Joseph F. Reagan is a Democratic Colorado 5th District congressional candidate and Army veteran whose current repo footprint now includes campaign self-description, official FEC and House disclosure records, Colorado election results, public organizational bios, and a bounded Welcome-linked endorsement and finance layer spanning the 2024 and 2026 cycles.
The current record supports a more complete Joe Reagan profile than the repo previously had, but it still requires careful separation of evidence classes. His education and broad military chronology are well supported by the Norwich Alumni Association board page, campaign biography, SpaceNews author bio, and House disclosure filings. A 2026-04-26 military-chronology follow-up added a DVIDS / War.gov public-affairs story naming him as Task Force Catamount's intelligence officer in April 2009, an archived transition interview that names the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division scout-sniper and deputy-intelligence-officer sequence, a Maine Trust Project PDF with first-tour platoon and Purple Heart context, official Fort Drum / Army.mil unit-deployment windows, and archived CMH lineage-and-honors context for 2d Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment. His post-military civilian path is also materially clearer: by public-source confirmation he passed through Easterseals Maine, Wreaths Across America, NewSpace Global / Multiverse Media, and Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center's Colorado VBOC.
The campaign layer now cleanly splits into two cycles. In 2024, Reagan filed for Colorado's 5th District, lost the Democratic primary to River Gassen by 489 votes, and received both direct WelcomePAC contributions and WelcomePAC independent-expenditure support. In the visible 2026 cycle, the finance structure is materially different: the committee remains active, Reagan qualified for the Democratic primary ballot through the assembly path, and the latest focused FEC refresh on 2026-05-29 still returns an APRIL QUARTERLY 2026 report layer while showing no candidate-side Schedule E, communication-cost, or electioneering rows.
The current repo can also describe Reagan's Welcome ties more precisely than before. A 2024 House candidate disclosure lists prior 1099 income from The Welcome Party, and a Cause IQ profile lists him as District Outreach Director for The Welcome Party with date of data 2023-10-16. WelcomeStack publicly endorsed Reagan in 2024 and added him to its Win The Middle slate. Separately, WelcomePAC made direct committee contributions and funded independent expenditures supporting Reagan. Those are distinct relationship types and should not be blurred together; the Cause IQ title is a public role lead, not a direct description of exact duties.
Joseph F. Reagan, Joe Reagan, and FEC-style REAGAN, JOSEPH FCO-05H4CO05139COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOE REAGAN (C00864306)7 years, more than seven years, and 8 years of active-duty service3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division platoon leader / scout-sniper platoon in Afghanistan; Deputy Intelligence Officer for the 3rd Brigade during the second Afghanistan deployment; and later watch officer3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division deployment windows of 2006-02 to about 2007-06 and 2009-01 to 2010-01; those are brigade windows, not Reagan's personal deployment orders2009-04-12 naming Army Capt. Joseph Reagan as Task Force Catamount's intelligence officer; the story places Task Force Catamount under 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment and Task Force Spartan in Wardak province2d Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment Valorous Unit Award streamers for PAKTIKA AND HELMAND PROVINCES 2006-2007 and WARDAK PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN 2009; a mirrored HRC order gives 2006-01-29 to 2007-01-28 for the first unit-award period22, after 10 months of Army second-lieutenant training, and led a 28-man scouting platoon whose casualty rate exceeded 100 percent over 16 months20,313 to 20,8022026 CD-5 primary line2024: mixed individual fundraising, small candidate self-funding, direct PAC money, and WelcomePAC independent expenditures2026: visible public finance is heavily candidate-loan-driven with no PAC contributions or candidate-side outside-spending rows yet visible2020, a 2006 Afghanistan speaker-program description, and 2026 Elect Joe Reagan in the club presidents sequenceDistrict Outreach Director, date of data 2023-10-16; exact duties remain unresolved2026-05-29: APRIL QUARTERLY 2026 is the latest returned report, with $202,638.50 in receipts, $177,072.90 in disbursements, $33,034.27 cash on hand, $120,100.00 debts, and zero rows returned by Schedule E, communication-cost, and electioneering aggregate checks2026FD package timestamped 2026-05-29 09:01: no Joseph F. Reagan / Joe Reagan 2026 candidate financial disclosure report or extension entry was visible in the retained index package. This is a public-visibility finding only; it does not prove nonfiling, a filing violation, concealment, or absence of an extension outside the retained index.pip_pledges: true flag while the individual pledge-boolean fields were null.2026-05-09 full-corpus reassessment moves Reagan's overall score from 6.9 to 7.0 with medium confidence after integrating targeted transcript verification and the Political Integrity Pledge evidence. The strongest score support remains his explicit