No Going Back PAC, which shares its treasurer and contact details with MAGA Inc, Donald Trump's main Super PAC, reported $29.2m of new independent expenditures dated 16 to 22 September12. The money spread across 49 federal races, five for the Senate and 44 for the House, according to its 48-hour filings with the FEC. A super political action committee may raise and spend without limit provided it does not consult the campaigns it helps, which is what separates an independent expenditure from a party's coordinated buys.
CNBC had counted about $21m in the committee's filings as of 12 September, concentrated in a handful of Senate contests3. Its total is now at least $50m, more than double in about a week. Its House spending in that single week, about $12.3m, exceeds the NRCC's entire August coordinated total, according to the two sets of filings.
Its biggest buys were in the Ohio Senate race ($5.82m), Michigan Senate ($4.49m), North Carolina Senate ($2.92m), New York's 3rd District ($2.05m), Texas Senate ($1.87m) and New Hampshire Senate ($1.76m)4. The Texas money lands on top of two new committees that had already reported $85m of Senate advertising there without naming a donor.
Four of its five Senate races are among the NRSC's five largest coordinated recipients in August. Iowa, the NRSC's second-biggest bet, is missing from the Super PAC's list. The overlap puts party coordination and Super PAC advertising behind the same Senate candidates, from committees that by law cannot plan it together.
