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PACs › Super PAC (independent expenditure-only) › 2025–2026
Super PAC (independent expenditure-only)Lobbyist/registrant PACWashington, District of ColumbiaActive
Connected organization: Communications Workers of America
The Communications Workers of America (CWA) is the largest communications and media labor union in the United States, representing about 700,000 members in both the private and public sectors (also in Canada and Puerto Rico). The union has 27 locals in Canada via CWA-SCA Canada (French: Syndicat des communications d'Amérique) representing about 8,000 members. CWA has several affiliated subsidiary labor unions bringing total membership to over 700,000. CWA is headquartered in Washington, DC, and affiliated with the AFL–CIO, the Strategic Organizing Center, the Canadian Labour Congress, and UNI Global Union. (Linked public record: Wikipedia organization profile)
FEC filings through Oct 14, 2026 · FEC bulk filing data · committee C00488486 · files monthly
“The Communications Workers of America represents working people in telecommunications, customer service, media, airlines, health care, public service and education, manufacturing, tech and other fields.”
Communications Workers of America - Working Voices, on its own site, cwa-union.org
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True political power comes from an organized working class fighting for justice.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · cwa-union.org
Heading as listed on cwa-union.org ↗ (opens cwa-union.org at this heading) · “Elect Pro-Worker Leaders” on cwa-union.org ↗ (opens cwa-union.org at this heading)
The growing influence of money in politics and widespread voter suppression by state and local governments have made it harder for working families to have their voices heard.
Many feel that Washington serves the interests of the rich and powerful, not everyday Americans.
That’s why our CWA Legislative Political Action Teams in every district and our progressive allies are fighting for legislation that strengthens workers’ rights and curbs Wall Street’s destructive influence on our democracy.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · cwa-union.org/workers-rights/legislation-and-politics
The rising costs of healthcare is forcing working families to choose between meeting their basic needs and caring for their loved ones.
CWA continues to advocate for legislation that will reduce the prices of prescription drugs, protect the healthcare plans of union workers and all working families, and expand access to affordable, high-quality care—so no one has to sacrifice their health or their family's well-being to make ends meet.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · cwa-union.org/workers-rights/legislation-and-politics
CWA’s legislative and political program supports the election of worker-friendly officials and the passage of laws to support workers, their families, and good jobs.
CWA has been in the forefront of legislative initiatives to strengthen workers’ organizing and bargaining rights, make health care affordable and available to all, protect Americans’ retirement security, and provide good jobs in a global marketplace of fair trade.
Key to CWA’s legislative efforts and successes, are the more than 1,000 Legislative Political Action Team activists who have been trained in effective grassroots political action.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · cwa-union.org/about/cwa-overview
CWA is working to build a movement of progressive organizations to win progressive changes.
A founder of The Democracy Initiative, CWA works with labor and worker groups like Jobs with Justice, American Rights at Work, the AFL-CIO, and Change to Win, but also civil rights and consumer groups, such as the NAACP, Alliance for Justice, the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Blue Green Alliance, and Common Cause.
CWA’s Speed Matters campaign, a leading public policy initiative aimed at ensuring that Americans in all communities across the U.S. get access to affordable, high-speed broadband connections, is one of many union programs which has been supported by CWA alliance partners, notably the Sierra Club.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · cwa-union.org/about/cwa-overview
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Direct PAC contributions and independent expenditures explicitly reported as support, by the party of the candidate they went to.
Contributions are reported money, not endorsements; a PAC giving to both parties is common.
Every contribution on line 23 of the committee’s own Schedule B, which is the filing its summary totals are built from. That line covers federal candidates, party committees and other political committees alike, so a super PAC funding other super PACs appears here rather than under candidate giving.
| Recipient | Count | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Other PACs and committees | 9 | $360K · 100% |
| All recipients | 9 | $360K |
No recipient here is matched to a candidate with a state on record.
Bars drawn to $75K, the largest gift total here. 2025–2026 filings.
