One of the nation’s largest gun-control organizations is pouring another $10 million into the 2026 midterms –– and the money is only one part of the political machine being built around the gun-control movement.
Everytown for Gun Safety Victory Fund and House Majority PAC recently announced a $10 million advertising campaign targeting eight competitive U.S. House districts in Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
The candidates receiving the support all share another distinction: they are former Moms Demand Action volunteers.
Everytown says the television, streaming and digital campaign is designed to help turn those activists into members of Congress and help Democrats take control of the U.S. House.
Texas is not included in this particular $10 million advertising buy.
But Texas gun owners should pay attention anyway.
Texas Gun Rights has spent the past several weeks documenting the increasingly sophisticated network of national money, political organizations and gun-control activists attempting to shape races in Texas. Everytown’s latest announcement shows that those efforts are part of something much larger.
From Gun-Control Activists to Candidates
Everytown is not simply endorsing politicians who agree with its agenda.
It is developing them.
In 2021, Everytown Victory Fund launched its “Demand a Seat” program to train Moms Demand Action activists and gun-violence survivors to run for office and work on political campaigns.
Everytown now says more than 600 former volunteers have won elected office across 43 states, including six serving in Congress. In announcing the new $10 million campaign, Everytown President John Feinblatt openly described the eight former Moms Demand Action volunteers as potential “majority makers” in the U.S. House.
The group’s publicly stated policy agenda includes opposing national concealed-carry reciprocity, supporting so-called “extreme risk” gun-confiscation laws and prohibiting firearms it labels “assault weapons.”
And the candidate pipeline already reaches Texas.
In February, Everytown announced its first round of 2026 endorsements for Moms Demand Action volunteers running for office in Texas, including eight candidates for the Texas House.
In April, it announced another slate that included candidates for lieutenant governor, attorney general, the Texas Senate and Texas House. Everytown described the strategy plainly: moving activists from advocating for gun-control laws to holding the offices where those laws are written.
That distinction matters.
This is not simply a lobbying campaign aimed at persuading existing lawmakers.
It is an organized effort to recruit, train, support and ultimately elect lawmakers who come directly out of the gun-control movement.
Texas Is Already Seeing the Outside-Money Network
The new Everytown campaign lands as Texas is already experiencing an influx of national political money tied to politicians and organizations backing additional gun restrictions.
Texas Gun Rights recently reported that Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s national political operation announced plans to spend at least $20 million around the country, with Republican Brandon Herrera in Texas’ 23rd Congressional District among its initial targets.
Pritzker’s record includes signing Illinois’ ban on many commonly owned semiautomatic firearms, while Herrera’s Democratic opponent, Katy Padilla Stout, supports universal background checks and red-flag gun-confiscation laws.
TXGR has also documented the millions flowing into Texas Majority PAC and the controversy surrounding its political organizing operation.
Public campaign-finance data examined by TXGR showed George Soros had contributed $7.45 million directly to Texas Majority PAC over multiple reporting periods.
Then there is Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico.
Talarico has publicly supported expanded firearm restrictions and said an “assault weapons” ban remains “absolutely” on the table. His influence extends into Texas legislative races as well: TXGR recently reported that Talarico contributed $5,000 to Democrat State Sen. Taylor Rehmet before Rehmet’s Senate District 9 special-election victory.
That financial connection is now part of the documented Second Amendment contrast in the Rehmet-Wambsganss rematch.
None of those operations is identical to Everytown’s new $10 million campaign.
But together they reveal the scale of political infrastructure being deployed around candidates and organizations supporting additional gun restrictions.
National donors provide money. Political organizations supply campaign infrastructure. Gun-control groups recruit and train candidates. And those candidates are then positioned to write and vote on gun policy once in office.
Everytown Is Telling Gun Owners Exactly What It Wants
There is no need to speculate about the objective behind Everytown’s latest spending.
The organization says it wants to change who controls Congress.
“For nearly two years, a MAGA House has rubber-stamped the Trump administration as it tore up federal gun safety laws, and flipping these eight seats is how we put a stop to it,” Feinblatt said in announcing the campaign.
Everytown and Texas Gun Rights obviously disagree about what Feinblatt calls “gun safety laws.”
TXGR has fought policies such as bans on commonly owned firearms, gun registries and red-flag gun-confiscation schemes because we believe they violate the Second Amendment and give government additional power over peaceable gun owners.
But the political strategy behind the new expenditure is worth understanding regardless of terminology.
Everytown is not hiding what it is building.
It is training activists, moving them onto ballots, supporting their campaigns and spending millions to put them into positions where they can enact the organization’s policy agenda.
And Texas is already part of that candidate-development effort.
“Gun-control billionaires and national organizations aren’t just buying advertisements anymore. They’re building a political pipeline designed to turn gun-control activists into lawmakers, and Texas gun owners need to understand exactly what is being built before those politicians are in a position to vote on our rights.”
The $10 million announced this week may be aimed at eight congressional districts outside Texas.
The infrastructure behind it is already here.
Texas Gun Rights will continue tracking the money, documenting candidates’ gun-policy records and putting politicians on the record so Texas gun owners know exactly where they stand.
Chip in today to help TXGR expand our candidate-survey, research and accountability programs, expose the national money flowing behind gun-control politics, and make sure Texas gun owners have the facts when politicians come asking for power over their Second Amendment rights.
