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Michigan PAC estimates $61,000 in ads across three House races
As of 2026-11-02 · Publication details
October 31, 2026 · disclosed November 1 · US dollars · estimated
Michigan House Districts 4, 7 and 10 · one PAC’s F24 2045563, filed November 1 for estimated October 31 ads. Not paid invoices, candidate cash, all-race spending or vote effects. Full write-in reconciliation remains incomplete.
For Michigan Action Fund’s new November 1 filing lists an estimated $61,000 for October 31 advertising in Michigan’s 4th, 7th and 10th House districts. These are one outside committee’s estimated costs or obligations—not candidate receipts, verified cash payments or a measure of votes. [1] [5] [7]
Still open: Full current qualified-write-in reconciliation remains incomplete; no existing roster hold is cleared. This one-committee disclosure does not claim complete candidate coverage or compare candidates’ policies. All open questions ↓
Open the original five-page FEC filing. Check the committee and estimate labels, use the House/Senate boxes to separate the offices, and compare transaction dates and amounts. This public record requires no account or donation. →Read the full story
The reporting question: Who is behind this newly disclosed Michigan House advertising—and how much is only estimated?
Three House races, one committee
The filing assigns $21,000 to District 7: $19,500 supporting William Lawrence and $1,500 opposing Tom Barrett. It lists another $20,000 each in connected-TV advertising supporting Christina Hines in District 10 and Sean McCann in District 4. The digital and connected-TV amounts share an October 31 transaction date; they do not measure equal audiences. [2] [3] [4] [7]
Follow the money without double-counting
The House entries name AL Media LLC for $53,500 and Agency for Civic Engagement for $7,500. Two separate Senate entries add $9,000, bringing the whole form to $70,000. Those Senate amounts are excluded from this House comparison. The cumulative year-to-date fields measure something different and are not added again. [8] [5] [6]
An estimate is not a paid invoice
Each House purpose field identifies an estimate. The dates and amounts are the committee’s disclosure, not an independent audit of payment, ad delivery or influence. Its signed certification of independence is likewise the filer’s statement. We have not established the messages, audience reached or any effect on voting. [7] [9]
The public choice remains separate
The state’s General list verifies the four named House candidates and districts. This report is not a complete candidate or policy comparison; qualified write-ins remain a separate reconciliation gap. The House and Senate write federal laws, subject to checks including a presidential veto. These three House seats carry that public responsibility, whatever one committee spends. Read the original form’s individual items and support/opposition boxes before comparing another disclosure. [10] [11] [5]
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- 4 source records
- Federal Election Commission — bounded late-filings index
- For Michigan Action Fund — November 1 F24 file 2045563
- Michigan Bureau of Elections — current General printed list
- +1 more
How we know11 scoped claims · 4 source recordsView evidence
Each claim keeps its full assertion, date, source passage and limits. Source counts describe records, not independent corroboration.
1.New November 1 disclosureAttributed
FEC lists For Michigan Action Fund, C00886093, file 2045563 as a new F24 received November 1. The five-page form marks a new 24-hour report.
- Scope
- Michigan House Districts 4, 7 and 10 · one PAC’s F24 2045563, filed November 1 for estimated October 31 ads. Not paid invoices, candidate cash, all-race spending or vote effects. Full write-in reconciliation remains incomplete.
- Evidence passage
- Index result file_number 2045563, committee_id C00886093, receipt_date 2026-11-01, amendment_indicator N; PDF page 1 top boxes and signature.
- As of
- 2026-11-02
- Limit
- Receipt day and underlying transaction day differ. No time zone or exact public release hour is inferred.
Retrieved 2026-11-02T13:37:31.782Z · Federal Election Commission — bounded late-filings index
Page 1 of a two-page bounded query is sufficient to match this exact record; no complete filing census or publication time inferred.
Retrieved 2026-11-02T13:40:10.460Z · For Michigan Action Fund — November 1 F24 file 2045563
Committee estimates, not verified cash payments or evidence of ad content, audience or effect. Year-to-date numbers are a separate measure.
2.MI-07: 21000 dollars estimatedSupported
The filing estimates 19500 dollars in digital ads supporting William Lawrence and 1500 dollars opposing Tom Barrett in Michigan House District 7, for 21000 dollars combined.
- Scope
- Michigan House Districts 4, 7 and 10 · one PAC’s F24 2045563, filed November 1 for estimated October 31 ads. Not paid invoices, candidate cash, all-race spending or vote effects. Full write-in reconciliation remains incomplete.
- Evidence passage
- PDF page 1 E-1749: 1500 oppose Barrett; page 3 E-1737: 7500 support Lawrence and E-1739: 9000 support Lawrence; page 4 E-1745 and E-1748: 1500 each support Lawrence. All House, MI-07 and General boxes visually inspected.
