George Soros and his son Alex have steered roughly $102.8 million into the 2026 midterm cycle, the bulk of it routed through the family-controlled Democracy PAC, putting the clan atop The Washington Post's tally of individual donors and on pace to eclipse the elder Soros' $128 million record from 2022 with more than four months still to go before November.

The mechanics tell the real story.

Only $793,800 of the cycle's contributions sit under George Soros' own name in Federal Election Commission filings.

The rest, about $102 million, ran through Democracy PAC, the super PAC the family launched in 2020 to consolidate its federal political spending.

Of that, $52 million arrived via Geosor, the private corporation in the elder Soros' name, and $50 million via Fund for Policy Reform, the nonprofit whose tax filings list Alex Soros as director.

Alex Soros added another $140,525 in personal contributions.

That structure is legal but consequential.

Super PACs accept unlimited contributions and spend independently, so a single family routing nine figures through one vehicle can shape advertising, field operations, and opposition spending across the national map without bumping per-candidate caps.

The total marks a 52% jump over the $67 million the Soros family poured into Democracy PAC in 2024.

The bigger shift is who holds the checkbook.

Control of Democracy PAC moved from George to Alex Soros before the 2024 cycle, and 2026 is the first midterm with Alex fully in command.

"He wants to be more political than his dad. This is the first midterm cycle where he is in control," Parker Thayer, an investigative researcher at the Capital Research Center, told the New York Post.

"George is not in control; he hasn't been in control in some time."

Father and son have moved in lockstep on candidates.

Both maxed out at $7,000 each to Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Sens. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., and Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., both viewed as potential 2028 presidential contenders.

Alex Soros also maxed out to Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif.

The Soros operation extends beyond what FEC filings show.

Open Society Action Fund, the lobbying arm of the family's broader network, is registered as a 501(c)(4) and is not required to disclose political spending, meaning the publicly traceable $102.8 million understates the family footprint.

Douglas Kellogg, state projects director at Americans for Tax Reform, called the elder Soros a "wannabe Bond villain" responsible for what he described as the radical takeover of the Democratic Party.

Republican National Committee spokeswoman Delanie Bomar tied the family's spending to a Democratic financial deficit heading into the cycle.

"They don't have the cash or resources that Republicans have, which is why they are turning to antisemitic dark money from a billionaire," she said.

The Soros giving still trails some other 2026 spenders in Post data, with the Andreessen Horowitz network at $91.2 million and Elon Musk at roughly $85.1 million on the Republican side.

As of Sunday, the FEC has not posted second-quarter filings that would supersede the Post's tally.