Political firm · composite — 3 spellings of the payee name, merged by us

Prologue Digital

Disclosed payments to 3 filed spellings of this payee name total $1,412,435 from 67 candidate committees and 13 political committees, 2021–2026. In 3 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.

$1,412,435

disclosed payments

to 3 spellings of the payee name, merged by us · as filed, 2021–2026

80

paying committees

67 candidate, 13 political

3

same-race overlaps

lawful; each listed in section 03 with its gap in days

3

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 3 spellings of the payee name, merged by us; where a committee has a page here, its name links to it.

Committees that reported paying Prologue Digital, by disclosed total
Paid by Kind Cycles Disclosed payments
Jesse L. Young — STATE SENATOR, LEG DISTRICT 26 – SENATE candidate committee 2022 $294,941
Chad L. Magendanz (Chad Magendanz) — STATE SENATOR, LEG DISTRICT 05 – SENATE candidate committee 2025 $122,397
Michelle Valdez (Michelle Caldier) — STATE SENATOR, LEG DISTRICT 26 – SENATE candidate committee 2025 $120,940
Jesse L. Young — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 26 – HOUSE candidate committee 2024 $108,143
Misipati Semi Bird (Semi Bird) — GOVERNOR, State of Washington candidate committee 2024 $61,736
David Wayne Olson (David Olson) — SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, State of Washington candidate committee 2024 $43,701
David A. Larson (Dave Larson) — STATE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT candidate committee 2026 $33,263
Rachel M. Cole Harter (Rachel Harter) — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 26 – HOUSE candidate committee 2024 $30,989
Philip D Fortunato (Phil Fortunato) — INSURANCE COMMISSIONER, State of Washington candidate committee 2024 $30,358
David Wayne Olson (David Olson) — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 26 – HOUSE candidate committee 2026 $27,717
James W. Wilson III (Jim) — STATE SENATOR, LEG DISTRICT 03 – SENATE candidate committee 2024 $27,256
Chad L. Magendanz (Chad Magendanz) — STATE SENATOR, LEG DISTRICT 05 – SENATE candidate committee 2024 $25,664
Bernard Moody — STATE SENATOR, LEG DISTRICT 38 – SENATE candidate committee 2022 $22,019
Tamborine M. Borrelli (Tamborine Borrelli) — SECRETARY OF STATE, State of Washington candidate committee 2022 $19,112
Cascade Political Action Committee (Cascade PAC) political committee 2023 $18,635
Patrick Richard Peacock (Patrick Peacock) — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 05 – HOUSE candidate committee 2024 $18,503
Andrew Van Winkle (Andrew B. Van Winkle) — SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE, SPOKANE CO SUPERIOR COURT candidate committee 2024 $16,360
Bob Hagglund — COUNTY EXECUTIVE, SNOHOMISH CO candidate committee 2023 $16,104
Natalie Poulson — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 03 – HOUSE candidate committee 2022 $15,132
Bob McCaslin — COUNTY AUDITOR, SPOKANE CO candidate committee 2022 $14,942
James H. Alberson, Jr. (James Alberson) — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF RENTON candidate committee 2025 $14,576
Richard S. Kuss (Rick Kuss) — COUNTY SHERIFF, KITSAP CO candidate committee 2022 $14,560
Kristina Soltys — STATE SENATOR, LEG DISTRICT 47 – SENATE candidate committee 2026 $13,925
WASHINGTON STATE COUNCIL OF POLICE POLITICAL SUPPORT political committee 2022 $12,933
Alliance for Civic Involvement PAC (ACI-PAC) political committee 2023 $12,720
Harneet Grewal (Neet Grewal) — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF KENT candidate committee 2025 $12,563
Vivian K. Eason (Vivian Eason) — COUNTY COMMISSIONER, THURSTON CO candidate committee 2022 $11,532
Brett Johnson — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 29 – HOUSE candidate committee 2022 $10,003
Jessica Yaeger — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF SPOKANE VALLEY candidate committee 2023 $10,000
David Wayne Olson (David Olson) — SCHOOL DIRECTOR, PENINSULA SD 401 candidate committee 2025 $9,731
Linda Ader — SCHOOL DIRECTOR, PENINSULA SD 401 candidate committee 2021 $9,554
Pierce County Republican Party Non-Exempt political committee 2022 $9,312
Sharon Hanek — STATE TREASURER, State of Washington candidate committee 2024 $9,028
Chad L. Magendanz (Chad Magendanz) — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 05 – HOUSE candidate committee 2022 $9,000
Cobi Clark — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 47 – HOUSE candidate committee 2026 $7,421
Dave Bryant (Dave Hermosillo Bryant) — PORT COMMISSIONER, PORT OF TACOMA candidate committee 2023 $7,197
David Wayne Olson (David Olson) — SCHOOL DIRECTOR, PENINSULA SD 401 candidate committee 2021 $6,990
Terry Wise — COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBER, PIERCE CO candidate committee 2025 $6,940
Jaskaran Singh Sarao — STATE SENATOR, LEG DISTRICT 41 – SENATE candidate committee 2024 $6,925
DARNELL LINDA (MICHELLE) (Michelle Darnell) — STATE SENATOR, LEG DISTRICT 48 – SENATE candidate committee 2022 $6,580
Matthew C. Hawkins (Matt Hawkins) — STATE AUDITOR, State of Washington candidate committee 2024 $6,390
WA ST REPUB PARTY NON EXEMPT political committee 2024 $6,300
Keith R. Swank (Keith Swank) — COUNTY SHERIFF, PIERCE CO candidate committee 2024 $6,130
SAVAGE CHRISTOPHER M (Christopher M Savage) — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF SPOKANE candidate committee 2025 $6,000
MCCUNE JAMES G (Jim McCune) — STATE SENATOR, LEG DISTRICT 02 – SENATE candidate committee 2024 $6,000
Jessica Johnston — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF TACOMA candidate committee 2025 $5,800
WA Freedom PAC political committee 2022 $5,500
47TH DISTRICT REPUBLICANS (47th District GOP) political committee 2026 $5,500
Janet Jean Large (Janet Large) — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 27 – HOUSE candidate committee 2022 $5,252
Robert J. Sutherland — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 39 – HOUSE candidate committee 2024 $5,200
Cynthia M. Carter (Cindy Carter) — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 40 – HOUSE candidate committee 2026 $5,200
Sherri Larkin — STATE SENATOR, LEG DISTRICT 44 – SENATE candidate committee 2026 $5,100
Richard S. Kuss (Rick Kuss) — COUNTY SHERIFF, KITSAP CO candidate committee 2026 $5,000
Brandon Beynon — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 31 – HOUSE candidate committee 2022 $4,720
Kyle Meyers — SCHOOL DIRECTOR, TAHOMA SD 409 candidate committee 2021 $4,528
Paige A Jarquin (Paige Jarquin) — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 23 – HOUSE candidate committee 2022 $4,194
Janell E. Hulst (Janell Hulst) — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 23 – HOUSE candidate committee 2022 $4,194
Marnie D Claywell (Marnie Claywell) — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 38 – HOUSE candidate committee 2024 $4,100
KNOWLES BARRY D (Barry Knowles) — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 47 – HOUSE candidate committee 2022 $4,020
SEATTLE POLICE OFFICERS GUILD POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (SPOG PAC) political committee 2022 $3,933

