Crypto PAC Fairshake seeks to force resistant Texas Democrat Al Green from U.S. House

The ace PAC is devoting $1.5 cardinal to get Representative Al Green, a Democrat captious of the crypto industry, defeated by a superior challenger.

Feb 12, 2026, 7:43 p.m.

The crypto industry's campaign-finance arm, Fairshake, has begun rolling retired its run strategies successful its well-funded effort to battalion Congress with lawmakers acceptable to walk affable integer assets policy, and Democratic Representative Al Green is the archetypal lawmaker connected its deed list.

An affiliate of the Fairshake governmental enactment committee, which has begun deploying its $193 cardinal warfare thorax connected this year's legislature midterm elections, said it volition walk $1.5 cardinal connected advertisements opposing Green's superior campaign.

The captious Texas lawmaker has often noted imaginable hazards posed by cryptocurrencies to the U.S. fiscal strategy and to investors, co-sponsored a bill seeking to prohibition President Donald Trump from his idiosyncratic crypto concern interests and has voted against crypto argumentation legislation. That absorption earned him an "F" grade from Stand With Crypto, a radical that assesses crypto enactment from politicians.

Green, who is among the astir elder Democrats connected the House Financial Services Committee that has a nonstop manus successful crypto legislation, faces rivals successful the Democratic superior for the precocious redrawn Texas territory helium represents. Texas' primaries come rapidly adjacent month, and longtime congressman Green would person to bushed a younger Democrat, Christian Menefee, who conscionable won a peculiar predetermination and took the redrawn district's spot days ago.

"Texas voters tin nary longer beryllium by and person practice successful Congress that is actively hostile towards a increasing Texas crypto community," Fairshake's ace PAC affiliate, Protect Progress, said successful a statement. "We are committed to electing caller members who clasp innovation, maturation and wealthiness instauration for each Americans."

Menefee is supportive of blockchain technology, according to his run stance, and Stand With Crypto gives him an "A" grade.

In Green's astir caller predetermination successful 2024, his run spent little than $450,000 to clasp his seat, which went unchallenged successful the primary, and helium needed adjacent little successful 2022. But he's truthful acold brought successful much than $700,000 successful this much hard contest. Still, that's little than fractional of Fairshake's spending against him.

Fairshake besides this week announced that it'll walk $5 cardinal to boost a pro-crypto Alabama Republican, U.S. Representative Barry Moore, successful that state's Senate primary. And the radical is besides backing House Financial Services Committee Chairman French Hill, according to a spokesman. The ace PAC mostly spends wealth connected advertisements that are wide governmental messages, not related to crypto issues, and due to the fact that they're "independent expenditures" nether predetermination law, Fairshake isn't allowed to coordinate with campaigns.

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