# AB PAC **FEC committee C00492140** — the federal **Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account)** through which **American Bridge 21st Century** makes independent expenditures. First filed **2010-11-23**. This page is the **committee-level** page. It exists because money findings from the FEC e-file feed attach to a committee ID, and this committee's filings are the primary record for American Bridge's electoral spending. The organisation was founded in 2010 by **[[David Brock]]** and Bradley Beychok as an opposition-research shop; Brock is no longer actively involved. ## What is on the record | Item | Detail | |---|---| | FEC committee ID | **C00492140** | | Filed name | AB PAC | | Committee type | Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) — Nonqualified | | Designation | Unauthorized | | Treasurer | **[[Rodell Mollineau]]** | | Address | 800 Maine Ave SW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20024 | | First filed | **2010-11-23** | | Largest notice recorded here | **Form 24, `F24N`, file 2018051**, received **2026-10-07T19:59:53** | | That notice | **$22,762,650.41**, 253 Schedule E lines, 77 candidate positions, 29 states, expenditure date 2026-10-05, election code G2026 | | Direction on that notice | **100.00% support / 0.00% oppose** | | Primary payee | **[[AdQuick]]** — $16,826,517.86, or **73.9%** of the notice | | Other payees | [[Lamar Companies]] $3,717,894.30 · Target Platform $2,188,997.50 · Berni Consulting LLC $29,240.75 | | Purpose concentration | **99.87% "Billboard Advertising"** | | Memo-flagged rows | **None** | | Amendment status | Original, **`F24N`** | Recorded in full at [[AB PAC 22.8M Billboard IE October 2026]]. ## Why it matters **It is the vault's only billboard spender at scale, and that makes it invisible to the ad trackers.** Published outside-spending figures come from broadcast and digital monitoring. A $22.76M out-of-home buy appears in none of it. See [[AB PAC 22.8M Billboard IE October 2026]]. **Its October notice is 100% positive**, which has no counterpart in this vault — and is unexpected from an organisation built as an opposition-research operation. **The escalation.** *Inside Political Money* reported on **2026-09-25** that AB PAC had raised **$47.3M** toward a **"record $50 million paid media program"**, had spent $46.3M cycle-to-date including **$8.5M of independent expenditures**, and held **$3M cash on hand** as of 2026-08-31. The single notice five weeks later is **2.7× that entire cycle IE total**. > [!note] Open questions > - **Receipts.** No Form 3X for C00492140 has been read here. The $31M attributed by *Inside Political > Money* to the AB Foundation ($16.6M), Deborah Simon ($5M), Democracy PAC ($4M) and Democracy Matters > ($5.5M) is **secondary-source only** and is not verified against a filing on this page. > - **The AB Foundation** — a 501(c)(4) reported at $74.6M of 2024 revenue that transfers to this > committee and discloses no donors. > - **Cycle-to-date.** Not derived; it can only be summed from this committee's own filings, and > the Q3 report (due 2026-10-15) will restate the October notice's 253 lines. ## See Also - [[AB PAC 22.8M Billboard IE October 2026]] - [[AdQuick]] · [[Lamar Companies]] · [[Rodell Mollineau]] · [[David Brock]] - [[AFP Action]] — the Republican-side committee whose October notices are invisible for the same reason in a different medium - [[Independent Expenditure]] · [[Super PACs]] · [[Dark Money]] - [[Organizations Hub]]