{"id":672906,"date":"2026-10-19T20:53:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/19\/crypto-pac-pours-362k-into-california-race-voters-essentially-decided-in-august\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T20:53:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:53:46","slug":"crypto-pac-pours-362k-into-california-race-voters-essentially-decided-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/19\/crypto-pac-pours-362k-into-california-race-voters-essentially-decided-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto PAC pours $362K into California race voters essentially decided in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/2026\/10\/01M5ABCKS2FMK83350383BZ19K\/hi-the-great-tech-exodus-california-san-francisco.jpg\" alt=\"Crypto PAC pours $362K into California race voters essentially decided in August\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Fairshake affiliate is supporting incumbent Aisha Wahab through ads in November, but the congresswoman already won a special election in the district.<\/p>\n<p>Protect Progress, an affiliate of the cryptocurrency-aligned Fairshake super political action committee (PAC), reported spending $362,000 on ads to support a Democrat in California\u2019s 14th congressional district, just weeks after she won a special election against the same opponent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to a Sunday filing with the US Federal Election Commission (FEC), Protect Progress <a href=\"https:\/\/docquery.fec.gov\/cgi-bin\/forms\/C00848440\/2029805\/se\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> spending $362,000 on media supporting incumbent Democrat Aisha Wahab in the Bay Area district against her fellow party member, Melissa Hernandez. <\/p>\n<p>Wahab defeated Hernandez in an Aug. 18 special election with more than 53% of the vote, raising questions about why the cryptocurrency industry-aligned PAC is supporting her in the 2026 midterms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/crypto-pac-california-race-voters-special-election\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Fairshake affiliate is supporting incumbent Aisha Wahab through ads in November, but the congresswoman already won a special election in the district. Protect Progress, an affiliate of the cryptocurrency-aligned Fairshake super political action committee (PAC), reported spending $362,000 on ads to support a Democrat in California\u2019s 14th congressional district, just weeks after she won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":672909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-672906","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\/672906","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=672906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}