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Molson Coors is “relaunching” its political action committee “to educate and support candidates who understand the challenges we face and advocate for policies that strengthen the beverage industry,” its chief executive told some employees in a memo Friday morning.

Should they feel like ponying up for corporate political spending, Molson Coors Beverage Company USA LLC PAC is ready to accept their individual contributions via “recurring payroll deductions or making a one-time contribution.”

Fingers obtained the email from a current Molson Coors employee who has been granted anonymity to avoid retaliation for sharing internal documents. They characterized the message as unusual for the macrobrewer, which has struggled to find growth during the second Trump administration.

“I am fully committed to strengthening our PAC because I believe in the power of our collective voice to shape policies that impact our industry and Molson Coors’ future,” wrote CEO Rahul Goyal beneath a banner bearing the corporate PAC’s logo and an illustration of a pillared statehouse-style building. “Whatever you're able to give helps strengthen our collective voice on policies that can protect jobs, foster innovation and help create the conditions for industry to grow.”

Paying subscribers can read the memo in full below.

Federal election law permits companies to solicit workforce contributions to their corresponding PACs so long as they don’t coerce that spending. But the line is blurry, and scholars and watchdogs like Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington have long pointed out that corporate leaders can effectively influence their workers’ donations—not to mention actual votes—while remaining within the letter of the law. These rank-and-file donations build war chests for corporations’ nominally separate PACs to spend shaping policies that benefit shareholders, if not always the employees themselves.

It was not immediately clear what this relaunch entails. A review of federal election records indicates that MCBC PAC has raised money and made disbursements in every Congressional cycle over the past decade and a half. Since spending $284,000 in the 2009-2010 election, its spending has declined every year since. MCBCPAC has spent $71,510.00 in the current federal electoral frame.

The PAC has been much more active at the state level. A July 2026 document on Molson Coors’ investor relations portal indicates its state and local political contributions tallied $315,800, more than 10 times the cumulative federal spending it did that year.

Also unclear is the designated audience of Goyal’s memo. It does not appear to have been sent to Molson Coors’ entire workforce, which was rocked this time last year by layoffs, role consolidations, and the departure of Michelle St. Jacques, the company’s rising-star marketer-turned-chief commercial officer.

Neither Molson Coors nor MCBC PAC immediately responded to a request for comment.