Crypto PAC Spends $11M to Oppose Sherrod Brown's Senate Bid

A crypto-aligned political action committee (PAC) has spent over $11 million on ads opposing Democrat Sherrod Brown's potential return to the US Senate in Ohio. The Defend American Jobs PAC, affiliated with Fairshake, a group backed by Coinbase and Ripple Labs, made this spending disclosure in a September 24th filing with the Federal Election Commission.

The ad buys are part of Fairshake's pledge to initially spend $30 million in the Ohio race, aimed at blocking Brown. In an August 2025 inquiry, Brown told Cointelegraph that his goal is 'to make sure that as more people use cryptocurrency, it expands opportunity and lifts up Ohioans and they are not put at risk.'

Brown was previously chair of the Senate Banking Committee and has been a vocal critic of pro-crypto legislation. In 2024, outside groups like Fairshake spent about $41 million to oppose Brown in his Senate race against Republican Bernie Moreno.