A Flatwater Free Press and New York Times investigation found at least 20 Pillen Family Farms operations employed undocumented workers, and at least 12 Pillen workers were charged with using fake or stolen IDs. The company joined E-Verify the day Pillen launched his campaign for governor.
In August, Kim's homepage promised she would 'Stand with President Trump to deliver a bold America First Agenda.' Twenty-six days later the line is gone, the page title has changed, and her Issues page has been deleted. Her spokesman calls the idea she is distancing herself from Trump 'completely absurd.'
Robert Skjonsberg has worked for Rounds for over a decade and is a registered South Dakota lobbyist for more than a dozen clients, among them Meta and Altria. Senate rules say a staffer at his pay grade may not affiliate with a firm that sells professional services — and he is listed as a co-owner of one.
Sullivan emailed thousands of Alaskans a town-by-town list of what he has secured for them, on Senate letterhead paid for by taxpayers, days before the 60-day pre-election blackout. The Senate Ethics Committee says letterhead may not be used for any campaign or campaign-related correspondence.
Trump's super PAC put $10 million into Ken Paxton's Senate race and Elon Musk's PAC has spent $1.4 million more. Paxton's own campaign has spent about $264,000 on ads. Two men and a handful of billionaire-funded groups are paying for the rest.
The Sports Betting Alliance gave $650,000 to the super PAC electing Ramaswamy. Two bills to legalize online casino gambling are pending in Columbus. A reporter asked him directly. He would not answer.
McGuire's disclosure records an Nvidia purchase on August 18. The first public report that Hugging Face was in play came four days later. Nine days after the purchase, he told ABC13 he doesn't trade stocks at all.
On September 10, 2025, Marshall voted to table the amendment forcing the Justice Department to release the Epstein files. It failed 51-49. Five months earlier, two Blackstone executives whose names appear in those files gave his campaign $13,000.
ProPublica and the Texas Tribune found Paxton left $1.3 million in mortgages off his federal disclosure, valued a plot of land at up to $50,000 that his own business partner says is worth $1 million, and reported no rental income from homes that were being rented.