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id: "2026-11-07-ai-safety-coalition-midterms-beat-leading-the-future"
url: "https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-11-07-ai-safety-coalition-midterms-beat-leading-the-future/"
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date: "2026-11-07"
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category: policy-safety
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status: [Partly confirmed]
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version: "2026-11-08"
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# Post-midterm tallies

Full title: Post-midterm tallies: Anthropic-backed Public First spent $63M+ and 10 of its 17 congressional picks won; Politico says the AI-safety network beat the $100M Leading the Future PAC

After the Nov 3, 2026 US midterms, Bloomberg reported that the Anthropic-backed super PAC network Public First spent over $63M and 10 of the 17 congressional candidates it backed won, and Politico Magazine described how a small, wealthy AI-safety donor network that organised in Signal chats grew into a coalition that beat the $100M+ industry-funded PAC Leading the Future (backed by Greg Brockman and Andreessen Horowitz).

## Key facts
- Public First: $63M+ spent; 10 of 17 backed congressional candidates won (Bloomberg, Nov 7)
- Overall AI-related midterm fight put at ~$110M by Bloomberg's headline
- Written from Techmeme summaries; Politico and Bloomberg articles were not readable for us

## What happened

Both pieces are paywalled; facts above are from their Techmeme headlines/summaries. Anthropic has said its donations
to Public First Action are restricted to policy and public-education work.

## Your AI and this story

- GPT-6 Astra (training cutoff April 2026): 191 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5 (training cutoff June 2026): 130 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Argon (training cutoff March 2026): 221 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7 (training cutoff May 2026): 160 days after its cutoff

## Sources

1. [Bloomberg: AI safety advocates make gains after $110 million midterm fight](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-07/ai-safety-advocates-make-gains-after-110-million-midterm-fight) (bloomberg.com, press)
2. [Politico Magazine: how the AI-safety network beat Big Tech in the midterms](https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/11/06/ai-big-tech-2026-midterms-anthropic-openai-01152312) (politico.com, press)

## Changes

- 2026-11-08 (filed): Created

## Related

- 2026-11-04: [Midterm results for AI money](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-11-04-midterms-ai-super-pacs-musk-results/index.md)
- 2026-10-15: [AnthroPAC splits Q3 donations between parties](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-15-anthropac-q3-donations-split-parties/index.md)
- People: [Greg Brockman](https://postcutoff.com/person/greg-brockman/)