Dennis Powers — 2026 Tennessee House, District 36 campaign
2026 Tennessee House, District 36 · totals since Jan 16, 2025
Latest filing: Q3 2026 · Oct 18, 2026 · source: TN Registry of Election Finance
6 filings · Mid-Year 2025–Q3 2026
Cash on Hand The campaign’s ending cash balance from its most recent filing. Cash shown as “carried over” was held before this election cycle began — usually from a prior campaign for the same office. Full definition →
$0
$90,487 carried over
Receipts The sum of Total Receipts on the selected published reports. Open the receipt to check each report and any exclusions. Full definition →
$141,179
Total Spent
$231,766
less $100 in refunds & credits → $231,666 net disbursements
Donors
112
total donors; qualifying names are listed below
Who funds this campaign The sources split breaks down the receipts the headline adds up, by the lines of each report behind it; its parts add up to the headline. Open its “Why this number?” for each report’s lines. Gift-size and location figures cover itemized contributions only. Aggregates count everyone who gave, including donors below the $200 disclosure floor — a share across all donors identifies no one. Full definition →
Largest part: organizations and PACs, itemized, 68% of receipts on these reports.
Individuals, itemized $44K · 31%Organizations and PACs, itemized $95K · 68%
Gift size Each individual donor’s total giving to this campaign this cycle. Organizations, PACs, and the candidate’s own money are excluded (this is about people); a donor who gave under several name spellings is counted once. A donor named on the page can still sit in a small bucket — these are cycle totals, not “unnamed donors.” Full definition →
$841average gift
$500median gift
52individual donors
Share of donors Share of dollars
Under $50
$50–200
$200–1K
$1K–5K
$5K+
Where the money comes from Shares of itemized dollars, by the contributor’s state and city as filed. A city is named only when at least 5 donors gave from it or it holds at least 5% of the located dollars; everyone else is grouped into “elsewhere.” Shown only when at least 80% of dollars carry a usable state. Full definition →
91% of located dollars came from within Tennessee (9% from out of state).
Tennessee $126,743 Out of state $12,400
- Nashville $40K29%
- Brentwood $11K8%
- Portland $10K7%
- Lafollette $8K6%
- Elsewhere in Tennessee $58K
- Other out-of-state $12K
Contributions & Spending Over Time
Itemized monetary contributions and expenditures by month — Jan 2025 – Sep 2026. Peak $45,030 in Jun 2026. Spending peaked at $124,946 in Jul 2026.
Cash contributions Spent
Contributions
The donor total above includes everyone who gave. This table names 111 donors: organizations, and people whose cumulative giving reached $200. 2 people gave less than $200 in cash; their gifts total $250 and their names are withheld.
| Donor | Donations | Net |
|---|---|---|
| Tennessee Bankers Association PAC | 2 | $8,000.00 |
| TN Advance Financial PAC | 2 | $5,000.00 |
| MARSHA PAC (Marsha Blackburn) | 1 | $5,000.00 |
| CAM PAC (Cameron Sexton) | 2 | $5,000.00 |
| LAMBERTH PAC (William Lamberth) | 2 | $5,000.00 |
