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Follow the Money Tools for US Midterms
12 October 2026 at 13:40
Two things I've been playing around with: https://paidforby.info/ Photograph your mail. If your material involves a federal race, the app will immediately give you detailed information about who is paying for it. For state and local races, a Popular Information journalist will review your submission. And https://midterms.theleahfiles.com/candidates Select your state to see every race on your ballot and who is running in it. Below that is the money behind these races: who is giving, who is receiving, and what outside groups are spending.
From the second link (scroll down): Who is funding the outside groups? 2,100 people and 765 companies each put $25,000 or more into a committee that spent on a congressional race. $365.3M came from just eight people. That is 35 percent of the $1.04B that all 2,100 people on this list put into groups spending on House and Senate races. The most common targets of billionaire outside spending on attack ads? James Talarico (TX), Sherrod Brown (OH) and Abdul El-Sayed (MI). *** Popular Information (first link) has been running a series on misleading / false statements in political flyers and attack ads. The falsehoods billionaires are mailing to Ohio voters The anti-Acton mailer is a vivid illustration of why more journalistic scrutiny of political mail is necessary. Every claim on V-PAC's mailer is either flatly false or deeply misleading. The lie dominating Musk's 2026 political ads. Musk is blanketing the internet with digital ads falsely accusing Democratic Senate candidates of supporting "taxpayer-funded sex changes for kids." WATCH: GOP super PAC quietly launches outlandish smear against Talarico. Shortly after Popular Information reached out for comment, the ad was taken offline. *** Related: 172 Billionaire Families Have Spent Record $1.7 Billion on 2026 Midterms So Far: Analysis The Leah Files on metafilter previously.
From the second link (scroll down): Who is funding the outside groups? 2,100 people and 765 companies each put $25,000 or more into a committee that spent on a congressional race. $365.3M came from just eight people. That is 35 percent of the $1.04B that all 2,100 people on this list put into groups spending on House and Senate races. The most common targets of billionaire outside spending on attack ads? James Talarico (TX), Sherrod Brown (OH) and Abdul El-Sayed (MI). *** Popular Information (first link) has been running a series on misleading / false statements in political flyers and attack ads. The falsehoods billionaires are mailing to Ohio voters The anti-Acton mailer is a vivid illustration of why more journalistic scrutiny of political mail is necessary. Every claim on V-PAC's mailer is either flatly false or deeply misleading. The lie dominating Musk's 2026 political ads. Musk is blanketing the internet with digital ads falsely accusing Democratic Senate candidates of supporting "taxpayer-funded sex changes for kids." WATCH: GOP super PAC quietly launches outlandish smear against Talarico. Shortly after Popular Information reached out for comment, the ad was taken offline. *** Related: 172 Billionaire Families Have Spent Record $1.7 Billion on 2026 Midterms So Far: Analysis The Leah Files on metafilter previously.
