David Flippo

David Flippo's public record is a military career, a second career in finance and small business, and three Republican primaries in five years, the third of them won in June 2026 with President Trump's endorsement in a district he had moved to that winter. ^[4][9][27]

The Nevada Independent and the Reno Gazette Journal put his age at 63 in May 2026. The biographical information he submitted to Ballotpedia in an August 2023 survey gives a birthplace of Maryland and a diploma from Christiansburg High School; he told voters in Zephyr Cove that he grew up in a military family, lived on a farm in rural Virginia in high school and met his wife, Dawn, there. The campaign biography describes him as a Christian, a husband of 42 years, a father and a grandfather. ^{[1][9][27][39]}

Education and professional preparation

He holds a bachelor's degree from Montana State University in Bozeman and a master's in public administration from Valdosta State University in Georgia, according to The Nevada Independent; the Reno Gazette Journal's candidate guide lists the bachelor's degree as in political science. Degree years were not part of this review. By his own account he entered the Air Force in 1985 as an electronic warfare technician, was later commissioned, served as a maintenance and logistics officer for 24 years and retired as a lieutenant colonel; NOTUS puts the end of his service in 2009 and its length at more than 25 years; his own count is 24. ^{[1][9][27][39][42]}

After the Air Force he spent a decade in the oil industry, developing a maintenance program for BP's Alaska North Slope operations, according to The Nevada Independent and NOTUS, and moved to Nevada about ten years ago. FINRA's BrokerCheck registry shows him passing the securities industry examinations in 2019 and registering with First Command's brokerage and advisory arms in Las Vegas that year; since March 2025 he has been registered through LPL Enterprise. He owns Strategic Foundations LLC, through which he works as an independent broker and investment adviser, and one franchised HobbyTown store, and leads a food-aid nonprofit, OSJ Food Aid USA, which appears in the Internal Revenue Service's exempt-organization data with a Las Vegas address. ^{[1][8][9][10][42][44]}

His first campaign on record was a 2022 Republican primary for Assembly District 37 in Clark County, where he finished third with 1,696 votes. He filed a statement of candidacy for the 4th Congressional District with the Federal Election Commission on January 6, 2023, and in the June 11, 2024 Republican primary finished second with 15,678 votes, 45.3 percent, to former North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee. He filed for the 4th District again on May 19, 2025 and was campaigning there when Representative Mark Amodei announced his retirement on February 6, 2026; by early March he had moved to Reno and entered the 2nd District race, and the amended statement of candidacy he filed on April 15, 2026 gives a Reno address. On June 9, 2026 he won the Republican primary with 38,174 votes, 46.88 percent, in a field of thirteen, and faces the Democratic nominee, former Assembly Majority Leader Teresa Benitez-Thompson, and Independent American Party candidate Lynn Chapman on November 3. ^{[4][7][10][11][17][19][21][23][27][36][37][38][41]}

From an enlisted airman to a nominee for Congress, the documented milestones show what the record contains and what it does not.

A regulatory registry, the Secretary of State's official results and Federal Election Commission filings establish the following. Flippo has never held public office, so there are no votes or bills; the professional and military record rests largely on his own statements, and it is described at the level the documents support.

The campaign biography describes him as “a Christian, Husband of 42 years, Father, Grandfather, Conservative Republican, and battle-tested American Patriot.” The Nevada Independent identifies his wife as Dawn, whom he met in high school in rural Virginia, and reports two sons, one of whom manages the day-to-day operations of his hobby store; the Reno Gazette Journal's guide lists him as married with two adult children, and his 2023 survey answers mentioned six grandchildren. The couple moved from Las Vegas to Reno in early 2026 and, he has said, are renting while they look for a permanent home in Northern Nevada. ^{[1][9][27][39]}

Community roles as he states them: membership in the Knights Hospitaller, the Order of Saint John, and leadership of OSJ Food Aid USA, a nonprofit formed in 2025 through which he says he shipped food to Israel after the attacks of October 2023 and to Libya after its dam failures; the campaign lists him as Nevada state director for Turning Point Farmers and Ranchers. His 2024-cycle Ballotpedia entry adds affiliations he reported then, including the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition advisory board, the Southern Nevada Veterans Chamber of Commerce, the board of Curl Vegas, the VFW, the NRA and GOA. None of these was independently documented for this review. ^[2][9][27]

The campaign biography states that he is a Christian and names no denomination; the biographical information he submitted to Ballotpedia in 2023 lists his religion as Protestant. This profile records those statements and makes no claim beyond them. ^[1][27]

The following summarizes the agenda on Flippo's campaign website and his written answers to The Nevada Independent's candidate questionnaire. These are proposed priorities from a candidate who has never cast a legislative vote, not completed accomplishments. ^[2][18]

A useful profile includes the questions a first-time nominee has been asked, the limits of a claim, and responses to material criticism.

