Jessica Killin is a Colorado congressional candidate and former White House and congressional aide whose current repository footprint now includes both a finance-and-fintech donor-network slice with strong out-of-state dollar concentration and a separate campaign-positioning and district-competitiveness slice built from direct campaign materials, interview appearances, and Colorado race reporting.
In this repository, Killin matters through two related but distinct slices. One is the earlier disclosure, campaign-finance, and financial-services-policy overlap cluster tied to Raj Date, fintech firms, and donor-employer data. The other is a newer campaign-positioning and race-context cluster built from a direct priorities page, interview appearances, and Colorado reporting about fundraising strength and whether Colorado's 5th District is becoming more contestable for Democrats.
The current evidence now gives a cleaner career sequence from Latham & Watkins to USAA, then to chief-of-staff roles for Donna Shalala and Carolyn Maloney, and later to White House service before her 2025-2026 congressional campaign. The campaign-finance layer is also strong enough to support bounded materialization of QED Investors, Canapi Ventures, Enova International, and Chris Larsen as direct donor-network nodes, while keeping those ties distinct from the stronger household and board relationships around Raj Date, Circle, Customers, and FS Vector. A donor-level rollup of the non-memo individual Schedule A subset now shows 630 unique donors giving $1,273,988, with Colorado supplying 23.17% of donors but only 12.05% of donor dollars and non-Colorado donors supplying 87.95% of donor dollars. The new campaign-positioning layer adds a clearer direct issue bundle around affordability, veterans, health care, fiscal responsibility, public lands, Space Command, and a narrow pro-clarity framing on AI and digital assets.
87.95% of donor dollarsNOT EMPLOYED, SELF EMPLOYED, and RETIRED (34.92% of donor dollars combined), while bounded named finance-and-fintech employers account for 11.94% and bounded named BigLaw and legal employers account for 5.78%87 unique donors are tied at $7,0002026-04-20 OpenFEC refresh confirms Killin's top-line totals remain at the APRIL QUARTERLY 2026 report layer: $2,323,366.60 in receipts, $814,875.71 in disbursements, $1,508,490.89 cash on hand, and $0.00 debts; Schedule E, communication-cost, and electioneering aggregate checks returned zero rowswiki/summaries/jessica-killin-campaign-positioning-and-colorado-5th-district-competitiveness-2025-2026.md: compiles the newer direct priorities page, two long-form interviews, one Gaza exchange clip, and three Colorado race-context reports into a bounded campaign-positioning and competitiveness layerwiki/summaries/jessica-killin-financial-services-fintech-network.md: now separates Killin's direct professional ties, campaign-finance context, and the narrower set of firms with direct stablecoin or fintech rulemaking relevanceraw/papers/2026-04-04T183634-0600 jessica-killin-resume.md: provides career chronology through USAA, Latham, congressional roles, and White House serviceraw/articles/2026-04-05T020638-0600 Jessica Killin.md: independently corroborates pre-White-House career details including USAA and Donna Shalala staff workraw/articles/2026-04-05T020550-0600 Jessica Killin, Rajeev Date (Published 2018).md: independently corroborates the Killin-Date relationship and Killin's pre-campaign financial-services policy backgroundraw/articles/2026-04-05T120708-0600 Suite Talk Power up.md: helps anchor the move from Latham & Watkins into USAA federal-relations work in 2007raw/articles/2026-04-05T121027-0600 Donna Shalala sets up blind trust, sells stock related to CARES Act oversight.md and raw/articles/2026-04-05T121308-0600 Leaders clash on vaccine strategy — Legislature to start session — Court rules homeless men can stay at Lucerne — Some hospitals are still suing