Bitcoin Magazine has published a new interview with Mason Lynaugh, Executive Director of Stand With Crypto, who argues that the crypto vote will decide the United States midterm elections on November 3. As in every midterm cycle, the ballot will fill every seat in the House of Representatives and roughly one-third of the Senate, putting control of the congressional agenda — and with it the fate of pending crypto legislation — on the line. Lynaugh joined Grace Remington and Sean Hagan to break down the organization's final push and to explain why a shift in congressional power could reshape Bitcoin and crypto policy for years.

Stand With Crypto counts 3.1 million advocates, organized through 50 state chapters and 47 college chapters, and has endorsed 45 candidates in this cycle, according to Lynaugh. He described crypto voters as the "low-propensity swing bloc" that political campaigns spend millions of dollars to find, arguing that races decided by hundreds of votes can hinge on the group's tens of thousands of advocates.

Lynaugh also framed crypto legislation as bipartisan, citing the 100 Democrats who backed the Clarity Act and the GENIUS Act vote as evidence of cross-party support. Those two bills anchor the current policy debate: the GENIUS Act, a stablecoin framework signed into law in July 2025, and the Clarity Act, a market-structure bill that cleared the House and awaits Senate action. He noted that the number of A-rated lawmakers — as ranked on Stand With Crypto's own legislative scorecard — has grown from 90 to 338 in three years.

The discussion also covered why some Democrats continue to oppose crypto and how skeptics have been brought around, along with the group's organizing against anti-Bitcoin lawmakers under the framing "give them a job or take it away." The conversation weighed Fair Shake's $95 million in spending — the largest deployed by any crypto-aligned super PAC — against volunteer phone calls and closed with the GENIUS Act rollout, disappointment over the Clarity Act, and the case for treating AI advocates as allies.

Regardless of the outcome, Lynaugh said he expects the most pro-Bitcoin Congress in history. The markers to watch after November 3 are the size of the new Congress's pro-crypto ranks, how many of the group's 45 endorsed candidates win their races, and whether momentum on the still-pending Clarity Act carries into the next session.

Stand With Crypto's voter hub allows users to check their registration, find their state's deadline and see where candidates stand on crypto in one place: standwithcrypto.org/vote. The full interview, "Stand With Crypto Director: The Crypto Vote Will Decide the Midterms | Mason Lynaugh," is available on Bitcoin Magazine and YouTube.

This post first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and was written by Patrick Green.

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