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.

Committees that reported paying Axiom Strategies, by disclosed total
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.

  1. 2021

    local cycle

    $32,888
  2. 2022

    state and federal cycle

    $814,710
  3. 2023

    local cycle

    $51,208
  4. 2024

    state and federal cycle

    $927,102
  5. 2025

    local cycle

    $83,402
  6. 2026

    state and federal cycle

    $8,435

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

03

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.

Races in which a candidate committee and an independent-expenditure committee both paid this firm
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) $7,502 Sound Jobs $81,280 2 yes none — both registrations read
2024 STATE REPRESENTATIVE / LEG DISTRICT 26 – HOUSE Jesse L. Young $2,500 South Sound Future $5,781 no none — both registrations read
2024 STATE REPRESENTATIVE / LEG DISTRICT 26 – HOUSE Jesse L. Young $2,500 Pierce County Republican Party Exempt $2,700 no none — both registrations read
2021 CITY COUNCIL MEMBER / CITY OF MARYSVILLE Mark A. James (MARK A. JAMES) $2,257 FORGE WASHINGTON $13,316 8 yes JASON MICHAUD on both registrations

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
  • Axiom Strategies 66 payer-year rows
  • AXIOM STRATEGIES 8 payer-year rows
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.