# CLF 39M House IE October 2026 On **2026-10-28**, six days before the general election, [[Congressional Leadership Fund]] (FEC **C00504530**) spent **$38,952,237.84** on independent expenditures across **36 House candidates in 21 states**, and disclosed all of it on one 24-hour notice — **file 2044000**, form `F24N`, received **2026-10-29T20:09:28**. It is **the committee's largest single notice of the cycle**, ahead of the $37.2 million notice eight days earlier ([[CLF 37.2M House Map IE October 2026]]). ## Almost all of it is spent against someone | Direction | Amount | Lines | Share | |---|---|---|---| | Opposing a candidate | $38,480,269.09 | 77 | **98.79%** | | Supporting a candidate | $471,968.75 | 5 | 1.21% | Thirty-four of the thirty-six candidates named are named only to be opposed. The two exceptions are a $371,968.75 support line for Dan Green in Florida and a $100,000.00 support line for [[Laurie Buckhout]] in North Carolina. ## Where it went | State | Amount | Share | Lines | |---|---|---|---| | **Michigan** | **$8,516,070.05** | **21.86%** | 8 | | Pennsylvania | $4,549,893.29 | 11.68% | 6 | | Florida | $2,967,969.81 | 7.62% | 12 | | North Carolina | $2,527,940.99 | 6.49% | 5 | | California | $2,183,770.11 | 5.61% | 5 | | Wisconsin | $2,020,035.44 | 5.19% | 4 | | New York | $2,002,011.09 | 5.14% | 2 | | Ohio | $1,940,083.50 | 4.98% | 5 | | Maine | $1,887,524.45 | 4.85% | 3 | | Texas | $1,794,055.09 | 4.61% | 5 | | Iowa | $1,535,066.31 | 3.94% | 5 | | Virginia | $1,460,423.85 | 3.75% | 4 | | Arizona | $1,290,625.40 | 3.31% | 5 | | New Mexico | $1,120,051.89 | 2.88% | 2 | | Colorado | $1,107,010.84 | 2.84% | 3 | | Washington | $912,570.04 | 2.34% | 2 | | South Carolina | $300,000.00 | 0.77% | 1 | | Missouri | $288,532.56 | 0.74% | 1 | | Kentucky | $243,603.13 | 0.63% | 2 | | Alaska | $230,000.00 | 0.59% | 1 | | Minnesota | $75,000.00 | 0.19% | 1 | **Michigan takes more than a fifth of the notice** — $8.5 million across three Democratic candidates in three districts, led by $4,159,293.93 against [[Christina Hines]], the single largest per-candidate figure on the filing. ## The candidates drawing $1 million or more | State | Candidate | Direction | Amount | |---|---|---|---| | MI | [[Christina Hines]] | oppose | $4,159,293.93 | | NC | [[Don Davis]] | oppose | $2,427,940.99 | | MI | William Lawrence | oppose | $2,319,537.31 | | MI | Sean McCann | oppose | $2,037,238.81 | | NY | [[Cait Conley]] | oppose | $2,002,011.09 | | PA | Robert Harvie | oppose | $1,917,000.00 | | ME | Matt Dunlap | oppose | $1,887,524.45 | | PA | [[Bob Brooks]] | oppose | $1,785,883.51 | | CA | [[Randy Villegas]] | oppose | $1,743,029.06 | | FL | [[Kathy Castor]] | oppose | $1,443,152.44 | | TX | Vicente Gonzalez | oppose | $1,123,544.34 | | NM | Gabriel Vasquez | oppose | $1,120,051.89 | | OH | Brian Poindexter | oppose | $1,117,463.37 | | CO | [[Manny Rutinel]] | oppose | $1,107,010.84 | | WI | Mitchell Berman | oppose | $1,037,500.89 | Fourteen further candidates draw between $75,000 and $1 million, among them [[Rebecca Cooke]] ($982,534.55), [[Elaine Luria]] ($945,596.96), [[Marie Gluesenkamp Perez]] ($912,570.04), [[Marcy Kaptur]] ($822,620.13) and [[Paige Cognetti]] ($847,009.78). ⚠️ **A filing names a candidate, a state and an office; it does not give a party.