Stand With Crypto's Lynaugh Sees Most Pro-Crypto Congress After 3.1M-Advocate Push

Stand With Crypto's Final Push Before November 3

Mason Lynaugh, executive director of Stand With Crypto, expects the Congress seated after the November 3 midterm elections to be the most pro-Bitcoin in history, whichever party ends up in control. The organization enters that final stretch with 3.1 million advocates on its rolls, and the closing operation he laid out this week runs through 50 state chapters, 47 college chapters and 45 endorsed candidates. Everything is routed through one destination, the group's voter hub at standwithcrypto.org/vote, where a supporter checks registration status, finds the deadline in their state and lines up each candidate's position on crypto in a single visit. The deadlines matter because they vary by state, and a committed supporter who misses one is out of the count on election day. The midterms, in his framing, are less a referendum on any single figure than a hiring decision across 435 House seats and a third of the Senate. The bloc Lynaugh is chasing is unusual by campaign standards: people who own or use digital assets, spread across both parties, who historically turn out at low rates, which is why campaigns spend millions hunting for exactly that profile. His read of the past two years is that the issue has already proven it travels across party lines, and he points to the votes on the Clarity Act and the GENIUS Act as the record. The stakes he sets out are structural rather than partisan: chamber control decides how legislation touching Bitcoin policy moves, and whether a bill reaches the floor often turns on who chairs the relevant committee. That arithmetic is what converts a registration database into a claim about the composition of the next Congress.

From 90 to 338 A-Rated Lawmakers

The scoreboard behind Lynaugh's confidence is the organization's own rating system. Three years ago, 90 lawmakers earned an A grade on crypto; the count now stands at 338, a figure he offers as evidence that the lobbying work of the last cycle changed who sits in office, not merely how they talk. Bipartisanship, in his account, is measurable: 100 Democrats backed the Clarity Act, the market-structure bill, and the GENIUS Act, the stablecoin law, passed with support from both parties, though he concedes disappointment with parts of the Clarity Act's progress and allows that some Democrats in the chamber still oppose the sector. That opposition, he argues, rests on a residue of institutional FUD that fades once members confront the bloc's actual numbers, a conversion his team attributes as much to political FOMO as to persuasion. Where a lawmaker stays hostile, the group's method is blunt: chapter-level organizing against anti-Bitcoin incumbents in their home districts, a pressure campaign he sums up as either delivering a job or removing one. The contrast with Fair Shake, which has put $95 million into this cycle, is deliberate; his operation runs on volunteer phone calls, a resource that costs little and cannot be outspent one for one. He also treats the AI advocacy community as natural allies for the coming session and frames the GENIUS Act's rollout as the immediate order of business once the new Congress is seated. Tight races sharpen all of it. Districts decided by hundreds of votes sit alongside chapters with tens of thousands of members, and that mismatch is what the operation is built to exploit on November 3.

The Swing Bloc Question

Our reading is that the numbers cut both ways, and the honest test arrives on November 3. The 3.1 million figure is the organization's own count, self-reported and unaudited, so its weight depends on how many of those names actually vote; the roster reads as a roll call of retail holders, many of whom HODL through drawdowns but skip non-presidential elections, and that is precisely the gap the hub is built to close. Forty-five endorsements across a chamber of hundreds is thin coverage, but it is concentrated where margins run to hundreds of votes, which is where a phone bank moves a result. The 90-to-338 growth in A-rated lawmakers shows the lobbying already landed; a coalition built to outlast any single bull market now has to prove it survives a quiet election day. The claim to watch is Lynaugh's own: the next Congress's stance on crypto is, in his view, already settled, and the ballot count only reveals it.