patients.md: place Killin in successive chief-of-staff roles for Donna Shalala and Carolyn Maloneyraw/articles/2026-04-04T183634-0600 jessica-killin-for-congress.md: provides campaign self-description and district campaign contextraw/articles/2026-04-04T183635-0600 priorities-jessica-killin-for-congress.md: provides campaign language on digital assets and regulatory clarityraw/articles/2026-04-10T142130-0600 Priorities.md: adds the clearest current direct issue bundle in the repo, including affordability, veterans, health care, Space Command, and a narrow AI and digital-assets policy lineraw/articles/2026-04-10T142338-0600 Crank challenger Jessica Killin hauls in over $750K in campaign's first 24 hours in Colorado's 5th CD.md, raw/articles/2026-04-10T142455-0600 Democrats add Colorado Springs CD 5 to its list of seats to flip this fall.md, and raw/articles/2026-04-10T142545-0600 National Democrats see a path to winning Colorado Springs’ congressional seat for first time ever.md: add the repo's strongest current reporting layer on Killin's launch fundraising and the district's reported shift from ignored long-shot to at least a targetable Republican seatraw/articles/2026-04-14T120600-0600 icymi-jessica-killin-launches-campaign-and-shatters-fundraising-records.md: preserves the campaign's public launch framing for Killin's biography and claimed first-day fundraisingraw/articles/2026-04-14T120700-0600 jessica-killin-qualifies-for-state-primary-ballot.md: provides the strongest official current repo source for Killin's petition-ballot qualificationraw/datasets/2026-04-14T120000-0600 jessica-killin-openfec-as-of-2026-04-14.md: provides an earlier as-of clarification that the public finance cutoff still ended at 2025-12-31 on 2026-04-14raw/video/2025-09-04 - Team Normal and the Escape Goats with Jessica Killin Get More Smarter EP 249.md, raw/video/2025-11-21 - Trump gets RUDE AWAKENING as Red District MAKES SUDDEN SHIFT.md, raw/video/2026-03-11 - Ep41 March 11 2026 - Jessica Killin Wants to Represent You in Congress.md, and raw/video/2026-03-08 - Jessica Killin talks Gaza at Tri Lakes for Democracy Meeting.md: preserve direct campaign rhetoric, issue-positioning, one partisan national-media competitiveness frame, and one narrower primary-facing exchange that the earlier finance slice did not captureraw/articles/2026-04-04T183637-0600 killin-for-colorado-committee-overview-fec-lock.md and raw/articles/2026-04-05T120954-0600 jessica-killin-candidate-overview-fec.md: provide official candidate and principal-committee registration anchors plus top-line principal-committee receipts, disbursements, and cash-on-hand figures for the 2025-07-01 to 2025-12-31 coverage periodraw/articles/2026-04-05T120954-0600 killin-it-victory-fund-committee-overview-fec.md: adds the late-2025 joint-fundraising-committee layer linking Killin for Colorado with the Colorado Democratic Party, while also showing no visible receipts, disbursements, or cash on hand in that first covered periodraw/datasets/killin-for-colorado-schedule-a-openfec-2026.md and raw/datasets/killin-for-colorado-schedule-a-donor-employer-normalized-2026.md: add the official OpenFEC receipt-side package for the principal committee, preserving 1,941 raw Schedule A rows plus a comparison-ready non-memo individual subset of 989 rows while keeping committee/PAC and memo rows distinct from the individual-donor comparison layerraw/datasets/killin-for-colorado-schedule-a-derived-summary-2026.md: adds the donor-level rollup used for top-50 donor identification, donor-state percentages, Colorado versus non-Colorado share comparisons, and bounded employer-cluster percentagesraw/datasets/killin-for-colorado-qed-canapi-enova-ripple-employer-slice-2026.md: preserves a bounded donor-employer subset linking Killin for Colorado directly to QED Investors, Canapi, Enova International, and Ripple / Chris Larsen through named non-memo individual receipt