Hijacking Campaign 2024 | Independent Expenditures | Issue Ads | Candidates | Offices | Campaign 2024
Posted: October 19, 2024
Updated: October 6, 2025
This is a committee used by the rightwing Virginia-based organization American Majority to make independent expenditures in Wisconsin legislative and statewide elections. American Majority was created in 2010 to recruit and support Republican and conservative candidates in state and local races throughout the country. Between 2010 and 2023, the group used several different committees, including the one profiled here, to spend over $602,000 on outside electioneering activities in Wisconsin state-level elections. American Majority operates as an unregistered express advocacy group, meaning is not legally required to make its sources of income public or any other financial activity beyond independent exepnditures.
In mid-October, less than three weeks before the November 5th general election, American Majority first reported spending with over $1,900 for the “distribution of literature” to support Republicans in three state assembly races, the 26th, 91st and 94th.
In total, the group reported spending over $48,700, mostly for campaign literature, to support Republicans in six assembly contests - the 26th, 51st, 61st, 91st and 94th - and one state senate race, the 14th. Only two of the candidates supported by American Majority won in the fall election, incumbent Reps.Todd Novak and Bob Donovan. Donovan, however, was running in a district different from the one he actually represented at the time, the 84th Assembly, because of new legislative district maps passed earlier that year.
Last active election: 2023
This organization is an unregistered independent expenditure committee that is required to report any such spending done within 60 days of a primary or an election to the Wisconsin Ethics Commission per Chapter 11, Subchapter X of Wisconsin Statutes.