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One Senate filing. 703 transaction lines. ≈$21M in motion.

August 5, 2026 · our first episode · everything below is reproduced from the primary documents linked at the bottom

What the filing contains

A single U.S. Senate Periodic Transaction Report — filed July 21, 2026 by Sen. Alan Armstrong of Oklahoma, and that is the attribution; from here the subject is the paperwork — contains 703 transaction lines dated March 24 to June 24, 2026. 367 of them are equity trades, 320 of those purchases. The estimated total volume is around $21.3M, summing disclosed-range midpoints; the bracket bounds put the true total anywhere between roughly $7.6M and $35.1M, and about 70% of the estimate comes from a single line.

The mechanics that make it readable

Congressional filings disclose ranges, never exact figures — so every dollar number above is a bracket, and we say so every time. The law allows up to 45 days between a transaction and its disclosure. And the same person can appear in two disclosure systems at once: SEC Form 4s (exact share counts, two business days) for a corporate insider role, and Senate PTRs (ranges, weeks later) for the office — which is exactly what makes this filing traceable back to a career stake.

Check us. The whole story is one document plus the filer's public Form 4 history. Episode thread on X: @wefollowfilings

Sources

All amounts are disclosed ranges as reported. Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/XSWVvUJpaKE