Connection research · Research date 2026-09-16
Nebraska disclosure shows one consultant worked for Sixteen Thirty, New Venture and WFF before receiving Way Back campaign support
Recorded status: Primary House disclosure verifies consulting for Sixteen Thirty, New Venture and WFF; FEC-derived records verify later Way Back candidate support. Causation/control not established.
This is a dated research record. Its qualifications and open questions are part of the account. Association alone does not establish wrongdoing or control.
A primary U.S. House financial disclosure provides a concrete example of personnel overlap across the same national funding architecture now being traced into Idaho. Nebraska congressional candidate Denise Powell's Aug. 13, 2025 candidate financial disclosure lists compensation in excess of $5,000 from each of Sixteen Thirty Fund, New Venture Fund and Western Futures Fund for consulting, along with multiple Nebraska advocacy/campaign clients. The disclosure also identifies her as a partner in She's Electable LLC. Separately, current FEC-derived records show Way Back PAC contributed $10,000 to Powell's federal campaign in the 2026 cycle. Nebraska Public Media reported that Fight for Nebraska PAC, which supported Powell and opposed a primary rival, received major funding from Way Back PAC and smaller funding from Western Futures Fund and Global Impact. WFF's own grant history separately reports a $12,000 2022 grant to an entity listed as 'She's Electable,' but the available records do not yet establish that this recipient is legally identical to Powell's She's Electable LLC and the entities must not be merged without an EIN/address match. The verified takeaway is narrower: the Sixteen Thirty/New Venture/WFF ecosystem can share professional consultants, and a consultant disclosed as working for all three later became a federal candidate supported directly by Way Back and indirectly by a Way Back/WFF-funded super PAC. This is a non-Idaho operational example useful for understanding network behavior; it does NOT establish quid pro quo, candidate control, that consulting work caused later political support, or that the same pattern necessarily applies to Idaho.
Source references
- U.S. House Candidate Financial Disclosure — Denise Powell, filing 10071667 — Schedule J, Compensation in Excess of $5,000 Paid by One Source; lines 289–306
- Way Back PAC — FEC-derived candidate contributions — 2026 contributions to candidates table
- Nebraska Public Media — outside spending in NE-02 primary — Fight for Nebraska funding discussion
- Western Futures Fund grant history — 2022 grantee table