{"id":605567,"date":"2026-05-27T21:52:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T21:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/pacs-laud-texas-primary-wins-look-to-back-more-pro-crypto-candidates\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T21:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T21:52:50","slug":"pacs-laud-texas-primary-wins-look-to-back-more-pro-crypto-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/pacs-laud-texas-primary-wins-look-to-back-more-pro-crypto-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"PACs laud Texas primary wins, look to back more pro-crypto candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PACs<\/p>\n

While crypto industry-backed candidates won runoffs in Texas on Tuesday, industry PACs have less of a stake in California races next week.<\/p>\n

After six Republican and Democratic candidates supported by cryptocurrency-backed interest groups won primaries for US House of Representatives and Senate seats in Texas, one of the biggest political action committees (PACs) said it would \u201caggressively back leaders\u201d supporting crypto policies in the future.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, candidates notched six wins for congressional runoff primaries<\/a> in Texas,\u00a0supported by media spending and endorsements by the crypto industry-affiliates Fairshake, Defend American Jobs, Protect Progress, Blockchain Leadership Fund and Fellowship PACs.<\/p>\n

Democrat Christian Menefee primaried incumbent Al Green for Texas\u2019 18th congressional district and Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton won against incumbent Senator John Cornyn with more than 63% of the vote. Four other Republican candidates \u2014 Tom Sell, Alex Mealer, Jon Bonck and Carlos De La Cruz \u2014 also won in smaller districts after being the beneficiaries of thousands of dollars in media spending by Defend American Jobs.<\/p>\n

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While crypto industry-backed candidates won runoffs in Texas on Tuesday, industry PACs have less of a stake in California races next week. After six Republican and Democratic candidates supported by cryptocurrency-backed interest groups won primaries for US House of Representatives and Senate seats in Texas, one of the biggest political action committees (PACs) said it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":605568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-605567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}