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A group called "Arkansans for Democracy and Justice" is flooding Arkansas with attack ads, but it is registered in Alabama, uses out-of-state vendors and hasn't received a single dime from actual Arkansans.
Eli Crane has built his campaigns on stopping drugs and blaming immigrants for smuggling them. FEC records show that between 2025 and 2026 alone he paid more than $55,000 to a fundraising consultant arrested in 2016 after police found meth, LSD, heroin and cocaine in her Phoenix home.
An outside group is spending nearly $1 million telling Michigan voters that Bill Huizenga took on congressional stock trading. His own disclosures show Johnson Controls stock through his first seven years on the Financial Services Committee, a purchase reported 57 days late in 2021, and a vote against making members sell what they already own.
Eight Republicans on the 2026 ballot want to represent places where the paper trail — mortgages, ballots, flight records, voter rolls — keeps pointing somewhere else: Virginia, Florida, Kansas, or the next district over.
Ramaswamy's own Ohio ethics filing lists stock in the companies that make the chips, run the servers and own the land behind the data center boom. As governor he'd appoint the boards that hand out their tax breaks and approve their power plants. Asked whether he'd sell, he didn't answer.
Governor Kelly Ayotte has built her reelection campaign around her opponent's old work for Purdue Pharma. In 2021 she personally urged the Executive Council to make Gordon MacDonald — who had fought New Hampshire's opioid investigation as Purdue's lawyer — chief justice, calling it 'about his character.' This week he resigned after admitting he broke the judicial ethics rules.
Since 2010, a money manager that gives campaign cash to the officials who pick who runs a public pension can't get paid by that pension for two years. SEC Chairman Paul Atkins wants the rule gone — even though the SEC's own proposal admits pay-to-play schemes take money from retirees and taxpayers.
Lawler's congressional campaign has paid Checkmate Strategies $502,538 since 2022. He didn't sign a deal to sell his half of the firm until 2025, and his newest disclosure shows he is still owed $100,001 to $250,000 on that sale — paid, the firm's head says, out of his own pocket — while the campaign's monthly fee to the firm went up.
A September 15 FEC letter says LaLota's campaign took money from Leonard Blavatnik, Stacey Siebel, Andrea Wynn and Lewis Stahl that appears to exceed federal limits. LaLota says it was one misspelled name. Thirteen of the 23 FEC letters his campaign has received since 2022 flag apparently over-the-limit money.
