After the ‘Blue Wave’ in the midterms, what’s next for Philly’s brash super PAC?

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With the final results of last week’s midterm election still trickling in, we are getting a clearer picture of just how much of a “Blue Wave” of political control voters have given the Democratic Party, and how much they have rebuked the Republicans and President Donald Trump.

For Jack Inacker, the founder and executive director of the veteran-led Fishtown-based political action committee FUBAR PAC, it was a euphoric night. As someone who had developed a well-deserved skepticism of election polling since 2016, he said “It’s almost unbelievable just how well Dems did.” 

Like the military acronym that we’ll let you Google yourself, FUBAR PAC has had a brash, unapologetic take on political problem solving. Since launching in April 2025, Inacker and the PAC have destroyed a Tesla to protest billionaire Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency, put up an unflattering mural of Vice President JD Vance and then put a hat on it.

“We’re upfront about the fact that we’re running a negative campaign … FUBAR PAC is stepping in to run the aggressive opposition campaign that other organizations won’t,” the PAC states on its website.

Along with calling out Musk, the Trump administration and the “Make America Great Again” political movement with publicity stunts and social media videos, they also targeted three Republican-held congressional seats that they considered flippable, held by Reps. Rob Bresnahan, Ryan Mackenzie and Scott Perry. 

All three GOP Congress members were unseated, along with Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, helping the Democrats take firm control of the House as well as the Senate. 

“When I was a political science major at Temple, I had a professor who told me he had an apolitical friend that would only vote if the price of beer or smokes went up,” Inacker said. “And let me tell you, apparently in his confusion and irresponsibility, Donald Trump found the one issue that could create the landslide that we saw just a few days ago through this illegal, immoral, unnecessary war in Iran, combined with the ancillary effects of what happened on the home front when it comes to gas prices. People weren’t going to put up with it anymore.”

Some politicians on the left were also fair game for the PAC. During the Tesla smashing, participants could try out a “Chuck Schumer pool noodle,” which highlighted what Inacker called the ineffective tactics used by the leadership of the Democratic Party. Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, who has clashed with his Democratic colleagues and confounded voters who elected him, has also been a common target.

Along the way, Inacker said he adjusted the PAC’s strategy to adjust to the feedback he was getting from potential voters and opposition. After the Tesla was destroyed in Philly, the group toured it around the red congressional districts they were targeting to flip. But that didn’t seem to go as planned.

“Very early on, the opposition started labeling us as the out-of-town PAC — these carpetbagger out-of-town PACs they’re coming in,” Inacker said. “And I had this moment of realization. I was like, ‘Yeah, not a completely unfair criticism.’”

Inacker said he realized that FUBAR PAC’s boots-on-the-ground operations might be getting in the way of the local efforts and decided to pull back, keeping the stunts in Philly and instead doubling down on online messaging criticizing the candidates and the Trump administration. 

“I felt like the best way for me to highlight the insanity of what was going on was to keep the pressure on online and to attack everywhere all at once,” Inacker said “When Donald Trump would say something crazy or JD Vance would say something crazy, we put up a video of (them) saying it with some context, giving some information for stuff that MAGA says.”

The videos are all heavily fact-checked with sources cited, and cost close to nothing to make. Inacker said the political ads “that people want to watch” garnered over 150 million views across social media platforms over the past year.

Inacker said he couldn’t know how many votes FUBAR PAC actually contributed to flipping, but some comments made on the videos ahead of the midterms made him confident he swayed at least a couple.

“I love your video (SIC) they’ve helped me self reflect and shift my stance on a lot of things I’m much more of a moderate on the right especially on some of the hardline issues and have definitely moved away from the MAGA crowd keep up the good work,” wrote one TikTok user.

“It was kind of the proof and the pudding to me that everything that we’ve been doing has been valuable, that we’ve been able to reach young men especially — our audience is overwhelmingly young men … We were able to present information in a way that resonated with them, that they found exciting and I wasn’t trying to lecture at them.” Inacker said.

So what’s next for the super PAC that had an almost unbelievably good midterm election? Along with continuing to make videos about the Trump administration and MAGA, the top of their list is to primary Fetterman.

“He no longer represents the Democratic Party in Pennsylvania and polls overwhelmingly show that Dems do not want him in anymore.  So I’m excited to facilitate that happening in any way that I can,” he said.

On Monday, Ahmed Moor, a West Philly resident who was born in Gaza, announced he was going to challenge Fetterman.

Inacker said he also would like to see some reform on political texting, to stop people’s phones from getting barraged with texts and weed out fraudulent “Scam PACS.” Despite setting up a platform to send out mass texts to people, he was so put off by the number  of texts he and others close to him were receiving that he resolved never to use it. 

Lastly, Inacker said he wants to do something that most with his job title would consider unthinkable.

“I would love to see independent expenditure super PACs go away all together — and I’ve got one,” he said. “Kill my PAC, right? Make it go away. Change the conditions on the ground, where we’re not going to tolerate this amount of grotesque money in our politics anymore.”

Musk eventually parted ways with DOGE and stopped working directly with the Trump administration, but he still spent nearly half a billion dollars during this midterm cycle on GOP races, with over $200 million of that going through his own America PAC, according to the New York Times.

“Of course it had an impact. You can’t spend that much money and it not,” Inacker said. “But I think that the impact that it had was ultimately limited by the fact that (the Republicans) were running some really truly awful candidates.”

Inacker said he wants to help cut the tap off on rampant campaign spending that has been enabled by the Supreme Court decision on Citizens United.

“I hope that FUBAR PAC doesn’t need to exist one day,” Inacker said. “I would shut FUBAR PAC down tomorrow, if I felt like it would help. But that’s not the reality that we live in.”