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Candidate contribution rows come from candidate committee Schedule A filings, the same rows the party chart above counts.
Money moving between this committee and other committees, matched on FEC committee ID rather than the name each filing was typed under. Both sides exclude memo entries. The figures here count each committee once, from the itemized transfers read for this section, so they will not match the payment counts under Who this PAC gave to.
Committees that reported giving to this one on their own Schedule A filings, grouped by the giver’s committee ID.
No committee-to-committee receipts were itemized this cycle.
Disbursements this committee itemized to another committee: candidate contributions, party transfers and payments alike, not contributions only.
| Name | Amount |
|---|---|
| Super PAC (independent expenditure-only) · 1 payment | $75K |
| Super PAC (independent expenditure-only) · Connected to EMILY'S LIST · 1 payment | $75K |
| Super PAC (independent expenditure-only) · 2 payments | $70K |
Total reported receipts $1,274,070
Every dollar the committee reported receiving this cycle, split by the source the FEC filing attributes it to. Open a source marked + to see who gave. FEC filings through Oct 14, 2026.
Total reported disbursements $1,264,007
Every dollar this committee reported spending this cycle, split by the lines it reports against. Open a line to see who was actually paid on it. FEC filings through Oct 14, 2026.
These are the payments the committee itemized to vendors, staff and other committees. Its $13,700 in independent expenditures is filed separately, against the candidate each was about, so it is counted in the split above and listed by candidate below, not here.
$1.3M spent from Jan 2025 to Oct 2026. Most in one report: $355K, October 2025.
The running total of what the committee’s FEC reports say it spent, independent expenditures included, with a point at the end of each report. The line is straight between reports because a report gives one total for its whole period.
No lobbying disclosures matched
The Communications Workers of America (CWA) is the largest communications and media labor union in the United States, representing about 700,000 members in both the private and public sectors (also in Canada and Puerto Rico). The union has 27 locals in Canada via CWA-SCA Canada (French: Syndicat des communications d'Amérique) representing about 8,000 members. CWA has several affiliated subsidiary labor unions bringing total membership to over 700,000. CWA is headquartered in Washington, DC, and affiliated with the AFL–CIO, the Strategic Organizing Center, the Canadian Labour Congress, and UNI Global Union. Linked public record: Wikipedia organization profile.
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| Super PAC (independent expenditure-only) · 1 payment | $50K |
| Super PAC (independent expenditure-only) · Connected to WINSENATE · 1 payment | $40K |
| Super PAC (independent expenditure-only) · 2 payments | $20K |
| Hybrid PAC (qualified) · 1 payment | $15K |
| Super PAC (independent expenditure-only) · 1 payment | $10K |
| Hybrid PAC (nonqualified) · 1 payment | $5K |
$360K across 9 recipient committees, or 28% of everything this committee reports spending.
Built from FEC Schedule A and Schedule B filings for the selected cycle. A committee only appears here if the money was itemized under its FEC committee ID.
Total itemized disbursements $454,934
Every itemized payment the committee reported this cycle, sorted by what it said each one was for. The categories are ours; the wording they are matched against is the committee’s own. Open a category to read the filed descriptions and who was paid. FEC filings through Oct 14, 2026.
All 19 itemized payments filed this cycle. Spending below the itemization threshold is not filed line by line.
| Name | Amount |
|---|---|
| 1 payment · 5.9% of all spending | $75,000 |
| 1 payment · 5.9% of all spending | $75,000 |
| 2 payments · 5.5% of all spending | $70,000 |
| 1 payment · 4% of all spending | $50,000 |
| 1 payment · 3.2% of all spending | $40,000 |
| 1 payment · 2.7% of all spending | $33,543 |
| 1 payment · 2.2% of all spending | $27,400 |
| 2 payments · 1.6% of all spending | $20,000 |
The people, firms and committees paid the most, across every kind of payment. Each share is of everything the committee reported spending this cycle, not only the itemized payments above. A payee that is itself a committee links to its own profile.