What super PACs are, how they work, and which ones matter.
Since 2025, Trump’s leadership PAC has spent $20 million of its $31 million on items its filings describe as legal, and it is nearly out of cash. Here’s how the arrangement works and why watchdogs object.
The crypto industry’s three-part super PAC network has spent nearly $100 million this cycle, led by a $40 million-plus rematch against Sherrod Brown in Ohio. Its ads rarely mention crypto.
Trump’s super PAC spent $75.5 million in the first half of October, most of it routed through two new groups. Here’s where the money went, from the FEC filings.
MAGA Inc. is now a hybrid PAC: one committee with two bank accounts, one for capped donations to candidates and one for unlimited independent spending. Here’s how they work and who uses them.
A $20 million DHS ad campaign praising President Trump was halted by a federal judge. Trump says MAGA Inc. will pay instead, and watchdogs say that creates a new legal problem.
Two watchdog groups say President Trump’s public claims that he controls MAGA Inc. describe a violation of federal law. MAGA Inc. calls the complaints frivolous, and the FEC can’t act on them.
Eight episodes from both parties that tested the edges of campaign finance law, from MAGA Inc. and America PAC to Future Forward, Fairshake and Democratic meddling in GOP primaries.
Updated Oct. 23, 2026: Sherrod Brown leads the Democratic list, but every Democrat on it is being outspent by Republican super PACs. Democrats are leaning on their own candidates’ fundraising instead.
Updated Oct. 23, 2026: Ken Paxton leads a list dominated by Senate Republicans, as super PACs funded by Elon Musk, MAGA Inc. and Senate Leadership Fund make up for weak candidate fundraising.
Trump’s super PAC sat on more than $400 million for 18 months, then spent $277 million in six weeks, mostly through two new groups. Here’s where it went and why it drew a legal complaint.