I’ve chronicled the recent, astonishing increase in spending on election litigation. Sine 2015, election donors may contribute to “election recounts and contests and other legal proceedings,” above and beyond individual candidate campaign contribution limits.

The total from the first 18 months of 2021-2022 cycle are in, and the Federal Election Commission reports more than $121 million in contributions to accounts of national party committees. The breakdown:

DNC: $37,622,647

RNC: $13,413,360

DSCC: $8,732,380

NRSC: $15,000.391

DCCC: $22,155,455

NRCC: $24,880,883

Democratic National Party Totals: $68,510,483

Republican National Party Totals: $53,294,635

(Other: $5551)

Grand Total: $121,810,669

It’s worth noting that in the first 18 months of the 2019-2020 cycle, the parties raised $53 million. And in the entire 24-month cycle (a presidential cycle), they raised nearly $118 million

In 2019-2020, Republican-affiliated groups edged out Democratic-affiliated groups, $64 million to $53 million. Those figures are almost perfectly reversed (for the moment).