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The Spanish Springs<\/span> shopping center in Sparks, Nevada, hosts many businesses, including a Spirit Halloween, a hearing aid supplier, and a Vietnamese restaurant. It\u2019s also home to a consulting agency that\u2019s received millions of dollars from one of the biggest pro-AI super PAC networks<\/a> ahead of November\u2019s midterm elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The problem is that the company\u2014Lantern Production Consultants LLC\u2014doesn\u2019t seem to exist anywhere beyond a post office box in the Spanish Springs shopping complex.<\/p>\n

Lantern Production Consultants has been paid around $20 million since last year by Think Big, part of a network of pro-AI super PACs funded by the Leading the Future PAC, for a wide array of services, including polling, digital advertising, research, and strategy, according to federal campaign finance records reviewed by WIRED. Backed by major AI investors, Leading the Future has taken a main role in supporting candidates who back what it calls<\/a> \u201can AI innovation policy agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is just one of four mysterious LLCs based out of Nevada that have received payments from super PACs in the Leading the Future PAC network, including Think Big and American Mission. The network, which is also based in Nevada, has raised over $140 million to influence political campaigns that align with AI-industry priorities in the midterms.<\/p>\n

Summit Ridge Media Group LLC, which received around $13 million between December 2025 and September 2026 from American Mission, lists an address at a mail center in a Reno strip mall. Blue Horizon Compliance Consultants, which also appears in the filings, has its address listed as a Staples location in Reno. And Prusik Partners LLC\u2019s listed address is at a strip mall in Henderson, Nevada, sharing a building with a chiropractor and a beauty salon.<\/p>\n

Election watchdogs argue that these LLCs are shell companies, designed to mask the identities of strategists, consultants, and production companies who are working with Leading the Future. \u201cThis is about hiding where the money is going,\u201d claims Shanna Ports, senior legal counsel at the Campaign Legal Center.<\/p>\n

In May, the Campaign Legal Center filed a complaint with the FEC, which enforces campaign finance laws, alleging that Think Big and American Mission had broken federal law by using shell companies in this way. Specifically, lawyers with the Campaign Legal Center alleged that super PACs in the Leading the Future network had violated the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) by failing to disclose the actual recipients of their payments. The LLCs, they wrote in their complaint, \u201cfunction as mere extensions of the super PACs they serve.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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The Spanish Springs shopping center in Sparks, Nevada, hosts many businesses, including a Spirit Halloween, a hearing aid supplier, and a Vietnamese restaurant. It\u2019s also home to a consulting agency that\u2019s received millions of dollars from one of the biggest pro-AI super PAC networks ahead of November\u2019s midterm elections. 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