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One Super PAC Spent $9.2 Million to Make Julia Letlow a Senator. Here's Who Paid for It.

FEC records show the Accountability Project's money came from LNG, Occidental Petroleum, a stack of Louisiana LLCs, four corporations that don't disclose their donors — and $205,586 from Letlow's own joint fundraising committee.

MAGA Report Cards · Aug 09, 2026

One Super PAC Spent $9.2 Million to Make Julia Letlow a Senator. Here's Who Paid for It.

Julia Letlow won the Republican nomination for Louisiana's Senate seat on June 27. The general election is November 3, and in a state Trump has carried three times by 18 points or more, the nomination is effectively the seat.

Outside groups spent $11,266,466 supporting her campaign, according to Federal Election Commission records. 82% of it — $9,247,706 — came from a single super PAC: Accountability Project Inc.

Small donations account for 1% of the $17.9 million that has reached her campaigns and the super PACs backing her since 2020, which ranks her 427th of 440 House members on grassroots funding.

So the interesting question isn't how much was spent. It's who wrote the checks. FEC filings answer that, and the answer is unusually specific.

The energy money

Louisiana's LNG export build-out is the biggest industrial story in the state, and the industry paid to pick this senator.

Commonwealth LNG LLC (Houston) — $500,000 total: $250,000 direct to the Accountability Project on April 23, and another $250,000 to Hope in Action PAC, which passed millions on to the Accountability Project.
MAGA Energy Project Inc. (New Orleans) — $400,000, June 12.
Responsible Energy Voter Coalition (Prairieville, LA) — $345,000 across four checks in May and June.
Occidental Petroleum (Houston) — $100,000, June 20.

That's roughly $1.3 million from the oil, gas and LNG side alone.

Letlow has a 0% score from the League of Conservation Voters for 2025 and 4% lifetime.

The corporations you can't see through

Four of the largest contributions to the Accountability Project came from entities that are not registered federal political committees — meaning they file nothing with the FEC about where their own money came from:

Securing American Greatness Inc. — $1,000,000, April 29
Alliance for Economic Freedom (Portland, Michigan) — $500,000, June 2
MAGA Energy Project Inc. — $400,000
Hope in Action Policy (Baton Rouge) — $446,000 across two payments

A search of the FEC's committee database returns no registered committee named Securing American Greatness. It's a corporation. Its donors are, as a matter of law, nobody's business.

That is $2.35 million — a quarter of everything the Accountability Project spent on Letlow — that traces back to a dead end.

The hometown pipeline

The single biggest funder of the Accountability Project wasn't a company. It was Hope in Action PAC, a super PAC registered in Monroe, Louisiana — Letlow's hometown, in the district she has represented since 2021.

Hope in Action PAC moved about $3.3 million into the Accountability Project across twelve payments between March and June 2026, then spent another $74,130 supporting Letlow directly.

Its own money came from Louisiana industry and Louisiana money: Central Port LLC ($250,000), Commonwealth LNG ($250,000), MMR Constructors ($100,000), the law firm Morris & Dewett ($100,000), Access Healthcare Management ($100,000), Bee Hive Group LLC, Progressive Merchants, RMB Properties, and individuals including Frank Scott Moran ($250,000) and Mark Friedman of New York ($100,000).

And one more entry, on March 24, 2026:

LETLOW VICTORY FUND → HOPE IN ACTION PAC — $205,586.20

The Letlow Victory Fund is Julia Letlow's own joint fundraising committee. Its other disbursements that cycle went where you'd expect — $1,526,145 in five transfers to Julia Letlow for Louisiana, $577,353 to her old House committee, and $333,282 to Start Rising PAC, her leadership PAC.

And $205,586.20 — followed by another $10,692.30 a month later — to the super PAC whose money became the super PAC that spent $9.2 million on the "independent" case for electing her.

None of that is illegal. Joint fundraising committees are allowed to include super PACs, and candidates are allowed to raise for them within limits. But "independent expenditure" is the legal category that makes unlimited corporate spending constitutional in the first place, and it's worth knowing that in this race, some of the money made a round trip.

The rest of the list

The remaining large contributions to the Accountability Project read like a directory of who wants something from a Louisiana senator:

C Port LLC and C Logistics LLC of Cut Off, Louisiana — $125,000 each, same day, Gulf marine services
Caturas LLC (Houston) — $200,000
Republicans for a Better NOLA PAC — $250,000
River Birch LLC (Avondale) — $100,000, the landfill company
Ocean Harvesters (Suffolk, Virginia) — $50,000, the operator of the menhaden fleet that fishes Louisiana's coast
American Society of Anesthesiologists PAC — $50,000
Gordon McKernan Injury Attorneys — $50,000
Energy Transfer PAC, HNTB Holdings PAC, Viemed PAC, and individual donors including James A. Barnette of West Monroe ($200,000 across two checks), Jonathan Bruser of Baton Rouge ($100,000) and Robin P. Arkley of Eureka, California ($50,000)

What this buys

Letlow's House record already reflects these interests. She has cosponsored House Republicans' oil-and-gas deregulation bills — the Lower Energy Costs Act, the Unleashing American Energy Act, and the Unlocking our Domestic LNG Potential Act in two Congresses. Her largest disclosed sources of direct money this cycle are the owners and employees of two firms: Petro Land Services South ($108,500) and MMR, the industrial contractor ($100,884). Not one dollar of either came from a company PAC — but the company itself, MMR Constructors, put $100,000 into Hope in Action PAC, where corporate checks are legal.

Now she's headed to the Senate, where a single member can hold up a nomination, place a hold on a bill, or decide whether an LNG terminal's permit fight gets a hearing. The people who paid $9.2 million to put her there know that.

Louisiana voters got a wall of TV ads out of this. What the funders bought is a Senate seat, and unlike the voters, a quarter of the money behind it never had to carry a name.

We deserve better.