# Defend American Jobs 11M Ohio Senate IE October 2026 On **October 8, 2026**, **[[Defend American Jobs]]** — the Republican-side arm of the crypto industry's [[Fairshake PAC]] network, FEC committee **C00836221** — disclosed **$11,019,087.01** of independent expenditures in [[OH-Sen-2026-Special]], **every dollar of it supporting [[Jon Husted]]**, in a two-line Form 24 notice. File **2018533**, an original (`F24N`) received at **18:16:08**. It contains the **largest single Schedule E line in the 2026-10-08 tranche**: **$10,262,745.57** to Main Street Media Group, coded `IE-Husted, Jon-Media Buy`. ## Terms | Item | Detail | |---|---| | Spender | **DEFEND AMERICAN JOBS**, FEC committee **C00836221** | | Document | file **2018533**, form **F24N** (original), received **2026-10-08T18:16:08** | | Schedule E lines | **2**, both support, both OH-Sen | | Expenditure date | **2026-10-06** | | Beneficiary | **[[Jon Husted]]** (S6OH00304) | | Election code | `G2026` | | Payee 1 | **Main Street Media Group — $10,262,745.57** | | Payee 2 | RBC Media LLC — $756,341.44 | | Filer-stated aggregate | **$34,810,531.85** on the larger line; **$24,339,162.68** at race level on the document | **Derived total: $10,262,745.57 + $756,341.44 = $11,019,087.01.** The aggregate figures above are recorded as **what the document says** and are **not a race or committee total** — the aggregate column's meaning is filer-dependent. ## It clears both §7 single-buy tests Deals **§7.4a** defines a single buy as a Form 24 notice whose Schedule E lines sum to $10M or more. This notice clears that at **$11,019,087.01**. It is also one of a small number of filings in this cycle whose **single largest line** independently exceeds $10M — $10,262,745.57 — a distinction the vault has otherwise recorded only on [[Texas PAC 53.9M Texas Senate IE]] and in the TX-Sen program. ## Why it matters - **It is the second eight-figure crypto buy in Ohio in eight days.** The same committee filed **$12,121,214.69** on October 1, recorded at [[Defend American Jobs 12.1M Ohio Senate IE]]. Together: **$23,140,301.70 for [[Jon Husted]] from one crypto-industry vehicle in eight days**, with no reported dollar against [[Sherrod Brown]] in either notice. The network buys **positive**, which is unusual in a tranche that is otherwise 74–87% negative. - **The vendor split inside the network is partisan and visible on the same day.** Main Street Media Group took $10,262,745.57 here. In the same tranche the parent committee [[Fairshake PAC]] filed **$6,115,866.36** across six House races — and routed the **three Republican** beneficiaries' money through **Main Street Media Group** ($3,026,296.36) and the **three Democratic** beneficiaries' money through **Targeted Platform Media** ($3,000,000.00), with Dockside Strategies on all six. The crypto network runs one bipartisan budget through two partisan buyers. - **Ohio is now the most contested race in the vault by same-day dollars.** [[OH-Sen-2026-Special]] took **$16,940,575.20** across 24 Schedule E lines on this receipt date — **$14,051,556.20 positive**, almost all of it this notice, against **$2,889,019.00 negative**. It is the only race in the tranche where the positive side is the larger one. ## Verification Every figure traces to file **2018533** at `docquery.fec.gov/dcdev/posted/2018533.fec`, read as a raw filed document. Original `F24N`, no amendment indicator, no memo-coded rows, not a periodic report. The notice passes every plausibility test: arm's-length disbursements to two identifiable media vendors, coherent purpose codes, the current cycle. 🔴 The 2026-10-08 tranche is a **first read** of that receipt date; file 2018533's own total was **identical to the cent on two separate queries**. No secondary press source for this notice existed at the time of writing, and the page records that absence rather than papering over it. ## Related - [[Defend American Jobs]] · [[Fairshake PAC]] · [[Stand With Crypto]] · [[Digital Freedom Fund]] - [[Defend American Jobs 12.1M Ohio Senate IE]] - [[OH-Sen-2026-Special]] · [[Jon Husted]] · [[Sherrod Brown]] - [[Independent Expenditure]] · [[Super PACs]] · [[Dark Money]]