A super PAC called Leading the Future is dropping $2 million into Senate primary races in Louisiana, Montana, and Oklahoma, with $1.5 million hitting the ground immediately. The group, which has amassed over $125 million since launching in 2025, is explicitly borrowing the political playbook that crypto’s Fairshake PAC used to reshape Congress in 2024.

The Fairshake blueprint, now with neural networks

The PAC’s backers include OpenAI president Greg Brockman and a16z co-founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. Andreessen and Horowitz alone contributed $25 million in a single quarter, according to reports on the PAC’s fundraising.

Leading the Future reportedly uses personnel and tactical frameworks borrowed directly from Fairshake’s operation. The core thesis is identical: flood primary races with enough money to ensure that candidates who understand technology, and don’t want to strangle it with regulation, make it to the general election.

Beyond the $2 million earmarked for Senate races, the PAC has allocated $750,000 for House primaries in California and Washington State. Earlier in the cycle, it had already spent in Texas, New York, and Illinois.

In Louisiana, the PAC is backing Rep. Julia Letlow for a Senate seat. Leading the Future has pledged to support candidates from both parties, a strategy that mirrors Fairshake’s willingness to fund anyone who checks the right policy boxes regardless of the letter next to their name.

Follow the money, then follow the strategy

Leading the Future’s war chest, with total commitments reportedly approaching $140 million and $70 million in cash on hand, sends a clear signal. Candidates who position themselves as friendly to AI development get financial support. Candidates who push for restrictive regulation get an opponent with deep pockets.

The PAC’s stated goal is a unified federal AI regulatory framework — one set of national rules instead of a patchwork of state laws. The fear among tech executives is that states like California or New York will impose strict AI safety requirements that effectively become the national standard, similar to how California’s emissions rules have historically influenced auto manufacturing nationwide.

The PAC has faced complaints filed with the Federal Election Commission regarding its transparency and financial practices.

Why crypto investors should care about AI PAC money

Andreessen Horowitz, one of Leading the Future’s primary backers, is simultaneously one of the largest venture investors in crypto. The firm’s portfolio includes companies across DeFi, Layer 1 blockchains, and crypto infrastructure.

Look at the 2024 cycle. Fairshake spent heavily and helped elect a Congress that has moved faster on crypto legislation than any before it. Stablecoin bills advanced, market structure frameworks gained momentum, and the overall regulatory posture in Washington shifted from adversarial to something closer to collaborative.

With $70 million in reserves and a bipartisan target list, Leading the Future has the resources to be a defining force in races most voters won’t hear about until election night. By then, the candidates will already have been chosen.