# Texas PAC 61.4M Texas Senate IE On **September 30, 2026**, [[Texas PAC]] — the committee through which the [[Senate Leadership Fund]] entered the Texas Senate general election — disclosed **$61,413,929.82** of independent expenditures in [[TX-Sen-2026]] in a single FEC 48-hour report. It is **larger than the $53,862,227.68 filing of September 14** that this vault already records as the first independent expenditure of the 2026 cycle to clear the Deals §7.4 single-buy floor. See [[Texas PAC 53.9M Texas Senate IE]]. Two of its nine line items exceed **$27 million each**, which makes this filing — not the September one — the largest disclosed independent-expenditure event in the vault. ## Terms | Item | Detail | |---|---| | Spender | **TEXAS PAC**, FEC committee **C00960211**, Austin TX | | Disclosed | FEC **48-hour** independent-expenditure report (**Form 24, file 2015764**), received **2026-09-30 at 17:30:00**, signed the same day by treasurer **Cabell Hobbs** | | Lines | **Nine** Schedule E rows, expenditure dates **2026-09-28 through 2026-10-01** | | Total | **$61,413,929.82** | | Split | **$31,698,353.66** supporting [[Ken Paxton]] / **$29,715,576.16** opposing [[James Talarico]] — within 3.3% of even | | Amendments | None. `F24N` original, zero amendment rows, zero memo rows | | Funding source | **Undisclosed.** Texas PAC is a quarterly filer and has reported no receipts; first disclosure **October 15, 2026** | ### The nine lines | Amount | Direction | Vendor | Purpose | Expenditure date | |---|---|---|---|---| | $28,257,946.72 | oppose Talarico | Flexpoint Media Inc | Media | 2026-09-29 | | $27,942,299.52 | support Paxton | Flexpoint Media Inc | Media | 2026-09-29 | | $2,983,131.98 | support Paxton | IMGE LLC | Digital media | 2026-09-29 | | $709,707.30 | oppose Talarico | IMGE LLC | Digital media | 2026-09-29 | | $373,961.08 | support Paxton | Goldfinch Partners LLC | Printing/postage | 2026-09-28 | | $373,961.07 | oppose Talarico | Goldfinch Partners LLC | Printing/postage | 2026-09-28 | | $373,961.08 | support Paxton | Goldfinch Partners LLC | Printing/postage | 2026-10-01 | | $373,961.07 | oppose Talarico | Goldfinch Partners LLC | Printing/postage | 2026-10-01 | | $25,000.00 | support Paxton | The Hereford Agency | Media production | 2026-09-29 | **$56,200,246.24 of the $61.4M — 91.5% — is the single Flexpoint Media pair.** The remaining 8.5% is digital, direct mail and one production invoice. The two Goldfinch pairs are matched to the cent on both dates, which is what an allocated shared-cost mail program looks like. > **On the threshold.** Deals §7.4 sets a **$10M single-buy** floor for a standalone independent-expenditure > Deal, and **§7.4a** (ruled 2026-09-27) treats a Form 24 notice whose lines sum to $10M or more as a single > buy whatever the line structure. This filing clears the bar on **both** readings, and the two Flexpoint > lines clear it individually at nearly three times over. Only Texas PAC has produced a line above $10M in > this cycle, and it has now done so on two separate filings. ## Texas PAC's election-to-date total: $131,529,652.10 Every row of file 2015764 carries a running aggregate of **$131,529,652.10**. Under the FEC Back-Sweep Standard **Rule 4c** an aggregate column may not be published as a race or committee total, because filers populate it three different ways and a single figure repeated across every row gives no way to tell which. **This one is nonetheless usable, because it reconciles independently.** The aggregate on Texas PAC's previous notice (file **2015252**, received 2026-09-26) was **$70,115,722.28**. Adding this filing: ``` $70,115,722.28 + $61,413,929.82 = $131,529,652.10 ``` — exactly, to the cent. The derived sum and the reported column agree, so the figure stands on arithmetic rather than on the column alone. Any page restating it should cite **both file numbers**, as this one does. ## Why it matters **It doubled the committee's disclosed spending in one filing.** Texas PAC went from $70.1M to $131.5M election-to-date in a single 48-hour notice, 34 days before the election. **Texas was never on the board.** [[Senate Leadership Fund]]'s April 2026 announcement committed $342 million across eight races — Ohio, North Carolina, Michigan, Georgia, Maine, Iowa, Alaska, New Hampshire. Texas is not one of them. This spending is **additive to** the largest single-cycle SLF commitment on record. See [[SLF 342M Senate IE Reservation Program]]. **The party has now spent $131.5M bailing out the nominee it spent the primary trying to stop.** Senate Republicans backed [[John Cornyn]] against [[Ken Paxton]] through the primary and the May 26 runoff, on the argument that Paxton's record would endanger a seat Republicans have held comfortably for thirty years. Both halves of that argument have been conceded in cash, and the bill has doubled since September 14. **Nobody learns who paid for it until October 15.** Texas PAC was stood up sixteen days before its first buy with a suite-number address and a quarterly filing schedule. Its first receipts report lands nineteen days before the election. The structure is the point: the money moves at 48-hour speed and the information about it moves at quarterly speed. ## Verification note **No independent confirmation of this filing existed at the time of writing** — it was received at 17:30 Eastern on September 30, so press coverage would be dated October 1 or later. CNN's September 29 report on the race as "a Republican money pit" is standing context that predates it. Under Rule 6, a receipt date is still settling on the day it is swept; this figure comes from the 2026-09-30 feed queried twice on 2026-10-01 with identical results, so it is a **first read** of a closed notice rather than of an open date. The notice total cannot grow — only the date's other filings can. ## Related money in this race See [[TX-Sen-2026]] for the full per-race spending log. The major channels, FEC-verified: - **[[Texas PAC]]** — **$131,529,652.10** election-to-date, derived above. This Deal and [[Texas PAC 53.9M Texas Senate IE]] are the two largest filings within it. - **[[MAGA Inc]]** — **$20,000,000** as of 2026-09-26, via Del Ray Media LLC throughout. Recorded at [[MAGA Inc 20M Texas Senate IE Program]]. - **[[Lone Star Liberty PAC]]** — **$17,472,295.00** via Armada Strategies. - **[[America PAC]]** — **$5,174,007.32** across 22 lines, heavily negative. - **[[No Going Back PAC]]** — see [[No Going Back PAC 29.1M National IE Program]]; its Texas lines carry an unresolved triple-reporting question recorded on that page. ## See Also - [[Texas PAC]] · [[Senate Leadership Fund]] · [[One Nation]] - [[TX-Sen-2026]] · [[Ken Paxton]] · [[James Talarico]] · [[John Cornyn]] · [[John Thune]] - [[Texas PAC 53.9M Texas Senate IE]] · [[MAGA Inc 20M Texas Senate IE Program]] · [[SLF 342M Senate IE Reservation Program]] - [[No Going Back PAC 29.1M National IE Program]] · [[No Going Back PAC]] - [[MAGA Inc]] · [[Lone Star Liberty PAC]] · [[America PAC]] - [[Independent Expenditure]] · [[Super PACs]] · [[Dark Money]] - [[2026 Senate Races Hub]] - [[Deals Hub]]