# No Going Back PAC 23.3M Multi-Race IE October 2026 On **October 8, 2026**, [[No Going Back PAC]] (FEC committee **C00960435**) disclosed **$23,305,834.34** of independent expenditures across **55 Schedule E lines**, covering **40 distinct candidates in 19 states**, in a single Form 24 notice — file **2018548**, an original (`F24N`) received at **18:55:46**. It is the **largest single independent-expenditure notice in the 2026-10-08 tranche** and the third notice above $23M this committee has filed in sixteen days. ## Terms | Item | Detail | |---|---| | Spender | **NO GOING BACK PAC INC.**, FEC committee **C00960435** | | Document | file **2018548**, form **F24N** (original), received **2026-10-08T18:55:46** | | Schedule E lines | **55** — 12 Senate, 43 House | | Candidates | **40**, in **19 states** (AK, AL, AZ, CA, FL, IA, KY, MI, MT, NC, NH, NJ, NM, OH, PA, SC, TX, VA, WA) | | Expenditure dates | **2026-10-07** (52 lines) and **2026-10-06** (3 lines) | | Support | **$5,966,812.49** across 15 lines | | Oppose | **$17,339,021.85** across 40 lines — **74.40%** of the notice | | Election codes | `G2026`, `O2026` | **Derived total: $5,966,812.49 + $17,339,021.85 = $23,305,834.34.** Arithmetic checked against the filed document. The aggregate column on these rows is recorded as what the document says and is **not a race or committee total**. ## Vendors | Payee | Amount | |---|---| | **[[Del Ray Media LLC]]** | **$14,110,252.00** | | [[MHB Media Inc]] | **$7,446,122.00** | | Storytellers Group LLC | $836,544.23 | | Optimates LLC | $537,900.34 | | Whistlestop Strategies LLC | $227,083.64 | | Creative Direct | $92,377.12 | | Caliber Contact | $55,555.01 | Two firms carry **92.47%** of the notice, and both now have pages: [[Del Ray Media LLC]] and [[MHB Media Inc]]. ⚠️ **Correction, 2026-10-09.** An earlier version of this page stated that MHB Media also appears on [[North Star]]. **It does not.** North Star's notices are placed through MVAR Media LLC and [[Waterfront Strategies]] (file 2016117), and the string "MHB" appears nowhere on that committee's page or filings. The vendor confusion was MVAR for MHB. MHB Media's third committee is **[[The Maine Standard]]** — see [[MHB Media Inc]], which traces all seven of its notices. ## The largest positions | Race | Direction | Candidate | Amount | Lines | |---|---|---|---|---| | [[MI-Sen-2026]] | oppose | [[Abdul El-Sayed]] | $2,810,412.71 | 2 | | [[OH-Sen-2026-Special]] | oppose | [[Sherrod Brown]] | $2,575,572.50 | 1 | | [[OH-Sen-2026-Special]] | **support** | [[Jon Husted]] | $2,575,572.50 | 1 | | [[NH-Sen-2026]] | oppose | [[Chris Pappas]] | $2,016,137.88 | 2 | | [[MI-Sen-2026]] | **support** | [[Mike Rogers]] | $2,013,032.52 | 2 | | [[NC-11-2026]] | oppose | [[Jamie Ager]] | $1,152,361.60 | 3 | | FL-14 | oppose | Kathy Castor | $957,383.92 | 3 | | [[MI-08-2026]] | oppose | [[Sean McCann]] | $911,060.00 | 1 | | [[AK-Sen-2026]] | **support** | [[Dan Sullivan]] | $868,130.50 | 2 | | [[AK-Sen-2026]] | oppose | [[Mary Peltola]] | $868,130.50 | 2 | **The mirrored-pair signature is intact and is the committee's tell.** Ohio takes **$2,575,572.50 against [[Sherrod Brown]] and $2,575,572.50 for [[Jon Husted]]** — identical to the cent, on the same vendor, in the same document. Alaska is mirrored at **$868,130.50** each way; so are AZ-06 ($46,188.56 each), SC-01 ($28,067.97 each), NJ-09 ($18,659.86 / $18,659.85) and FL-09 ($17,955.89 each). This is the same accounting pattern recorded at [[No Going Back PAC 28.5M Multi-Race IE September 2026]] and [[No Going Back PAC 29.1M National IE Program]] — a single media invoice split across the two sides of one race rather than two separately purchased programs. ## Why it matters - **The committee's third notice above $23M in sixteen days.** $28,504,057.95 on September 23, $29,094,225.24 on September 30, and now $23,305,834.34 on October 6–7 — **$80,904,117.53 across three Form 24 notices** from a committee that registered with the FEC on **September 1, 2026**. The run rate has not slowed; the mix has shifted toward the House, where 43 of the 55 lines land. - **The House is now where the volume is, and the Senate is where the dollars are.** 43 House lines carry **$9,578,845.23**; 12 Senate lines carry **$13,726,989.11**. **Thirty-five of the 55 lines sit under $250,000** — a breadth play, not a persuasion program. - **No broadcast placement is identifiable in it.** Every payee on the notice is a media-buying, direct-mail or contact firm. As with [[AFP Action 16.2M Senate Map IE October 2026]] and [[AB PAC 22.8M Billboard IE October 2026]], a buy of this size is **invisible to broadcast ad-tracking**, which is the data source nearly every mid-cycle outside-spending story is built on. ## Verification Every figure here traces to file **2018548** at `docquery.fec.gov/dcdev/posted/2018548.fec`, read as a raw filed document. The notice is an **original** (`F24N`, no amendment indicator), carries **no memo-coded rows** and is **not** a periodic report. 🔴 The 2026-10-08 tranche total is a **first read** of that receipt date. The figures on this page are the **second** query of the date (the feed moved from 493 to 494 filings and the tranche from $106,863,575.20 to $107,111,779.65 between reads), and **file 2018548's own total was identical to the cent on both reads**. No secondary press source for this notice existed at the time of writing. ## Related - [[No Going Back PAC]] · [[MAGA Inc]] · [[Del Ray Media LLC]] - [[No Going Back PAC 29.1M National IE Program]] · [[No Going Back PAC 28.5M Multi-Race IE September 2026]] - [[WinSenate 19.2M Senate Map IE October 2026]] — the Democratic-side notice in the same tranche - [[Independent Expenditure]] · [[Super PACs]] · [[Dark Money]]