Pending Review
The committee reported a beginning cash-on-hand balance of $1,302,328.61 in January 2025 and concluded the Q1 2026 reporting period with $2,150,782.38, signaling a sustained 'war chest' strategy despite heavy primary spending.
Date: 2026-03-31
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
Defend American Jobs (C00836221) received $9,000,000 in transfers from affiliated committees (Fairshake) between January 2025 and March 31, 2026, accounting for approximately 88% of its total receipts during that period.
Date: 2026-03-31
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
In the Q1 2026 reporting period, Defend American Jobs shifted 40% of its 'Media Production' budget to the firm Screen Strategies Media, the same vendor utilized by the parent Fairshake PAC for Democratic-aligned expenditures, indicating centralized tactical control across the bipartisan network.
Date: 2026-04-15
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
Defend American Jobs shared the same treasurer and compliance office (228 S Washington St, Alexandria) with at least 14 other Republican Super PACs during the 2024 cycle, centralizing crypto-industry political operations within a single GOP establishment vendor node.
Date: 2024
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
Over the 2023-2024 cycle, Defend American Jobs made approximately $57 million in total independent expenditures, of which more than $40 million was concentrated on the Ohio Republican Senate primary and general election supporting Bernie Moreno against Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown.
Date: 2024-06-15
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
The FEC's electronic database systematically double-counts crypto-to-cash conversion transactions for Fairshake and likely its affiliated PACs, meaning published receipt totals for the Fairshake network overstate actual capital raised by an estimated $40 million for the 2024 cycle, per DL News forensic analysis confirmed by OpenSecrets deputy research director Brendan Glavin.
Date: 2024-06-15
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
Defend American Jobs disbursed independent expenditures to Main Street Media Group (PO Box 25093, Alexandria, VA 22313) totaling at least $1,507,944 in the 2024 cycle for media buys in Utah Senate races, per FEC filing image 202406169649032623.
Date: 2024-06-15
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
In September 2024, Fairshake transferred $15 million to Defend American Jobs and $5 million to Protect Progress in the same reporting window while receiving only approximately $1.1 million in new donor receipts in that period, confirming that Fairshake operates as a capital-pooling intermediary that disburses from accumulated reserves rather than same-period receipts, structurally dissolving any direct donor-to-IE tracing.
Date: 2024
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
In the 2025-2026 FEC reporting cycle (January 2025 through March 2026), Defend American Jobs received $9,000,000 in transfers from affiliated committees and $350,000 in itemized individual contributions, with zero direct contributions from other PACs or party committees.
Date: 2026
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
Defend American Jobs's FEC-registered committee ID is C00836221, not C00835975 as cited in the source database; C00836221 was registered March 29, 2023 with treasurer Lisa Lisker at 228 S Washington St Suite 115, Alexandria, VA 22314.
Date: 2023
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
Defend American Jobs's spending was concentrated in races where the Republican primary contained meaningful divergence on crypto-policy positioning.
Date: 2024
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
Evidence gap: The pass-through accounting tying specific corporate donor wires to Defend American Jobs's downstream independent expenditures is not separately disclosed.
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
Defend American Jobs shares treasurer and operational vendors with the Fairshake parent committee, consistent with affiliated-PAC governance.
Date: 2024
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
Defend American Jobs was a leading outside spender in the 2024 Ohio Republican Senate primary won by Bernie Moreno.
Date: 2024
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
Defend American Jobs is registered with the FEC as committee C00835975 and reports under the super-PAC regime.
Date: 2023
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
Defend American Jobs receives the bulk of its funding via transfers from the Fairshake parent PAC, channelling crypto-industry money into Republican primaries.
Date: 2024
Added: 03 May 2026
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