# Our Shared Values A federal political committee that **registered with the FEC on 2026-10-09**, twenty-five days before the general election, from a post-office box in Helena, Montana. ## What the Form 1 says | Field | Value | |---|---| | FEC committee ID | **C00963397** | | Address of record | Helena MT | | Treasurer and custodian of records | **Katie Wenetta**, Helena MT | | Compliance contact | a Burnt Timber Consulting address | | Depository | **Yellowstone Bank**, 2000 Overland Ave, Billings MT | | Affiliated or connected organization | **NONE** stated | | Signed and filed | **2026-10-09** | 🔴 **The committee type is OPEN.** Field 21 reads `F`. Per the vault's **FEC Back-Sweep Standard**, field 21 is not the FEC committee-type code, and the processed committee index returns nothing for a same-day registration. The name is not evidence either. **No money is disclosed** — no Schedule A, B or E. ## What is and is not established - **Montana-everything.** Address, treasurer, consulting contact and depository are all Montana, and the depository is a Billings community bank rather than one of the national political depositories. On the vault's record that is unusual: the state-branded committees catalogued so far generally run through out-of-state compliance shops and either Chain Bridge Bank or Amalgamated Bank. - **Burnt Timber Consulting** and **Katie Wenetta** are both new to this vault. Neither has a corporate record here. - **Nothing in the filing establishes partisanship**, a target race, or whether the committee intends to make independent expenditures at all. ## Watch - **Its first Schedule E line** — which race, which side. - **Whether it files anything before November 3 at all.** A committee that registers 25 days out and never spends is a different fact from one that registers and immediately buys. - **A second committee using Burnt Timber Consulting or the Helena PO boxes.** - Montana context: the vault already carries **Save Our Montana** as a committee whose first Schedule E line has never appeared. Two Montana-registered committees with no disclosed activity is now the state's pattern, not a one-off. ## Sources - FEC Form 1, file 2019124 — `https://docquery.fec.gov/dcdev/posted/2019124.fec`