Political leanings: Republican/Conservative

2024 total spending: $89.8 million

Club for Growth Action, the super PAC of the conservative Club for Growth organization, was launched in August 2010. It has taken credit for helping to elect conservatives such as Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Tim Scott of South Carolina.

On its website, the Club for Growth, which also has a traditional political action committee, declares its mission is to “take on any Member of Congress on policy who fails to uphold basic economic conservative principles … regardless of party.” The group says it even opposes some Republican incumbents in primary elections in order to replace them with “free-market, limited government conservatives.”

Club for Growth President David McIntosh told Fox News in March that the organization’s goal was to raise and spend $175 million in the 2026 election cycle. “The club plans to spend $75 million on Senate races, $55 million on House showdowns, $20 million in ballot box battles for governors, and $20 million — mostly already spent — on issue advocacy in support of Trump’s tax cuts, school choice efforts and the push for congressional redistricting,” Fox News reported.

As of Aug. 31, the super PAC alone had raised more than $50 million, according to Federal Election Commission records. Its independent expenditures — spending for or against named candidates, without coordination with candidates or parties — totaled almost $5 million at that point.

So far, most of the super PAC’s spending has been on ads supporting Republican candidates in congressional races, including Jackson Lahmeyer, who has since dropped out of the contest for Oklahoma’s 1st Congressional District; Rep. Clay Fuller, who’s running for reelection in Georgia’s 14th District; and Alexandra Mealer, who is running in Texas’ 9th District. The money spent opposing candidates has mostly been against Casey Askar, a Republican candidate for Florida’s 22nd Congressional District, and Aftyn Behn, a Democrat who lost the special election in Tennessee’s 7th District in December.

In addition, the super PAC contributed more than $4.5 million to Win It Back PAC, an affiliated super PAC.

As for its donors, much of the Club for Growth Action’s money thus far in the 2026 cycle has come from one person: Jeff Yass, the co-founder of the financial firm Susquehanna International Group.

In the 2024 presidential cycle, the super PAC spent about $89.8 million, including more than $18 million in independent expenditures and roughly $58 million in contributions to other committees. That total was slightly higher than the $89.3 million it spent during the last midterm cycle in 2022.

FactCheck.org Undergraduate Fellow Christine Sung contributed to this article. 

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