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 Crypto PAC Spent Millions to Get Alabama Candidate on Path Toward Congress.
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 ryptocurrency political action committee (PAC) called Protect Progress spent millions of dollars to support Shomari Figures, a Democrat running for Congress in Alabama's Second District. Figures won the Democratic runoff with 61% of the vote, despite not pulling in the most money in direct contributions. The PAC's spending of $2.7 million