Political firm · composite — 2 spellings of the payee name, merged by us
Axiom Strategies
Disclosed payments to 2 filed spellings of this payee name total $1,917,745 from 51 candidate committees and 22 political committees, 2021–2026. In 4 cases a candidate and an independent-expenditure committee in the same race both paid it; section 03 lists each. A shared vendor is lawful; this page documents disclosed payments and nothing else.
$1,917,745
disclosed payments
to 2 spellings of the payee name, merged by us · as filed, 2021–2026
73
paying committees
51 candidate, 22 political
4
same-race overlaps
lawful; each listed in section 03 with its gap in days
2
spellings merged
the size of the identity join behind every figure here; section 04
Sources Public Disclosure Commission expenditure filings (tijg-9zyp) · independent-expenditure filings (67cp-h962), data.wa.gov · as of 2026-09-05 · retrieved 2026-09-05 · key payee name as filed, upper-cased, punctuation and corporate suffixes (LLC, Inc, Co…) stripped — a normalised string, not an identifier the PDC issues · tier composite — joined by us on a stated key
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Who paid this firm
Every paying committee, largest disclosed total first. The total is what that committee reported paying to 2 spellings of the payee name, merged by us; where a committee has a page here, its name links to it.
| Paid by | Kind | Cycles | Disclosed payments |
|---|---|---|---|
| WA ST REPUB PARTY NON EXEMPT | political committee | 2022 | $242,773 |
| Southwest Communities First | political committee | 2024 | $163,388 |
| People For Jobs | political committee | 2024 | $157,617 |
| Simon Sefzik — STATE SENATOR, LEG DISTRICT 42 – SENATE | candidate committee | 2022 | $156,756 |
| Citizens for Legislative Accountability | political committee | 2024 | $135,118 |
| Simon Peter Serrano (Pete Serrano) — ATTORNEY GENERAL, State of Washington | candidate committee | 2024 | $81,960 |
| Sound Jobs | political committee | 2024 | $81,280 |
| House Republican Organizational Committee (HROC) | political committee | 2022 | $68,512 |
| House Republican Organizational Committee (HROC) | political committee | 2024 | $44,556 |
| Gabriel Sachwitz (Gabe Sachwitz) — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 28 – HOUSE | candidate committee | 2022 | $42,335 |
| Deryl S McCarty (Deryl McCarty) — COUNTY AUDITOR, PIERCE CO | candidate committee | 2022 | $41,440 |
| Sound Jobs | political committee | 2022 | $40,000 |
| David A. Larson (Dave Larson) — STATE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT | candidate committee | 2024 | $38,947 |
| Linda Kochmar — STATE SENATOR, LEG DISTRICT 30 – SENATE | candidate committee | 2022 | $37,930 |
| Marcia Kelbon — STATE SENATOR, LEG DISTRICT 24 – SENATE | candidate committee | 2024 | $35,410 |
| LITZENBERGER RONDA S (Ronda Litzenberger) — STATE SENATOR, LEG DISTRICT 02 – SENATE | candidate committee | 2024 | $34,044 |
| WA ST REPUB PARTY EXEMPT | political committee | 2024 | $33,977 |
| Loujanna Rohrer (Loujanna "LJ" Rohrer) — COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBER, PIERCE CO | candidate committee | 2024 | $32,372 |
| JONATHAN BINGLE (Jonathan D Bingle) — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF SPOKANE | candidate committee | 2025 | $30,889 |
| Pierce County Republican Party Non-Exempt | political committee | 2022 | $30,772 |
| Marcia Kelbon — COUNTY COMMISSIONER, JEFFERSON CO | candidate committee | 2022 | $27,255 |
| axel strakeljahn (Axel Strakeljahn) — COUNTY COMMISSIONER, KITSAP CO | candidate committee | 2022 | $25,716 |
| Mark A. James (Mark James) — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 38 – HOUSE | candidate committee | 2022 | $23,554 |
| Soo Ing-Moody — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 07 – HOUSE | candidate committee | 2024 | $19,575 |
| The Affordable Housing Council of Central Washington Home Builders (AHCCW) | political committee | 2022 | $18,329 |
| Stephanie Barnard — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 08 – HOUSE | candidate committee | 2022 | $16,890 |
| Daniel G Griffey — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 35 – HOUSE | candidate committee | 2022 | $14,168 |
| Mark Stremler — COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBER, WHATCOM CO | candidate committee | 2023 | $13,689 |
| FORGE WASHINGTON | political committee | 2021 | $13,316 |
| Pierce County Republican Party Non-Exempt | political committee | 2024 | $12,715 |
| Terry Roberts — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 24 – HOUSE | candidate committee | 2024 | $12,713 |
| Warren (Casey) Jones (Casey Jones) — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 30 – HOUSE | candidate committee | 2022 | $12,111 |
| Dan Purdy — COUNTY EXECUTIVE, WHATCOM CO | candidate committee | 2023 | $10,791 |
