After Clarity Act Fails, Crypto Super PAC Fairshake Targets Sherrod Brown With $30 Million

In brief

• Fairshake plans to spend $30 million opposing Sherrod Brown in Ohio.
• The group spent roughly $40 million helping defeat Brown in 2024.
• The announcement follows the Senate’s failure to advance the Clarity Act.

Crypto super PAC Fairshake plans to spend $30 million opposing former Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown’s bid to return to Congress, days after the Senate blocked the Clarity Act.

Fairshake confirmed the plan to target Brown, who is challenging Republican Sen. Jon Husted in an Ohio race that could help determine control of the Senate, Politico reported.

“Of course the special interests are panicking, they know Sherrod will fight the rigged system they’re feasting on to stand up for working Ohioans,” Brown’s campaign manager, Patrick Eisenhauer, said in a statement.

Husted, a former Ohio lieutenant governor, was appointed to the Senate in January 2025 to replace JD Vance after Vance became vice president.

The new campaign would be the second against Brown. In 2024, Fairshake spent roughly $40 million to help Republican Bernie Moreno unseat Brown, whose crypto skepticism and leadership of the Senate Banking Committee made him a major industry target.

The latest spending announcement follows the Senate’s rejection of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, which would establish federal rules for crypto markets and divide oversight between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.