Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Nikola Corporation
Arizona
30 filings from 2 registrants · 2021–2025 · latest filed Apr 16, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$1.6M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$450K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Transportation
TRA
24 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
13 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Lee R. Godown Alpex International, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff - Rep. Loretta Sanchez17 filingsthrough 2025
- Alana Langdon Nikola Corporation9 filingsthrough 2023
Covered positions · 1 of 2 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 30 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: nikola-corporation.