By Earl F. Glynn
Watchdog Lab October 19, 2026
An Aug. 28 review of FEC filings revealed a new Super PAC named “Vote Kansas,” but it seemed to have no connection to Kansas? At that time on X I asked: Where will we be seeing “Vote Kansas” in the next few weeks?
Recently while studying daily FEC reports of independent expenditures, I realized four Super PACs, including Vote Kansas, shared the same address with DC-based MBA Consulting Group for compliance. What’s up with that?
These four Super PACs — at the same address in DC — all support Adam Hamilton for US Senate. These and other Super PACs share the same custodian of records, treasurer and bank!
On Sunday I published a “scoreboard” of spending by Super PACs in Kansas that support or oppose Adam Hamilton and Roger Marshall for Senate.
The Edge Action Fund had spent almost $2.5 million to support Hamilton; Lower Costs Now had spent about $2 million to support Hamilton; United Futures PAC had spent about $750,000. But why was Vote Kansas not on this list?
The Vote Kansas Super PAC filed a quarterly report on Thursday that revealed what it was doing. Job ads found in September gave a number of clues.
The Vote Kansas FEC filing revealed receiving $3.2 million from United Futures at Chicago street address 1472 W. Rascher Ave, which is a residential address.
United Futures and a separate United Futures PAC had made independent expenditures in support of Adam Hamilton.
United Futures spent $25K while United Future PAC spent $754K in support of Rev. Hamilton in the recent report. But their addresses did not match the Chicago address for the single contribution received by Vote Kansas.
So which United Futures was giving the $3.2 million?
Super PAC Vote Kansas received $3.2 million from “United Futures” at a Chicago address. Vote Kansas is using that money for canvassing activities across the state in support of Adam Hamilton for US Senate.
A search of DC business records showed “United Futures” was a trade name of the organization, Rapid Resist Action.
This was curious given a recent Washington Examiner article saying nonprofit Rapid Resist Action had connections to the Principled Patriots PAC, which was backing third-party candidates in some states, possibly Kansas, where there were competitive Senate races. That had to be a coincidence? Probably not.
Some digging showed Rapid Resist Action has a different Chicago address than the contribution, but it also has connections in both DC and Los Angeles, so that geography match roughly fits all three known addresses. United Futures Inc. and United Futures PAC Inc are incorporated in Delaware, but those registrations provide no additional information.
More verification is needed to explain the current Chicago address for the $3.2 million contribution to Vote Kansas, but there is circumstantial evidence all the United Futures names are connected.
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From Watchdog Lab October 18, 2026
The tight US Senate race is creating huge Super PAC spending many Kansans have not seen before.
Many TV ads, streaming ads, mailers, text messages, and online ads are created by independent groups and not the candidates. So be skeptical about information in ads from unknown groups, especially if the claims are difficult to verify.
When you see political ads always look for who is paying for them.
Try to do your own research to make decisions. Good sources of information about political groups include Influence Watch and Ballotpedia.
Super PACs are powerful outside spending machines that can raise huge sums for political ads and messaging, as long as they stay independent of the candidates themselves.
But finding most donors to Super PACs with certainty will almost certainly not happen. The system seems to be designed for obfuscation.
The table below shows the names and amounts spent by Super PACs on the US Senate race in Kansas.
This table shows money reported as “independent expenditures” by outside groups in the general election through FEC reports available Saturday evening:
- to support Adam Hamilton and/or oppose Roger Marshall: $19 million.
- to support Roger Marshall and/or oppose Adam Hamilton: $15 million.
This table represents actual government reports about independent expenditures. Estimates about possible spending based on ad trackers can be significantly larger.
Super PACs became possible after two 2010 court decisions (Citizens United v. FEC and SpeechNow.org v. FEC) that treated independent political spending as protected free speech.
Often it’s nearly impossible to find the ultimate source of much of the Super PAC money. Both sides use Super PAC dark money even when they say they want to get money out of politics.
I research FEC independent expenditures every evening. Most of the daily discoveries about independent expenditures are better suited for short postings on X instead of longer articles here on substack. So, follow me on X @EarlGlynn for these reports about Super PACs until the election.
Updated FEC electronic files are available after 7 PM CT, which is when I start my analysis and post on X what I find.
Watchdog Lab October 12, 2026
I’ve been monitoring daily FEC electronic files since early September and posting items on X about Super PAC independent expenditures in the Kansas US Senate race.
Through Monday, the total I’ve recorded is nearly $20 million in independent expenditures with $11.2 million spent for Adam Hamilton and $8.4 million spent for Roger Marshall.
FEC Super PAC Scoreboard of Independent Expenditures: Adam Hamilton vs Roger Marshall with data through Oct. 12, 2026 FEC electronic files
On Sunday Brad Cooper’s Sunflower State Journal reported total ad expenditures in this US Senate race (candidate expenditures + independent expenditures) to be about $42.5 million, which is based on a national ad tracker.
So, the independent expenditures reported to the FEC that I’ve been tracking are only about half of the story.
October 6 Watchdog Lab update
In early September I started monitoring daily FEC “electronic filings,” mostly to learn more about Super PAC independent expenditures that impact both our federal and state elections. I’ll continue this until the election.
Every day the FEC receives a number of electronically-filed reports in “.fec” files. At about 8 PM ET the FEC combines all these .fec files into a single “.zip” file that anyone can download and study.
For example the file for Monday, Oct. 5 was 20261005.zip. Using a software tool, 352 .fec files with various FEC reports were extracted and analyzed.
I used several searches of these 352 files to find specific items related to Kansas, especially “F24” filings that are 24-hour notices of independent expenditures.
I posted information on X about one F24 Kansas-related filing from Oct. 5 about additional independent expenditures by the United Futures PAC. that supports Adam Hamilton and opposes Roger Marshall for US Senate.
A second independent expenditure F24 report showed a huge, new $550,000 expenditure against Adam Hamilton by the Senate Leadership Fund PAC to support Roger Marshall, which had been in the news late last week.
Most of the FEC daily findings are better suited for short postings on X instead of longer articles here on substack, so follow me on X @EarlGlynn until the election for these reports, which will be posted late evenings.
Several examples are shown below of Kansas-related FEC filings from the last few weeks, mostly for the Roger Marshall vs. Adam Hamilton US Senate contest.
Watchdog Lab October 3, 2026
On Sunday Brad Cooper’s Sunflower State Journal reported total ad expenditures in this US Senate race (candidate expenditures + independent expenditures) to be about $42.5 million, which is based on a national ad tracker.
So, the independent expenditures reported to the FEC that I’ve been tracking are only about half of the story.