He had roughly 500 times his campaign spending riding on the election result. What does that tell us about the safety of our democracy?
Elon Musk’s nearly half a billion dollars in midterms spending was a flop
The tech billionaire set spending record as he poured $446m into campaigns for failed Republican candidates
Elon Musk spent nearly $500 million on the midterms. It bought him almost nothing - Fast Company
The sometimes-trillionaire bet almost half a billion dollars on GOP candidates, but most of them—including those in the races that mattered most—lost big Tuesday night.
Elon Musk Tests What Nearly Half a Billion Dollars Can Buy in the Midterms
Never before has a single ultrawealthy person who was not running for office spent this much during a single election cycle.
Elon Musk Tests What Nearly Half a Billion Dollars Can Buy in the Midterms
Never before has a single ultrawealthy person who was not running for office spent this much during a single election cycle.
The staggering $446m Elon Musk has spent on the US midterms – visualized
The tech mogul’s midterm donations backing Republicans have made him the largest single-cycle political donor in modern US history
There Is No Place In A Functional Society For Elon Musk | Defector
Elon Musk reportedly spent nearly half a billion dollars on the 2026 election, all of it going toward the effort to keep Donald Trump and the Republican Party in control of the entire U.S. government. He failed, of course; by now you’ve seen that the midterms turned out to be one of the most dramatic…
Elon Musk Loses Texas Senate Race
Elon Musk poured more than $200 million into the race. The Texas Democrat won a crushing victory anyway.
Elon Musk Is the Midterms’ Biggest Disinformation Risk
The world’s wealthiest man pours money into GOP candidates while backing a floridly fake story about a Democrat on the platform he owns.
Elon Musk becomes biggest donor of US midterms cycle with $366m spent
Musk’s midterm donations, mostly for rightwing candidates and causes, surpass his contributions to Trump in 2024
Elon Musk likely broke the law by giving voters $1 million, Wisconsin board says | CNN Politics
Billionaire Elon Musk likely broke Wisconsin law when he handed out $1 million checks to voters in the 2025 state Supreme Court election, a bipartisan panel has found.
How Elon Musk and the Tech Billionaires Hijacked the State and Our Minds
Historian Quinn Slobodian tells Byline Times that Elon Musk's rise tells a deeper story—of fortunes built on state power, and a new politics where humans are treated less as citizens than as systems to be optimised
Elon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding
Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s wealth.
Texas legislature hands Elon Musk's companies some big wins
The most recent Texas Legislature handed Elon Musk or his companies' representatives and lobbyists some big political wins, including 10 new laws that could benefit his growing business footprint.
Elon Musk’s Super Pac spends $500,000 to back New York Republican in midterms
Incumbent Mike Lawler is fending off a challenge from Democrat Cait Conley in state’s 17th congressional district
Elon Musk's only profitable company, Tesla, has created a cumulative grand total net income of $34 billion in its more than 20 years of existence. That's less than the total amount of US federal subsidies his empire has collectively received. The economics of Elon Musk are as bad as the politics.
Drew Harwell
Elon Musk, who has said the beneficiaries of federal spending are a "parasite class," runs businesses that have pocketed $38 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies, loans and contracts washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2025/e…
