Federal filings reveal that Lantern Production Consultants LLC, a consulting firm with only a post‑office box address in Sparks, Nevada, has been paid about $20 million since 2025 by Think Big, a super PAC in the Leading the Future network. The money is for services such as polling, digital ads, research and strategy. Lantern is one of four similar Nevada LLCs that have received cash from the network’s super PACs, including American Mission.
How the payments were structured
The four LLCs – Lantern Production Consultants, Summit Ridge Media Group, Blue Horizon Compliance Consultants and Prusik Partners – all list mail‑center or strip‑mall addresses in Reno, Henderson or Spanish Springs. Together they have taken roughly $46 million from the network between December 2025 and September 2026. The Campaign Legal Center says the firms are shell companies that hide the true recipients of the super PACs’ spending, a possible violation of the Federal Election Campaign Act.
Legal and political backdrop
In May 2025 the Campaign Legal Center filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), alleging that Think Big and American Mission broke the law by using these shell entities. The FEC currently lacks a quorum of four commissioners, so the case is unlikely to be heard soon. Leading the Future, backed by investors such as Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz and OpenAI president Greg Brockman, continues to fund both Democratic and Republican candidates through the two super PACs.
Why it matters
For voters, the hidden flow of millions of dollars makes it harder to see which candidates are being supported by the AI industry. Until the FEC can act, the lack of transparency may let big‑tech money influence elections without clear accountability.
