Fairshake backs 32 House candidates after CLARITY Act stalls
Fairshake will back 32 House candidates, including six with $1 million each, as the Senate’s stalled CLARITY Act leaves crypto rules unresolved before November.
The Crypto Today Editors2 min read
Crypto voters tracking who could shape the next attempt at federal digital asset rules can now follow 32 House races Fairshake plans to support this November, including six candidates slated for $1 million in spending each. The [Associated Press report on Fairshake’s House slate](https://apnews.com/article/crypto-midterms-clarity-act-sherrod-brown-f8d9d14e21b0bf95c46b516f8ac5f14b) says the group’s list includes 19 Republicans and 13 Democrats, all of whom backed the industry’s priority market-structure bill.
The spending keeps crypto policy in the election mix after the Senate blocked the bill, while leaving voters to judge both candidates’ records and the group’s influence.
Which candidates are set to get the $1 million push?
Fairshake named three Democrats — Reps. Janelle Bynum of Oregon, Steven Horsford of Nevada and Derek Tran of California — and three Republicans: Reps. French Hill of Arkansas, Bryan Steil of Wisconsin and Bill Huizenga of Michigan. As [Roll Call’s account of the six allocations](https://rollcall.com/2026/10/05/05crypto/) reports, Hill chairs the House Financial Services Committee, Steil leads its digital assets subcommittee and Huizenga is the panel’s vice chair.
The group has not disclosed how much it will spend on the other 26 House candidates. Fairshake is a political action committee, and the reports describe the $1 million amounts as election spending to support candidates, not direct campaign contributions. The figures are a starting point for comparing the slate, not a full accounting of how much each race may receive.
What happened to the bill they supported?
The House passed the CLARITY Act in July 2025; it aimed to set rules for digital asset markets and divide oversight between federal regulators. The bill then languished in the Senate for more than a year, with lawmakers unable to agree on ethics guardrails and other provisions. The Senate blocked it in September on a procedural vote, leaving its path forward uncertain before the midterms.
Fairshake’s House slate follows a larger Senate move: the group announced plans to spend nearly $30 million opposing Democrat Sherrod Brown in Ohio. The AP reports that Fairshake and affiliated PACs had about $120 million in cash on hand at the end of August, but the group has not said whether it will make further House or Senate commitments before November. That leaves voters with a list of candidates the group says it will support, but not a complete budget for its election push.