In 2019, Martin Kao emailed two Collins allies about the fake nonprofit he was using to sneak $150,000 to her super PAC. One, Scott Reed, now runs her new super PAC. The other, MacKenzie Dolan, co-founded a firm Collins's campaign has paid more than $320,000 since 2025, FEC records show.
Campaign finance records show Tom Tiffany's campaign for Wisconsin governor took the legal maximum from Dallas billionaire Darwin Deason on Dec. 29, 2025. Deason died Dec. 2. It also took a second $20,000 from the same Windsor household that put one donor over the limit, and the state's records show no refund. It didn't respond to Civic Media's request for comment.
While his opponent was home with the flu, Ken Paxton ran ads calling him 'mentally fragile,' led a 'Where is James Talarico?' chant, and opened a tip line. His senior adviser then posted that Talarico had 'definitely been admitted to a mental institution.' The Ohio facility says he was never a patient.
A Washington Post review found five organizations with business before Ken Paxton's office gave to his campaigns. A game maker's executives gave more than $100,000 while his office reviewed whether their machines were gambling. A donor gave $10,000 two months after an opinion that helped his rock-crushing plant.
Texas's top law-enforcement officer watched New Year's fireworks in Dubai with two Americans who had skipped federal fraud charges. One of them had donated $190,000 to Paxton, including $25,000 days after he was indicted. Paxton's campaign won't talk about the trip.
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Ann Wagner lined up behind a mid-decade gerrymander that carved up competitive seats and handed her safe new territory across Washington, Gasconade and Crawford counties.
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Brandon Herrera turned the Uvalde massacre into gun content.
Food-stamp cards still use 1960s magnetic stripes that skimmers can easily read. Putting chips in them would cost about $215 million, against $600 million-plus stolen from SNAP and other benefits every year. The House Agriculture chairman blocked it, and Trump sank the deal that would have paid victims back.
In 2024, Gabe Evans signed the Libertarian Party of Colorado's pledge — including a promise to 'remove non-Constitutional presidential war powers and return those powers back to Congress' — and the Libertarian candidate dropped out to back him. In 2026, he voted against all six Iran war powers resolutions the House took up.