Meta spent $6.8M on federal lobbying in Q3 — down from $8.1M in Q1 — as Congress weighs children's online safety bills and digital services taxes that could hit its bottom line. #Meta #TechPolicy #OnlineSafety

Meta spent $6.8M on federal lobbying in Q3 — down from $8.1M in Q1 — as Congress weighs children's online safety bills and digital services taxes that could hit its bottom line. #Meta #TechPolicy #OnlineSafety

Oracle spent $2.89M on federal lobbying in Q3 — up 25% year-over-year — as Congress scrutinizes its $26.9B VA health records contract and debates national AI and privacy policy. #Oracle #FederalContracting #AIPolicy

Oracle spent $2.89M on federal lobbying in Q3 — up 25% year-over-year — as Congress scrutinizes its $26.9B VA health records contract and debates national AI and privacy policy. #Oracle #FederalContracting #AIPolicy

Battleground ad spending is shifting by the hour as super PACs and party committees pour money into key states ahead of Nov. 2026. Follow the cash to find the map. #Elections2026 #AdSpending #Politics

Both House party committees spent way more than they brought in last month. 💸 The DCCC raised $26.3M and spent $46.5M. The NRCC raised $28.5M and spent $56.3M. The biggest driver was coordinated spending with campaigns, which made up 83% of the NRCC’s spending.

Michigan went from $306K in booked airtime yesterday to nearly $4 MILLION today. Democratic-aligned groups put up $2.75M of that, against $1.23M from Republican-aligned groups. House Majority PAC alone booked $2.13M, and WinSenate added $620K.

AI money has arrived in the midterms. 💸 Anthropic employees have given $2.99M this cycle, second only to Google. In 2022, Anthropic wasn’t even in the top five. Google is still No. 1, but its donors gave about 19% less than in 2022. Blackstone is down 15%. Microsoft and SEIU dropped out of the top five. Who’s funding 2026? Full data at legis1.com

Sen. Jon @ossoff raised $33.1 million in Q3 2026, nearly double his Q2 total. FEC filings through September 30 show how fast the Georgia Senate money race has moved heading into November: Raised in Q2 2026*: $16.8M Raised in Q3 2026: $33.1M (+97%) Spent in Q3: $49.5M, more than 7x his Q2 spending Cash on hand at 9/30: $26.3M, down from $42.6M at the end of June The story isn’t only the haul. Ossoff spent his reserves down by about $16 million in a single quarter, a clear sign the campaign has moved from building its war chest to deploying it in the final stretch. Track every filing, lawmaker, and dollar on Legis1.com

Fresh Start SC PAC has reported $2,497,288 in independent expenditures in South Carolina’s U.S. Senate special election. About $1.63 million (roughly 65%) went to opposing Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC). About $871,000 went to supporting Democratic challenger @AnnieAndrewsMD. The spending went mostly to TV in the Greenville-Spartanburg and Charlotte markets, with health care at the center of the messaging. The open question is where the money came from. Through June 30, the PAC disclosed just $80,000 in receipts from two individual donors. That is far below what it has since spent, so its next financial reports will be important to watch ahead of the Nov. 3 election, which is rated Likely Republican. Full breakdown of the ad buys, donors, and other outside spenders in the race: bit.ly/4imQRzV

Sen. Jon @ossoff has raised $98 million for his 2026 re-election in Georgia. His Republican challenger, @RepMikeCollins , has raised $7.41 million. That’s a 13x difference in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country. The gap is even wider on cash. As of June 30, Ossoff had $42.6M on hand with zero debt. Collins had $2.08M on hand and $461,916 in debt. The timing explains part of that: Collins beat Derek Dooley in the runoff by 10 percentage points on June 16, so his filing closed two weeks after a costly primary. Ossoff ran unopposed in the primary. Who’s writing the checks. The donor bases look very different: → Ossoff: Lawyers top his list at $1.38M, followed by physicians ($530K), professors ($401K) and CEOs ($312K). Lawyers alone gave him more than three times what Collins’s top eight occupations gave combined (~$386K). → Collins: His list is led by business owners ($110K), CEOs ($74.5K) and company presidents ($56K), then lawyers, real estate, founders, contractors and the self-employed. It’s a small-business and executive coalition. → Retirees matter on both sides. Donors listed as not employed or retired account for 67% of Ossoff’s itemized individual dollars ($21.8M) and 47% of Collins’s ($1.1M). → Collins relies more on committees. 41% of his receipts came from other committees, compared with 31% for Ossoff. What to watch: Money doesn’t decide races by itself, and outside groups will spend heavily in Georgia. Still, a challenger who starts the general election with less than 5% of the incumbent’s cash will depend heavily on super PACs and party committees to compete on the airwaves. Track the full campaign finance data at legis1.com.