Why You Won't Know Who Is Funding the Midterms
Driving this trend is the explosion of new nonprofits in the Democratic universe. With similar patriotic-sounding names — American Opportunity Action, Future Forward USA Action, Bright Future Fund and Our American Future — these groups have helped the Democratic Party leapfrog the Republican Party in the dark-money games.
And now it’s time for the midterms.
The biggest spenders in the midterms are typically the super PACs aligned with House and Senate leadership in both parties. Those groups file with the Federal Election Commission regularly, listing out their biggest donors, the dates of the contributions and the amounts given.
But much of their money these days comes from their own nonprofit groups, which do not disclose their donors. The biggest donor to the G.O.P. super PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund, this cycle? One Nation, the SLF’s sister organization, which contributed $35.3 million of the $103.4 million raised so far. SLF’s Democratic counterpart, Senate Majority PAC, is trailing the SLF in fund-raising this cycle, having raised only $54.1 million. But at any point, Senate Majority PAC could get a big transfer from Majority Forward, its own nonprofit and biggest donor, to even the score. Majority Forward has so far supplied $8 million of the super PAC’s haul.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/us/politics/midterms-elections-funding-pac.html