“Ten years ago, Richard Uihlein, a Midwestern shipping supplies magnate, was a little-known player in the campaign finance world, with scant national media attention, his political giving barely placing him among the top 70 US political donors. But 19 months into the 2022 midterm election cycle, Uihlein has given more than any other Republican so far, becoming a megadonor with the potential to take up the mantle of the once pre-eminent Koch brothers, whose standing in the party has fallen in the post-Trump landscape. According to a Financial Times analysis of federal and state campaign finance records and data from OpenSecrets, Uihlein is now the largest donor behind the biggest anti-abortion political action committee, the Susan B Anthony List-affiliated Women Speak Out. One of the main financial vehicles to have helped push for more pro-life legislators to be elected to public office, Women Speak Out is key to conservatives’ long-running strategy to outlaw abortion in the US — a dream that has gained momentum with the leaking of a draft opinion showing the Supreme Court poised to overturn Roe vs Wade. Meanwhile, Uihlein’s foundation — the Ed Uihlein Family Foundation — regularly supports the Gun Owners Foundation, a gun rights group to which it has donated roughly $30,000 annually since 2014. Politically, Uihlein has been one of the biggest funders of former President Donald Trump and was one of the biggest financial backers of the January 6 pro-Trump “March to Save America” rally that preceded the deadly Capitol Hill insurrection.” Source: Financial Times “How Richard Uihlein became one of the GOP’s biggest megadonors” June 3, 2022