{"id":633360,"date":"2026-07-22T20:52:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/crypto-pac-pours-1m-into-michigan-democratic-primary-race\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T20:52:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:52:45","slug":"crypto-pac-pours-1m-into-michigan-democratic-primary-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/crypto-pac-pours-1m-into-michigan-democratic-primary-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto PAC pours $1M into Michigan Democratic primary race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/hi-can-polymarket-and-augur-predict-the-next-us-elections-crypto.jpg\" alt=\"Crypto PAC pours $1M into Michigan Democratic primary race\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Donavan McKinney, running against Michigan incumbent Shri Thanedar, said that \u201cthe crypto lobby is paying my opponent back for helping Trump\u201c with the PAC-funded ads.<\/p>\n<p>An affiliate of the cryptocurrency-aligned political action committee (PAC) Fairshake is attempting to influence voters in a primary race for Michigan\u2019s 13th congressional district, with about $1 million in media on the line.<\/p>\n<p>In filings with the US Federal Election Commission (FEC) as of Tuesday, the Protect Progress PAC had <a href=\"https:\/\/docquery.fec.gov\/cgi-bin\/forms\/C00848440\/1999350\/se\">spent<\/a> more than $986,000 on ads supportive of Democratic incumbent Shri Thanedar and <a href=\"https:\/\/docquery.fec.gov\/cgi-bin\/forms\/C00848440\/2001088\/se\">opposing<\/a> his challenger, Donavan McKinney. The reported expenditures came two weeks before the Democratic candidates were set to face off in an Aug. 4 primary to determine who will stand in the November general election.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/docquery.fec.gov\/cgi-bin\/forms\/C00848440\/2001088\/se\"><em>FEC<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/crypto-pac-michigan-democratic-primary-race\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donavan McKinney, running against Michigan incumbent Shri Thanedar, said that \u201cthe crypto lobby is paying my opponent back for helping Trump\u201c with the PAC-funded ads. An affiliate of the cryptocurrency-aligned political action committee (PAC) Fairshake is attempting to influence voters in a primary race for Michigan\u2019s 13th congressional district, with about $1 million in media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":633361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-633360","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\/633360","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=633360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}