In August, the Lever and ProPublica exposed the largest political advocacy donation in US history — a mammoth $1.6 billion donation to a dark money group led by Leonard Leo, who as former president Donald Trump’s judicial adviser helped build the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority to overturn federal protections for abortion rights.

Leo’s dark money network has been relatively quiet this election cycle, but Iowans are now getting a firsthand look at how the conservative legal activist and his allies intend to use their spoils to influence elections and crush efforts to protect consumers — such as taking the sort of financial misconduct accusations usually aimed at their allies and throwing them back at Democrats.

In September, Leo’s dark money network registered a new fictitious entity, called the Alliance for Consumers Action Fund. The alliance soon began running TV ads in Iowa attacking the state’s Democratic attorney general, Tom Miller, over his role as chairman of the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG). According to AdImpact, the group has reserved $93,000 worth of ads against Miller, who is up for reelection next week.