# Our Heritage Matters **Our Heritage Matters** (FEC committee **C00963736**) disclosed **$292,610.43** of independent expenditure on **23 October 2026** — Form 24 file **2040751**, received 17:04:52. Thirteen Schedule E rows, no memo rows, every line dated 2026-10-22, every line coded `G2026`, and **every line paid to one vendor, [[Chase Grove LLC]]**. ## The shape of the notice | Direction | Rows | Total | Share | |---|---|---|---| | **Support** a minor-party or independent candidate | 8 | **$220,927.57** | 75.5% | | **Oppose** a Republican candidate | 5 | **$71,682.86** | 24.5% | **Support (largest first):** Thomas Raymond Laehn (Iowa) $104,403.61 · David C. Graham (Kansas) $51,758.24 · Jay Bowman $16,629.47 · Thomas McMasters $16,188.72 · Chris B. Royal $11,733.52 · Rick Stewart $10,706.83 · Dave Wood $6,532.29 · Nick Sheedy $2,974.89. **Oppose:** [[Roger Marshall]] (KS-Sen) $43,222.25 · Aaron Flint $13,335.19 · Timothy Gabriel Evans $6,584.84 · Joe Mitchell $6,228.58 · Ralph A. Alvarado $2,312.00. In **Kansas** the two sides of the notice pair exactly: $51,758.24 promoting a minor candidate and $43,222.25 attacking the Republican, $94,980.49 in one state on one day. ## The pattern it belongs to This site already documents the same mechanism running the other way. **[[Buckeye Freedom PAC]]** split its money between promoting a minor candidate and attacking the major-party nominee closest to him — the textbook shape of a spoiler buy, in which a small sum spent on a third candidate is worth more than the same sum spent attacking the opponent directly. 🔴 **Our Heritage Matters is the mirror image**: it promotes minor candidates and attacks **Republicans**, across at least five states on a single notice. Recording both is the point. Spoiler funding is a technique, not a party's technique, and this site now has an instance of it pointed in each direction. ## What the record does not establish **Who pays for it.** No receipt has been read into this site for this committee, so nothing here says who is behind the notice or whether the committee is a genuine minor-party vehicle, an operation funded by one major party's allies, or neither. The support/oppose pattern is suggestive and is not proof: a committee that genuinely backs Libertarian and independent candidates would spend in much the same shape. ## 2026-10-24 — it did the same thing again, the next day A second notice, Form 24 file **2041486**, received **2026-10-24T21:29:25**: **$210,097.82** across 15 Schedule E rows, **again every dollar of it to one vendor, [[Chase Grove LLC]]**, and again divided between promoting minor candidates and attacking Republicans. In Kansas the two halves are nearly matched for a second consecutive day — **$37,813.29 promoting David C. Graham** and **$38,772.25 opposing [[Roger Marshall]]**, $76,585.54 in that state alone. See [[Kansas Senate Outside Money 2026]]. Two notices on consecutive days, one vendor on all 28 rows, the same two-sided shape, and **still no disclosed funder**. A committee that files twice in two days is running a programme, not placing a one-off buy. Source: `docquery.fec.gov/dcdev/posted/2041486.fec` ## What to watch - **The committee's first disclosed Schedule A receipt** — the only thing that answers the question above. - **[[Chase Grove LLC]] on another committee's Schedule E.** - **A second notice** from this committee, and whether the oppose lines stay on one party. ## See also - [[Chase Grove LLC]] · [[Buckeye Freedom PAC]] - [[KS-Sen-2026]] · [[IA-Sen-2026]] - [[Donor Network Hub]] · [[2026 Midterms Hub]]