** For the party and standing of any candidate above, see that race's own page. ## Two firms placed 94.6% of it | Payee | Amount | Share | Lines | |---|---|---|---| | [[Flexpoint Media]] | $20,752,216.69 | **53.28%** | 50 | | [[Del Ray Media LLC]] | $16,085,911.15 | **41.30%** | 20 | | Starboard Advertising | $830,000.00 | 2.13% | 4 | | Right Target Media | $605,000.00 | 1.55% | 3 | | [[MHB Media Inc]] | $413,610.00 | 1.06% | 1 | | Alamo Intelligence LLC | $250,000.00 | 0.64% | 1 | | Jamestown Associates | $13,000.00 | 0.03% | 1 | | Convergence Media LLC | $2,500.00 | 0.01% | 2 | **$36.8 million of a $39 million day runs through two media-buying firms.** The split is close to the one this wiki has recorded on every CLF notice since September: [[Flexpoint Media]] taking the larger half and [[Del Ray Media LLC]] rising against it. On [[CLF 18.7M House IE September 2026]] the shares were 61% and 33%; here they are 53.3% and 41.3%. ## Why it matters **This is the Republican House committee's closing buy, and it is almost purely negative.** At 98.79% oppose it is the most one-sided notice of this size the wiki has measured on either side — compare [[House Majority PAC 70.9M House Map IE October 2026]] at 93% and [[WinSenate 51.4M Senate Map IE October 2026]] at 71%. **It lands on the same day as the Senate committee's own largest buy.** [[Senate Leadership Fund]] disclosed **$38,767,366.55** of Senate independent expenditure on the same expenditure date ([[SLF PAC 38.8M Senate Map IE October 2026]]), and the two notices put **$77.7 million** of Republican outside money on the record within forty minutes of each other. **Both ran their largest line through the same firm** — see [[Flexpoint Media]], which placed $42.2 million across the pair on one day. ## Four mirrored support/oppose pairs | Race | For | Against | Amount each | |---|---|---|---| | [[FL-09-2026]] | Dan Green | Darren Soto | $232,968.75 | | [[FL-09-2026]] | Dan Green | Darren Soto | $100,000.00 | | [[FL-09-2026]] | Dan Green | Darren Soto | $37,750.00 | | [[FL-09-2026]] | Dan Green | Darren Soto | $1,250.00 | The four pairs carry **$743,937.50** between them, **1.91% of the notice** — the same one-invoice, both-sides packaging recorded at much larger scale on [[Safety and Affordability PAC 22.4M House IE October 2026]] (42.42%) and [[No Going Back PAC 34.9M Multi-Race IE October 2026]]. At under 2% here it changes nothing in the totals, and it is recorded because the shape matters elsewhere. ## Verification All 82 Schedule E lines are unflagged originals on an `F24N` notice: no amendment form code, no memo code (field 42), no duplicated line, one expenditure date (**2026-10-28**) on every line, one election code (`G2026`). The notice totals **$38,952,237.84**, and the per-state, per-candidate and per-payee tables above each reconcile to it to the cent. ⚠️ **First read.** Derived on 2026-10-30 from the first full day of a restored FEC filing index. Form 24 notices are re-checked at T-2 and T-3 for late arrivals and amendments; see [[FEC Electronic Filing Outage October 2026]] for why this window's figures carry that caveat more heavily than usual. ## See Also - [[Congressional Leadership Fund]] · [[Flexpoint Media]] · [[Del Ray Media LLC]] - [[SLF PAC 38.8M Senate Map IE October 2026]] · [[CLF 37.2M House Map IE October 2026]] - [[Independent Expenditure]] · [[Super PACs]] · [[2026 Midterms Hub]]