Election After-Party Outside Elon Musk's West Lake Hills Home Draws About 60 People and Two Party Buses
Organizers called it the "People Over Billionaires Election After Party": a Saturday celebration, complete with chartered party buses and Cybertruck piñatas, aimed at the Austin-area billionaire whose roughly $445–474 million in midterm spending backed mostly losing candidates — including Ken Paxton's Senate run.
WEST LAKE HILLS — The midterm argument arrived on Elon Musk's street on Saturday, by party bus. About 60 people gathered outside the Tesla and SpaceX chief executive's West Lake Hills home for what organizers billed as the "People Over Billionaires Election After Party" — a celebration, four days after the election, that the world's richest man's political spending had mostly backed losers, Fox News and the Austin American-Statesman reported.
The event was organized by three nonprofits — VOCAL-TX, the Center for Popular Democracy and People's Action — which reported $56.1 million in combined 2024 revenue on their most recent tax filings, according to Fox News. Attendees arrived on two chartered party buses and in additional vehicles, with music including Queen's "We Will Rock You" and theatrical Cybertruck piñatas, a nod to the Tesla truck built at Musk's Austin-area Gigafactory. The Statesman reported that Austin police received a call reporting alcohol use at the event; officers who responded reported seeing no evidence of it.
The money was the message. A New York Times analysis placed Musk's total disclosed political spending at approximately $474 million for the cycle, while analyses based more narrowly on Federal Election Commission filings put the figure near $445 million — with about $212 million of it supporting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's U.S. Senate campaign through allied committees. Paxton lost to Democrat James Talarico by more than ten points on Tuesday, the centerpiece of a Democratic sweep of Texas statewide offices.
Saturday's gathering was peaceful and brief by the standards of protest politics — closer to a victory lap than a demonstration — and it followed the pattern of the year's "Tesla Takedown" protests, which targeted Musk's companies rather than his home. Organizers did not provide comment to Fox News Digital for its report. Musk, who owns the sprawling West Lake Hills property, has not commented publicly on the gathering.
