What lit a fire under billionaire SpaceX CEO Elon Musk this midterm cycle?
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What → light → Musk
He’s given more than $445 million to Republican candidates and causes this year, making him the single biggest disclosed donor in the 2026 midterms — and the biggest single donor in a midterm cycle ever.
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him → give → cycle
According to the most recent data, he’s given:
- An estimated $189 million to support Ken Paxton’s Senate bid in Texas.
- $10 million to the Republican Governors Association campaign fund, including funds for the gubernatorial race in New York State.
- At least $5 million to the GOP PAC MAGA Inc., which is building a strong ground game in key races in both the House and Senate.
All this makes the $288 million Musk gave to help elect President Donald Trump and Republicans in 2024 look miserly.
Why so much more?
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Musk → accord → 2024
Because Musk realizes that keeping the Republican majority in Congress has become crucial to America’s secure and prosperous future.
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keeping → realize → future
On his social media platform, Musk shared a post last week agreeing that Democrats "must lose" the midterms.
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Democrats → share → midterms
Critics claim he’s doing this because he fears investigations by a Democrat-controlled Congress.
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he → claim → Congress
The truth is, he understands what it takes to build a strong America, and what threatens to tear it down.
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what → understand → it
He’s not alone.
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He → ’ → ?
He’s been joined by other tech and financial billionaires who are spending tens of millions to protect America’s future from the Democrats.
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who → join → Democrats
Tech entrepreneurs and venture capital giants Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz are major contributors to Trump’s MAGA, Inc.
Citadel’s Ken Griffin has spent at least $40 million to support Republican candidates.
Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman and his wife Christine have put up almost $32 million to Republican-affiliated political organizations and Super PACs this election cycle.
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Schwarzman → spend → organizations
All this makes the $288 million Musk gave to help elect President Donald Trump and Republicans in 2024 look miserly.
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Musk → make → 2024
Because Musk realizes that keeping the Republican majority in Congress has become crucial to America’s secure and prosperous future.
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keeping → realize → future
It’s not just tech billionaires who’ve opened their wallets to the GOP.
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who → ’ → GOP
Uline founders Elizabeth and Richard Uihlein have reportedly put up $124 million for their own Restoration of America PAC, and roofing company ABC Supply Chairman Diane Hendricks has given $25 million to MAGA, Inc.
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Hendricks → put → Inc.
In 2025, we saw the denizens of America’s high-tech sector — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple’s Tim Cook, and key Google executives — paying out millions for Trump’s inauguration festivities.
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denizens → see → festivities
Bezos, Cook, Zuckerberg and OpenAI’s Sam Altman even attended the inauguration in person — as did Elon Musk.
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Musk → attend → person
What did they understand about Trump and the GOP that the media didn’t?
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media → understand → Trump
This midterm cycle, according to The Washington Post, total Republican-leaning mega-donors have contributed $1.7 billion this cycle with Musk leading the way, compared to $832 million from Democratic-leaning givers.
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Musk → accord → givers
Critics dismiss these donors as superrich oligarchs and robber barons trying to protect their ill-gotten money.
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Critics → dismiss → money
The truth is, the key stewards of our private sector economy are taking bold action to protect America’s future.
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stewards → take → future
That’s because they see two possible paths to the future, and only two.
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they → ’ → future
One makes America strong, prosperous and secure, with tax cuts, investment, energy dominance and a strong, unequaled military.
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America → make → cuts
One deals finally with the Iran that has destabilized the Middle East, and killed thousands around the world, including American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, for four decades.
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that → deal → decades
One sees the need to cut what the GAO says could be as much as $500 billion of fraud from the federal budget — the cause that rallied Elon Musk to the DOGE agenda in the first place.
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that → see → place
One sees American AI dominance as key to protecting our freedom.
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One → see → freedom
One sees restoring America’s manufacturing and industrial base, as key to protecting prosperity.
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One → see → prosperity
All that stands on one side.
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that → stand → side
On the other is a party that makes unsustainable policy promises like "Medicare for All."
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that → make → All
This midterm cycle, according to The Washington Post, total Republican-leaning mega-donors have contributed $1.7 billion this cycle with Musk leading the way, compared to $832 million from Democratic-leaning givers.
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Musk → accord → givers
A party that will give back the uncontrolled government spending spree that drove cumulative inflation up 21% during the Biden years.
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that → give → years
A party that has consistently presented weakness and prevarication to America’s foes, whether it’s Iran or China or the Muslim Brotherhood.
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it → present → foes
Finally, a party that threatens to mobilize the same radical forces that have turned the streets of France and European cities into battlegrounds.
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that → threaten → battlegrounds
Those 77 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump in 2024, now face the same choice.
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who → vote → choice
It is either to return to the voting booth in order to protect America’s safe and prosperous future or hand Congress over to those who want to bring back a bankrupt and discredited past.
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who → return → past
The choice seems easy.
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choice → seem → ?
It will be America’s tragedy, and ours, if we don’t take it together.
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we → take → it
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