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Campaign contributions, super PACs and electoral targeting funded by cryptocurrency companies and their investors.
Fairshake's affiliate Defend American Jobs has reported $46.7 million in Ohio Senate spending, 55.6% above its $30 million pledge. Added to $5.9 million from the Winklevoss-backed Digital Freedom Fund, the total is $52.6 million.
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Crypto interests are backing senior House Financial Services Republicans in suddenly competitive November races, American Banker reported. The spending total is unknown. If Democrats win the House, new committee leaders take over however these races end.
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Fairshake's affiliates reported $2.7 million in House spending after the Senate blocked the CLARITY Act in September. The money goes to House races while the bill sits in the Senate, so the clear rules institutional investors are waiting for have not arrived.
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Andrew Cuomo urged the crypto industry to fund both parties, saying the CLARITY Act stalled in the Senate cannot pass without Democrats. Crypto PACs have spent $54.3 million backing Republicans and $26.2 million backing Democrats, Cointelegraph reported, while Kalshi gives Democrats about a 61% chance of winning both chambers.
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Fairshake is backing 32 House incumbents who voted for the CLARITY Act after a 49-50 Senate cloture vote left the bill 11 short of the 60 it needed. The money defends votes already cast in a House that passed the bill in July 2025, while the Senate path still needs Democrats.
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Fairshake and the Winklevoss-backed Digital Freedom Fund have put $33 million into Ohio against Sherrod Brown three weeks before the election. The target lets the industry settle a 2024 score while leaving alone the Democratic senators a market-structure bill would need next year.
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Fairshake, the crypto super PAC, is backing 32 House incumbents in November and putting about $1 million each behind three Democrats and three Republicans. That $6 million, a fifth of what it is spending against Sherrod Brown, goes mostly to members of the committees that handle crypto bills.
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Coinbase-backed Stand With Crypto named its first three Senate endorsements two weeks after the Clarity Act failed 49-50. The group funds no campaigns itself, so its main Ohio pick depends on PAC money, starting with Fairshake's $30 million pledge for Jon Husted against Sherrod Brown.
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The Senate's 49-50 procedural vote left the securities-versus-commodities test where it already was, with the SEC and CFTC free to keep writing rules under existing powers and those rules open to court challenge.
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The crypto super PAC is spending $30 million in Ohio over six weeks, about a quarter of the $120.4 million it and its affiliates reported on September 20. The target is a Senate Banking gavel that Democratic caucus rules do not automatically restore.
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More than $200 million of 2024 political spending bought accommodating regulators rather than a statute, and a Sept. 15 procedural vote is what now separates the industry from two more years of interpretive guidance.
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Public Citizen counts $517 million of corporate spending on House and Senate races in 15 months, with crypto, tech and gaming supplying at least $294 million of it.
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