A mysterious super PAC tied to a billionaire AIPAC donor has popped up in the high-profile House Democratic primary in North Carolina’s Fourth District to support Rep. Valerie Foushee, a past beneficiary of millions of dollars in AIPAC spending.
The PAC, called Article One PAC, has only disclosed one donor—an obscure nonprofit named the Guzman Foundation that gave its address as a nonprofit tax firm in Virginia. But it is also linked in FEC records to Robert Granieri, the reclusive co-founder of trading firm Jane Street Capital and a major donor to AIPAC’s super PAC, United Democracy Project (UDP). Granieri is listed as the sole donor to Article One’s affiliate, a joint fundraising committee named Article One Victory.
On Feb. 24, the new super PAC spent $600,000 on media supporting Foushee, joining a race that has already been flooded with outside spending by the AI industry, a David Hogg-run PAC, and more.
The Foushee campaign has sought to distance itself from AIPAC and its financial support. Last August, a spokesperson told Indy Week that “AIPAC has not offered financial support in the last 18 months but if offered the Congresswoman would decline. She will not accept AIPAC contributions during the 2026 campaign.”
Foushee has only ever received about $10,000 in contributions from AIPAC’s PAC, but her 2022 primary campaign, facing a field of candidates that included Allam, was backed by more than $2.1 million in outside spending from UDP. Super PACs like UDP and Article One PAC are independent, though candidates can publicly reject their backing.
Notably, Foushee’s campaign website features a page, known as a “red box,” that indirectly but unambiguously urges super PACs to run ads on her behalf. “Democratic primary voters in North Carolina’s 4th congressional district need to see IMMEDIATELY on broadcast television and streaming that [...] The attack ads against Valerie Foushee are false,” the page reads in part. She faces a challenger, Durham County Commissioner Nida Allam, who has criticized Israel’s military actions in Gaza and is endorsed by the progressive group Justice Democrats.