| William G Lamberth | 1 | $5,000.00 |
| JCB PAC (Clark Boyd) | 3 | $4,500.00 |
| Tennessee Manufactured Housing Assn PAC | 2 | $3,500.00 |
| Housing Industry PAC | 2 | $3,000.00 |
| Odus Mundy | 1 | $3,000.00 |
Dates
| Donor | Location | Employer | Amount | Date |
|---|
Expenditures
| Vendor | Payments | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Dog Strategies | 3 | $64,003.12 | |
| Echowave | 3 | $31,956.28 | |
| Smart Media Group | 2 | $20,270.00 | |
| Lamar Advertising | 2 | $15,886.54 | |
| Newman and Associates | 1 | $15,050.00 | |
| Wlaf | 5 | $7,880.00 | |
| Byrge Screen Printing | 2 | $7,551.07 | |
| Prime Media | 1 | $7,500.00 | |
| Apple | 4 | $5,663.57 | |
| Verizon | 5 | $5,417.94 | |
| i360 | 3 | $3,386.80 | |
| Addison Diblasi | 1 | $3,125.00 | |
| Ellison, Sam | 1 | $3,000.00 | |
| Union Co Republican Party | 2 | $2,500.00 | |
| Comfort Inn | 1 | $2,227.78 | |
| Weigels | 6 | $2,141.27 | |
| Lafollette Press | 2 | $1,945.00 | |
| Campbell Co. Rotary Club | 4 | $1,550.00 | |
| Walmart | 4 | $1,467.26 | |
| A1 Shipping & Printing | 3 | $1,425.41 | |
| Shell | 8 | $1,391.49 | |
| Francis Marion Hotel | 1 | $1,294.32 | |
| Bo's Place | 4 | $1,223.57 | |
| Bluegrass Newsmedia LLC | 1 | $1,200.00 | |
| Rice Oil Co. | 6 | $1,064.61 | |
| Volunteer Times | 1 | $1,050.00 | |
| Terry, Sarah | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| State of TN | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| TN General Assembly | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| Union Co News Leader | 1 | $900.00 | |
| Walgreens | 3 | $851.02 | |
| All My Sons Moving & Storage | 1 | $824.88 | |
| Delta Airlines | 1 | $615.95 | |
| Scotty Outdoor LLC | 1 | $525.00 | |
| Campbell Co Chamber of Commerce | 2 | $500.00 | |
| TN Republican Party | 1 | $500.00 | |
| Postmaster General | 4 | $488.20 | |
| Petals of Grace | 3 | $481.81 | |
| Dollar General | 4 | $448.28 | |
| Sandys Custom Auto | 1 | $437.00 | |
| Camp Galilee | 1 | $400.00 | |
| Tractor Supply | 2 | $386.53 | |
| WJJT | 1 | $385.00 | |
| Builtwell Bank | 6 | $358.98 | |
| Ncoil | 1 | $347.00 | |
| Amazon | 3 | $344.75 | |
| Rocky Top Market | 3 | $340.41 | |
| Campbell County Christian Learning Cente | 1 | $300.00 | |
| Bp Gas | 2 | $282.70 | |
| Shutterfly | 1 | $265.79 | |
| Hilton | 1 | $264.69 | |
| Charley's Pizza | 2 | $240.10 | |
| Harland Clarke | 2 | $235.11 | |
| Capitol Commission | 2 | $230.00 | |
| Common Ground Coffee | 2 | $208.92 | |
| Building Better Claiborne | 1 | $200.00 | |
| Logan Birdsong Photography | 1 | $200.00 | |
| Boy Scouts of America | 1 | $200.00 | |
| Samaritan's Purse | 2 | $200.00 | |
| American Legislative Exchange Council | 1 | $200.00 | |
| The Tennessean | 1 | $198.00 | |
| Carbonite | 2 | $191.98 | |
| Babylon Bee | 2 | $179.50 | |
| Claiborne County Progress | 4 | $178.34 | |
| National Fallen Firefighters Foundation | 1 | $175.00 | |
| Vitrazza | 1 | $173.93 | |
| Doorway Gourmet | 3 | $163.73 | |
| Thompson Framing | 1 | $163.52 | |
| Campbell Co Election Commission | 2 | $150.00 | |
| Norton Lifelock | 1 | $131.09 | |
| Campbell Co. Republican Women | 2 | $130.00 | |
| Allegra Printing and Mail | 1 | $123.81 | |
