A Mother Jones investigation found that Rep. Max Miller answers people who talk about the abuse allegations against him with threats — cease-and-desist letters to TV stations and a Democratic organizer, emails warning his ex-wife's lawyer he'd go public about a murder case, and a text to his ex-father-in-law, Sen. Bernie Moreno.
Tom Kean Jr. cosponsored the ORPHAN Cures Act, which rode into Trump's budget bill and pushed back Medicare's power to negotiate prices on blockbuster cancer drugs. The Congressional Budget Office says it handed a multibillion-dollar windfall to drugmakers including Merck and Johnson & Johnson — two companies whose stock sits in Kean's own portfolio.
Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers became chair of the House Intelligence Committee in January 2011. In July 2011, the private military firm his wife helped run won a $1 billion-plus contract to guard the U.S. embassy in Kabul. Before the marriage, his disclosures showed almost no wealth. Today the couple is worth millions.
Greg Abbott has renewed or amended his border disaster proclamation at least 69 times since 2021 — 21 of them since Trump took office and crossings hit record lows. The 'emergency' lets his agencies skip competitive bidding: more than $5 million in no-bid contracts since January 2025, for rifles, apartments and a Ford F-150.
▶ Video
Ann Wagner walked into Congress with a few million dollars and today is worth an estimated $26 million, all while chairing the subcommittee that oversees the SEC, the agency that polices Wall Street.
Konstantin Sokolov gave to Trump's White House ballroom days before his company asked Treasury for a license to get around Russia sanctions. He got it in 10 weeks, used it to buy a copper mine from a sanctioned Russian bank, and was put in charge of $201 million in State Department money. FEC records show he also gave to committees raising money for Susan Collins, Pete Ricketts, Dan Sullivan, Vivek Ramaswamy and six more Republicans on this site.
In 2019, Martin Kao emailed two Collins allies about the fake nonprofit he was using to sneak $150,000 to her super PAC. One, Scott Reed, now runs her new super PAC. The other, MacKenzie Dolan, co-founded a firm Collins's campaign has paid more than $320,000 since 2025, FEC records show.
Campaign finance records show Tom Tiffany's campaign for Wisconsin governor took the legal maximum from Dallas billionaire Darwin Deason on Dec. 29, 2025. Deason died Dec. 2. It also took a second $20,000 from the same Windsor household that put one donor over the limit, and the state's records show no refund. It didn't respond to Civic Media's request for comment.
A Washington Post review found five organizations with business before Ken Paxton's office gave to his campaigns. A game maker's executives gave more than $100,000 while his office reviewed whether their machines were gambling. A donor gave $10,000 two months after an opinion that helped his rock-crushing plant.