For the 2026 midterm primaries, record-shattering sums of money were unleashed, with overall political ad spending passing $4 billion by June 1, 2026, on its way to a projected history-making cycle total of $11.6 billion.
AI & Cryptocurrency Networks: Emerging tech-focused super PACs (such as Fairshake and Leading the Future) pumped a staggering $127 million across more than 100 primaries this year. They achieved a roughly 90% success rate backing their chosen candidates.
AIPAC Pro-Israel Spending: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) drastically scaled up its primary operations, funneling over $63 million into primary contests, and passing $104 million in overall cycle spending by August.
Dark Money & Megadonors: The four main congressional super PACs pulled in $197.7 million from hidden, non-disclosing "dark money" sister organizations early in the cycle to help clear or shape primary fields. Concurrently, a handful of elite billionaire megadonors poured over $1.6 billion into political action committees to tip the scales during primary season.
They spent billions to sway voters but they were actually buying influence with candidates. That kind of money doesn't come without strings attached.
US reading scores hit historic lows-
American 15-year-olds scored more than 30 points below average on the latest PISA reading assessment, with results near their lowest point in 25 years. Just eight percent of US students were top performers in math — a rate that trails far behind China, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea.
Dark Money!
There's about $1 billion in political spending flowing into this year's midterms. Nobody, in many cases, not even the candidates themselves, knows where most of it came from.
That money is intended to buy something... proving once again that we have the best government money can buy.
UC Santa Barbara Professor Butch Ware urged attendees of a Marxism conference to train with weapons and be ready for "war in the streets." 😯
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