• The move from Las Vegas, the switch of districts and a complaint about rent

  Flippo lived in Las Vegas, where his brokerage branch is registered, ran for the Assembly there in 2022 and for the 4th District in 2024, and was running for the 4th District again when Amodei retired. KRNV reported on March 4, 2026 that he had switched to the 2nd District one week after sending out campaign materials for the other race and had not publicly explained the decision; in May he told the station he had switched on learning of Amodei's retirement and of the need for a strong conservative candidate. His amended statement of candidacy of April 15, 2026 gives a Reno address. He told The Nevada Independent he moved to Reno around February and is renting while he and his wife look for a permanent home, and answered the carpetbagger charge directly: “I've made Nevada my home. I've lived here longer than anywhere else, other than maybe the Middle East, and I've lived here over a decade.” The Settelmeyer campaign's reply was that voters deserved a representative who had not “only moved here when a political opportunity opened up.” The residency question also produced a complaint to the Federal Election Commission. KRNV reported on May 5, 2026 that Jesse Watts, a rival in the primary, had accused Flippo of paying rent on his personal home with campaign funds; the station reported that FEC records showed three March payments to Blue Sierra Realty totaling $10,686 for rent and that the same company had listed for rent the Reno house Flippo had called his home. The campaign showed the station lease agreements for a separate property in Spanish Springs, which Flippo described as a campaign headquarters and a staffer as temporary staff housing, and Flippo said, “No, my home is not being paid for by my campaign.” NOTUS reported in August that the commission lacked enough commissioners to act on complaints and was all but certain not to consider this one before the election; no finding was on record for this review. ^{[8][9][11][12][17][27][38][42][43]}

• The financial disclosure that is not on file

  Under the Ethics in Government Act, as summarized in the complaint described below, a House candidate must file a personal financial disclosure with the Clerk within 30 days of becoming a candidate or by May 15 of that year, whichever is later, and in any case 30 days before any election, including a primary, in which he is a candidate. The Clerk's published indexes of filings for the 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 filing years, read for this review on September 17, 2026, list candidate reports for John Lee in the 4th District race and for Teresa Benitez-Thompson, James Settelmeyer and other 2nd District candidates, and no report or extension request by Flippo in any of the four years. The Nevada Independent reported the same absence on September 13, 2026, and KOLO reported that every other qualified 2nd District candidate had filed. Susan Fisher, a retired lobbyist and registered Republican who is among the hosts of a September 25 fundraiser for Benitez-Thompson, mailed a request for an investigation to the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section on September 8, 2026. NOTUS had reported on August 14, 2026 that there was no record of a filing or an extension request for either campaign, and quoted the campaign's treasurer, Thomas Datwyler: “Mr. Flippo is in the process of closing one of his businesses to focus on serving the people of Northern Nevada, while he moves his other businesses, investments, and landholdings into a blind trust.” The campaign told KOLO on September 9 that the department does not take such complaints and that Flippo has filed an extension. No filing or extension request was available to read for this profile, and that absence is why the Ledger says nothing about his finances beyond the campaign's own reports. ^{[19][20][32][33][34][35][42]}

• The separation from First Command

  BrokerCheck records that First Command Brokerage Services discharged him in November 2024 with the allegation that he “violated numerous company policies and regulatory regulations related to electronic communications, books and records and customer identification. No client harm was involved.” Attacks during the primary described this as a firing for exposing client information. His response to The Nevada Independent: “In the finance industry, when you're terminated, it gets filed,” and “They found nothing to discipline me for. I wasn't fined for anything. I didn't lose any licenses. I currently work for the largest independent brokerage firm in the nation.” The registry shows no fine, suspension or bar, and an active registration with LPL Enterprise since March 2025; it also shows the disclosure remains on his record. His consultant told NOTUS in August that “Brokers and brokerages part ways all the time” and that his licenses were in good standing. ^[8][10][42]