- As of
- 2026-11-02
- Limit
- One committee’s estimated digital advertising, not total district spending, candidate fundraising or a two-candidate-only race.
Retrieved 2026-11-02T13:40:10.460Z · For Michigan Action Fund — November 1 F24 file 2045563
Committee estimates, not verified cash payments or evidence of ad content, audience or effect. Year-to-date numbers are a separate measure.
3.MI-10: 20000 dollars estimatedAttributed
The filing estimates 20000 dollars to AL Media LLC for connected-TV advertising supporting Christina Hines in Michigan House District 10.
- Scope
- Michigan House Districts 4, 7 and 10 · one PAC’s F24 2045563, filed November 1 for estimated October 31 ads. Not paid invoices, candidate cash, all-race spending or vote effects. Full write-in reconciliation remains incomplete.
- Evidence passage
- PDF page 2 E-1743: 20000.00, CTV purpose, Support/House/MI-10/General boxes.
- As of
- 2026-11-02
- Limit
- CTV is the filing’s advertising category; no completed placement, reach or invoice settlement is verified.
Retrieved 2026-11-02T13:40:10.460Z · For Michigan Action Fund — November 1 F24 file 2045563
Committee estimates, not verified cash payments or evidence of ad content, audience or effect. Year-to-date numbers are a separate measure.
4.MI-04: 20000 dollars estimatedAttributed
The filing estimates 20000 dollars to AL Media LLC for connected-TV advertising supporting Sean McCann in Michigan House District 4.
- Scope
- Michigan House Districts 4, 7 and 10 · one PAC’s F24 2045563, filed November 1 for estimated October 31 ads. Not paid invoices, candidate cash, all-race spending or vote effects. Full write-in reconciliation remains incomplete.
- Evidence passage
- PDF page 5 E-1741: 20000.00, CTV purpose, Support/House/MI-04/General boxes.
- As of
- 2026-11-02
- Limit
- No actual audience, message content or vote effect is established.
Retrieved 2026-11-02T13:40:10.460Z · For Michigan Action Fund — November 1 F24 file 2045563
Committee estimates, not verified cash payments or evidence of ad content, audience or effect. Year-to-date numbers are a separate measure.
5.61000 dollars across three House racesSupported
The seven House entries add to 61000 dollars: 21000 in District 7, 20000 in District 10 and 20000 in District 4.
- Scope
- Michigan House Districts 4, 7 and 10 · one PAC’s F24 2045563, filed November 1 for estimated October 31 ads. Not paid invoices, candidate cash, all-race spending or vote effects. Full write-in reconciliation remains incomplete.
- Evidence passage
- Seven House items across PDF pages 1–5: 1500+7500+9000+1500+1500+20000+20000=61000.
- As of
- 2026-11-02
- Limit
- This is a scoped subtotal, not the form’s all-office total or all-committee spending.
Retrieved 2026-11-02T13:40:10.460Z · For Michigan Action Fund — November 1 F24 file 2045563
Committee estimates, not verified cash payments or evidence of ad content, audience or effect. Year-to-date numbers are a separate measure.
6.Separate Senate entries are excludedSupported
Two other entries estimate 7500 and 1500 dollars supporting Abdul El-Sayed for Senate. Their 9000-dollar sum plus the 61000-dollar House subtotal reconciles to the form’s 70000-dollar total.
- Scope
- Michigan House Districts 4, 7 and 10 · one PAC’s F24 2045563, filed November 1 for estimated October 31 ads. Not paid invoices, candidate cash, all-race spending or vote effects. Full write-in reconciliation remains incomplete.
- Evidence passage
- PDF page 1 E-1736 and page 2 E-1746 mark Senate and Support; page 5 total is 70000.00. Arithmetic 7500+1500=9000; 61000+9000=70000.
- As of
- 2026-11-02
- Limit
- Senate amounts are excluded from every House bar. This is For Michigan Action Fund, not Fighting for Michigan PAC in the separate morning Senate report.
Retrieved 2026-11-02T13:40:10.460Z · For Michigan Action Fund — November 1 F24 file 2045563
Committee estimates, not verified cash payments or evidence of ad content, audience or effect. Year-to-date numbers are a separate measure.
7.October 31 activity, November 1 disclosureAttributed
The seven House items identify October 31 for both public distribution and disbursement or obligation, and each purpose field labels the cost as estimated.
- Scope
- Michigan House Districts 4, 7 and 10 · one PAC’s F24 2045563, filed November 1 for estimated October 31 ads. Not paid invoices, candidate cash, all-race spending or vote effects. Full write-in reconciliation remains incomplete.
- Evidence passage
- All seven House items on PDF pages 1–5: distribution/date-of-disbursement-or-obligation fields and estimated purpose descriptions.
