NEW: AIPAC’s super PAC, United Democracy Project, paid Democratic firms Impact Research and GQR $53,300 on Oct. 13 for polling and research, according to a pre-general FEC filing released today, as UDP spends to defeat Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan.

Here are the top donors in the latest monthly filing from AIPAC’s super PAC UDP, covering September. Hot Pockets co-creator David Merage gave $150,000. Also listed is $632,490 sent back by three Chicago PACs that AIPAC backed in the primaries.

NEW: John Doerr, the tech billionaire whose VC firm Kleiner Perkins is heavily invested in AI companies, set up a dark money nonprofit that has sent millions to Democratic Party dark money groups.

NEW: California's Proposition 4 would let cities, counties, and the state match small donations with public funds. A coalition of more than 160 groups says the measure will help candidates compete without relying on wealthy donors.

NEW: Several of the DCCC's top bundlers are now working as Flock lobbyists, as some Democrats move to ban federal use of the company's license plate cameras.

Our @ppolitics hopped on @majorityfm to uncover the leading Democratic pollsters being paid millions by AIPAC's super PAC: youtu.be/YHKN2dyAPS8?t=1729

NEW: Susan Collins’ joint fundraising committee just filed its Q3 report. Finance industry donors dominate the top of the list, including exes from Jane Street. Blue Owl, Vector Capital, and more investment firms.

NEW: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) is the Senate's top investor in data centers. He's pushing a permitting bill that would limit environmental reviews of energy projects and accelerate the data center buildout.

New - Democratic consulting firms have collected $7.1 million from AIPAC's super PAC and its ally DMFI, several of them while simultaneously working for party groups like the DSCC.

NEW: Top Democratic pollsters are on the payroll of AIPAC's super PAC. The Democratic firms collect millions from the DSCC while also consulting for AIPAC, now spending to defeat Abdul El-Sayed.

Alan Armstrong left Williams Co. for the Senate in March. Williams’ board counted him as employed through July, preserving $2.8M in stock awards. In June, still an employee for award purposes, he introduced a bill limiting states’ power to block pipelines. Williams backed it.

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Kalshi outspent its entire 2025 lobbying sum in the first half of 2026, bringing it to over two dozen federal lobbyists, and launched a D.C. ad campaign touting its regulation. CFTC chair Michael Selig formerly worked as counsel at VC firm Paradigm and championed the industry.