Overview

• A Federal Election Commission Form 1 lists Elon Musk as the sole candidate for the newly registered America Party with headquarters at 1 Rocker Road in Hawthorne, California.
• The same FEC filing names Tesla CFO Vaibhav Taneja as both treasurer and custodian of records, tasking him with managing contributions, expenditures and compliance.
• Musk took to X to call the circulated FEC documents fake and asserted that no such party registration has been filed.
• Taneja joined Tesla in 2017 through its acquisition of SolarCity, ascended to CFO in August 2023, and earned a $139 million pay package in 2024, outpacing peers like Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai.
• The America Party was launched to challenge the two-party system after Musk publicly broke with President Trump over the so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill.”