A super PAC built to champion AI-friendly politicians is dropping $2 million into Senate primaries across three states, deploying $1.5 million of that immediately. The group, called Leading the Future, is targeting races in Louisiana, Montana, and Oklahoma ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
If this playbook sounds familiar, it should. Leading the Future is explicitly modeled after Fairshake, the crypto industry’s super PAC that helped reshape Congress in 2024. Key advisors Josh Vlasto and Zac Moffatt, who helped orchestrate Fairshake’s influence campaigns, are also involved with Leading the Future.
The Fairshake template, now running on AI
Leading the Future launched in August 2025 with initial fundraising commitments exceeding $100 million. By early 2026, that figure had surpassed $125 million, with roughly $70 million in cash on hand at one point.
The donor list reads like a who’s-who of Silicon Valley power brokers. Andreessen Horowitz partners Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, OpenAI President Greg Brockman and his spouse Anna, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, legendary angel investor Ron Conway, and AI search startup Perplexity have each contributed $25 million or more.
