Hanoi Jane sat on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun in 1972 while American POWs were tortured at the Hanoi Hilton.
At 88, she's selling out the country again – and she nearly got away with it.
New FEC filings reveal Fonda has been quietly funneling millions to socialist candidates right before the midterms.
Jane Fonda Climate PAC Quietly Backed Green New Deal Candidates and a DSA Socialist
Jane Fonda's Climate PAC raised $8 million this cycle and quietly deployed more than $5 million across congressional, state, and local races – and almost nobody noticed.
Of that $8 million, $1.8 million went to operations, $3.4 million went directly to candidates, and $228,000 was transferred to allied committees, with $5 million still in reserve.
This is not Fonda's first political bankrolling operation.
Back in the 1980s, she funneled $17 million from her workout empire into the Campaign for Economic Democracy PAC – the original Jane Fonda political money machine.
That operation helped elect state lawmakers who shaped California's environmental regulations for a generation, and she ran the same operation then as she's running now, only with more money and fewer people watching.
Her recipients this cycle include William Lawrence, a Michigan House candidate and Sunrise Movement cofounder who once locked himself to an Enbridge Energy pipeline and faced felony trespassing charges.
He was also a Democratic Socialists of America member – though he conveniently let the membership lapse just days before winning his primary.
Fonda's PAC cut him a $5,000 check, and he's now leading Republican Rep. Tom Barrett 53% to 45% in an October Emerson poll.
A felony-charged DSA member is ahead in Michigan with Jane Fonda's fingerprints on his campaign.
She backed Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong – a socialist whose campaign fell apart the moment she had to explain her call to "cancel Thanksgiving."
Fonda gave $5,000 to Justin Pearson, the Tennessee state rep who was expelled from the state House for staging a gun control protest on the floor and later reinstated as the left's favorite martyr.
She maxed out to Ed Markey, the 80-year-old Massachusetts senator and Green New Deal co-author alongside AOC.
Markey's proposal would move the country to 100% clean energy within a decade – no more oil, no more gas, and an electric bill that would make your head spin.
Fonda also backed Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan for Senate, a candidate whose hard-left positions have Democrats privately worried even as they predict a favorable November.
She put $40,000 into Luzerne County, Pennsylvania – coal country, home to abandoned mines and Superfund sites – and Democrats walked away controlling the county council.
Fonda's PAC isn't just chasing Senate seats or presidential coattails – it's targeting the down-ballot races that political media ignores, the county commissions, state legislative chambers, and local councils where a few thousand dollars changes outcomes and the press never shows up.
How Tom Steyer Bought a Jane Fonda PAC Endorsement
Billionaire hedge funder Tom Steyer donated $310,000 to Fonda's PAC, and then Fonda endorsed Steyer for governor of California.
Fonda's PAC insists the endorsement had nothing to do with the cash – it was purely about Steyer's "long record of climate advocacy" – and his campaign failed anyway, a $310,000 investment that bought a celebrity endorsement and exactly zero votes.
Steyer's check is embarrassing, but the bigger story unfolded while everyone was watching Senate races and presidential campaigns.
In 2023, the Jane Fonda Climate PAC backed 14 down-ballot candidates in Virginia – 13 of them won, and the Virginia House of Delegates flipped to Democrats.
She's now endorsing school board candidates in Ohio and Washington state, the same boards that set curriculum, manage billion-dollar budgets, and decide what your grandchildren are taught.
She endorsed the mayoral candidate in Tallahassee, Florida – a city that owns its own electric utility and controls every energy decision its residents make.
Fonda isn't running an environmental movement – she's buying the machinery of local government one race at a time.
When she launched the PAC in 2022, she admitted that the group would target candidates at "the local, state, and federal levels through grassroots organizing" – the strategy was public from day one, and nobody was watching.
Fonda told the LA Times she'd studied how Republicans "took over state legislatures" and county councils through down-ballot organizing, and she copied it – the same infrastructure play, funded with green money and staffed with socialists instead of conservatives.
The woman who handed propaganda to North Vietnam – while men like John McCain were having their arms broken in the Hanoi Hilton – is spending $5 million to elect socialists who want to ban fossil fuels, cancel Thanksgiving, and chain themselves to pipelines.
She's 88 years old and running a more sophisticated political operation than most career politicians.
Republicans spent decades building that local infrastructure because it was worth protecting – the county councils and state legislatures that set policy for millions of Americans who never see a senator.
Fonda looked at what they built and decided she wanted it.
She's paying $5,000 at a time to dismantle it.
Sources:
- Geoff Earle, "Jane Fonda's PAC spends millions to boost socialists ahead of midterms," New York Post, October 24, 2026.
- "California Democrat Gubernatorial Candidate Tom Steyer Donated to Jane Fonda's PAC Prior to Her Endorsement," Breitbart, May 20, 2026.
- "Jane Fonda Launches Climate PAC: 'We Have 8 Years Before the Point of No Return,'" Breitbart, March 17, 2022.
- "Jane Fonda donates $100G in bid to defeat California Rep. Issa," Fox News, 2018.