The committee type is also **open**: the field on a Form 1 that resembles a committee-type code has > been found here to disagree with the FEC's eventual classification, and the FEC's own classification > lags a one-day-old registration. ## What to watch - **Any receipt or expenditure before 2026-11-03.** - **Whether it spends in Connecticut at all**, which is the test of whether the name describes the operation. - The FEC's published committee type. ## See Also - [[Chain Bridge Bank]] · [[State-Branded Super PAC Template]] · [[Super PACs]] - [[Organizations Hub]]