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A mysteriously named<\/span> political action committee has started running ads<\/a> reminding voters in Colorado about that time GOP representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado and her date were caught on camera in 2023 getting handsy during a performance of the musical Beetlejuice<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That same PAC is producing a spot hitting Anthony Constantino, a Trumpist congressional candidate in upstate New York, because someone used his sticker-printing company to briefly make stickers that read, \u201cKill the Police<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Attack ads are everywhere in the last month ahead of November\u2019s election. But these spots are a little different. The semi-anonymous PAC that\u2019s funding and making the ads, the Invest in Tomorrow Coalition, is a pro-solar-energy outfit. It\u2019s funded in part by crypto billionaire Chris Larsen and run by a team of New York City political operatives.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlaying hardball politics, that’s what our opponents do, right, in oil and gas? And I just think the solar industry has been\u2014I don’t know how to describe it\u2014a little too nice,\u201d says Larsen, the cofounder of the blockchain finance firm Ripple and a major backer of the Invest in Tomorrow Coalition.<\/p>\n

Green groups don\u2019t usually act like this, with knives out, ready to stab opponents between the ribs. They tend to make appeals based on scientific consensus, or fears of what will happen to a warming planet without collective action. They\u2019re also traditionally Democratic, but a few high-profile members of the MAGA movement are now speaking up for solar too. Texas, the home of the fossil fuel business, has quickly become a solar powerhouse<\/a>. There are some signs that the Trump administration\u2019s across-the-board opposition to solar may be starting to crack, at least a little, after years of slashing greentech subsidies and throwing up one roadblock after another<\/a> to clean power projects.<\/p>\n

Some of Larsen\u2019s natural allies in the renewables field aren\u2019t too happy about the PAC\u2019s efforts, arguing that they\u2019re alienating the decisionmakers they need most. But the politics of energy, especially solar energy, are changing.<\/p>\n

Larsen\u2019s PAC is devoting $15 million to go after seven of the more prominent opponents of renewable energy in this year\u2019s congressional elections. That\u2019s on top of roughly $5 million they\u2019ve already spent in the primaries, cutting ads against Republican representatives Ralph Norman of South Carolina (whom the PAC called a \u201cMAGA traitor<\/a>\u201d), Andy Ogles of Tennessee (\u201cHe doesn\u2019t even bother going to work<\/a>\u201d), and Chip Roy (\u201cchosen the side of powerful pedophiles<\/a>\u201d) of Texas. A PAC that received funding from Invest in Tomorrow has also gone after one Democrat, Rhode Island governor Dan McKee. All four lost their primary races.<\/p>\n

In Roy\u2019s case, the Invest in Tomorrow Coalition spent almost $1.5 million to stop his run for Texas attorney general. Most of the money went to ads on right-wing platforms like Truth Social and Rumble. The word \u201csolar\u201d was never mentioned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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