Seeing lots of talk about Mike Johnson accepting $95,000 from AIPAC prior to his push for the Israel military aid bill.

And while yes it’s true that he took that money, I can assure you that the $500,000 his JFC accepted from rabid Zionist Keith Rabois and the $677,000 it accepted from dispensationalist Tim Dunn played a much greater role in his decision making than that paltry $95k from AIPAC.
After all, how else would Johnson pay his $300,000-$525,000/month “travel” expenses?

Remember that time 5 vehicles rented by the Biden family over Thanksgiving weekend burst into flames just hours after the Secret Service returned them to Hertz and the entire mainstream media treated folks who found this wildly suspicious as “conspiracy theorists”?

And then like 3 days later the entire incident was memory holed? Doesn’t surprise me at all. They shut it down REAL quick.

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⚡️Campaign Finance🧵: Adam Kinzinger

Have you ever wondered what becomes of socially awkward politicians with no marketable skills, aside from crying on cue, when they are gerrymandered out of public office?

Better yet, do you ever wonder what happens to all the leftover campaign $$ they bilked out of pussy-hat wearing cat ladies in the name of saving our Democracy™?

If the answer is yes, this one’s for you! Prior to finding fame in the J6 fallout, the most remarkable thing about Mr. Kinzinger was just how unremarkable his congressional career had been.

Despite representing the reddest district in IL Kinzinger prided himself on being a bipartisan stooge at every turn.

⚡️Campaign Finance🧵: Campaign Committees

If you want to follow the money in politics you have to know all the places to look 👀

A crash course in campaign committees you probably didn’t even know existed 👇 One common misconception abt campaign finance is that the Citizens United ruling allows the rich to give as much💰as they want to politicians for their campaigns. This is false.

Campaign contribution limits are still firmly in place & are capped @ $6,600 total for the 2024 cycle

You know what I find super impressive?! The fact that @AdamSchiff was able to raise over $31 million for his Senate campaign in just 13 months despite the fact that 65% of his donors report being unemployed.

This, after he just finished raising $23.6 million for his 2022 House race where, again, 64% of his donors reported being unemployed.

Serious question? Why does an 11 term Congressman in a D+23 district need to raise $23.6 million from mostly unemployed Americans… and then spend over $17 million to win reelection in a race where all the other candidates combined raised less than $200,000? You’ll notice it says $18.2 million in disbursements but that number includes $175 k in refunds & another million in donations to other campaigns. Yes, that’s right, Schiff gave less than 5% of what he raised away to help other candidates.

With this kind of ludicrously wasteful campaign spending on himself, you’d be forgiven for mistaking him for a Republican!

⚡️Campaign Finance 🧵: Letitia James

When I got asked to look into Letitia James’ financials last week, I really wasn’t expecting to find much. As you probably know, James is the Attorney General of New York who just secured a $454 million judgement against Donald Trump. James was elected as the NY AG in 2018 and re-elected in 2022. Prior to that James was the NYC “public advocate” for 4 years and a NYC city council member for 8 years prior to that. Prior to elected office she was a public defender for Legal Aid.

Y’all want to see what a ghost donor bot looks like?

Here’s the data from a 65 yo retired man living in a 962 sq ft house in Clawson, Michigan.

From 2019-2023 the FEC has recorded him making over 15,600 separate donations to political campaigns.

The list below shows the receiving campaign, the # of donations made and the total amount donated from 2019-2023
This list is just Presidential, Senate & House campaigns. It does not include the 5,000+ donations “he” made to Joint Fundraising Committees or the 1,000+ donations “he” made to leadership committees.

Dan Crenshaw spent over $2 million dollars on “events” and event related services, like event make-up and jet rentals, in the 2022 cycle.

He spent over $500,000 on travel. Including $47,000 on black car rentals.

Crenshaw spent $200,000 on promotional eyepatches and glassware.

He billed his campaign $36,000 for “petty cash”

He spent $166,000 on hotels, most of them luxury hotels, in vacation destinations like Jackson Hole, Wyoming and Coronado Beach, California.

All in all, Crenshaw spent over $14 million from his primary campaign fund to win reelection in his R+18 district. His Democrat opponent spent less than $200,000.

None of the numbers below include the expenses he billed for in his Joint Fundraising Committee (another $1.8 million) or his Leadership PAC ($75,000).

And I’m supposed to care about George Santos? At least George Santos did something impressive with his campaign funds: unseat a 3 term Dem incumbent in a D+2 district.




Richard Hudson spent $1.8 million to get re-elected in his R+9 district in 2022. His Democrat opponent spent $90,000. Since his re-election was a forgone conclusion, Hudson didn’t bother with silly things like renting a campaign office. Instead he spent his money “consulting.”