| John (Jack) Walsh (Jack Walsh) — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF FEDERAL WAY | candidate committee | 2021 | $10,563 |
| Kyle Christensen — COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBER, WHATCOM CO | candidate committee | 2025 | $9,718 |
| Michael D Keaton (Michael Keaton) — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 25 – HOUSE | candidate committee | 2024 | $9,632 |
| Nikki E. Torres (Nikki Torres) — STATE SENATOR, LEG DISTRICT 15 – SENATE | candidate committee | 2022 | $9,218 |
| Pat McMonigle — COUNTY CHARTER REVIEW COMMISSIONER, PIERCE CO | candidate committee | 2025 | $8,667 |
| Yvonne M. Gallardo-Van Ornam (Yvonne Gallardo-Van Ornam) — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 10 – HOUSE | candidate committee | 2024 | $7,502 |
| Harneet Grewal (Neet Grewal) — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF KENT | candidate committee | 2025 | $7,484 |
| Sammamish Life | political committee | 2021 | $6,753 |
| Sound Jobs | political committee | 2023 | $6,632 |
| Vote No for Burien | political committee | 2025 | $6,484 |
| Quentin J. Morris, Jr (Quentin Morris) — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 30 – HOUSE | candidate committee | 2024 | $5,893 |
| South Sound Future | political committee | 2024 | $5,781 |
| Brian L Pruiett (Brian Pruiett) — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 24 – HOUSE | candidate committee | 2022 | $5,625 |
| Melissa Hamilton — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF FEDERAL WAY | candidate committee | 2025 | $5,527 |
| The Affordable Housing Council of Central Washington Home Builders (AHCCW) | political committee | 2023 | $5,408 |
| Michael D Keaton (Michael Keaton) — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 25 – HOUSE | candidate committee | 2026 | $5,300 |
| Terry Wise — COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBER, PIERCE CO | candidate committee | 2025 | $4,924 |
| MELANIE GRASSI (Melanie J Grassi) — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF UNIVERSITY PLACE | candidate committee | 2023 | $4,302 |
| Linda Kochmar — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF FEDERAL WAY | candidate committee | 2023 | $4,127 |
| John (Jack) Walsh (Jack Walsh) — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF FEDERAL WAY | candidate committee | 2023 | $4,019 |
| Marie Grace Valdez Barbon (Marie Barbon) — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF BURIEN | candidate committee | 2025 | $3,914 |
| Melissa Hamilton — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 30 – HOUSE | candidate committee | 2024 | $3,633 |
| Robert D. Hicks (Robert (Chili) Hicks) — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 10 – HOUSE | candidate committee | 2026 | $2,835 |
| Washingtonians for a Sound Economy | political committee | 2024 | $2,800 |
| Pierce County Republican Party Exempt | political committee | 2024 | $2,700 |
| Bob For Bob | political committee | 2024 | $2,690 |
| Patrick Kenneth Bell (Ken Bell) — PORT COMMISSIONER, PORT OF BELLINGHAM | candidate committee | 2025 | $2,658 |
Showing 60 of 73 paying committees; the 13 not shown are in the total above and in the PDC file.
Source Public Disclosure Commission expenditure filings (tijg-9zyp), 2021–2026 · as of 2026-09-05 · rows 60 · retrieved 2026-09-05 · key payee name as filed, upper-cased, punctuation and corporate suffixes (LLC, Inc, Co…) stripped — a normalised string, not an identifier the PDC issues · caveat a payment routed through this firm to a subvendor appears here under this firm, as filed
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Payments by cycle
Disclosed payments to 2 spellings of the payee name, merged by us, by the election year the paying committee filed under. One bar scale; the figure beside each bar is the figure. Odd years are local elections and even years state and federal, so consecutive years are not comparable.
Source Public Disclosure Commission expenditure filings (tijg-9zyp), election_year as filed · as of 2026-09-05 · scale $927,102 = full width · key payee name as filed, upper-cased, punctuation and corporate suffixes (LLC, Inc, Co…) stripped — a normalised string, not an identifier the PDC issues
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Same race, both sides of the wall
A candidate’s committee and a committee making independent expenditures in that candidate’s race may not coordinate; both may hire the same printer. Each row is a race where both paid this firm, with the days between the last candidate payment and the first independent expenditure, and whether that gap falls inside the twelve-month window in which WAC 390-05-210 presumes coordination unless rebutted. Overlap is lawful. This table is a list of coincidences in public filings, not a finding.