anti-corruption, public-financing, labor, health-care, public-workforce, and public-investment platform, now reinforced by town-hall and transcript evidence on organized labor, collective bargaining, tariffs, public option health care, health-care labor power, VA care, public lands, green-energy transition, military diversity, war powers, due process, shutdown strategy, local constituent-service staffing, and stock-trading ethics. The FEC line-item refresh adds direct Schedule E evidence of 2024 WelcomePAC support, which remains a donor-independence caveat until Reagan's Welcome Party role details are clarified. His local-support framing is broadly fair by Colorado and local-proxy donor rows but weaker by dollars. A targeted verification pass also found one ICE detention percentage claim unsupported by the checked public data, so truthfulness remains caveated.wiki/summaries/elections-finance/joe-reagan-campaign-self-presentation-2024-2026.md: campaign-controlled biography, issues, endorsements, and later service-themed op-ed framingwiki/summaries/nonprofit-civic/joe-reagan-career-and-nonprofit-affiliations.md: strongest current role chronology across Norwich, Army service, Easterseals, Wreaths, NewSpace, and Mt. Carmelraw/articles/2026-04-26T042200-0600-dvids-route-clearance-team-capt-joseph-reagan-task-force-catamount.md, raw/articles/2026-04-26T060000-0600-fort-drum-3rd-brigade-combat-team-history.md, raw/articles/2026-04-26T060100-0600-army-fort-drum-2009-year-in-review-3bct-return.md, and raw/web-archives/www-history-army-mil-html-forcestruc-lineages-branches-inf-0087in002bn-htm-20220125210405/www-history-army-mil-html-forcestruc-lineages-branches-inf-0087in002bn-htm-20220125210405.md: direct military-role, unit-deployment, and unit-award evidence added in the 2026-04-26 follow-upwiki/summaries/elections-finance/joe-reagan-fec-and-finance-2024.md and wiki/summaries/elections-finance/joe-reagan-fec-and-finance-2026.md: split the two federal cycles rather than collapsing themwiki/summaries/elections-finance/joe-reagan-public-media-and-campaign-coverage-2024-2026.md: bounded independent characterization and race-context layer from CPR, Denver Gazette, and Colorado party materialsraw/datasets/openfec/joe-reagan-dossier-refresh-2026-05-29/overview.md: preserves the current OpenFEC dossier refresh confirming the same April Quarterly cutoff, corrected transaction pagination, and zero-row candidate-side outside-spending aggregate checkswiki/summaries/elections-finance/joe-reagan-house-candidate-financial-disclosure-visibility-2026.md: summarizes the House Ethics candidate-disclosure threshold, the retained House Clerk 2026FD index check, and the limits of the current public-disclosure visibility findingraw/articles/joe-reagan-current-public-web-refresh-2026-05-29/source-note.md and raw/papers/joe-reagan-current-public-web-refresh-2026-05-29/source-note.md: preserve current campaign-site, party-listing, CPR access-status, and El Paso County sample-ballot contextwiki/summaries/elections-finance/joe-reagan-welcome-ecosystem-and-endorsements-2024-2026.md: distinguishes compensated relationship, endorsement, direct donor support, and outside-spending support in the Welcome orbitoutputs/reports/andymoose7202-transcripts-co05-rubric-analysis-2026-05-09.md and outputs/reports/andymoose7202-targeted-transcript-verification-2026-05-09.md: preserve the Reagan transcript-corpus rubric analysis and targeted verification pass, including the score-sensitive transcript-integrated 7.0 sensitivity finding and the ICE-statistic truthfulness caveatraw/other/co05-reagan-targeted-verification-2026-05-09/source-note.md: preserves the Integrity Index / Political Integrity Project pledge image, public pledge flag row, and external fact-check context used in the targeted verification passoutputs/reports/co-05-full-corpus-rubric-reassessment-2026-05-09.md: records the full-corpus decision to move Reagan's current public structural civic score to 7.0 with medium confidenceraw/datasets/openfec/2026-federal-candidates-refresh-2026-04-16/overview.md, raw/datasets/openfec/2026-federal-candidates-refresh-2026-04-17/overview.md, raw/datasets/openfec/2026-federal-candidates-refresh-2026-04-20/overview.md, and wiki/summaries/elections-finance/federal-candidate-openfec-refresh-2026-04-16.md: add the all-candidate OpenFEC refresh sequence, including the 2026-04-17 follow-up that advanced Reagan to the APRIL QUARTERLY 2026 report layer and the 2026-04-20 check that confirmed the same top-line totals.raw/papers/2026-04-15T230200-0600 joseph-f-reagan-house-candidate-financial-disclosure-2024.md: strongest single source for the 2024 asset, income, liability, and board-role pictureraw/papers/2026-04-15T230300-0600 joseph-f-reagan-house-candidate-financial-disclosure-2025.md: narrower later disclosure showing the Mt. Carmel / KBR period and a much thinner visible asset-liability layerThe Welcome Party income line, a Cause IQ District Outreach Director title lead, and WelcomePAC endorsement and spending relationships, but it does not yet clarify the exact work performed for The Welcome Party.2020 and a 2026 Elect Joe Reagan presidents-list entry. Exact installation and officer-term details remain open.2026FD package did not show a Reagan 2026 candidate financial disclosure report or extension entry as of the preserved 2026-05-29 09:01 index package. This remains open for later Clerk-index refresh, campaign response, filing/extension confirmation, posting-delay explanation, or official administrative outcome.