Mailers urging Ohioans to “Join the Revolution” and “send a worker to the Senate” have been landing in mailboxes across the state in recent days, featuring the photo of independent U.S. Senate candidate Greg Levy. There's just one problem: Levy says his campaign never approved them, and he's weighing legal action over who did.
According to cleveland.com, Levy said plainly that his campaign is not behind the mailers being sent out. He described himself on his X account as a socialist running for the U.S. Senate to represent Ohio in 2026, and he condemned the mailers for falsely impersonating his campaign and misleading voters. “This is a highly undemocratic practice and does a disservice to voters in Ohio and throughout the country,” Levy wrote.
The group paying for the mailers, Enough Promises Ohio, filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission on October 7, listing a Reynoldsburg packing and shipping company as its address, per the same cleveland.com report. The committee was founded on September 29, according to FEC filings, and it has disclosed no contributors to date. Federal filings cited by cleveland.com show the group paid more than $397,000 to a South Carolina vendor called Seven Farms for printing, postage and mail services either supporting Levy or opposing Sherrod Brown, with payments landing on two dates during the week before the cleveland.com report published.
Conflicting Numbers on the Pro-Levy Spending
Exactly how much of that money went toward boosting Levy is murkier. Cleveland.com reported Enough Promises Ohio spending $181,380 on printing and postage to support Levy, while insidepoliticalmoney.com reported the group spent $198,520 backing Levy and another $17,140 opposing Brown, in a filing dated October 5 that attributed the spending to printing and postage paid to Seven Farms. The two outlets' figures don't match, and the dossier behind both reports does not explain whether the discrepancy reflects different reporting periods or categories.
Levy's own campaign is a shoestring operation by comparison. His longshot bid has raised a little more than $80,000, per Federal Election Commission records cited by cleveland.com, meaning the PAC's reported mail spending on his behalf dwarfs what his actual campaign has brought in.
A Vendor With Republican-Linked Neighbors
Seven Farms lists as its address the same South Carolina business suite used by Whistlestop Strategies LLC, cleveland.com reported, noting that the Charleston address has also been connected to a vendor paid by No Going Back PAC. Whistlestop Strategies is described in the report as a direct mail outfit operated by Big Dog Strategies LLC, whose founder, Chris Grant, served as a senior adviser and general consultant to MAGA Inc. — the super PAC aligned with President Donald Trump, according to reporting cited by cleveland.com. Big Dog Strategies also managed Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno's successful 2024 campaign against Brown, the report notes.
Insidepoliticalmoney.com separately reported that SLF PAC spent a combined $495,069 opposing Brown and $343,497 backing Republican Sen. Jon Husted, with postage, printing and production payments also made to Whistlestop Strategies LLC. Cleveland.com is careful to note that none of these vendor links proves Republicans are behind Enough Promises Ohio — the connections establish a shared printer and shared business address, not a confirmed source of funding or direction.
What Counts as an Independent Expenditure
Under rules spelled out by the Federal Election Commission, an independent expenditure is a communication that expressly advocates for or against a clearly identified federal candidate and is not made in consultation or cooperation with, or at the request or suggestion of, the candidate, the candidate's committee, a party committee or their agents. That distinction matters here: even if Enough Promises Ohio acted without coordinating with Levy, the mailers would qualify as independent expenditures only if they also expressly advocated for or against a clearly identified candidate.
Levy says he is considering legal action against those responsible, though the dossier behind this report does not indicate whether any suit has been filed. MAGA Inc. and affiliated groups began pouring money into midterm races starting in September 2026, part of a broader surge of spending touching multiple Ohio contests this cycle.
Why Political Mail Still Matters
The episode lands amid a broader resurgence of old-fashioned direct mail in American politics. The Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee each spent more than $43 million on printing and mailing during the 2024 election cycle, according to OpenSecrets. Each party's House and Senate campaign arms spent more than $18 million on the same category, and the DNC's printing and mailing budget climbed from about $31.3 million in 2016 to more than $44.5 million in 2024. Campaign strategists describe direct mail as particularly effective at mobilizing older voters, OpenSecrets reports — a reminder that even in a digital-ad era, a well-timed postcard can still move an election.