| Year | Race | Candidate client | IE committee client | Gap in days | In the window | Shared officer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | STATE REPRESENTATIVE / LEG DISTRICT 10 – HOUSE | Yvonne M. Gallardo-Van Ornam (Yvonne Gallardo-Van Ornam) | Sound Jobs | 2 | yes | none — both registrations read |
| 2024 | STATE REPRESENTATIVE / LEG DISTRICT 26 – HOUSE | Jesse L. Young | South Sound Future | — | no | none — both registrations read |
| 2024 | STATE REPRESENTATIVE / LEG DISTRICT 26 – HOUSE | Jesse L. Young | Pierce County Republican Party Exempt | — | no | none — both registrations read |
| 2021 | CITY COUNCIL MEMBER / CITY OF MARYSVILLE | Mark A. James (MARK A. JAMES) | FORGE WASHINGTON | 8 | yes | JASON MICHAUD |
Source Same-race overlap layer over PDC expenditure (tijg-9zyp) and independent-expenditure (67cp-h962) filings; committee registrations for the officer column · as of 2026-09-01 · rows 4 · n 2 inside the twelve-month window · key race = the candidate’s office and jurisdiction as filed; the IE committee’s target is that candidate · caveat overlap is lawful and is not a finding of coordination
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How these records were merged
The PDC issues no vendor identifier. Every figure on this page is the sum of rows whose payee name normalises to one string: AXIOM STRATEGIES. That is our join, not the state’s, and its size is 2 spellings of the payee name, merged by us.
- The key
- payee name as filed, upper-cased, punctuation and corporate suffixes (LLC, Inc, Co…) stripped — a normalised string, not an identifier the PDC issues
- Spellings merged
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- Axiom Strategies
- AXIOM STRATEGIES
- What a wrong merge looks like
- Two different firms whose names differ only in a suffix or punctuation would be one row here, and their totals would be added. Two spellings of one firm that differ in a word would be two rows, and this page would be short a spelling. Both errors are ours; neither is in the filings. Corrections are taken at the address in the cite block.
- Why this is not a graph node
- The entity graph’s vendor nodes are one per disclosed identity and are never merged by name. This profile is the opposite decision, made for reading, and it is kept out of the graph so a merge of ours never becomes an edge.
Source Payee names as filed in PDC expenditure reports, normalised by build-vendors.js · as of 2026-09-05 · n 2 spellings over 74 payer-year rows · tier composite — joined by us on the key above
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What this page will not compute
A firm page is where a reader expects a verdict about the firm. Each of these would be one, and none follows from payee rows on a form.
- No finding of coordination.
- Overlap is lawful. A candidate and an independent-expenditure committee hiring the same firm is two contracts, and the twelve-month window in section 03 is a presumption the law lets either party rebut. The table lists the coincidence and stops.
- No share of a race.
- What fraction of a race’s spending went through this firm would need every committee’s every payment, resolved to the same merge. We do not have that, and a share computed from part of it would be wrong with confidence.
- No “network”.
- Clients who share a vendor are not connected to each other by that fact. A diagram of them would draw relationships the filings do not record.
- No company facts.
- This page describes payments to spellings of a name. It does not say what the firm is, who owns it, or what it did for the money; the expenditure description field is not reliable enough to summarise.
- No connected-records section.
- A merged profile is not a node in the entity graph and draws no edges. The graph’s vendor nodes are one per disclosed identity; this page is deliberately not one of them.
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“Axiom Strategies — Washington political firm profile,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-09-05, accessed 2026-09-19. https://washingtonindependents.org/firms/axiom-strategies/
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Where this page comes from
Every figure above is read from a primary source and rebuilt on a schedule. Nothing here is modelled or inferred; where a source is silent the page says so rather than filling the gap.
- Why this firm has a page
- Appears in the same-race overlap layer. Profiles exist for the firms in the independent-expenditures and coordination analysis, not for every payee; a listing is a description of disclosed payments.
- Identity
- payee name as filed, upper-cased, punctuation and corporate suffixes (LLC, Inc, Co…) stripped — a normalised string, not an identifier the PDC issues This profile merges 2 spellings of the payee name, merged by us; section 04 lists them.
- Payments
- PDC expenditure filings (tijg-9zyp), election years 2021–2026, summed per paying committee. Amounts as filed; subvendor pass-throughs appear under the reported payee.
- Overlaps
- the same-race overlap layer over the expenditure and independent-expenditure filings (67cp-h962), as of 2026-09-01. Gap in days is from the last candidate payment to the first independent expenditure; the window is WAC 390-05-210’s twelve months. A shared officer is named only where both committees’ registrations were read.
- Retrieved
- expenditures 2026-09-05 · independent expenditures 2026-09-05, from data.wa.gov, per the import log.