# America PAC **America PAC** is the super PAC funded principally by [[Elon Musk]] — distinct from Trump's [[Save America PAC]] — and the most consequential single-donor political vehicle of the 2024–2026 cycle. Its significance is not the money alone. It is that America PAC replaced a party function with a private one. ## What it actually does Most super PACs buy advertising, because advertising is what outside money is legally comfortable doing. America PAC's distinguishing feature in 2024 was that it took over **field operations** — door-knocking, canvasser payment, voter-file work, and turnout targeting in swing states — the ground game that party committees have historically owned. It spent **$261.3 million** in the 2024 cycle doing it ($173.7M of that as independent expenditures, per FEC), nearly all of it Musk's money. Musk put in **$249.75 million**: $197.7M in cash plus about $52.1M in in-kind petition payments made by his corporation [[United States of America Inc]]. The widely quoted "$239 million" was Musk's contribution total as of the Nov. 25, 2024 filing, not the PAC's spending. See [[Elon Musk Political Donations]] for the receipted ledger. and Trump's senior political adviser James Blair described it as *"an essential partner for our historic GOTV operation in 2024."* That is the structural fact worth holding. When a party outsources its turnout machine to a vehicle funded by one person, the donor is not buying influence at the margin; he is holding an operational asset the party now depends on and cannot quickly rebuild. The leverage that creates is qualitatively different from the leverage of a large check. The 2024 operation also produced the vault's clearest case of a super PAC testing the boundary of what may be given to voters directly: $47 per referral for swing-state petition signatures ($100 to both signer and referrer in Pennsylvania), and a $1-million-a-day prize that its own lawyers told a court was not random. See [[America PAC $1 Million Petition Sweepstakes]] and [[McAferty v. Musk]]. The field program had its own scandal. Out-of-state canvassers for subcontractor [[Blitz Canvassing]] in Michigan were hauled in seatless U-Hauls under door quotas, and an all-Black crew was fired and left stranded after talking to the press. See [[America PAC Canvassing Scandal]]. The petition-and-prize template returned for the [[2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court Election]]. The full chronology is in [[America PAC Timeline]]. ## 2026 America PAC stayed active through the off-year cycle — roughly **$47.3 million in the first half of 2026**, including the April 1 Wisconsin Supreme Court election and the Florida House special elections, with $1.6 million in disclosed Musk contributions in March. The main event is the midterms. Reporting in late July 2026 put Musk's planned commitment at **at least $100 million and as much as $120 million**, across a reported eight states, running through the November 3 election. The declared method is the 2024 method: door-knocking, digital advertising, and direct mail aimed at low-propensity conservative voters — the exact demographic that turns out for a presidential race and stays home for a midterm. If it works, it is a partial answer to the structural problem that has cost the president's party the House in most modern midterms. Two things make the 2026 spending more interesting than the 2024 spending. **The reconciliation.** Musk and [[Donald Trump]] fell out publicly after Musk's [[DOGE]] tenure, and Musk spent part of 2025 talking about founding a third party. He is now spending nine figures to elect the president's congressional majority. Whatever the third-party talk was, it was not a durable exit. **The procurement overlap.** The commitment was reported alongside Musk's federal contracting position, including a $1.6 billion Space Force award to [[SpaceX]]. The vault does not assert a transaction — there is no evidence of one — but it records the structure, because it is the same structure documented at [[1789 Capital]]: the political spending and the federal revenue are not connected by any traceable exchange, and they do not need to be for the alignment to be worth tracking. ## Receipt date 2026-10-06 — $5,423,645.66 across 114 lines and 49 races in one notice America PAC filed the **largest single Form 24 notice of that e-file receipt date** (file **2017609**, received 2026-10-06 21:04:52, signed by **Chris Young**, PO Box 341027 Austin TX). It is the second such tranche inside one week, which **fires the trigger this vault's 2026-09-26 sweep set** on exactly that question. | Dimension | Figure | |---|---| | Schedule E lines | **114**, all live — 0 memo, 0 amended | | Total | **$5,423,645.66** | | Races touched | **49** across 16 states, Senate and House | | Election code | `G2026` | | Expenditure dates | 2026-10-04 through **2026-10-19** — forward-dated up to 13 days | | Largest race | TX-Sen, **$1,879,684.33** opposing [[James Talarico]], 8 lines | ### Top race allocations | Race | Amount | Direction | Lines | |---|---|---|---| | TX-Sen | $1,879,684.33 | oppose [[James Talarico]] | 8 | | OH-Sen | $1,189,225.34 | oppose [[Sherrod Brown]] | 7 | | IA-Sen | $369,838.84 | oppose [[Josh Turek]] | 6 | | MI-Sen | $318,028.58 | oppose Abdul El-Sayed | 6 | | MI-Sen | $299,345.51 | support [[Mike Rogers]] | 6 | | OH-Sen | $107,504.72 | support Jon Husted | 5 | | TX-Sen | $46,308.33 | support Warren Paxton | 6 | ### One vendor took 73.9% | Payee | Amount | Share | |---|---|---| | **IMGE LLC** | **$4,005,923.32** | **73.9%** | | Connection Strategy LLC | $549,118.16 | 10.1% | | Storytellers Group LLC | $427,544.18 | 7.9% | | Fundamental Digital Strategy LLC | $310,980.00 | 5.7% | | Red Maverick Media LLC | $130,080.00 | 2.4% | Two of these — **Connection Strategy LLC** and **Storytellers Group LLC** — are also buyers for [[Sentinel Action Fund]], per its FEC filings received 2026-10-04 and 2026-10-05. That is a procurement overlap between a Musk-aligned committee and a Heritage-descended one; nothing in the filings establishes anything beyond a shared vendor. **Below the $10M threshold, and worth stating why.