• The primary campaign against Settelmeyer, and Amodei's refusal to endorse

  The Nevada Independent's account of the primary describes advertising, much of it in the Reno media market, that turned Settelmeyer's 2013 vote for driver authorization cards, which nearly every Republican in the state Senate supported, into a vote to give undocumented immigrants driver's licenses; a vote to stock school bathrooms with menstrual products, which every Republican state senator supported, into a vote about boys' bathrooms; and, online and in super PAC ads, decades-old domestic-violence charges of which Settelmeyer had been cleared. Settelmeyer said the campaign against him was negative from the start; Flippo's consultant said the team took nothing for granted. The characterizations are the newspaper's; the votes are in the Legislature's record. The retiring congressman, who had endorsed Settelmeyer, called Trump's endorsement of Flippo a mistake on May 29 and, two days after the primary, said “There needs to be some more team player credentials flashed out there.” In August the program page for his Nevada Newsmakers interview summarized his position in his words, “I am not endorsing Mr. Flippo.” The Nevada Independent and NOTUS reported from that interview that he called Flippo “not my cup of tea,” said there was “no way” he would endorse him and added, “You pull out of CD-4 72 hours after I say I'm not coming back.” He told The Nevada Independent: “Two cycles ago, I got a guy who couldn't get out of a Republican Assembly primary in Clark County,” and called texts from the campaign about transferring casework before the election presumptuous. Flippo's answer was that he had called and texted the congressman personally: “We're looking to have a clean handoff that's friendly and cordial.” His consultant, Rory McShane, called Amodei's stance “the definition of petty.” Amodei has said he will not endorse the Democrat either and has noted that a third candidate is on the ballot. Other Settelmeyer supporters took a different course: Senate Minority Leader Robin Titus, who said of the primary, “There were personal attacks. For me, that's not OK,” joined the campaign as its Western Area chair within three weeks, as did P.K. O'Neill and Greg Koenig as county chairs. ^{[9][10][13][15][17][19][40][42]}

• Self-funding, the debt and the outside money

  Of the $2,275,392 his committees reported raising through June 30, 2026, $1,645,000 was lent by the candidate, and the campaign closed the period owing $1,614,965 against $117,883 in cash. He has defended the approach: “I am primarily funding my own campaign because I will not be beholden to anyone but the people.” The Nevada Independent reported in May 2026 that a super PAC, Conservatives for American Excellence, spent on mail, texts and television against him and for Settelmeyer, and that American Honor PAC and the Freedom Caucus Fund, which had endorsed him in April, spent in his support; Flippo's text to voters about the ads called Citadel's Ken Griffin, a donor to the group, “a Never-Trump Chicago Billionaire.” Inside Elections' deputy editor told the paper in September that there was no clarity on whether he could self-fund the general election as he had the primary. ^{[5][10][19][24][28][29]}

• A safe seat, rated less safe

  When Amodei announced his retirement in February 2026, The Nevada Independent counted the district's registered voters as 196,000 Republicans, 122,000 Democrats and 156,000 nonpartisans, and noted that he had won every general election there by at least 15 points; a Democrat has never won the seat, and the Cook Political Report's partisan index for it is R+7. Cook's race rating was Solid Republican when the Reno Gazette Journal cited it in May and when NOTUS did in August. By September the paper put the Republican registration edge at nearly 71,000, and Trump carried the district by 14 points in 2024. In August 2026 Inside Elections moved its rating from Solid to Likely Republican, citing the national environment, Amodei's stance and limited polling, while its deputy editor said, “This isn't a coin flip.” A GBAO poll of 500 likely voters for the Nevada Alliance, a group aligned with Democrats, taken August 31 to September 3, showed Benitez-Thompson 38 percent, Flippo 37 and Chapman 14, with a generic Republican ahead 48 to 42 in the same survey; the DCCC added the seat to its Districts in Play list in August. Endorsements from Governor Lombardo, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Club for Growth PAC, the police associations and the groups on the campaign's news page establish political support; they are not evaluations of the record above. ^{[16][19][22][23][25][26][30][39][42]}

Government and regulatory records anchor the profile: the Secretary of State's official primary results, the Federal Election Commission's filings and statements of candidacy, the Clerk of the House's disclosure indexes and FINRA's registration record. Campaign materials establish the candidate's own account and priorities; original reporting supplies scrutiny and responses; advocacy endorsements are labeled as such rather than as government records.

