# Defend American Jobs **Defend American Jobs** (FEC committee **C00836221**) is the Republican-facing independent-expenditure committee of the cryptocurrency industry's **[[Fairshake PAC]]** network. Treasurer of record: Lisa Lisker, of the compliance firm Huckaby Davis Lisker. Three of its independent-expenditure programmes already have pages here: [[Defend American Jobs 12.1M Ohio Senate IE]], [[Defend American Jobs 11M Ohio Senate IE October 2026]] and [[Defend American Jobs 17.7M Ohio Nebraska Senate IE]]. ## September 2026, from the committee's own report Read from Form 3X file **2033141**, coverage 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-30, received 2026-10-20. | Line | Figure | |---|---| | Cash on hand, 2026-09-01 | $5,659,903.73 | | Total receipts | **$24,500,000.00** | | Total disbursements | $24,596,351.68 | | Cash on hand, 2026-09-30 | $5,563,552.05 | **One payer is 100% of the month.** Two `SA12` transfers from **[[Fairshake PAC]]**: **$9,500,000.00** on 2026-09-15 and **$15,000,000.00** on 2026-09-23. There is no other contributor of any size on the document. That is the designed structure rather than a concentration risk: Fairshake is the industry's pooled vehicle, funded by crypto firms and their principals, and Defend American Jobs is the arm through which it spends on Republican candidates. Both are federal filers, so the money is traceable in both directions — which distinguishes this from the undisclosed funding chains elsewhere on this site. ## Where it went The report carries **$24,339,162.68** of Schedule E independent expenditure, including a single **$11,343,601.80** line dated 2026-09-29 supporting **[[Jon Husted]]** in [[OH-Sen-2026-Special]], placed through **Main Street Media Group**. It is among the largest single advertising lines recorded on this site. > [!note] Already disclosed > All eight Schedule E lines on this report — the full $24,339,162.68 — restate expenditures the > committee had already filed on 24- and 48-hour notices earlier in the cycle, verified line by line > against files 2015094, 2016127 and 2018533. **Nothing on this document is new spending**, and it is not > an addition to the programmes already recorded on the Deal pages above. What is new is the funding > side: the two Fairshake transfers. ## What to watch - Whether Fairshake sends a further transfer before election day. - The committee's October reports, and whether its spending moves beyond Ohio. ## See Also - [[Fairshake PAC]] · [[OH-Sen-2026-Special]] · [[Jon Husted]] - [[Defend American Jobs 12.1M Ohio Senate IE]] · [[Defend American Jobs 11M Ohio Senate IE October 2026]] · [[Defend American Jobs 17.7M Ohio Nebraska Senate IE]] - [[Super PACs]] · [[Independent Expenditure]] · [[Dark Money]] - [[Donor Network Hub]] · [[2026 Midterms Hub]] ## 🔴 2026-10-20 — $13.2 million, and the first money into Nebraska **File 2035244** (`F24N`, received 2026-10-21T19:41:23) carries **$13,190,436.12** across six Schedule E lines, all dated 2026-10-20: | Race | Candidate | Direction | Amount | |---|---|---|---| | [[OH-Sen-2026-Special]] | [[Sherrod Brown]] | oppose | $6,812,202.00 | | [[NE-Sen-2026]] | [[Dan Osborn]] | **oppose** | **$4,102,032.12** | | [[OH-Sen-2026-Special]] | [[Jon Husted]] | support | $2,276,202.00 | Nearly all of it ran through **Main Street Media Group** ($13,157,882.12). 🔴 **The Nebraska line is new.** This committee's prior notices on the site were Ohio-only; $4.1 million against [[Dan Osborn]] is its first material commitment to [[NE-Sen-2026]], where the anti-Osborn money had until now arrived through [[Nebraska Values PAC]] and its undisclosed funders. See [[Defend American Jobs 13.2M Ohio Nebraska IE October 2026]].