Showing 60 of 80 paying committees; the 20 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 3 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

    $21,372
  2. 2022

    state and federal cycle

    $478,563
  3. 2023

    local cycle

    $69,756
  4. 2024

    state and federal cycle

    $431,371
  5. 2025

    local cycle

    $299,948
  6. 2026

    state and federal cycle

    $111,426

Source Public Disclosure Commission expenditure filings (tijg-9zyp), election_year as filed · as of 2026-09-05 · scale $478,563 = 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
2022 STATE SENATOR / LEG DISTRICT 26 – SENATE Jesse L. Young $294,941 WASHINGTON STATE COUNCIL OF POLICE POLITICAL SUPPORT $12,933 0 yes none — both registrations read
2022 STATE SENATOR / LEG DISTRICT 38 – SENATE Bernard Moody $22,019 WA Freedom PAC $5,500 0 yes none — both registrations read
2022 STATE SENATOR / LEG DISTRICT 26 – SENATE Jesse L. Young $294,941 WA Freedom PAC $5,500 1 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 3 · n 3 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: PROLOGUE DIGITAL. That is our join, not the state’s, and its size is 3 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
  • Prologue Digital 77 payer-year rows
  • Prologue Digital, Inc. 3 payer-year rows
  • PROLOGUE DIGITAL LLC 1 payer-year row
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 3 spellings over 81 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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“Prologue Digital — Washington political firm profile,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-09-05, accessed 2026-09-20. https://washingtonindependents.org/firms/prologue-digital/

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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 3 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.