In February 2026, NOTUS joined Brian Jack for part of a six-day swing through Texas. He met with more than ten House candidates, one after another, sizing each of them up. Then he reported his findings back to President Trump and House Republican leadership to inform who gets an endorsement.

Jack had been a member of Congress for about a year at that point. He is the deputy chair of the House Republican campaign arm, a job NRCC chair Richard Hudson handed him. Hudson's assessment: "He's got one of the sharpest political minds... very sound judgment, and he's a very likable guy." Speaker Mike Johnson calls him "exceptionally talented, effective, and dedicated," and adds, "Few of our colleagues are respected and trusted more."

Jack told NOTUS what he screens for. "First and foremost is electability... you want to recruit people who can help support that."

This is not a side project. It is the thing Brian Jack has done for his entire adult career, at four different organizations, and it is worth laying out in order.

The AIPAC job

Before politics made him famous, Jack worked at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Georgia Trend described the role in February 2025: he interviewed more than 400 federal candidates, scrutinizing their positions, their campaigns and their viability, and then recommended which ones AIPAC should support.

Jack's own description of that job, in the same piece:

"It was analogous to what a White House political director does."

He was right, and he would know, because that is the job he took next.

The White House job

Jack joined Trump's 2016 campaign as national delegate director, ran the operation against the Never Trump movement at the 2016 convention, and was appointed Special Assistant to the President and deputy White House political director on Inauguration Day 2017. On February 2, 2019 he became White House Political Director, and in October 2020 he was elevated to Assistant to the President — the highest staff rank in the Executive Office.

Jack told Georgia Trend that colleagues joked he was "President Trump's political Google."

He returned for the 2024 campaign as a senior adviser, this time as the liaison to Congress. The New York Times, in January 2024: Trump's "team structured its early campaign activity around gathering endorsements, with Brian Jack, his former White House political director, who serves as his liaison to Congress, managing the process." Same job, other direction: instead of telling a funder which candidates to back, he was telling members of Congress which candidate to back.

The congressional seat

Then he ran for one himself, in Georgia's 3rd — an open, safely Republican district in west Georgia. Trump endorsed him. He qualified on March 7, 2024, and was standing on stage with Trump at a rally two days later.

Here is what the money did in that race, from FEC records:

• Defend American Jobs — the Republican arm of Fairshake, the cryptocurrency industry's super PAC network funded by Coinbase, Ripple and the venture firm a16z — spent $1,308,901 supporting Jack. Every dollar of it landed between May 13 and June 4, 2024, in the primary and the runoff. Not the general election. The Republican primary.
• Conservatives for American Excellence, a super PAC backed by billionaires Ken Griffin and Paul Singer — $496,016 supporting him.
• Club for Growth Action, whose two largest donors that cycle were billionaires Jeff Yass ($35 million) and Richard Uihlein ($22.4 million) — $430,699 supporting him.

That is more than $2.2 million of outside money spent to decide a Republican primary in one Georgia district. Jack took 46.7% in the May primary and won the June runoff with 62.6%.

And the organization where he learned the trade has not gone anywhere. TrackAIPAC's tally of FEC filings, current as of July 5, 2026, puts pro-Israel PAC money to Jack at $257,792 — his single largest identifiable source of PAC support.

Why any of this should matter to someone in Newnan

None of it is illegal. Members of Congress recruit candidates. Party committees have deputy chairs. Super PACs spend money.

But look at what the pipeline actually is, because Jack is the clearest living example of it. A young operative screens candidates for a lobby that writes checks. He screens candidates for a President. He gets a district of his own, and $2.2 million from three super PACs clears the primary field. And now, from that seat, he flies around the country screening candidates again — reporting to the same President — on the criterion of "electability."

At no point in that chain does a voter in Coweta or Fayette or Troup County get consulted. The screening happens first. The election ratifies it.

Which brings up the part that is conspicuously missing from all the glowing profiles. Jack has been an exceptional advocate inside Washington — for the Speaker who put him on the Rules Committee, for the President who gets his candidate assessments, for the industries whose super PACs cleared his primary. What he has not done is stand in a room in his own district and take unscreened questions.

Constituents in Newnan organized their own town hall on March 23, 2025, in Greenville Street Park — the event listing explains why: "His office does not have any dates set for a Town Hall so we are setting one for his constituents." A petition asking him to hold one is still open. In January 2026, more than 100 protesters gathered outside his district office over his support for ICE.

Jack made time for more than ten candidates in six days in Texas. GA-03 is still waiting.

We deserve better.

Source

Reese Gorman, "The Freshman Lawmaker Working to Build Republicans' Bench," NOTUS, February 20, 2026; Brian Robinson, "The Rise of U.S. Rep. Brian Jack," Georgia Trend, February 25, 2025. Independent expenditure totals from the Federal Election Commission; pro-Israel PAC total from TrackAIPAC (via fec.gov, July 5, 2026). Photo: George Walker IV/AP, via NOTUS.