- As of
- 2026-11-02
- Limit
- The filer’s dates and estimates do not independently establish actual delivery or completed cash payment.
Retrieved 2026-11-02T13:40:10.460Z · For Michigan Action Fund — November 1 F24 file 2045563
Committee estimates, not verified cash payments or evidence of ad content, audience or effect. Year-to-date numbers are a separate measure.
8.Two reported House advertising payeesSupported
The House items allocate 53500 dollars to AL Media LLC and 7500 dollars to Agency for Civic Engagement.
- Scope
- Michigan House Districts 4, 7 and 10 · one PAC’s F24 2045563, filed November 1 for estimated October 31 ads. Not paid invoices, candidate cash, all-race spending or vote effects. Full write-in reconciliation remains incomplete.
- Evidence passage
- PDF page 1 E-1749 AL Media 1500; page 3 E-1737 Agency for Civic Engagement 7500 and E-1739 AL Media 9000; page 4 AL Media 1500 twice; pages 2 and 5 AL Media 20000 each.
- As of
- 2026-11-02
- Limit
- Reported or estimated payee allocations, not a bank-payment audit or donor-source trace.
Retrieved 2026-11-02T13:40:10.460Z · For Michigan Action Fund — November 1 F24 file 2045563
Committee estimates, not verified cash payments or evidence of ad content, audience or effect. Year-to-date numbers are a separate measure.
9.Independence is a filer certificationAttributed
The committee certifies that its reported expenditures were made independently of candidates and authorized committees.
- Scope
- Michigan House Districts 4, 7 and 10 · one PAC’s F24 2045563, filed November 1 for estimated October 31 ads. Not paid invoices, candidate cash, all-race spending or vote effects. Full write-in reconciliation remains incomplete.
- Evidence passage
- Certification beneath the item tables, electronically signed David Hecker and dated November 1 on all five pages.
- As of
- 2026-11-02
- Limit
- This is a committee statement, not an independent finding establishing or disproving coordination.
Retrieved 2026-11-02T13:40:10.460Z · For Michigan Action Fund — November 1 F24 file 2045563
Committee estimates, not verified cash payments or evidence of ad content, audience or effect. Year-to-date numbers are a separate measure.
10.Named House candidates verifiedAttributed
Michigan’s General list places Sean McCann in District 4, William Lawrence and Tom Barrett in District 7, and Christina Bertrand Hines in District 10, for two-year House terms.
- Scope
- Michigan House Districts 4, 7 and 10 · one PAC’s F24 2045563, filed November 1 for estimated October 31 ads. Not paid invoices, candidate cash, all-race spending or vote effects. Full write-in reconciliation remains incomplete.
- Evidence passage
- Official Candidate Listing > General Election November 3, 2026 > 4th, 7th and 10th District Representative in Congress, each 2 Year Term (1) Position.
- As of
- 2026-11-02
- Limit
- The filing shortens Hines’s name and uses Thomas More Barrett; district and office reconcile with the listed candidates. Other candidates and qualified write-ins are not inferred absent.
Retrieved 2026-11-02T13:41:44.711Z · Michigan Bureau of Elections — current General printed list
Current printed-list context, not full qualified-write-in reconciliation or a policy comparison. An explicitly disqualified entry is not treated as a qualified candidate.
11.House lawmaking and its limitsAttributed
USAGov identifies the House and Senate as the legislative branch that writes laws and notes the president’s power to veto congressional legislation.
- Scope
- Michigan House Districts 4, 7 and 10 · one PAC’s F24 2045563, filed November 1 for estimated October 31 ads. Not paid invoices, candidate cash, all-race spending or vote effects. Full write-in reconciliation remains incomplete.
- Evidence passage
- USAGov > Legislative branch > Congress; How each branch provides checks and balances.
- As of
- 2026-11-02
- Limit
- Institutional explanation, not current seat arithmetic or a forecast. A House member alone cannot enact federal legislation.
Retrieved 2026-11-02T10:04:33.340Z · USAGov — branches of government
Older institutional context. No current House balance, forecast or promise that one representative can enact a law.
What remains open.
- Full current qualified-write-in reconciliation remains incomplete; no existing roster hold is cleared. This one-committee disclosure does not claim complete candidate coverage or compare candidates’ policies.
- No original advertisement, placement log, invoice or bank records were available in this bounded inquiry; the committee’s amounts and independence remain attributed.
- No donor-source tracing, all-committee/race census, audience measurement, persuasion, turnout, majority forecast or election outcome is established.
- Separate exact-case source review and publisher browser, help, photo, rendered and mobile gates remain pending. Audience engagement and comprehension are unmeasured.
An amendment, documented corrected expense, conflicting candidate identity or contrary original transaction record would reopen the relevant claim.
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