# AB PAC 22.8M Billboard IE October 2026 On **October 7, 2026** at **19:59:53**, **[[AB PAC]]** (FEC committee **C00492140** — the federal independent-expenditure committee of American Bridge 21st Century) filed a single Form 24 notice disclosing **$22,762,650.41** across **253 Schedule E lines**: **77 candidate positions**, **29 states**, **every dollar in support and not one in opposition**, and **99.87% of it spent on billboards**. It is the **largest single Form 24 notice recorded on this site**, and it reaches that size on the notice sum while its largest individual line is well under $10M. > [!warning] This is a first read > The figure is derived from file 2018051 alone, on the e-file receipt date. > A same-day tranche figure is a **first read**; the notice total itself > is a closed document and will not move, but this committee's cycle and per-race totals are **not** > derived here and must not be read off this page. ## Terms | Item | Detail | |---|---| | Spender | **AB PAC**, FEC committee **C00492140** | | Document | Form 24 48-hour notice, **F24N**, file **2018051**, received **2026-10-07T19:59:53** | | Filed from | 800 Maine Ave SW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20024 | | Signed by | **Rodell Mollineau**, treasurer | | Schedule E lines | **253**, all live — **0 memo-flagged**, **0 amended** (`F24N` original) | | Total | **$22,762,650.41** | | Direction | **$22,762,650.41 support / $0.00 oppose — 100.00% positive** | | Expenditure date | **2026-10-05**, a single date across all 253 lines | | Election code | **G2026** on every line | | Candidate positions | **77** — 12 Senate, 65 House | | By office | Senate **$16,318,161.69** (71.7%) · House **$6,444,488.72** (28.3%) | | States | **29** — AL AZ CA CO DE FL GA IA KS KY MI MN MO MS MT NC NE NH NJ NM NV OH OR PA SC TX VA WA WI | ### Payees | Payee | Amount | Share | Purpose | |---|---|---|---| | **[[AdQuick]]** | **$16,826,517.86** | **73.9%** | Billboard Advertising — Estimated Cost | | **[[Lamar Companies]]** | **$3,717,894.30** | 16.3% | Billboard Advertising — Estimated Cost | | Target Platform | $2,188,997.50 | 9.6% | Billboard Advertising — Estimated Cost | | Berni Consulting LLC | $29,240.75 | 0.1% | Production — Estimated Cost | **$22,733,409.66 — 99.87% of the notice — carries the purpose code "Billboard Advertising".** The remaining $29,240.75 is production. ### Largest positions | Race | Candidate | Amount | Lines | |---|---|---|---| | [[TX-Sen-2026]] | support [[James Talarico]] | **$3,710,532.27** | 4 | | [[FL-Sen-2026-Special]] | support [[Angie Nixon]] | **$2,504,647.46** | 4 | | [[OH-Sen-2026-Special]] | support [[Sherrod Brown]] | **$2,202,939.21** | 4 | | [[GA-Sen-2026]] | support [[Jon Ossoff]] | **$2,121,249.67** | 4 | | [[MN-Sen-2026]] | support [[Peggy Flanagan]] | **$1,380,535.83** | 4 | | [[MI-Sen-2026]] | support [[Abdul El-Sayed]] | **$1,131,551.03** | 4 | | NV-03 (House) | support Susie Lee | $998,570.86 | 4 | | [[NC-Sen-2026]] | support [[Roy Cooper]] | $882,361.45 | 4 | | [[SC-Sen-2026]] | support [[Annie Andrews]] | $630,650.06 | 4 | | [[IA-Sen-2026]] | support [[Josh Turek]] | $422,497.99 | 4 | | [[KS-Sen-2026]] | support [[Adam Hamilton]] | $414,131.94 | 3 | | [[NE-Sen-2026]] | support [[Dan Osborn]] | $326,376.09 | 4 | | [[DE-Sen-2026]] | support [[Chris Coons]] | $231,764.19 | 3 | The remaining 64 positions are House districts between $35,539.00 and $364,226.38, plus [[NH-Sen-2026]] ($56,605.22, support [[Chris Pappas]]) and [[MT-Sen-2026]] ($80,954.02, support [[Seth Bodnar]] — an independent, and the only non-Democratic position on the notice). ## Why it matters **It is a billboard campaign, and billboards are invisible to the ad trackers.