# Tim Dunn 1.3M to Protecting America's Future **[[Protecting America's Future]]**, FEC committee **C00890608**, disclosed **$1,300,000.00** from **[[Tim Dunn]]** on its **Q3 2026 Form 3X** — file **2020247**, `F3XN`, received **2026-10-13T01:23:28** (FEC local time), coverage 2026-07-01 to 2026-09-30, signed by treasurer Jason D. Boles on 2026-10-12. It is **the first itemised federal contribution at or above $1,000,000.00 from Tim Dunn recorded in this vault**, and it clears the Deals design doc **§7** individual-contribution floor on a single row. ## Terms | Item | Detail | |---|---| | Contributor | **Tim Dunn**, filed as `DUNN, TIMOTHY`, occupation **CEO**, employer **CrownQuest**, PO Box 52268, Midland TX | | Recipient | **Protecting America's Future**, FEC **C00890608**, Super PAC (IE-only), first filed 2024-10-02, 1401 Lavaca Street #929, Austin TX 78701 | | Row | `SA11AI` — **$1,300,000.00**, contribution date **2026-08-05**, aggregate on the row **$1,300,000.00** | | Election named on the report | **2026-11-03**, state **TX** | | Disclosed | FEC **Form 3X**, Q3 2026, **file 2020247** | ### The recipient's whole quarter, reconciled | Line | Figure | |---|---| | Total receipts, 2026-07-01 to 2026-09-30 | **$1,302,000.00** | | Line 11(a), individuals | **$1,300,000.00** — all of it Tim Dunn, on one row | | Line 15, offsets to operating expenditures | $2,000.00 | | Line 11(c), other political committees | **$0.00** | | Total disbursements | $822,136.03 | | Independent expenditure this period | $798,054.97 | | Cash on hand, 2026-09-30 | **$557,420.31** | **Tim Dunn is 99.85% of the quarter.** There is no second contributor on the document at any amount. ### What it bought The quarter's Schedule E payees, from the same document — all of it against **[[James Talarico]]** in [[TX-Sen-2026]], digital rather than broadcast: | Payee | Amount | Rows | |---|---|---| | Digital Room LLC | $344,558.60 | 11 | | Digital Corporate Companies Inc. | $251,038.06 | 1 | | Political Communications Advertising | $102,249.60 | 1 | | Simplifi Holdings LLC | $60,000.00 | 1 | | Hein Strategies | $40,208.71 | 2 | A further **$132,841.94** across 11 rows carries the Rule 4d memo code and restates dollars itemised elsewhere in the same document — Digital Room LLC ($116,986.44), Hein Strategies ($11,002.61) and Peerly ($4,852.89). > [!note] Rule 4h — the Schedule E on this document is a restatement > The report's $798,054.97 of independent expenditure restates notices already filed and is excluded from > the 2026-10-13 tranche's new-money total. **New spending did arrive on the same receipt date**: file > **2020945** carries **$60,966.89** opposing James Talarico through Hein Strategies, and that figure is > logged on [[TX-Sen-2026]] as new money. ## Why it matters **It puts Texas's largest far-right funder into the federal Senate race on the record, in one row.** The vault's [[Tim Dunn]] page documents a machine built almost entirely at state level — Empower Texans, Defend Texas Liberty PAC, the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Texas legislative primaries. This is the same money in a **federal** super PAC, spending in a **general election** against a Democratic Senate nominee, disclosed 21 days before the vote. **It is a one-donor committee, and the donor is the whole committee.** Protecting America's Future has no other contributor of any size on its Q3 report. Everything it has bought since July — $798,054.97 of anti-Talarico digital advertising, plus $60,966.89 more on 2026-10-13 — is Tim Dunn's money with a committee name on the invoice. **The channel is unusual for the race.** [[TX-Sen-2026]] has been dominated by eight-figure broadcast notices — [[MAGA Inc]], Texas PAC, Senate Leadership Fund — placed by large media firms. This programme is digital, built out of Digital Room LLC and three other firms that appear nowhere else in this vault, at roughly 1/60th the scale. It is the first distinctly **digital-only** independent-expenditure vehicle recorded in the race. ## Open questions - Whether Dunn's long-time co-funder **Farris Wilks** appears on any federal committee this cycle; he does not appear on this document. - **Digital Room LLC** and **Digital Corporate Companies Inc.**, which placed $595,596.66 between them and have no page in this vault. - Whether the committee's $557,420.31 of cash on hand is spent before 2026-11-03. - Whether it files in any race other than [[TX-Sen-2026]]. ## See Also - [[Tim Dunn]] · [[Protecting America's Future]] - [[TX-Sen-2026]] · [[James Talarico]] · [[Ken Paxton]] - [[Independent Expenditure]] · [[Super PACs]] · [[Dark Money]] - [[Deals Hub]]