Struggling Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker’s political action committee (PAC) appears to have shuttered without making any donations to political campaigns.
As one vendor told The Daily Mail on background, Upright PAC has simply stopped responding to phone calls and emails. What’s more, Upright PAC’s website now directs traffic to a Thai gambling website, while HarrisonButker.com has mysteriously stopped functioning altogether.
The devout Catholic and conservative firebrand first waded into politics in May of 2024 at Benedictine College’s commencement address, where he urged female students to forgo the workplace to raise families. Later that year, Butker launched Upright PAC to ‘reclaim the traditional values that have made this country great,’ according to a group statement at the time.
But one election cycle later, Upright PAC has yet to donate to any political campaigns despite raising more than $40,000, according to Federal Election Commission data reviewed by The Daily Mail. Instead, much of the spending has gone to travel, credit card debt and fundraising fees.
One company, Pennsylvania-based Republican political consulting firm Frontline Strategies, received 81 percent of the PAC’s spending during the 2024 election cycle.
While Upright PAC raised $37,921 for the 2024 cycle with $32,735 in expenses, it received a mere $6,777.25 in donations between January 1, 2025 and September 30, 2026. In total, the group spent $11,220.85 on the 2026 cycle, much of which went to fundraising platform WinRed.
Austin Wright (left) and Harrison Butker (right) own a holding company, MD Keller. Wright is also believed to be involved with Butker’s political action committee, Upright PAC
Harrison Butker speaks, as US President Donald Trump (L), looks on during an executive order signing ceremony in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington in 2025
Conservative media personalities Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly are seen with Butker
Also included in the Upright PAC’s 2026 disbursement records were $4,500 in payments for ‘political strategy consulting’ to Daniel Abuul, a current or former employee at MD Keller, which is a holding company owned by Butker and Austin Wright.
The Daily Mail has sought comment from all three men, as well as Jason Young, who is listed as Upright PAC’s treasurer on federal election forms. A Frontline Strategies spokesperson declined comment to The Daily Mail.
Butker, Wright, Young and Abuul are not accused of any illegality.
Open Secrets, a nonprofit that tracks campaign finance data, first raised concerns about Upright PAC’s failure to support any political campaigns in August of 2025. At the time, Missouri Democratic State Committee spokesperson Chelsea Rodriguez accused Upright PAC of being a ‘grift PAC,’ because it spent almost exclusively on consultants while creating ‘literally nothing’ of value.
‘These types of grift organizations are spreading across the country and across party lines, enabled by weak campaign finance laws,’ Rodriguez told OpenSecrets.
Speaking to the Kansas City Star at the time, Rodriguez dismissed Butker’s PAC ‘another vanity project.’
News of Butker’s political problems has surfaced at a low point in his NFL career. The three-time Super Bowl champion has missed seven of 19 field-goal attempts this season and Chiefs coach Andy Reid is admittedly unsure who will be the team’s kicker going forward.
He’s become a controversial figure among NFL fans, both for aligning himself with President Donald Trump and for his criticism of women in the workplace. In 2025, Butker accepted a position with the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition.