And travel. And a rental car. Somehow Hudson ran up $44,000 in rental car bills… almost like his campaign was paying for him to use a rental car full time🤔

Hudson also had a few luxury hotels billed to his account, and his campaign paid $1,200 for a ski lift in Telluride at one of these “campaign events.”

He billed his campaign $28,000 for challenge coins- whatever the fvck those are?

And of course, there’s the $25,839 he billed for his custom campaign apparel from Vineyard Vines.

Weird how I’m supposed to be mad that George Santos spent $6,000 at Ferragamo but totally cool with Dickie Hudson dropping $25,000 on Vineyard Vines?

Came across this today and thought you all might like to see what a stark difference there was between the 2018 cycle and the 2020 cycle.

Remember how I said *something* happened for Democrats in 2018 that sent their small dollar receipts through the roof? And then that very same something happened for Republicans in 2020? Take a look at Kevin McCarthy’s 2018 small $ donations vs 2020’s

In 2018 McCarthy received just $29,422 total in donations less than $200. For that $29,422, there were just 57 receipts. Nearly all of them are people who gave $100 twice which put them at the $200 threshold for itemization (i.e. record keeping).

Flash forward to 2020, just two years later and now Kevin McCarthy is reporting $16,814,474 in donations less than $200 and a total of 81,691 receipts. Except these aren’t a bunch of duplicate $100 donations. These are receipts for people making dozens, sometimes hundreds of donations, for anywhere from a few pennies to just $10 (remember, they have to make 20 $10 donations to make the record keeping cutoff).


Take for instance this woman named Janet. Janet went from having never made more than two donations to any politician, EVER, to donating over 740 times in a single cycle to just Kevin McCarthy.

In total, Janet made 15,186 donations in the 2020 cycle for a total of $42,951- but the average donation was just $2.83.

The reason this is not investigated by anyone on the Right is because the Republican Party is doing the exact same thing. Don’t believe me? Test my theory:

Step 1: Go to

Step 2: Search and click on WINRED and then select 2021-2022 and click “browse receipts”

Step 3: under “select data type: receipt details” at the top of the screen put in
$.01 - $1.00 in the receipt amount boxes.

Step 4: order the receipts from lowest to highest.

Step 5: pick any one of the hundreds (thousands) of names that appear dozens of times in a row recorded as having given just 1 penny.

Step 6: paste that persons name into the FEC search and click “individual contributions” on the the left when the search returns.

Step 7: watch in amazement as records return showing that person is supposed to have given hundreds or thousands or even tens of thousands of times since 2019.

Something happened in 2018 for Democrats with ACTBLUE. I don’t know what it was, probably was some kind of AI system, but it enabled them to DOUBLE individual donations in the 2018 election cycle. Whatever it was, Republicans quickly caught up with their own programming sometime in 2019 when they launched WINRED.FEC.gov I’m not accusing candidates of being “in on it,” but its very clear that some candidates benefit from this scheme and some don’t. Before I show you an example a few things to know: *candidates* only need to show receipts for donors who have given more than $200 total in an election cycle. That’s why individual contributions are broken into two categories: itemized and unitemized. There is no donor information on donors falling into the uncatagorized section. If a donor gives $10 19 different times to the same candidate in a cycle they’ll still be classified as unitemized. If they give $10 20 different times, they’ll move into the itemized category and now all of those 20 separate transactions will be recorded and reported, as they were received. Hopefully that makes sense.

Let’s look at two GOP congressmen: Dan Bishop and Jake Ellzey.

Here is Dan Bishops 2022 cycle receipt summary and total number of receipts. As you can see, Bishop had $1.7 million total individual donations and of that $1.353 million came from donors who gave over $200 total. Now we can see that he had 2,015 receipts total which means most people who gave probably gave all at once.

We all know the GOP has a serious grifter problem but I hadn’t quite realized how bad it was until I started looking at FEC filing last month. I was interested when reports starting emerging about DeSantis “blowing through money.” And while DeSantis’ filings were predictable and… https://t.co/p8xC9YIfTVtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
If Scott were running against another party backed candidate this might not look that unusual- but he wasn’t, so it’s worth examining this a little. The first thing I noticed when I scanned Scott’s OpenSecrets page was that his #2 vendor, Meeting Street Services LLC, has never… https://t.co/d6pABoO3k5twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

THREAD: Stick with me, I promise it’ll be worth it.

On Wednesday @RMConservative had Dr. Paul Marik on his podcast to talk about Dr. Marik’s lawsuit against his employer, Sentara Healthcare. Basically, Sentara has told Dr. Marik that he is no longer permitted to treat patients With the MATH+ Protocol that he (along with hundreds of other doctors) has adopted to treat hospitalized COVID patients. In the course of the interview Dr. Marik mentioned that none of the cheaper drugs in his protocol came with a “bonus” so they weren’t appealing to the hospital