Club for Growth Action

Political leanings: Republican/Conservative

2024 full spending: $89.8 million

Club for Growth Action, the ace PAC of the blimpish Club for Growth organization, was launched successful August 2010. It has taken credit for helping to elite conservatives specified arsenic Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Tim Scott of South Carolina.

On its website, the Club for Growth, which besides has a accepted governmental enactment committee, declares its ngo is to “take connected immoderate Member of Congress connected argumentation who fails to uphold basal economical blimpish principles … careless of party.” The radical says it adjacent opposes immoderate Republican incumbents successful superior elections successful bid to regenerate them with “free-market, constricted authorities conservatives.”

Club for Growth President David McIntosh told Fox News successful March that the organization’s extremity was to rise and walk $175 cardinal successful the 2026 predetermination cycle. “The nine plans to walk $75 cardinal connected Senate races, $55 cardinal connected House showdowns, $20 cardinal successful ballot container battles for governors, and $20 cardinal — mostly already spent — connected contented advocacy successful enactment of Trump’s taxation cuts, schoolhouse prime efforts and the propulsion for legislature redistricting,” Fox News reported.

As of Aug. 31, the ace PAC unsocial had raised much than $50 million, according to Federal Election Commission records. Its autarkic expenditures — spending for oregon against named candidates, without coordination with candidates oregon parties — totaled astir $5 cardinal astatine that point.

So far, astir of the super PAC’s spending has been connected ads supporting Republican candidates successful legislature races, including Jackson Lahmeyer, who has since dropped retired of the contention for Oklahoma’s 1st Congressional District; Rep. Clay Fuller, who’s moving for reelection successful Georgia’s 14th District; and Alexandra Mealer, who is moving successful Texas’ 9th District. The wealth spent opposing candidates has mostly been against Casey Askar, a Republican campaigner for Florida’s 22nd Congressional District, and Aftyn Behn, a Democrat who lost the peculiar predetermination successful Tennessee’s 7th District successful December.

In addition, the ace PAC contributed much than $4.5 cardinal to Win It Back PAC, an affiliated ace PAC.

As for its donors, overmuch of the Club for Growth Action’s wealth frankincense acold successful the 2026 rhythm has travel from 1 person: Jeff Yass, the co-founder of the fiscal steadfast Susquehanna International Group.

In the 2024 statesmanlike cycle, the ace PAC spent astir $89.8 million, including much than $18 cardinal successful autarkic expenditures and astir $58 cardinal successful contributions to different committees. That full was somewhat higher than the $89.3 million it spent during the past midterm rhythm successful 2022.

FactCheck.org Undergraduate Fellow Christine Sung contributed to this article. 

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