# Fresh Start SC PAC An independent-expenditure-only super PAC with a **South Carolina name and a Dallas, Texas address**, which on **2026-10-09** made [[SC-Sen-2026]] a competitive-money race for the first time in this vault's record. ## What the FEC record says | Item | Detail | |---|---| | FEC committee ID | **C00948869** | | Committee type | **Super PAC (Independent Expenditure-Only)**, Unauthorized | | First filed | **2026-04-29** | | Address of record | Dallas TX | | Treasurer | Cassie Tinsmon | | State of record | **TX** | ## The one notice on the record **Form 24, file 2018814**, `F24N`, received **2026-10-09**, expenditure dates **2026-10-07 and 2026-10-08**, election code `G2026`. Eight Schedule E lines. | Direction | Candidate | Amount | Lines | |---|---|---|---| | **oppose** | [[Darline Graham]] (R) | **$1,626,538.20** | 4 | | **support** | [[Annie Andrews]] (D) | **$870,750.47** | 4 | | | **Derived total** | **$2,497,288.67** | 8 | | Payee | Amount | |---|---| | **[[Waterfront Strategies]]** | **$2,481,650.00** | | MVAR Media LLC | $15,638.67 | **34.9% of the money is positive** — an unusually high support share for any committee in this window, and the opposite posture from the Republican-side committees filing the same day. `F24N` original, zero memo rows, all eight lines live. ## Why it matters **[[SC-Sen-2026]] was not a money race until this filing.** The seat became open when [[Lindsey Graham]] died in office on **July 11, 2026**, having already won the June primary; Cook rates it **Likely R**. Before 2026-10-09 the only outside spending the vault had recorded there was $630,650.06 of AB PAC billboards on 2026-10-07. On one receipt date the race took **$4,289,535.27**, from four committees: | Committee | File | Amount | Posture | |---|---|---|---| | **Fresh Start SC PAC** | 2018814 | **$2,497,288.67** | pro-Andrews / anti-Graham | | SLF PAC | 2019082 | **$1,550,005.20** | anti-Andrews — **its first South Carolina expenditure** | | Security Is Strength PAC | 2019097 | $242,241.40 | anti-Andrews | | (MVAR lines, both sides) | 2018814 | included above | — | So the Democratic-aligned committee arrived first in the day's filings and the Senate Republicans' flagship super PAC answered on the same receipt date. See [[SLF 26M Senate IE October 2026]]. **[[Waterfront Strategies]] placed 99.4% of this notice**, which puts South Carolina inside the same single-vendor concentration the vault measured on [[IA-Sen-2026]] and on [[House Majority PAC 21.9M House IE October 2026]]. 🔴 **What is not established.** No funder is disclosed. The committee has filed since April and its Form 3X receipts have not been read. The Texas address with a South Carolina name is the state-branded pattern this vault has catalogued repeatedly and is **not** by itself evidence of out-of-state control. ## Watch - **A second notice**, which would make this a programme rather than one buy. - **Its Form 3X receipts** — the only route to a funder before 2027. - **A second committee at 3723 Greenville Ave Ste 41077, Dallas**, an address new to this vault. ## Sources - FEC Form 24, file 2018814 — `https://docquery.fec.gov/dcdev/posted/2018814.fec` - FEC committee record, C00948869