1. 01
   About | Lt. Col. David Flippo (campaign biography) (Internet Archive copy, captured 2026)David Flippo for Nevada (campaign; Internet Archive copy) · Accessed September 17, 2026
   Campaign biography: Christian, husband of 42 years, father and grandfather; Air Force commands, Iraq, Eielson; BP North Slope; the quoted mission sentence. Self-descriptions.Campaign or advocacy material
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   Issues | Lt. Col. David Flippo (Internet Archive copy, captured 2026)David Flippo for Nevada (campaign; Internet Archive copy) · Accessed September 17, 2026
   The eight campaign planks quoted in this profile, the Turning Point Farmers and Ranchers role and the police endorsements as listed. Proposals, not record.Campaign or advocacy material
3. 03
   Lt. Col. David Flippo | Endorsed By President Donald J. Trump (home page) (Internet Archive copy, captured 2026)David Flippo for Nevada (campaign; Internet Archive copy) · Accessed September 17, 2026
   The campaign's linked X, Facebook, Instagram and Truth Social accounts, contact address and e-mail, and its list of law-enforcement endorsements.Campaign or advocacy material
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   2026 Official Statewide Primary Election Results, June 9, 2026 (Internet Archive copy, captured Sep 17, 2026)Nevada Secretary of State (nvsos.gov; Internet Archive copy captured September 17, 2026) · June 9, 2026
   U.S. Representative in Congress, District 2 (Republican): Flippo 38,174 (46.88%), Settelmeyer 28,131, Forbush 3,337, Smith 2,762 and nine others, 81,424 votes, with county breakdowns; Democratic primary: Benitez-Thompson 23,706 (45.56%) of 52,031. The Secretary of State's results sites refuse automated requests; the page was read from the archive.Government record
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   FLIPPO, DAVID — Candidate overview, 2025–2026Federal Election Commission · Accessed September 17, 2026
   Receipts $2,275,392.31, individual contributions $520,499.51, candidate loans $1,645,000, disbursements $2,172,225.33, cash on hand $117,882.89, debts $1,614,965.19, coverage through June 30, 2026; statement of candidacy filed April 15, 2026; the two authorized committees.Government record
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   FLIPPO, DAVID — Candidate overview, 2023–2024Federal Election Commission · Accessed September 17, 2026
   The 4th District campaign: receipts $1,013,563.56, candidate contributions $699,424, candidate loans $85,500, disbursements $1,009,402.35, coverage December 27, 2022 to December 31, 2024.Government record
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   Candidate master file, 2025–2026 election cycle (cn26.zip)Federal Election Commission (bulk data) · Accessed September 17, 2026
   Lists the 2026 candidates for Nevada's 2nd District: Flippo (Republican), Teresa Benitez-Thompson (Democratic) and Lynn Chapman (Independent American Party), with committee identifiers.Government record
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   BrokerCheck record for David Alton Flippo (CRD 7051683)FINRA (BrokerCheck API) · Accessed September 17, 2026
   Examinations of 2019; registrations with First Command (2019–2024) and LPL Enterprise (from March 27, 2025); state registrations; the November 2024 employment separation after allegations and its wording. Read through FINRA's public API; the BrokerCheck page shows the same record.Professional or biographical source
9. 09
   Who is David Flippo, the Nevada congressional candidate Trump just endorsed?The Nevada Independent (Mini Racker) · May 29, 2026
   Trump's endorsement in his own words; Amodei's “made a mistake” statement; Flippo's age, businesses, degrees, service, family, the move to Reno and his answer to the carpetbagger charge.Independent reporting
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    Meet the 13 Republicans running in Nevada's 2nd Congressional DistrictThe Nevada Independent (Mini Racker) · May 28, 2026
    Flippo's 2024 result, businesses and nonprofit; his response to the First Command separation; the driver-authorization-card attacks on Settelmeyer; his wish list of committees.Independent reporting
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    Republican David Flippo switches to Nevada's 2nd congressional district raceKRNV News 4 (Kenzie Margiott) · March 4, 2026
    The switch from the 4th District one week after sending campaign materials for that race; no public explanation at the time.Independent reporting
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    2nd Congressional District GOP primary: 13 vying to represent northern Nevada in CongressKRNV News 4 / KRXI Fox 11 · May 11, 2026
    Flippo's self-description as a Trump Republican, his reason for switching districts and his housing-and-immigration argument, quoted.Independent reporting
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    Is David Flippo's primary win the death blow for Old Nevada politics?The Nevada Independent (Mini Racker) · June 15, 2026
    How the primary was won: self-funding, the ground operation's own figures, the attack advertising, the Trump endorsement; Amodei's and Settelmeyer's reactions.Independent reporting
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    Trump-backed David Flippo wins Nevada Republican primary for U.S. House seatAssociated Press, via PBS News · June 10, 2026
    The Associated Press call of the race on June 10; Lombardo's and Amodei's support for Settelmeyer; the general-election matchup.Independent reporting
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    No Nevada GOP civil war: Former Settelmeyer backers line up behind Flippo (Indy Elections)The Nevada Independent (Mini Racker and others) · June 30, 2026
    Senate Minority Leader Robin Titus, P.K. O'Neill and Greg Koenig joining the campaign; Lombardo and Amodei not yet endorsing at that date.Independent reporting
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    Lombardo endorses Flippo in bid to replace AmodeiKOLO 8 News Now · July 27, 2026