| Food City | 2 | $120.82 | |
| Wendy's | 2 | $120.36 | |
| Emma Brown | 1 | $120.00 | |
| Lowe's | 2 | $112.35 | |
| Hello Flowers | 1 | $111.42 | |
| Canva | 1 | $109.24 | |
| Microsoft | 1 | $109.24 | |
| Go Fund Me | 1 | $105.00 | |
| FTD Flowers | 1 | $103.77 | |
| TN Right To Life | 1 | $100.00 | |
| Jellico High School | 1 | $100.00 | |
| Cline, Joel | 1 | $100.00 | |
| Caryville Elementary | 1 | $100.00 | |
| Emily Wilson | 1 | $100.00 | |
| Vietnam Veterans Flag Fund | 1 | $100.00 | |
| Campbell Co Boys and Girls Club | 1 | $100.00 | |
| Knox News Sentinel | 1 | $99.00 | |
| Rickard Ridge BBQ | 1 | $96.85 | |
| Blossom Flower Delivery | 1 | $92.48 | |
| Amaco | 1 | $87.28 | |
| Ham N Goodys | 1 | $86.35 | |
| Ideal Florist | 1 | $85.22 | |
| X Corporation | 1 | $84.00 | |
| King Donut | 1 | $83.86 | |
| Marathon Oil | 1 | $76.73 | |
| Flowers By Bob | 1 | $75.00 | |
| Shoneys | 2 | $70.90 | |
| ExxonMobil | 1 | $69.60 | |
| Grok Ai | 3 | $60.00 | |
| Campbell County Farm Bureau | 2 | $60.00 | |
| First Baptist Church Jacksboro | 1 | $56.00 | |
| Lacey Housley Memorial Scholarship | 1 | $50.00 | |
| Union Co Business & Professional Women | 1 | $50.00 | |
| Jacksboro Methodist Church | 1 | $50.00 | |
| Murphy Express | 1 | $49.50 | |
| Maga Donuts | 1 | $41.11 | |
| Claiborne County Election Commission | 1 | $38.00 | |
| Union County Trustee Office | 1 | $38.00 | |
| TN Prayer Breakfast | 1 | $35.00 | |
| Eagle Market | 1 | $33.19 | |
| Nat'l Fed. of Independent Business Tennessee PAC ↺ donor $1,000.00 | 1 | $33.00 | |
| American Greetings | 1 | $32.76 | |
| Heritage Foundation | 2 | $30.00 | |
| Digital Discounted Solutions | 2 | $26.75 | |
| Ollies | 1 | $24.78 | |
| Wards Corner | 1 | $24.41 | |
| Fastop | 1 | $21.98 |
Dates
| Payee | Location | Purpose | Amount | Date |
|---|
Where the money went Each expenditure carries a short description of what it was for, written by the campaign. We sort those descriptions into a fixed set of categories; one expenditure goes in one category, so the amounts add up to Dennis Powers’s itemized spending. Descriptions that don’t clearly fit a category are counted under Other rather than guessed at.
- Advertising & media $130,022 56%
- Other $44,016 19%
- Field & voter contact $26,815 12%
- Travel $8,735 4%
- Printing & mail $8,529 4%
- Office & operations $7,258 3%
- Contributions & donations $4,166 2%
- Fundraising & events $2,226 1.0%
Filing History
Totals as filed with the Tennessee Registry of Election Finance; see About for how this data is processed.
| Filing | Cash Beginning | Cash Ending | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q3 2026 | $42,687.38 | $0.00 | Source: Q3 2026 filing Report 130293 |
| Pre-Primary 2026 | $121,495.65 | $42,687.38 | Source: Pre-Primary 2026 filing Report 127723 |
| Q2 2026 | $118,653.65 | $121,495.65 | Source: Q2 2026 filing Report 126464 |
| Q1 2026 | $125,003.48 | $118,653.65 | Source: Q1 2026 filing Report 125187 |
| Year-End 2025 | $90,357.46 | $125,003.48 | Source: Year-End 2025 filing Report 123309 |
| Mid-Year 2025 | $90,487.14 | $90,357.46 | Source: Mid-Year 2025 filing Report 122109 |