Jason BeetsMy latest blog post is a behemoth that's about twice as long as an average post.
But it's also very accessible with lots of tables and graphs.
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My latest blog post examines my 2024 political donations.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/07/my-2024-political-donations.html
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As we continue to explore the results of last year’s election, it’s finally time to examine my personal political donations, with the assistance of several colorful tables and graphs.
In 2024, I donated $455 to political candidates campaigning for Congress and the Kansas Legislature.
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I have published articles about my donations for previous elections.
This article discusses my 2020 political donations.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2022/10/my-2020-political-donations.html
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Here is my analysis of my 2022 political donations.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2022/12/my-2022-political-donations.html
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In this article, I discussed by contributions to two political candidates in 2023.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2024/10/my-2023-political-donations.html
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My latest article is part of an ongoing series about the results of the 2024 elections.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/01/2024-election-results.html
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I covered the results of elections to the US Senate.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/01/republicans-win-senate-control.html
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I covered the results of elections for the US House of Representatives.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/01/house-of-representatives.html
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I covered the results of elections for the Kansas Legislature.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/07/republicans-gain-seats-in-kansas.html
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I graded the accuracy of my predictions for the US Senate elections.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/07/grading-my-2024-senate-predictions.html
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Last year, I encouraged readers to donate to Democrats running for the Kansas Legislature.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2024/08/key-races-to-determine-balance-of-power.html
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I recently published an article that examined the performance of the candidates who received those donations.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/07/2024-political-fundraising-report.html
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My most recent article, by contrast, explores the performance of candidates I personally donated to last year.
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Section: Overview
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I financially supported 16 candidates in 2024.
Only two of those candidates, Dan Osman and Derek Tran, won their elections.
The other 14 candidates lost.
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This table lists my donations from largest to smallest, with the candidates I gave the most to, listed first.
I will discuss each of these elections later in this thread.
For the most part, discussions of these elections, in this thread, will generally follow the order of the candidates as they appear in this table.
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The table is color-coded.
In the “Office Sought” column, congressional candidates are highlighted in purple. Candidates for the Kansas Senate are highlighted in green.
In the “2024 Margin” column, races won by Democrats are highlighted in blue, and races won by Republicans are highlighted in pink.
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Mathew Reinhold lost a Democratic primary, so his “2024 Margin” displays the margin of his loss in the primary.
I created the tables and graphs in this article in Excel.
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This table displays my donations based on the margin of victory, with the closest races listed first.
The color-coding conventions are the same as they were in the first table.
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By and large, my donations were wisely spent on candidates whose races were decided by narrow margins.
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22% of my donations went to races where the margin was decided by less than 3%.
44% of my donations went to races where the margin was decided by less than 5%.
74% of my donations went to races where the margin was decided by less than 7%.
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This ongoing thread, about my 2024 political donations, can be read as an article, on my blog, Meticulous Musings.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/07/my-2024-political-donations.html
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Section: Kansas Senate
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I donated $90 to candidates running for the Kansas Senate.
That accounts for 20% of my 2024 donations.
I donated to two Democrats running for the Kansas Senate, Andrew Mall and Dena Sattler, both of whom lost their elections.
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I donated $50 to Andrew Mall.
I donated more to Andrew Mall in 2024 than any other candidate.
Andrew Mall (D) lost a Kansas Senate race in Dist. 10, in Johnson County, to incumbent Mike Thompson (R) by 4.8%, or 2,176 votes.
Thompson received 52%, and Mall received 48%.
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Elections for the Kansas Senate are held every four years.
2024 was the first election for the Kansas Senate after redistricting, so exercise caution when comparing the 2024 and 2020 results.
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In 2020, Mike Thompson (R) defeated Lindsey Constance (D), in Dist. 10, by 3.7%, or 1,604 votes.
Thompson received 51.9%, and Constance received 48.1%.
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I donated $40 to Dena Sattler.
Dena Sattler (D) lost a Kansas Senate race in Dist. 3 to incumbent Rick Kloos (R) by 14.8%, or 5,657 votes.
Dist. 3 is located in Osage, Douglas, Franklin, and Shawnee counties.
Kloos received 57%, and Sattler received 43%.
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Sattler’s race didn’t end up being competitive. But prior to the election, the results from the most recent Kansas Senate elections indicated it might be.
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In 2020, Rick Kloos (R) defeated incumbent Anthony Hensley (D), in Dist. 19, by 2.1%, or 658 votes.
That election was the closest Kansas Senate Race in 2020.
Kloos was redistricted into Dist. 3 for the 2024 election.
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This table, which first appeared in, “Republicans gain seats in the Kansas Legislature,” shows the results of the closest Kansas Senate elections in 2024.
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This ongoing thread about my 2024 political donations can be read as an article on my blog, Meticulous Musings.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/07/my-2024-political-donations.html
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I have other things planned for this afternoon.
I will return to post the rest of the article at a later time.
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Section: US Senate
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I donated $45 to Dan Osborn.
Dan Osborn ran as an independent in a two-way US Senate race in Nebraska against incumbent Republican Deb Fischer.
Nebraska Democrats chose not to nominate a candidate for the race.
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Osborn lost the Nebraska US Senate race to Fischer (R) by 6.7%, or 62,631 votes.
Fischer received 53.3%, and Osborn received 46.7%.
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Nebraska was the only US Senate race, decided by less than 10%, where the margin swung away from Republicans in 2024, compared to 2018.
The following table first appeared in, “Republicans win Senate Control.”
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Dan Osborn is running in Nebraska for the US Senate, again, in 2026.
https://www.the-downballot.com/p/morning-digest-nebraska-independent
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Dan Osborn was the only US Senate Candidate I supported financially last year.
Donations to US Senate races account for 10% of my 2024 political donations.
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Osborn was the only independent candidate I supported financially last year.
The other 15 candidates I supported financially are Democrats.
Democrats received 90% of my political donations last year, and one independent candidate, Osborn, received the remaining 10%.
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Last year, I donated $45 to support Osborn, an independent, and $410 to support Democratic candidates.
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This ongoing thread, about my 2024 political donations, can be read as an article on my blog, Meticulous Musings.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/07/my-2024-political-donations.html
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Section: Kansas House
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Last year, I donated to seven of the eleven Kansas House races where the margin was decided by less than 6%.
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I donated $30 to Dan Osman.
Incumbent Dan Osman (D) won a Kansas House Race, in Dist. 48, in Johnson County, against Randy Ross (R) by 5.8%, or 723 votes.
Osman received 53%, and Ross received 47%.
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The election in Dist. 48 was the only Kansas House race decided by less than 8% where the margin shifted toward Democrats, compared to 2022.
All of the other 12 Kansas House races decided by less than 8% had their margin shift in favor of Republicans, compared to 2022.
You can see this in the table below, which first appeared in “Republicans gain seats in the Kansas Legislature.”
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I donated $30 to Ace Allen.
Ace Allen (D) lost a Kansas House race, in Dist. 28, in Johnson County, to incumbent Carl Turner (R) by 1.2%, or 155 votes.
Turner received 50.6%, and Allen received 49.4%.
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