# Defend American Jobs 12.1M Ohio Senate IE On **October 1, 2026**, **Defend American Jobs** — the Republican-primary arm of the crypto industry's [[Fairshake PAC]] network, FEC committee **C00836221** — disclosed **$12,121,214.69** of independent expenditures in [[OH-Sen-2026-Special]], every dollar of it **supporting [[Jon Husted]]**. It is the largest crypto-industry independent expenditure recorded in this vault and the second-largest single Form 24 notice of the 2026 cycle after the [[Texas PAC 61.4M Texas Senate IE]] filing. ## Terms | Item | Detail | |---|---| | Spender | **DEFEND AMERICAN JOBS**, FEC committee **C00836221** | | Disclosed | FEC **48-hour** independent-expenditure notice (**Form 24, F24N, file 2016127**), received **2026-10-01 20:30:38**, signed by treasurer **Lisa Lisker** | | Expenditure date | **2026-09-29** (all three lines) | | Election code | **G2026** — general election | | Structure | **Three lines, 100% support.** $11,343,601.80 · $756,341.44 · $21,271.45 | | Vendors | **Main Street Media Group** ($11,343,601.80, media buy) · **RBC Media LLC** ($756,341.44) · **Dockside Strategies LLC** ($21,271.45) | | Target | **[[Jon Husted]]** (R), candidate **S6OH00304** — support only; no line opposes [[Sherrod Brown]] | | Aggregate on the filing | **$23,582,821.24** election-to-date | | Memo-flagged rows | **None** | | Amendment status | Original notice, form code **F24N** — not an amendment | > [!note] On the §7.4a threshold > Deals design doc **§7.4a** defines a single buy as a Form 24 notice whose Schedule E lines sum to $10M or > more, whatever the line structure. This filing clears that twice over: the notice totals $12.12M, **and > its largest single line is $11,343,601.80 on its own** — one of only a handful of individual Schedule E > lines above $10M recorded anywhere in the 2026 cycle. ## The one-sided structure is the finding Almost every large committee in this cycle splits a buy to the cent between supporting the Republican and opposing the Democrat — [[Digital Freedom Fund]] did exactly that in this same race two days earlier, and [[No Going Back PAC]] did it the day before that. **This notice does not.** All $12.12M is filed as *support* for Husted, through a television buyer, with nothing pointed at Brown. That is what an industry endorsement looks like rather than an opposition campaign: the crypto sector is buying a senator it expects to vote its way, not litigating the Democrat. It also means the money is legible as a positive ad spend to anyone watching Ohio television, which is a reputational choice as much as a tactical one. ## The same seat, the same day, from the other side Both halves of the Ohio Senate special filed on **October 1** for expenditures dated **September 29**: | Committee | Amount | Direction | Vendor | File | |---|---|---|---|---| | **Defend American Jobs** ([[Fairshake PAC]]) | **$12,121,214.69** | support [[Jon Husted]] | Main Street Media Group, RBC Media LLC, Dockside Strategies LLC | 2016127 | | **WinSenate** | **$5,033,439.93** | oppose [[Jon Husted]] | Waterfront Strategies | 2016120 | | **SLF PAC** ([[Senate Leadership Fund]]) | **$494,725.82** | oppose [[Sherrod Brown]] | Whistlestop Strategies LLC | 2016104 | **$17,649,380.44 into one Senate seat on one expenditure date from these three committees**, and $12.12M of it — more than two thirds — came from the crypto industry rather than from either party's Senate committee. Smaller lines from other committees push the full race-date figure a little higher. See [[WinSenate 23.7M Senate Map IE October 2026]] for the other side of that day. ## Why it matters **The industry outspent the party by 24 to 1 in this race on this date.** [[Senate Leadership Fund]]'s Ohio channel put in $494,725.82. Defend American Jobs put in $12,121,214.69. Ohio is the first of the eight races in [[SLF 342M Senate IE Reservation Program]] where an outside industry has become the dominant pro-Republican spender rather than a supplement to the party's program. **The donors are 2024 money, disclosed, and already in the vault.** Unlike [[Texas PAC]], Defend American Jobs sits inside a network whose funders are known: the [[Fairshake PAC]] family reported **$193M in cash on hand** as of January 2026, including **$25M from [[Coinbase]]**, **$25M from [[Ripple]]** and **$24M from [[Andreessen Horowitz]]**. This is the first time this vault can trace that war chest to a specific eight-figure buy in a specific Senate race. **It is the second crypto vehicle in the same race.** [[Digital Freedom Fund]], the Winklevoss-seeded committee, spent $2,970,198.67 on Ohio mail on 2026-09-30. Two separate crypto super PACs, two different media — television and direct mail — pointed at the same seat within 72 hours. > [!warning] This is a first read > A figure derived on the day after a receipt date is a first read, > not a closed count; late-arriving filings on a closed receipt date have run as high as **+24%**. The > $12,121,214.69 is the full content of file 2016127 and is exact. The **$17,649,380.44 three-committee > figure** above is a first read of receipt date 2026-10-01, is not the complete race-date total, and may > rise as late filings post. > [!note] A naming question this page does not settle > "Defend American Jobs" is currently recorded in this vault as an **alias of [[Fairshake PAC]]**, which is > why the links above point there. With $23.58M of its own election-to-date independent expenditures under > its own committee ID, that arrangement is arguably no longer accurate — but splitting it into its own page > means removing the alias from [[Fairshake PAC]], which is an alias-policy decision rather than a sweep > edit. Flagged, not taken. ## See Also - [[Fairshake PAC]] · [[Stand With Crypto]] · [[Digital Freedom Fund]] · [[Coinbase]] · [[Ripple]] - [[OH-Sen-2026-Special]] · [[Jon Husted]] · [[Sherrod Brown]] - [[WinSenate 23.7M Senate Map IE October 2026]] · [[SLF 23.6M Senate IE September 2026]] - [[Senate Leadership Fund]] · [[SLF 342M Senate IE Reservation Program]] · [[No Going Back PAC]] - [[Independent Expenditure]] · [[Super PACs]] · [[Dark Money]] - [[2026 Senate Races Hub]] - [[Deals Hub]]