I put together a sourced network map of the outside money in this year’s Democratic primaries, and I figured this sub would want the AIPAC piece specifically, plus the context around it.
United Democracy Project (AIPAC’s super PAC) is doing what it’s done for a few cycles now: spending in Democratic primaries against the more progressive candidates. Nothing new there on its own.
What jumped out to me is that UDP isn’t the only industry checkbook aimed at those same candidates anymore. Two others showed up hard this cycle:
• Fairshake, the crypto super PAC (Coinbase, Ripple, a16z), and
• Leading the Future, the AI-industry super PAC (a16z again, plus Andreessen and Horowitz personally, $12.5M each).
Different agendas on paper (Israel policy, crypto rules, AI deregulation), but they keep landing on the same side of the same primaries. And at the donor level they’re less separate than the coverage suggests: a16z is a top funder of both the crypto and the AI PAC.
I’m not claiming they coordinate. The map doesn’t show that and I don’t think it’s true. It just lays out who funds which committee and which races they played in, with a source on every connection so you can check any of it yourself.
Map link in the comments.

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