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Arkansas Congressman Steve Womack sits on the House Appropriations Committee, which decides which corporations get billions in federal cash — and every major weapons contractor is lining his pockets, from Boeing and Lockheed Martin to Northrop Grumman and RTX.
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South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds is writing the Senate's rules on artificial intelligence while taking handouts from the Big Tech companies he's supposed to be regulating.
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Rick Jackson is running for Georgia governor claiming he'll fix the housing crisis and lower rent, but he sued his own county to stop apartments from being built near his 47,000-square-foot, 82-room estate.
Public Citizen had to sue to see Trump's 'most favored nation' drug-price deals with Pfizer and Eli Lilly. The heavily redacted contracts carve Lilly's blockbuster weight-loss drugs out of the Medicaid discount, let Lilly stop selling drugs abroad to escape a lower price, and let Pfizer calculate its own prices for newly launched drugs.
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French Hill chairs the House Financial Services Committee, where he writes the rules for banks, crypto firms and predatory lenders.
A group representing FanDuel and DraftKings gave $200,000 to the Southeastern Conservative Foundation, a dark-money nonprofit formed in July 2025 by people at the center of Tommy Tuberville's run for Alabama governor. Online sports betting is illegal in Alabama, and Tuberville says the next governor should leave gambling to the legislature.
Wired found outside groups — mostly a super PAC funded through Andreessen Horowitz — have spent about $600,000 backing Mike Rounds, and he's taken roughly $215,000 more straight from employees and PACs of AI labs and other tech companies. Rounds co-wrote the Senate's AI roadmap, and AI executives see him as 'a top supporter of the industry.'
Rick Jackson is running for Georgia governor on housing costs. Records show he sued Forsyth County for approving apartments near his 47,000-square-foot estate and worried about the 'type of people' who would live there.
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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.