{"id":80972,"date":"2026-04-15T06:31:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=80972"},"modified":"2026-04-15T06:31:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:31:37","slug":"crypto-backed-super-pac-launches-midterm-election-endorsements-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=80972","title":{"rendered":"Crypto-Backed Super PAC Launches Midterm Election Endorsements Push"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Tether\u2019s top government affairs official is now running one of the most well-funded political operations in the crypto world. Jesse Spiro, who serves as head of government affairs for the stablecoin giant, was named chair of Fellowship PAC earlier this month \u2014 a crypto-aligned super PAC that says it has more than $100 million ready to spend on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usvotefoundation.org\/when-are-2026-midterm-elections-and-what-their-purpose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">2026 US midterm elections.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>First Spending On Record<\/h2>\n<p>The group\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/docquery.fec.gov\/cgi-bin\/forms\/C00915181\/1958998\/se\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">opening move<\/a> was a $300,000 ad buy backing Clay Fuller, a Republican who won a special election to fill the Georgia 14th Congressional District seat left open after Marjorie Taylor Greene stepped down. That spending was formally reported to the Federal Election Commission and disbursed this week, roughly a month before Georgia\u2019s Republican primary on May 19.<\/p>\n<p>Fellowship did not stop there. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/press\/resources-journalists\/political-action-committees-pacs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">PAC<\/a> posted a list of endorsements to its account on X, backing Republican candidates in five states. The list includes Alan Wilson for South Carolina governor, Blake Miguez for Louisiana\u2019s 5th Congressional District, Mike Collins for a Georgia Senate seat, Julia Letlow for a Louisiana Senate seat, Pete Ricketts for Nebraska\u2019s Senate race, and Nate Morris in Kentucky\u2019s Senate contest.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-676154\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a_2bff12.png?resize=991%2C518\" alt=\"\" width=\"991\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a_2bff12.png?w=991 991w, https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a_2bff12.png?w=640 640w, https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a_2bff12.png?w=768 768w, https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a_2bff12.png?w=980 980w, https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a_2bff12.png?w=750 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 991px) 100vw, 991px\"><\/p>\n<h2>A Familiar Playbook<\/h2>\n<p>The crypto industry has done this before. During the 2024 election cycle, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fairshakepac.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Fairshake PAC<\/a> \u2014 another crypto-backed group \u2014 poured more than $130 million into congressional races across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate the spending may have shaped outcomes in battleground contests, including the Ohio Senate race. Fellowship appears to be following a similar strategy heading into 2026.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/x\/HxiazQlC\/\" width=\"1634\" height=\"951\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/press\/resources-journalists\/political-action-committees-pacs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Super PACs<\/a> are allowed by federal law to accept unlimited donations from individuals, corporations, labor unions, and other PACs, as long as the spending remains independent from any candidate\u2019s official campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Fellowship filed its statement of organization in 2025. Its financial backers have not been publicly identified \u2014 a legal but notable feature of how these groups operate.<\/p>\n<p>Legislation Still Waiting<\/p>\n<p>While money flows into midterm races, a major crypto bill sits unresolved in the Senate. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/house-bill\/3633\/text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLARITY Act<\/a>, passed by the House of Representatives last July, was designed to be one of the most far-reaching pieces of legislation affecting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/bitcoin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">crypto<\/a> and banking sectors.<\/p>\n<p>It has since run into resistance over questions involving ethics provisions, stablecoin yield rules, and tokenized equities.<\/p>\n<p>Reports say the Senate Banking Committee was considering a review session on the bill, but no date had been placed on the committee\u2019s official calendar as of Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A second Senate panel would also need to clear the legislation before it could advance to a full chamber vote. For now, the bill\u2019s path forward remains uncertain \u2014 and the midterms may determine whether it ever gets one.<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image from Ivan Marc\/Shutterstock, chart from TradingView<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tether\u2019s top government affairs official is now running one of the most well-funded political operations in the crypto world. Jesse Spiro, who serves as head of government affairs for the stablecoin giant, was named chair of Fellowship PAC earlier this month \u2014 a crypto-aligned super PAC that says it has more than $100 million ready [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-80972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}