Whatley's campaign committees paid $104,749.73 to fly a $1.9 million Cessna linked to a construction executive Trump pardoned for defrauding the government, plus $31,247.46 to a second jet company — while his ads showed him driving a GMC truck in a flannel shirt.
David Michael Levin was convicted after illegally accessing Florida election systems in 2016. Democracy Docket identified him standing beside a Justice Department voting-section lawyer at a Minneapolis polling site during Minnesota's August primary.
Lahn told the Des Moines Register he likes that Iowa's governor has no term limits — then told a podcast he'd like twenty years in the job. Kansas, where he voted in three elections and owns a $2 million home, limits its governor.
Herrera calls himself a millionaire and told the Express-News he's made about $2 million in revenue. His financial disclosure lists $80,000 in earned income and no assets at all. He promised to fix it in July. He still hasn't.
Federal regulators told Darline Graham's campaign it must refund or redesignate over-the-limit money from the founder of Charles Schwab, three married couples who wrote matching checks, and Lisa Murkowski's leadership PAC.
A Lackawanna County woman filed an ethics complaint after a video Rob Bresnahan paid for with House money turned up in Google's political ad database under his campaign account.
Pete Hegseth headlined 'Operation Top Nunn: Salute to the Troops' at the Iowa State Fair and asked Iowans to reelect Nunn. The Pentagon's own February 2026 guidance bars Senate-confirmed officials from speaking at a political fundraiser or advocating for a candidate.
Campaign finance records show Ramaswamy paid nearly $560,000 to V Leasing LLC, whose listed address is a house he owns. A nonprofit watchdog says that if he reimburses himself for the $25 million he loaned his campaign, he will be using donors' money to pay himself.
A Lever investigation found Rogers holds $1.7 to $2.6 million in companies positioned to profit from the AI build-out, including a stake in a Blackstone trust that is 29 percent data centers while Blackstone helps build a $16 billion data center near Ann Arbor. In March he endorsed Trump's plan to speed up data center permitting. On August 20 he called for a one-year moratorium.