Political leanings: Pro-Israel
2024 Spending: $61.4 million
United Democracy Project is a nonpartisan super PAC created to advocate for political organizations and candidates that support the United States’ partnership with Israel. The super PAC “works to help elect candidates that share our vision and will be strong supporters of the U.S.-Israel relationship in Congress,” according to its website.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a lobbying group established in the 1950s, historically refused to contribute funds to individual candidates’ campaigns. However, AIPAC announced its plans to launch a political action committee, or PAC, and a super PAC ahead of the 2022 election cycle in December 2021.
AIPAC PAC, which was created on Dec. 15, 2021, has become the biggest pro-Israel PAC in the U.S., ahead of the Joint Action Committee for Public Affairs and JStreetPAC. United Democracy Project, AIPAC’s super PAC, was established on Jan. 3, 2022.
As a political action committee, AIPAC PAC is limited to donating no more than $5,000 per election to a candidate’s campaign committee, according to federal contribution limits for the 2026 elections. As a super PAC, United Democracy Project cannot donate to candidates directly, but it can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money expressly advocating for or against federal candidates — spending that the Federal Election Commission defines as “independent expenditures.” Both the PAC and super PAC are required to disclose their donors in reports to the FEC.
Through June, United Democracy Project raised about $104 million during the 2026 cycle, according to FEC records. That’s already more than the $87.1 million it collected during the 2024 cycle, in which it spent around $61.4 million, including $34.8 million on independent expenditures promoting or opposing Democratic House candidates.
The super PAC’s largest contributors for 2026 include Paul Singer, the founder and co-CEO of Elliott Management; portfolio manager Blair Frank; businessman Marc Rowan; and media proprietor and investor Haim Saban. It has spent about $52.5 million, and, as of June 30, more than $27.9 million of it was on independent expenditures.
United Democracy Project has focused heavily on House primary races, spending about $5 million supporting Melissa Conyears-Ervin, who lost the Democratic primary in Illinois’ 7th Congressional District seat on March 17; more than $1 million supporting Adrian Boafo, who won the Democratic primary in Maryland’s 5th District on June 23; and over $3 million opposing Rep. Thomas Massie in the Republican primary in Kentucky’s 4th District, which he lost to Ed Gallrein on May 19. The super PAC also spent nearly $500,000 supporting Gallrein.
Massie’s and Gallrein’s primary was the most expensive House primary in history, according to Politico, which reported that over $9 million was spent by pro-Israel interest groups alone. In the article, United Democracy Project spokesperson Patrick Dorton was quoted as calling Massie “the most anti-Israel Republican in the House.”
The super PAC also spent over $2 million opposing Tom Malinowski, who lost a special Democratic primary in New Jersey’s 11th District on Feb. 5. United Democracy Project’s involvement in the primary, which was won by progressive candidate Analilia Mejia, frustrated many centrist Democrats, Politico reported.
On June 23, Politico reported that, to hide its involvement in certain races, “United Democracy Project has shielded more than 40 percent of the money it has spent across primaries in both parties so far for the 2026 cycle through pop-up and pass-through PACs,” according to the publication’s analysis.
FactCheck.org Undergraduate Fellow James Constan contributed to this article.
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