# Debra Schommer Media Group **Debra Schommer Media Group** is the advertising firm that has placed the great majority of **[[Government That Works PAC]]**'s political advertising in the 2026 midterm elections. Across that committee's original 48-hour spending notices it has been paid **at least $26,377,454.57** — about **84%** of the roughly $31.3 million the committee has reported spending on its own advertising. It is on this page because of the scale and the concentration, not because anything is known to be irregular about it. One firm placing five-sixths of a nationally significant committee's advertising is the kind of relationship that explains how a committee operates, and the kind that is easy to trace now and hard to reconstruct once filings age. ## Why it's on the map The committee it works for routes money in two directions. It has **transferred $10.75 million to three other political committees**, and it has **spent tens of millions directly on Senate advertising**. This firm is how the second half happens. The committee's own funders are only partly disclosed — a series of social-welfare organisations, named in filings covered elsewhere on this site — so for much of the cycle the clearest public fact about tens of millions of dollars of advertising was the name of the firm that placed it. ## What the filings show | | | |---|---| | Paid by [[Government That Works PAC]] | **at least $26,377,454.57** | | Share of that committee's reported advertising | **about 84%** | | Largest single notice | 28 Oct 2026, document 2042601, **$6,785,687.83** | | Final notice before the election | 2 Nov 2026, document 2045934, **$3,519,523.25** — 99.2% of that notice | | First appearance | 9 Oct 2026 | | Other committees it appears for | none recorded here | The figure is stated as a floor rather than an exact total on purpose. It is built only from the committee's **original** notices, so where the committee later re-filed a notice and added money, the added money is not counted here. Counting it would risk counting the same advertising twice, which is the more serious error of the two. ### The closing fortnight | Notice filed | Document | Paid to this firm | Share of notice | |---|---|---|---| | 22 Oct | 2039096 | $1,434,835.74 | 96.4% | | 23 Oct | 2040831 | $1,961,000.00 | 96.4% | | 24 Oct | 2041438 | $2,595,941.00 | 89.4% | | 28 Oct | 2042581 | $1,660,000.00 | 88.0% | | 28 Oct | 2042601 | $6,785,687.83 | 97.7% | | 31 Oct | 2045112 | $3,999,818.75 | 95.1% | | 2 Nov | 2045934 | $3,519,523.25 | 99.2% | The pattern tightens as the election approaches: the firm's share of each notice climbs from about 88% in late October to **99.2% on the final night**, when the only other payee on a $3.5 million notice took $27,754.36. ## What is not established Nothing about the firm itself: no corporate registration, no principals, no address, and no work for any other committee has been recorded here. Everything above comes from the committee's own filings, which name a payee and an amount and nothing more. ## What to watch - **The name on another committee's spending.** It has not appeared on one here. - **A corporate registration**, which would give a state of formation and a registered agent. - **The committee's post-election reports**, which itemise disbursements in more detail than a 48-hour notice allows and may describe what the money bought. ## See also - [[Government That Works PAC]] · [[Christopher Koob]] - [[SC-Sen-2026]] · [[KS-Sen-2026]] · [[IA-Sen-2026]] · [[MS-Sen-2026]] · [[NE-Sen-2026]] - [[Independent Expenditure]] · [[Dark Money]] · [[Organizations Hub]]