¶ Jeff Crank career, campaign, and congressional chronology
This timeline tracks Jeff Crank from official biography anchors through professional, advocacy, media, campaign, and early congressional milestones. It uses official sources where possible and labels self-controlled or reported items when the source basis is weaker.
The page focuses on Crank's own public chronology. It does not attempt a complete vote record, full 2006 / 2008 campaign reconstruction, complete hosted-media episode timeline, or full outside-spending ledger.
- Event: Self-controlled profile says Crank participated in the Air War College National Security Forum
- Why it matters: The item fits the military / defense-policy background he later emphasizes, but remains self-described in the current source set.
- Source basis: Jeff Crank campaign, self-description, and political history source cluster
- Evidence note: Needs independent or institutional corroboration before use as a strong biography claim.
- Event: OpenFEC candidate record first-file date for
H6CO05142
- Why it matters: This is the earliest candidate-record date returned in the refreshed OpenFEC candidate search.
- Source basis: Jeff Crank federal campaign finance, 2006-2026
- Event: Wayback capture preserves
Jeff Crank For Congress campaign homepage
- Why it matters: The archived site supports the 2006 campaign's public web surface, including campaign navigation, district framing, and paid-for language.
- Source basis: www-jeffcrank-com-20060708054227
- Evidence note: The capture does not establish the full site, final results, or all endorsements as durable relationship claims.
- Event: Wayback capture preserves 2008 Jeff Crank for Congress campaign page
- Why it matters: The archived page supports the 2008 campaign web surface and identifies Crank as vice president, government sales, for XAware at that time.
- Source basis: www-jeffcrank-com-20080114204536
- Event: First recovered podcast-era row for The Jeff Crank Show
- Why it matters: This is the earliest recovered episode row in the current hosted-media inventory.
- Source basis: Jeff Crank hosted-media corpus inventory
- Evidence note: Not the show start date.
- Event: Final archived The Jeff Crank Show episode in recovered inventory
- Why it matters: The episode references the end of
14 years of radio and podcasting, matching the reported 2008 start but not filling the missing episode gap.
- Source basis: Jeff Crank hosted-media corpus inventory
- Event: Axios reports Crank defeated Trump-backed Dave Williams
- Why it matters: Provides independent reporting on primary meaning, intraparty context, and reported outside-spending support.
- Source basis: Jeff Crank campaign, self-description, and political history source cluster
- Evidence note: Outside-spending figures remain reported claims until directly reconciled against FEC IE data.
- Event: American Potential row records Crank's farewell and David From host transition for 2025
- Why it matters: Establishes the late-2024 / early-2025 host-transition evidence boundary for the hosted-media corpus.
- Source basis: Jeff Crank hosted-media corpus inventory
- Event: Official House releases announce committee and subcommittee assignments
- Why it matters: Places Crank on Armed Services and Natural Resources, with defense, cyber, space, energy, mineral, water, wildlife, and fisheries relevance.
- Source basis: Jeff Crank official congressional background and activity
- Event: Crank office releases Space Command / El Paso County statement
- Why it matters: District-facing military-space economy framing.
- Source basis: Jeff Crank official congressional background and activity
- Evidence note: Office statement only; retrieve White House / DoD / appropriations / employment evidence before treating the commitment as independently documented.
- Event: OpenFEC 2026 aggregate totals reach April Quarterly coverage end
- Why it matters: The 2026-04-27 refresh reports
$1,741,916.50 receipts, $639,896.45 disbursements, $1,168,573.19 cash on hand, and $0.00 debts through this date.
- Source basis: Jeff Crank federal campaign finance, 2006-2026
- The 2006 and 2008 campaign results and finance history need official election abstracts and older FEC detail before this timeline can be complete for those cycles.
- Several professional and civic roles remain sourced only to self-controlled profile material.
- Congressional activity is selective and should not be treated as a full legislative record.
- Hosted-media dates summarize corpus-level inventory, not every episode.