# Defend American Jobs 17.7M Ohio Nebraska Senate IE On **October 15, 2026**, **[[Defend American Jobs]]** — the Republican-side arm of the crypto industry's **[[Fairshake PAC]]** network — disclosed **$17,744,356.67** of independent expenditures across two Senate races, all of it dated **October 13, 2026**. Eight lines, one vendor of consequence, and **the first spending this site has recorded from this committee in [[NE-Sen-2026]]**. ## Terms | Item | Detail | |---|---| | Spender | **DEFEND AMERICAN JOBS**, FEC committee **C00836221**, 228 S Washington St Ste 115, Alexandria, Virginia | | Disclosed | FEC **Form 24**, 48-hour notice (**file 2025949**), received **October 15, 2026**, signed by treasurer Lisa Lisker | | Expenditure date | **October 13, 2026**, on every line | | Lines | **8**, none memo-coded | | Direction | **$13,886,907.82 opposing (78.26%)**, **$3,857,448.85 supporting (21.74%)** | ## Where it went | Race | Position | Amount | Lines | |---|---|---|---| | [[OH-Sen-2026-Special]] | oppose [[Sherrod Brown]] | **$7,162,997.86** | 3 | | [[NE-Sen-2026]] | oppose [[Dan Osborn]] | **$6,723,909.96** | 2 | | [[OH-Sen-2026-Special]] | support [[Jon Husted]] | **$3,857,448.85** | 3 | Ohio accounts for **$11,020,446.71** of the notice and Nebraska for **$6,723,909.96**. ## Vendors | Vendor | Amount | |---|---| | Main Street Media Group | $17,706,956.67 | | Dockside Strategies LLC | $37,400.00 | Main Street Media Group places **99.79%** of it, the same concentration seen on this committee's earlier Ohio notices. ## Nebraska is new here This is the first appearance of **[[Defend American Jobs]]** in the Nebraska Senate race in this site's record, and it is a large one: **$6.72 million against [[Dan Osborn]]** in a single notice, eighteen days before the vote. Osborn is running as an independent against the incumbent **[[Pete Ricketts]]**, and the race has already drawn **[[Nebraska Values PAC]]**, a committee funded from out of state that is spending *against* Ricketts. The crypto network's money arrives on the other side of that. The running-total column on the Nebraska lines reads $6,710,959.96, slightly *below* the sum of the two rows it sits on. That column's meaning is set by the filer rather than by the form, so it is recorded here and not used as a race total; the race figure above is the sum of the document's own lines. ## Why it matters The Fairshake network's stated interest is digital-asset regulation, and its pattern this cycle has been to spend heavily in a small number of races on both sides of the aisle. Nebraska has no obvious crypto policy stake and no crypto-identified candidate. What it has is a three-way race in which an independent has been polling competitively against a sitting Republican senator — which makes this buy read as a decision about Senate control rather than about digital assets, and worth watching for whether a second notice follows. ## See Also - [[Fairshake PAC]] · [[Digital Freedom Fund]] · [[Defend American Jobs 11M Ohio Senate IE October 2026]] · [[Defend American Jobs 12.1M Ohio Senate IE]] - [[OH-Sen-2026-Special]] · [[Sherrod Brown]] · [[Jon Husted]] - [[NE-Sen-2026]] · [[Dan Osborn]] · [[Pete Ricketts]] · [[Nebraska Values PAC]] - [[Independent Expenditure]] · [[Super PACs]] · [[Dark Money]]