    Governor Lombardo's endorsement statement, including federal land for attainable housing.Independent reporting
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    Amodei still refuses to back Flippo as rift between the two Republicans growsThe Nevada Independent (Mini Racker) · August 7, 2026
    Amodei's Nevada Newsmakers remarks and interview; the 2022 Assembly and 2024 primaries in his words; Flippo's and McShane's responses; the DCCC listing.Independent reporting
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    Where do the candidates in Northern Nevada's 2nd Congressional District stand on the issues?The Nevada Independent (Mini Racker) · September 1, 2026
    Flippo's written answers on the SAVE America Act, deportation, tariffs, Iran, Israel, ACA subsidies, Medicaid work requirements, Social Security, taxes and the lands bills, quoted.Independent reporting
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    Does Teresa Benitez-Thompson stand a chance in deep red Northern Nevada?The Nevada Independent (Mini Racker) · September 13, 2026
    The GBAO poll and its caveats; Inside Elections' rating change; registration and 2024 margins; the missing financial disclosure and the campaign's blind-trust explanation; Amodei's non-endorsement; the DCCC listing.Independent reporting
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    Reno voter requests investigation into Congressional Candidate David FlippoKOLO 8 News Now · September 9, 2026
    Susan Fisher's request to the Justice Department, reproduced in full with its FEC citations; the campaign's reply of September 9 that an extension was filed. Published the evening of September 9, 2026.Independent reporting
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    Amodei Announces Retirement (press release)Office of Rep. Mark Amodei, U.S. House of Representatives · February 6, 2026
    The congressman's statement that after 15 years he would finish his term and “pass the torch.”Government record
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    Mark Amodei will retire at the end of his termThe Nevada Independent (Mini Racker) · February 6, 2026
    The retirement announcement, the district's registration figures and the early field.Independent reporting
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    Former Dem Assembly leader Teresa Benitez-Thompson to run for CongressThe Nevada Independent (Mini Racker) · February 17, 2026
    The Democratic nominee's background: Assembly 2010–2022, majority leader, chief of staff to Attorney General Ford, social worker; the Cook R+7 rating.Independent reporting
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    Freedom Caucus Fund Endorses David Flippo for NV-02Freedom Caucus Fund · April 7, 2026
    The endorsement for the June 9 primary in the group's words; the page is dated April 7, 2026.Independent analysis or rating
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    David Flippo (NV-02) — PAC-endorsed candidate pageClub for Growth PAC · Endorsed June 1, 2026; accessed September 17, 2026
    Endorsement date; the PAC's description of his positions; Amodei's lifetime rating of 64 percent; the district's 2024 presidential margin as the PAC states it.Independent analysis or rating
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    U.S. Chamber Endorses Candidate David Flippo for Nevada's Second DistrictU.S. Chamber of Commerce · September 8, 2026
    The Chamber's endorsement statement.Independent analysis or rating
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    David Flippo (Internet Archive capture of November 5, 2024) (Internet Archive copy, captured Nov 5, 2024)Ballotpedia (Internet Archive copy) · Captured November 5, 2024
    Biographical fields the candidate submitted through Ballotpedia's survey on August 28, 2023 (Maryland, Christiansburg High School, Protestant, affiliations), per the page's footnote; certified results of the 2022 Assembly District 37 and 2024 4th District Republican primaries; his 2023 Candidate Connection survey. Ballotpedia refuses automated requests; the 2024 capture is the last available and predates the 2026 campaign.Independent analysis or rating
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    Want to run for Congress in Nevada? It pays to be rich.The Nevada Independent (Mini Racker) · May 3, 2026
    Self-funding across Nevada's 2026 House races; Flippo's statement that he funds his own campaign so as not to be beholden.Independent reporting
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    Who's behind super PAC spending in Nevada's most competitive congressional race? (Indy Elections)The Nevada Independent (Mini Racker and others) · May 26, 2026
    Conservatives for American Excellence's spending against Flippo and for Settelmeyer; American Honor PAC's spending for Flippo; Flippo's text to voters about the ads.Independent reporting
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    News | Lt. Col. David Flippo (campaign news page) (Internet Archive copy, captured 2026)David Flippo for Nevada (campaign; Internet Archive copy) · Accessed September 17, 2026
    The campaign's own chronology of endorsements, including its September 1, 2026 post on Governor Lombardo, the Nevada Builders Alliance (August 18) and the Guardian Fund (July 30).Campaign or advocacy material
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    File:David Flippo.png — image informationWikimedia Commons (API) · Uploaded June 9, 2026; accessed September 17, 2026
    The portrait's licence record: described as a military picture of Lt. Col. David Flippo, attributed to the U.S. Department of Defense and tagged public domain; the uploader's stated source is a Facebook photograph.Professional or biographical source
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    Financial Disclosure Reports — filing index, 2023 (2023FD.zip)Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives · Index dated September 16, 2026; accessed September 17, 2026
