Noah Taylor

2 published research records · Latest research 2026-09-16

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About Noah Taylor

Senate candidate Noah Taylor through July 31.

From WFF research support and Way Back spending converge on the same Kansas candidate through the 1861 Initiative (2026-09-16). Recorded status: FEC/FEC-DERIVED + CURRENT REPORTING VERIFIED: WFF-related 1861 activity, Way Back Taylor spending, and Progressive Vet $47.5K disbursement align around one candidate endpoint. Coordination/control not established; raw 1861 receipt split still pending. New published findings are added here as sourced excerpts.

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Current FEC-derived independent-expenditure data then show The 1861 Initiative—an organization whose initial WFF-related financial/research support is separately documented—reporting Tavern Research as the payee on a $450,000 July 31, 2026 digital-advertising estimate supporting Kansas Senate candidate Noah Taylor.
Tavern Research is a recurring professional-services node across Way Back, Contours and the WFF-backed 1861 Initiative · 2026-09-16
Recorded status: PRIMARY/FEC + DIRECT PUBLISHER VERIFIED: Way Back paid Tavern $15K for research in 2025; Contours commissioned Tavern polls in 2026; WFF-backed 1861 later reported a $450K Tavern IE. Shared vendor node verified; data-sharing/coordination not established.

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PACs

Way Back PAC · 2 shared records
Progressive Vet PAC · 1 shared record

Organizations

1861 Initiative · 2 shared records
The 1861 Initiative · 2 shared records
Contours Inc. · 1 shared record
Tavern Research · 1 shared record
Western Futures Fund · 1 shared record

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Connection research · 2026-09-16WFF research support and Way Back spending converge on the same Kansas candidate through the 1861 Initiative

Recorded status: FEC/FEC-DERIVED + CURRENT REPORTING VERIFIED: WFF-related 1861 activity, Way Back Taylor spending, and Progressive Vet $47.5K disbursement align around one candidate endpoint. Coordination/control not established; raw 1861 receipt split still pending.

A current Kansas case further documents how Western Futures Fund and Way Back PAC can appear around the same candidate through different legal/financial channels without proving coordination. The 1861 Initiative (FEC C00945733), a Kansas super PAC registered April 1, 2026, reported $69,300 in FEC 'Other Receipts' through June 30. Current FEC-derived transaction data identify a $59,300 itemized payment associated with Western Futures Fund in the committee's operating-expenditure records, while Inside Elections reports that WFF gave the committee an initial $10,000 donation plus roughly $59,000 worth of polling. The 1861 Initiative later reported $2.225M in independent expenditures supporting Kansas U.S. Senate candidate Noah Taylor through July 31. Separately, current FEC-derived independent-expenditure records show Way Back PAC also spent directly to support Taylor, including list acquisition, email/SMS production and texting in April 2026; Inside Elections describes Way Back's support at roughly $13,000 by its August reporting cutoff. Progressive Vet PAC, another committee already documented as Contours-funded, reported exactly $47,500 in 'Other Disbursements' through July 31; Inside Elections reports that this $47,500 was transferred to the 1861 Initiative after Progressive Vet shifted attention toward Taylor. The narrow significance is candidate-endpoint convergence across WFF, Way Back and a Contours-funded PAC: WFF supplied money/research value to the principal Taylor-supporting super PAC, Way Back independently spent to support Taylor, and Progressive Vet reportedly transferred funds to the same super PAC. This pattern is analogous to other multistate network overlaps already saved. It does NOT establish that WFF, Way Back, Contours, Progressive Vet or  coordinated with one another or with Taylor; FEC independent-expenditure rules and the available filings do not prove candidate involvement. The precise FEC receipt-side split of 's $69,300 initial WFF-related support should still be reproduced from the committee's raw Schedule A/memo rows before treating the $10,000 cash + $59,300 polling split as primary-row verified.

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