** At $5.42M the notice is a little over half of the $10M single-buy floor, so it does **not** get its own Deal page. What makes it notable is shape rather than size: **49 races in one document**, which is the broadest single notice recorded on this site, and a spend profile — digital and mail through one firm, no broadcast placement — that **ad-tracking data cannot see.** That is the same blind spot the AFP Action mail programme exposed on 2026-10-04. No aggregate on the document is used as a race or committee total. This is a first read of receipt date 2026-10-06, queried twice on 2026-10-07 with results identical to the cent. Source: `docquery.fec.gov/dcdev/posted/2017609.fec` ## votesafe.org — the registration site that is a data-collection program (September 2026) In early September 2026 America PAC began running a large advertising campaign in swing states urging people to **check their voter registration status at "votesafe.org"** rather than at **vote.gov**, the official federal registration portal. [[Judd Legum]] of *Popular Information* published the teardown on 8 September; *Snopes* independently confirmed the data flows in a fact check. What the site does: - **It collects far more than a registration lookup requires** — full name, home address, date of birth, email address, mobile number, IP address and derived location, registration status, and a page-by-page record of what the visitor clicked. - **It transmits to third parties in real time.** Street addresses are sent to Facebook and Google; names, emails, phone numbers, ZIP codes and dates of birth go to an America PAC server feeding Facebook's ad-matching system, which resolves them to Facebook and [[Instagram]] accounts. - **The privacy policy was rewritten** to remove language limiting use of the data, and now permits America PAC to **"share" or "sell"** personal information — including whether a person is registered and, "where permitted by law," how they submit their vote — to "business partners." - **It claims the right to sell inferences**, described in the policy as a profile of a user's "preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities and aptitude." ⭐ **The structural point.** America PAC's stated 2024 innovation was replacing a party's turnout operation with a private one. This is the next step: a **privately owned voter file assembled from voters themselves**, under a civic pretext, outside the disclosure and custody rules that govern state voter rolls — and resellable. The [[Election Assistance Commission]], the independent federal agency in this space, has no authority over a private site that never registers anyone. ⭐ **It is not one site — it is a platform other groups run on.** Legum reported the same underlying system serving two further operations: the [[Sentinel Action Fund]] registration page at `register.sentinelactionfund.com`, a white-label run by the super PAC that grew out of [[Heritage Action]]; and [[Ready to Register]], a bulk-mail operation whose site code names America PAC in its consent language and which drew a formal warning from the [[North Carolina State Board of Elections]] on 1 July 2026. One collection funnel, three civic-looking front doors, two of them belonging to nominally unrelated organizations. This is the same capability the surveillance-and-data critique of [[DOGE]] identified from the government side. Data acquired through a public-looking front, held privately, is the through-line. ## Why it matters for the KB America PAC is where **single-donor politics stops being about money and starts being about infrastructure**. Campaign-finance analysis is built to measure dollars, and by that measure Musk is one large donor among several. By the measure that matters — who owns the turnout operation a national party depends on — he is in a category with no other private individual. Track it alongside the broader billionaire-spending picture of the 2026 cycle, in which close to 80 cents of every billionaire dollar has gone to Republicans. ## See Also - [[Elon Musk]] — the funder - [[America PAC Timeline]] — 2024–2026 chronology - [[America PAC $1 Million Petition Sweepstakes]] · [[McAferty v. Musk]] · [[America PAC Canvassing Scandal]] · [[Blitz Canvassing]] - [[2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court Election]] — the 2025 sequel - [[Save America PAC]] — the Trump vehicle it is often confused with - [[Dark Money]] — the disclosure regime it operates inside - [[SpaceX]] — the federal-contracting side of the same portfolio - [[DOGE]] — the tenure that preceded the falling-out - [[2026 Midterms Hub]] — the cycle it is spending into - [[Election Assistance Commission]] — the federal agency whose registration portal votesafe.org routes around - [[Sentinel Action Fund]] — the Heritage-lineage super PAC reported to run the same registration system - [[Ready to Register]] — the bulk-mail operation whose site code names America PAC