    The Clerk's index of 2023-year disclosure filings, a zip archive holding a tab-separated list: John Lee's candidate report for the 4th District (December 13, 2023) is listed; no entry for Flippo.Government record
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    Financial Disclosure Reports — filing index, 2024 (2024FD.zip)Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives · Index dated September 16, 2026; accessed September 17, 2026
    The 2024-year index, a zip archive holding a tab-separated list: John Lee's candidate report of May 15, 2024 for the 4th District is listed; no report or extension for Flippo.Government record
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    Financial Disclosure Reports — filing index, 2025 (2025FD.zip)Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives · Index dated September 16, 2026; accessed September 17, 2026
    The 2025-year index, a zip archive holding a tab-separated list of filings: a candidate report for Matthew Fonken (December 18, 2025) and an entry for Kathy Durham in the 2nd District, and candidate reports and extension requests for 4th District candidates, are listed; no entry for Flippo.Government record
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    Financial Disclosure Reports — filing index, 2026 (2026FD.zip)Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives · Index dated September 16, 2026; accessed September 17, 2026
    The 2026-year index, a zip archive holding a tab-separated list: candidate reports for Teresa Benitez-Thompson (May 10), James Settelmeyer (June 17), Kathy Durham, Matthew Fonken and Robert Kidd in the 2nd District are listed; no report or extension for Flippo.Government record
36. 36
    FEC Form 2, Statement of Candidacy — David Flippo, Nevada District 04 (filed January 6, 2023)Federal Election Commission (docquery) · January 6, 2023
    The original statement of candidacy for the 2024 election: House, Nevada District 04, Republican; Las Vegas address; David Flippo for Nevada designated as principal committee.Government record
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    FEC Form 2, Amended Statement of Candidacy — David Flippo, Nevada District 04 (filed May 19, 2025)Federal Election Commission (docquery) · May 19, 2025
    The 2026-cycle filing for the 4th District, with a Las Vegas address, before the switch of districts.Government record
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    FEC Form 2, Amended Statement of Candidacy — David Flippo, Nevada District 02 (filed April 15, 2026)Federal Election Commission (docquery) · April 15, 2026
    The amendment naming Nevada District 02 for the 2026 election, with a Reno address for the candidate and the Las Vegas committee address unchanged.Government record
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    Q&A with Republicans running for Nevada's CD2 US House seatReno Gazette Journal (Mark Robison) · May 14, 2026 (updated May 29, 2026)
    The paper's candidate guide: Flippo's age (63), Reno residence, a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's in public administration, business owner, prior runs for Congress and the Assembly, married with two adult children; first-quarter 2026 receipts of $1.7 million with a $1.2 million loan; the Cook Political Report's Solid Republican rating; his answers on immigration enforcement and public lands.Independent reporting
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    Nevada Newsmakers, Wednesday, August 5, 2026 (guest: Rep. Mark Amodei)Nevada Newsmakers (Sam Shad Productions) · August 5, 2026
    The program page for the interview in which Amodei said he would not endorse Flippo; the page states, in his words, that he is not endorsing Mr. Flippo and notes that he would decide closer to early voting whether to support another candidate.Independent reporting
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    FEC Form 1, Amended Statement of Organization — Committee to Elect David Flippo (C00830471), filed June 1, 2023Federal Election Commission (docquery) · June 1, 2023
    The amendment that renamed the 2023 principal campaign committee, originally registered as David Flippo for Nevada, as the Committee to Elect David Flippo; the box for a changed name is marked and the committee remains his principal campaign committee for the 2024 election.Government record
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    David Flippo May Soon Join Congress. He Appears to Have Already Violated a Financial Law.NOTUS (Jenna Monnin; the page now redirects to The Washington Sun) · August 14, 2026
    No personal financial disclosure or extension on record for the 2024 or 2026 campaigns; the campaign treasurer's blind-trust statement; the Watts complaint to the FEC over rent payments and the campaign's leases and denial; the First Command separation and the consultant's response; Amodei's Nevada Newsmakers remarks; the outlet's summary of his service ending in 2009 and a decade at BP.Independent reporting
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    Complaint alleges Nevada House candidate David Flippo rents house with campaign moneyKRNV News 4 / KRXI Fox 11 (Ben Margiott) · May 5, 2026
    Jesse Watts's FEC complaint; the three March payments to Blue Sierra Realty totaling $10,686 recorded as rent; the lease agreements the campaign provided for a separate Spanish Springs property; Flippo's and his staff's explanations and his denial, quoted.Independent reporting
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    Nonprofit Explorer search: “OSJ Food Aid” (IRS exempt-organization data)ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer · Accessed September 18, 2026
    Lists Osj Food Aid Usa, Las Vegas, Nevada, classified under emergency assistance (food, clothing, cash), from the Internal Revenue Service's exempt-organization data; no revenue figure and no return on file. Establishes the nonprofit's existence and registered city, nothing more.Independent analysis or rating