** Virtually every published figure for outside spending in this cycle comes from broadcast and digital ad-tracking firms. A **$22.76M out-of-home buy** placed through [[AdQuick]] and [[Lamar Companies]] appears in none of their data. The vault has now recorded two large programmes in one week that are structurally invisible for the same reason in different media: this one, and [[AFP Action]]'s direct-mail and canvassing operation (see [[AFP Action 16.2M Senate Map IE October 2026]] and [[AFP Action 10.5M Senate Map IE October 2026]]). **The medium is the disclosure strategy.** **100.00% positive is the rarest book in the vault.** [[SLF 22.5M Senate IE October 2026]] was 100% negative; [[Congressional Leadership Fund]]'s October notice was 100% negative across 27 districts; [[AFP Action]] runs a deliberately balanced 1:2 split. An all-support notice of this size has no counterpart in the record — and it is unexpected from **American Bridge specifically**, an organisation built in 2010 as an opposition-research shop. The committee that exists to run negative research spent $22.76M saying nothing negative about anyone. **The map is far wider than the Senate battlegrounds.** 29 states and 65 House districts, including positions in Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Oregon and Washington. This matches the strategy *Inside Political Money* reported on **September 25, 2026**: a "record $50 million paid media program" with an explicit aim of forcing Republicans to spend defensively in safe seats, in the words of AB president Pat Dennis — "No seat is safe when you're raising costs, gutting health care." **The escalation is the story.** By **August 31, 2026** AB PAC had made **$8.5 million** of independent expenditures for the entire cycle and reported **$3 million cash on hand**. Five weeks later it put **$22,762,650.41** on the wire in one notice — **2.7× its entire cycle-to-date IE total, in a single day.** > [!note] Open questions > - **Where the money came from.** The $3M cash-on-hand figure is as of August 31; September receipts and > the Q3 report (due 2026-10-15) are unread. *Inside Political Money* attributes roughly $31M of AB > PAC's cycle fundraising to four sources — the AB Foundation ($16.6M), Deborah Simon ($5M), Democracy > PAC ($4M) and Democracy Matters ($5.5M) — none of which is verified here against a filing. > - **Which Texas money this is.** $3.71M supporting [[James Talarico]] arrives into the most expensive > Senate race of the cycle, where [[Texas PAC]] alone has put **$133.6M** on the other side. Whether > AB PAC coordinates its Texas map with other Democratic committees is not disclosed on Form 24. > - **[[AdQuick]] and [[Lamar Companies]].** First appearance of either on this site. Whether AB PAC > placed through AdQuick as a marketplace reselling Lamar inventory, or ran two independent buys, is > not determinable from the Schedule E lines. > - **Target Platform** ($2,188,997.50) has no established identity. > - **Cycle-to-date.** Not derived here. It must be summed from this committee's own filings, and > the Q3 report will restate these same 253 lines — they must not be counted twice. ## See Also - [[AB PAC]] · [[AdQuick]] · [[Lamar Companies]] · [[Rodell Mollineau]] - [[AFP Action 16.2M Senate Map IE October 2026]] · [[AFP Action 10.5M Senate Map IE October 2026]] - [[TX-Sen-2026]] · [[FL-Sen-2026-Special]] · [[OH-Sen-2026-Special]] · [[GA-Sen-2026]] · [[MN-Sen-2026]] · [[MI-Sen-2026]] · [[NC-Sen-2026]] · [[SC-Sen-2026]] · [[IA-Sen-2026]] · [[KS-Sen-2026]] · [[NE-Sen-2026]] · [[DE-Sen-2026]] - [[Independent Expenditure]] · [[Super PACs]] · [[Dark Money]] - [[Deals Hub]]