How does Promethean PAC’s 2023–2024 fundraising compare to its prior cycles (2019–2020 and 2021–2022) in FEC records?

1. What the records clearly show about 2023–2024

A publicly accessible third‑party aggregation—OpenSecrets—reports that Promethean PAC raised $418,243 in the 2023–2024 cycle, a figure OpenSecrets explicitly states is based on FEC data ^[1]. OpenSecrets also maintains expenditure detail pages for Promethean PAC’s 2024 activity that draw from FEC filings ^{[5] [6]}. The Federal Election Commission is the primary repository for the committee’s official filings and posts cycle data and filings for Promethean PAC on its committee overview page ^[2].

2. Where the FEC documents would supply the needed comparison — and what is missing from the provided snippets

The FEC’s “Browse data” and PAC summary tables provide downloadable files that include overall receipts and disbursements for each PAC by two‑year cycle (2019–2020, 2021–2022, 2023–2024) and would be the definitive source to calculate cycle‑to‑cycle changes for Promethean PAC ^{[3] [4]}. The FEC committee overview page indicates Promethean PAC is listed with multiple cycles available, but the snippets provided here do not include the line‑item receipt totals for the 2019–2020 and 2021–2022 cycles needed to compute percent changes or trends ^[2]. Because the exact prior‑cycle totals are not present in the supplied FEC excerpts, this analysis cannot assert numeric increases or decreases for those cycles without pulling the raw FEC export or the committee’s reported filings ^{[3] [7]}.

3. How to produce a rigorous, verifiable comparison from FEC records

A rigorous comparison requires exporting the PAC summary table or the committee’s cycle summary from the FEC’s data tools and matching Promethean PAC’s “total receipts” for 2019–2020, 2021–2022 and 2023–2024; the FEC’s data portal and filings pages allow that export and cycle selection ^{[3] [7]}. The FEC also publishes periodic statistical summaries across all PACs for context (showing aggregate PAC fundraising in 2023–2024 and prior intervals), which can situate whether a committee’s haul was large or small relative to broader PAC fundraising trends ^{[8] [9] [10]}. The FEC filings page and the PAC summary tables are the explicit tools to extract the required numbers ^{[3] [4]}.

4. Caveats, alternative sources and transparency about limitations

OpenSecrets provides convenient cycle totals and explicitly notes its figures are based on FEC filings, so its $418,243 number for 2023–2024 is a credible aggregation point but remains a secondary source ^[1]. The FEC is the authoritative public record and contains the raw filings; however, the excerpts provided here do not include the earlier cycles’ totals, so claiming a directional comparison (increase/decrease) for 2023–2024 versus 2019–2020 and 2021–2022 would be speculative without retrieving those FEC cycle totals ^{[2] [3]}. To resolve the gap, one must either export Promethean PAC’s cycle totals from the FEC data tools or consult OpenSecrets’ cycle‑by‑cycle tables if they include the earlier totals and cite the FEC as their source ^{[1] [3]}.

5. Bottom line

Based on the sources supplied, the only clear, citable cycle total available in the provided materials is Promethean PAC’s 2023–2024 fundraising of $418,243 as reported by OpenSecrets from FEC data ^[1]; the FEC site confirms the committee and that cycle data exist but the provided snippets do not include the 2019–2020 and 2021–2022 totals needed for a precise comparative analysis ^{[2] [3] [4]}. Obtaining the FEC cycle totals or the full OpenSecrets cycle history will permit a definitive numeric comparison and percent‑change calculation.