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Robbie Jaeger 🔎 retweeted
Good @RobletoFire look at Preserve Texas from earlier this year - upshot is the dark money group's "sole incorporator and director" also happens to be the treasurer for the Ken Paxton campaign.
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More ad spending coming for Paxton
Preserve Texas Inc., a dark money group that's been a major donor to the pro-Paxton super PAC, placed a $520k ad buy in the Dallas market for 8/24-9/6, per @AdImpact_Pol
#TXSEN
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🚨We might have ourselves a race in the #CA14 runoff. State Senator Aisha Wahab leads BART Director Melissa Hernandez 51.35% to 48.65%, separated by 1,692 votes in the initial ballot drop from Alameda County.
Polls close in 1 hour for the #CA14 special election runoff for the remainder of Eric Swalwell's term, with AIPAC's UDP, BOLD America, and others spending upwards of $6.3 million in the last few weeks to boost BART Director Melissa Hernandez and block State Senator Aisha Wahab
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The EMILY'S List-affiliated Women Vote SuperPAC received a $1 million contribution in July from Melinda French Gates' Pivotal Ventures LLC
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good stuff here from @JacobRubashkin on one of my favorite topics insideelections.com/untangli…
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NEWS —
AIPAC is considering a major campaign, expected to be in the tens of millions, to boost Mike Rogers over Abdul El-Sayed, sources tell me and @jennymedina.
AIPAC has told allies of the plan.
We could just be getting started in Michigan.
Robbie Jaeger 🔎 retweeted
Now that the #MI07 Dem primary is over ...
Rs are confirming they *did* meddle with Michigan Sunrise PAC, which hit Matt Maasdam + boosted Will Lawrence
"Conservative Americans PAC congratulates William Lawrence. Now comes the ass-whooping" - Samantha Bullock, a spox for group
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NEW: AIPAC signaling plans to spend for Republican Mike Rogers in #MISen
"Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."
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Suspected GOP Front PAC Routing Spending Through New LLCs in Michigan Senate & Minnesota House races
youtube.com/watch?v=mEpi828X…
New video from @GetIndieNews #IndieNewsNetwork
Robbie Jaeger 🔎 retweeted
AIPAC funds its political ads through a bland-sounding super PAC called the United Democracy Project that hides its connection to the pro-Israel lobbying group.
Of the 106 political ads AIPAC paid for since 2022, only 6 even mention Israel, the NYT found. nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
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AIPAC bundled another $124,427 for Rep. Wesley Bell in the first 15 days of July alone, per new filing.
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Here are this group's ads, which say the Green Party's Richard Grayson is "the progressive fighter we need" and lesser-known Democrat Carol Hafner is "a true progressive":
A super PAC that started three days ago is spending against Mary Peltola in the #AKSEN primary while spending for a lesser-known Dem and a Green Party candidate:
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The top donors to the super PAC supporting Stevens are Republicans
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The most recent available 990 (2024) lists Tad Rupp as the principal officer
Rupp appears to now be a partner at the GOP firm Targeted Victory
Goal of mailers is likely to quietly knock Haley Stevens and help Abdul El-Sayed (D) win 8/4 primary
Robbie Jaeger 🔎 retweeted
Looks like Rs may be meddling in #MISEN Dem primary
Mailers from a c4 called American Voice hits Haley Stevens (D) on insider trading bans + taking $ from ICE contractors
Principal officer listed on the group’s 2023 990 is Stephen DeMaura, same name as the now-NRSC deputy ED…
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NEW: Freedom 250 LLC doesn’t have to disclose what its corporate sponsors paid. But new lobbying filings reveal millions given by major corporate backers. readsludge.com/2026/07/31/lo…
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Top U.S. oil & gas executives have sold nearly $400 million worth of stock in their own companies since the Iran war triggered a supply crunch that sent energy prices -- & the share prices of their companies' stocks -- soaring. nytimes.com/2026/07/28/clima…
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A dark money group run by corporate lobbyists flew Haley Stevens and her mother to Portugal for five days in June 2024. They were flown business class and treated to a 5-star hotel and dinner with a celebrity chef. That group, Center Forward, has become her Senate campaign's biggest backer.
Robbie Jaeger 🔎 retweeted
Don't think I've ever seen money-in-politics and campaign finance so central to a debate as it is to the one that is unfolding right now between Abdul and Haley Stevens.
The entire first 15 minutes of tonight's debate is about super PACs, 501c4s and advertising data.
Fun stuff!