# New Leadership Now New Leadership Now is an independent-expenditure-only committee (super PAC) spending against the incumbent Democratic congressman Mike Thompson in California. | Item | Detail | |---|---| | FEC committee ID | **C00900993** | | Type | Super PAC (independent-expenditure only), unauthorized | | Address | 455 Market Street Suite 1400, San Francisco, California | | Treasurer | **Matthew Alvarez** | | First filed | **2025-03-31** | ## Money in Its only disclosed donor at or above $1,000,000.00 is [[Elisa Stad]] of Santa Barbara, at **$3,000,000.00** across two contributions (2026-02-17 and 2026-08-18). The aggregate column implies a further $500,000.00 below that floor. See [[Stad 1.5M to New Leadership Now August 2026]]. ## Money out Q3 2026 (file **2027242**, coverage 2026-07-01 to 2026-09-30): **$1,377,083.72** across **15 live Schedule E lines**, every one **opposing Mike Thompson**, with expenditure dates from September 8 to September 25. Vendors: Common Blue Strategies $1,349,083.72 (97.97%), HaystaqDNA LLC $25,000.00, Prospect Strategic Communications $3,000.00. A super PAC funded substantially by one individual, spending seven figures against a long-serving Democratic incumbent, is the less-covered half of the 2026 outside-money story: an intra-party contest fought with independent expenditures. ## See Also - [[Elisa Stad]] · [[Stad 1.5M to New Leadership Now August 2026]] - [[Independent Expenditure]] · [[Super PACs]]