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Scope & method. Reviewed September 17, 2026, with an independent fact-check on September 18, 2026 that added the Reno Gazette Journal's candidate guide, NOTUS's and KRNV's reports on the financial disclosure and the rent complaint, the Nevada Newsmakers program page, the committee's amended statement of organization and the Internal Revenue Service listing of his nonprofit. David Flippo has never held public office, so this profile contains no votes, bills or agency actions; it is a documented overview of his military, professional and electoral record and his stated priorities. The military record was read from the campaign biography, the candidate's survey answers and interviews, not from service records. The securities record was read from FINRA's public registry. The Clerk of the House's filing indexes for 2023 through 2026 were searched for a personal financial disclosure and list none; his tax records and business holdings were not part of this review, and Nevada's business registry and the Air Force's pages refused automated requests, so no business filing, service record or discharge document was read. Nevada's election-results sites refuse automated requests; the Secretary of State's official primary summary was read from an Internet Archive capture, and Ballotpedia's entry from a 2024 capture. Numerical claims retain their original meaning and attribution; dollar amounts taken from Federal Election Commission summaries are rounded to the nearest dollar. Filings and campaign pages may change after this review.

Images. Conservative Ledger masthead supplied by the site creator. The candidate portrait is the Air Force-era photograph published on Wikimedia Commons as File:David Flippo.png, attributed there to the U.S. Department of Defense and tagged public domain as a work of the United States Government; it is cropped and resized for this page and credited beneath the image. The uploader's stated source is a photograph on the candidate's Facebook page, so the licence rests on the Commons tag and is flagged for the editor's confirmation. No campaign-owned photograph is used, and inclusion does not imply the campaign's endorsement of this publication. ^[31]