Hijacking Campaign 2025 | Independent Expenditures | Issue Ads | Candidates | Campaign 2025
Posted: March 16, 2025
Updated: April 7, 2025
Oath • Spending
This Washington D.C. group supports Democratic candidates for federal and state offices. Between 2016, when it was first active in the state, and 2024 it reported spending over $2.6 million in both partisan and non-partisan in Wisconsin state-level elections. It has done all its spending through "unregistered" committees, meaning it does not need to report its sources of income to the Wisconsin Ethics Commission, the state agency that monitors and regulates campaign spending. This is the third committee bearing this name. All three of these committees have had different D.C.-based addresses. This current iteration shares a post office box with Bold Majority PAC.
Less than three weeks before the April 1 st spring elections, the PAC first reported spending over $53,800 for canvassing expenses in the Wisconsin State Supreme Court and State Superintendent of Public Instruction races combined, with $35,900 spent in the former and about $17,950 in the latter. The committee supported Dane County Cicuit Court Judge Susan Crawford in the former contest and incumbent Jill Underly in the latter.
Crawford ran against Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Brad Schimel for an open seat on the high court. Although the court is officially nonpartisan, Crawford was supported by Democrats and Schimel, who served as the state’s Republican attorney general just before his appointment to the judiciary, by the GOP. At the time of the election, liberals had a 4-3 majority on the court won in the 2023 election, and the election of Schimel would have handed control back to conservatives. Crawford's victory should ensure liberal control of the court for at least three more years
The office of Wisconsin State Superintendent of Public Instruction is also officially nonpartisan but Underly, who was first elected in 2021, was supported by the state Democratic party while her opponent, educational consultant and former charter school lobbyist Brittany Kinser received Republican backing. Underly won reelection.
Nine days before the April elections, For Our Future reported spending over $78,400 between the two races for canvassing and campaign literature, with about $54,100 spent backing Crawford and $24,300 Underly. The next day, it reported another $15,100 in the court race and $5,400 in the other.
Four days before election day, the group reported $11,000 going for texts in the superintendent of public instruction contest.
The day of the election, For Our Future reported spending $60,000 on phone calls in the two races. The day after the election, it reported spending $6,800 more on texts to support Crawford in the court race and $300 on texts to back Underly's reelection as state superintendent of public instruction.
Two days after the election, it reported it had spent about another $4,900 on texts supporting Underly.
Three days after election day, the group reported it had spent about another $6,000 on texts backing Crawford.
Last active election: 2024
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.