Crypto super PACs spent over $176M on midterms as Democrats sweep Congress

The spending figure is the real signal here: crypto interests bought political influence at scale and still ended up with a Congress less friendly to them, which undercuts the assumption that money reliably shapes digital-asset policy. That matters most for the PACs themselves and the industry coalitions funding them, whose 2028 planning now starts from a defensive position rather than a victory lap. Whether the promised "new map" translates into a different spending strategy, or the same playbook against a harder legislative backdrop, is the open question worth tracking.