“I'm proud to be the only candidate in this race that has never touched a corporate PAC check, and I never will, because I want to be committed to our communities and not corporate interests,” he said.
Congressional candidate Saikat Chakrabarti today donated $500,000 to support Proposition D, the June ballot measure that would raise taxes on large companies with wide pay gaps between executives and typical workers. This brings Chakrabarti's total giving to support Prop. D to $600,000, and the total supporting the measure to $2.5 million. No on D, which is backed by tech billionaires including Google co-founder Sergey Brin, venture capitalist Michael Moritz and crypto billionaire Chris Larsen, has amassed some $6.3 million.
GrowSF's PAC for Sherrill, along with its voter guide, has spent over $203,500 so far. Another PAC named Committee to Support Supervisor Stephen Sherrill spent $76,000 to support Sherrill. Its top donor is Diana L. Nelson, director of an investment firm, who gave $15,000. A labor PAC, Working Families for Stephen Sherrill for Supervisor 2026, also recently jumped into the District 2 race, spending $18,465 for Sherrill.
Chakrabarti is flooding the zone to get his name out: Filings show he has spent at least $8.8 million already - almost all of the money he's raised - taking out TV spots, cutting digital ads, mailing flyers, and doing whatever possible to edge out his progressive rival, District 1 supervisor Connie Chan.
The video starts with a burst of cheerful music, and a narrator praises congressional candidate Bushra Amiwala as a fighter for real economic justice and the real deal. But the video was not part of a genuine effort to get Amiwala elected to the United States House of Representatives. And the candidate quickly disavowed it. Instead, public records reviewed by Al Jazeera now show the commercial was paid for by a political action committee (PAC) associated with the largest pro-Israel lobby group in the US.
Last month, the people of Virginia voted to redistrict their congressional maps for the upcoming election in an effort to fight similar Republican gerrymandering tactics in Florida, Texas, and other red states. But almost as soon as citizens voted to give the state four more Democratic seats, the decision was contested, sent up to the Virginia Supreme Court, and struck down on a technicality.
Federal prosecutors say a Massachusetts state representative stole $36,000 from the Home Builders & Remodelers Association of Cape Cod while serving as the group’s executive officer between 2019 and 2024. Authorities say he used the money to pay mortgage bills, credit card debt, campaign expenses, menswear, home appliances, and “personal psychic services,” according to a press release.
Zach Sokoloff, who has spent eight years with Hackman Capital Partners, is making his first foray into elective politics, aiming to challenge Kenneth Mejia in the June 2 primary.
In the first three-and-a-half months of this year, Jones Dickson raised $297,418 in total contributions. Her biggest supporters include a number of current and former Alameda County prosecutors.
James Talarico, a Democratic Senate candidate in Texas, has raised a staggering $27 million so far this year, with California donors contributing just under $1.2 million to back his campaign - second only to Texas supporters among those donors whose names were disclosed.
Swalwell's campaign operation recorded two payments at the Hyatt Regency Grand Reserve Puerto Rico totaling $1,522.11 on June 7, 2021. An Instagram post from a wedding guest tagged that hotel as the location of Gallego's wedding that same day.
Van Orden (R-Prairie du Chien) raised more than $4.3 million in 2025 for the 2026 election, according to mandatory filings with the Federal Elections Commission. But most of that cash has come from joint fundraising committees like Grow the Majority and Defend the Majority, national organizations that can accept hundreds of thousands of dollars from donors and give hundreds of thousands to candidates.
The companies flooded the state's Democratic primaries with millions of dollars to promote candidates they believed would have a light touch when it came to regulating technologies that have begun to upend how people do their jobs and manage their finances. Using super PACs that are allowed to spend unlimited sums of money, they ran television advertising and distributed campaign fliers that only occasionally alluded to their industries.
