# WinSenate 23.7M Senate Map IE October 2026 On **October 1, 2026**, **[[WinSenate]]** — the Senate Democrats' independent-expenditure super PAC, FEC committee **C00865444** — disclosed **$23,670,639.55** across **20 Schedule E lines** in **seven Senate races**, every line dated **September 29, 2026**. It is the largest single Form 24 notice in the 2026-10-01 tranche and the largest Democratic-side independent expenditure recorded in this vault. It is this committee's **second** notice above $20M in eight days; see [[WinSenate 21.2M Senate Map IE September 2026]]. ## Terms | Item | Detail | |---|---| | Spender | **WINSENATE**, FEC committee **C00865444**, 1032 15th St NW Ste 247, Washington DC | | Disclosed | FEC **48-hour** notice (**Form 24, F24N, file 2016120**), received **2026-10-01 20:05:58**, signed by treasurer **Rebecca Lambe** | | Expenditure date | **2026-09-29** (all 20 lines) | | Election code | **G2026** | | Direction | **$20,822,087.02 oppose (88.0%)** · **$2,848,552.53 support (12.0%)** | | Primary vendor | **Waterfront Strategies** — $19,664,307.45, or **83%** of the notice | | Other vendors | AL Media LLC $2,614,370.00 · MVAR Media LLC $834,370.53 · Trilogy Interactive LLC $542,000.00 · MPWR Media Strategies LLC $15,591.57 | | Memo-flagged rows | **None** | | Amendment status | Original, **F24N** | ## The buy, by race | Race | Target | Direction | Amount | Lines | |---|---|---|---|---| | [[OH-Sen-2026-Special]] | [[Jon Husted]] | oppose | **$5,033,439.93** | 1 | | [[MI-Sen-2026]] | Michael Rogers | oppose | $3,755,256.51 | 3 | | [[IA-Sen-2026]] | [[Ashley Hinson]] | oppose | $3,335,764.07 | 6 | | [[ME-Sen-2026]] | [[Susan Collins]] | oppose | $3,057,176.41 | 2 | | [[NH-Sen-2026]] | John Sununu | oppose | $2,677,610.24 | 2 | | [[NC-Sen-2026]] | [[Michael Whatley]] | oppose | $2,408,792.36 | 1 | | [[MI-Sen-2026]] | [[Abdul El-Sayed]] | **support** | $2,014,557.00 | 1 | | [[ME-Sen-2026]] | [[Troy Jackson]] | **support** | $833,995.53 | 3 | | [[AK-Sen-2026]] | [[Dan Sullivan]] | oppose | $554,047.50 | 1 | **Seven states, nine positions, one expenditure date.** Michigan and Maine are the only races the committee plays on both sides of; the other five are purely negative. > [!warning] The aggregate column on this filing is not a race total > Per FEC Back-Sweep Standard **Rule 4c**, the Schedule E aggregate column is populated three different ways > depending on the filer and **cannot be read as a race or committee figure**. The aggregates carried on > these rows run from $2,534,964.73 to $26,756,857.78, and this notice's Michigan rows carry the same > $15,771,798.56 on both the support and the oppose side — i.e. a per-race, not per-candidate, running > figure. Any election-to-date number must be derived by summing this committee's own filings and citing the > file numbers. ## Why it matters **The Ohio collision.** The single largest line in this notice — $5,033,439.93 against [[Jon Husted]] — was filed on the same day, for the same expenditure date, as **$12,121,214.69 supporting Husted** from the crypto industry's Defend American Jobs. Combined with [[Senate Leadership Fund]]'s $494,725.82 against [[Sherrod Brown]], **$17,649,380.44 went into the Ohio Senate special from those three committees alone** for expenditures dated September 29, and the crypto money was 2.4 times the size of the Democratic buy. Smaller lines from other committees push the full race-date figure a little higher; re-derive before quoting it. See [[Defend American Jobs 12.1M Ohio Senate IE]]. **The map is the same map as the Republican one.** Six of the seven states here — OH, MI, IA, ME, NH, NC — are on [[Senate Leadership Fund]]'s eight-race April reservation list recorded at [[SLF 342M Senate IE Reservation Program]]. Alaska is the seventh on both. Neither side is spending in Texas through its Senate committee; that race runs through separate vehicles ([[Texas PAC]] on one side). **One media buyer carries 83% of it.** Waterfront Strategies placed $19.66M of the $23.67M. The same buyer also placed this committee's September notice and two of its sibling committees' October notices — see the shared-shop note below. > [!note] One address, four committees, one buyer > Three other super PACs filed Form 24 notices on 2026-10-01 from the **same address as WinSenate** — > 1032 15th Street NW, Suite 247, Washington DC — and two of them carry the **same treasurer of record**: > > | Committee | FEC ID | Treasurer | Notice | Amount | Buyer | > |---|---|---|---|---|---| > | WinSenate | C00865444 | Rebecca Lambe | 2016120 | $23,670,639.55 | Waterfront Strategies | > | The Georgia Way | C00953398 | Rebecca Lambe | 2016118 | $1,428,150.53 | Waterfront Strategies | > | North Star | C00957522 | Rebecca Lambe | 2016117 | $1,345,262.45 | MVAR Media, Waterfront Strategies | > | Texas Forever | C00962308 | Kris Koob | 2016119 | $2,113,210.00 | Gambit Strategies | > > That is **$28,557,262.53 from one suite number on one day**, across four committees, three of them > state-branded. It is the Democratic-side mirror of the pattern recorded at > [[State-Branded Super PAC Template]], and **Texas Forever** — first notice, $2.11M against > [[Ken Paxton]] — is the newest member of it. > [!note] Follow-on notice, 2026-10-03 > WinSenate filed again two days later — **Form 24 file 2016676, $3,838,759.49 across four lines**, > expenditure date 2026-10-01, **99.7% negative**, and with **no Waterfront Strategies placement at all**: > $2,297,599.57 against [[Jon Husted]] via C Plus K LLC, $1,500,000.00 against [[Ashley Hinson]] via > Trilogy Interactive LLC, $28,984.00 against [[Mike Rogers (Michigan)]], and $12,175.92 supporting > [[Troy Jackson]]. It sits below the §7.4a single-buy floor, so it is logged on [[WinSenate]] and on the > race files rather than given a Deal page. The Iowa line is the first independent expenditure opposing > [[Ashley Hinson]] recorded in this vault, and the Ohio line was placed through the same buyer > [[Duty and Country]] used against the same candidate on the same day — see [[OH-Sen-2026-Special]]. > Source: `docquery.fec.gov/dcdev/posted/2016676.fec` ## See Also - [[WinSenate]] · [[WinSenate 21.2M Senate Map IE September 2026]] · [[Duty and Country]] - [[Defend American Jobs 12.1M Ohio Senate IE]] · [[Fairshake PAC]] - [[OH-Sen-2026-Special]] · [[MI-Sen-2026]] · [[IA-Sen-2026]] · [[ME-Sen-2026]] · [[NH-Sen-2026]] · [[NC-Sen-2026]] · [[AK-Sen-2026]] - [[Jon Husted]] · [[Susan Collins]] · [[Michael Whatley]] · [[Dan Sullivan]] · [[Ashley Hinson]] · [[Abdul El-Sayed]] · [[Troy Jackson]] - [[Senate Leadership Fund]] · [[SLF 342M Senate IE Reservation Program]] · [[State-Branded Super PAC Template]] - [[Independent Expenditure]] · [[Super PACs]] - [[2026 Senate Races Hub]] - [[Deals Hub]]