rowsraw/datasets/eileen-laubacher-jessica-killin-schedule-a-overlap-2026.md and wiki/summaries/eileen-laubacher-and-jessica-killin-shared-donor-patterns-2025-2026.md: add a bounded cross-candidate comparison showing a small shared-name donor core but a much stronger overall contrast between Killin's higher-dollar professional-network fundraising and Laubacher's broader small-dollar patternraw/datasets/killin-for-colorado-reports-openfec-2026.md, raw/datasets/killin-it-victory-fund-reports-openfec-2026.md, and raw/datasets/killin-for-colorado-schedule-b-openfec-2026.md: add official OpenFEC filing metadata and row-level principal-committee disbursement detail, including report file numbers 1921354, 1943333, and 1943351 plus 283 itemized Schedule B disbursement rows, while still leaving direct docquery filing-image retrieval blocked in the current reporaw/datasets/2026-04-10T172108-0600 killin-reagan-openfec-refresh.md: confirms live OpenFEC totals for Killin remain aligned with the existing year-end 2025 committee overview while also preserving the newer principal-committee last-file date of 2026-03-31raw/datasets/openfec/2026-federal-candidates-refresh-2026-04-16/overview.md, raw/datasets/openfec/2026-federal-candidates-refresh-2026-04-16-rerun/overview.md, raw/datasets/openfec/2026-federal-candidates-refresh-2026-04-20/overview.md, and wiki/summaries/federal-candidate-openfec-refresh-2026-04-16.md: add the current all-candidate OpenFEC refresh sequence, including the same-day rerun that advanced Killin to the APRIL QUARTERLY 2026 report layer and the 2026-04-20 check that confirmed the same top-line totalsraw/articles/2026-04-05T120735-0600 Crank challenger Jessica Killin racks up endorsements from all of Colorado’s congressional Democrats.md: adds a later campaign-strength and endorsement marker for the 2025-2026 runraw/datasets/schedule_a-2026-03-17T23_40_37.md and wiki/summaries/biglaw-in-the-jessica-killin-financial-regulatory-slice.md: add campaign-finance donor and self-reported employer clustering around the Killin campaign, while preserving that these are network signals rather than proof of institutional firm actionraw/articles/2026-04-04T183639-0600 home-fenway-summer.md, raw/articles/2026-04-04T183639-0600 raj-date-fs-vector-team.md, and raw/articles/2026-04-04T183639-0600 cubi-20250328.md: support the narrower claim that Killin's spouse is tied through Fenway Summer, FS Vector, Customers, and Circle to firms with direct financial-regulatory or stablecoin relevanceraw/articles/2026-04-05T141500-0600 a-practical-guide-to-stablecoin-payments-fs-vector.md and raw/articles/2026-04-05T141530-0600 american-fintech-council-joins-forces-with-fs-vector-to-promote-responsible-innovation-and-regulatory-modernization.md: strengthen FS Vector as a second-ring policy-facing node in the Killin / Date slice, while still not making it a direct Killin campaign actorraw/datasets/Groups That Have Retained FS Vector in 2021.md through raw/datasets/Groups That Have Retained FS Vector in 2025.md: strengthen the narrower claim that one Date-linked firm also appears in recurring lobbying-adjacent client-retention records, while still not making that evidence a direct Killin campaign or rulemaking recordraw/articles/2026-04-04T183648-0600 co-5th-district-congressional-race-stand-with-crypto.md: gives a crypto-advocacy tracker snapshot showing no recorded Killin stance in that sourceraw/articles/2026-04-04T183823-0600 board-of-directors-easterseals-disability-community-services.md and raw/articles/2026-04-04T183825-0600 committees-advocacy-awards-easterseals-disability-community-services.md: place Killin in the Easterseals DC MD VA board and advocacy-event orbit in 2026raw/papers/2026-04-04T183632-0600 jessica-killin-oge-278e.md, raw/papers/2026-04-04T183632-0600 jessica-killin-oge-278t.md, and raw/papers/2026-04-04T183633-0600 jessica-killin-oge-cd.md: ground the household-disclosure and divestiture material used throughout the cluster