Robbie Jaeger 🔎

Dark Money Detective || Independent Journalist || Founder @PolitiFiNews || [email protected] || Signal: PolitiFi.89

[Robbie Jaeger 🔎 @RobletoFire]

The GOP's main Senate-focused Super PAC—Senate Leadership Fund—drops a massive $13.7M in ads opposing 7 Democratic candidates:

@ossoff (GA)
@RoyCooperNC (NC)
@AbdulElSayed (MI)
@turek4iowa (IA)
@MaryPeltola (AK)
@SherrodBrown (OH)
@TroyJackson207 (ME)

[Robbie Jaeger 🔎 @RobletoFire]

Ken Paxton's Super PAC, Lone Star Liberty, out with another $1.6M ad buy against @jamestalarico, per FEC.

[Robbie Jaeger 🔎 @RobletoFire]

The GOP's main Super PAC, Senate Leadership Fund (SLF) drops a massive $8.9M in expenditures opposing Democrats in 5 races:

@AbdulElSayed (#MISen)
@RoyCooperNC (#NCSen)
@MaryPeltola (#AKSen)
Troy Jackson (#MESen)
Josh Turek (#IASen)

[Jacob Rubashkin @JacobRubashkin]

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.

https://t.co/mxAOlXKkRp

[Rob Pyers @rpyers]

🚨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.

[Rob Pyers @rpyers]

The EMILY'S List-affiliated Women Vote SuperPAC received a $1 million contribution in July from Melinda French Gates' Pivotal Ventures LLC

[Robbie Jaeger 🔎 @RobletoFire]

🚨The GOP's main Super PAC, Senate Leadership Fund (SLF), places over $6M in ad buys targeting Troy Jackson, @AbdulElSayed, @RoyCooperNC, and @turek4iowa, per FEC.

[Robbie Jaeger 🔎 @RobletoFire]

Cornerstone Founders uses the same ad buyers (Liberty Buying Partners) as another Alaska-based Super PAC, Right For Alaska—who are opposing Republican #AKSen incumbent Dan Sullivan in favor of Jerry Heikes.

[Ally Mutnick @allymutnick]

Some possible #AKAL primary meddling

Cornerstone Founders PAC, a mystery group registered in April, is spending $588K on digital ads boosting:

>> Jim McDermott (L), who will "tell both parties to f*** off"

>> Clay Strickland (R) as a pro-Trump conservative

What's going on? 🧵

[Robbie Jaeger 🔎 @RobletoFire]

Pine Tree Results—the billionaire/dark money-funded Susan Collins Super PAC—drops a massive $2.12M ad buy against Troy Jackson in #MESen.

Between Jackson and Platner, PTR has spent over $13M, per FEC filings.

[Robbie Jaeger 🔎 @RobletoFire]

Big money keeps flowing into the #CA14 special runoff, with @AIPAC's United Democracy Project spending another $1.2M on ads opposing @aishabbwahab / supporting Melissa Hernandez.

AIPAC has now spent over $2.4M in the race for Eric Swalwell's now-open seat.

[Robbie Jaeger 🔎 @RobletoFire]

Newly formed, SMP-affilated North Star PAC (not to be confused with North Star Dawn) makes its first spend—$1M+ against Republican Dan Sullivan in #AKSen.

[CATargetBot0001 @CATargetBot0001]

NEW FEC F24
$1,010,128-> #AKSEN
https://t.co/GgHVUJrCnx

[Robbie Jaeger 🔎 @RobletoFire]

GOP Super PAC registered 5 days ago spends $601K on ads targeting Dem primary winner Adam Hamilton in #KSSen @Hamilton4Kansas

[Robbie Jaeger 🔎 @RobletoFire]

Suspected GOP front PAC Fair Deal Alaska with more direct mailers in #AKSen, spending $67K supporting lesser-known Dem Carol Hafner and Green Party candidate Richard Grayson.

The shady committee has now spent over $757,000.

[Robbie Jaeger 🔎 @RobletoFire]

Potential GOP front PAC Fair Deal Alaska drops another $69K on mailers supporting Green Party's Richard Grayson and underdog Dem Carol Hafner in #AKSen.

They now have spent over $690K elevating alternative "progressive" candidates to Dem frontrunner @MaryPeltola.

[Robbie Jaeger 🔎 @RobletoFire]

@AbdulElSayed @RoyCooperNC SLF also spends $575K against @MaryPeltola in #AKSen

[Robbie Jaeger 🔎 @RobletoFire]

The GOP's Senate Leadership Fund places over $3M in ads targeting @AbdulElSayed and @RoyCooperNC, per new FEC filings. #MISen #NCSen

[Robbie Jaeger 🔎 @RobletoFire]

This is a must-read for anyone interested in the boatload of dark money pouring into the midterm elections. Fascinating work.

[Teddy Schleifer @teddyschleifer]

good stuff here from @JacobRubashkin on one of my favorite topics https://t.co/mFVgh9zRi0

[Teddy Schleifer @teddyschleifer]

good stuff here from @JacobRubashkin on one of my favorite topics https://t.co/mFVgh9zRi0

[Robbie Jaeger 🔎 @RobletoFire]

314 Action Fund spending big for Matthew Klein in #MN02, with a $1.19M ad buy–bringing their total to over $2.4M so far, per FEC.