The Majority Whip raised $8.2M last cycle. 82% of individual donors live outside Minnesota. Fewer than 450 in his own district funded his campaign. $10M from 800+ PACs. 99.4% from outside the district. The American Bankers Association gave the legal max every cycle for seven years straight.

Emmer's district: 15,000 insulin users. Cost to produce a vial: $7. Pharmacy price: $315. His record on insulin pricing across six Congresses: blank. He voted against the $35 cap. Twice. Called it "a price fixing scheme." 75% of his own party's voters support it. Pharma PACs: $439,500.

The Majority Whip delivered the Big Beautiful Bill 215-214. One vote. That bill cut Medicaid by $900 billion. One month later, CentraCare -- the largest hospital system in his own district -- laid off 535 workers.

675,000 public comments. 98% supported the mining ban. Congress overrode them 214-208. A Chilean billionaire's subsidiary will extract copper next to the Boundary Waters and ship it to China. Under the 1872 Mining Act, they pay zero federal royalties. The Ojibwe were never consulted.

Congress voted 214-208 to open the Boundary Waters watershed to sulfide mining by a Chilean billionaire family. 14 of 14 comparable mines contaminated surrounding water. The Ojibwe were not consulted. Their 1854 treaty rights were not mentioned in the debate.

We published a free guide to building a congressional campaign finance database from FEC bulk data. Schema, queries, directions you can hand to any AI assistant. Pick a representative. Download the data. Run the queries. helyn.com/follow-the-money @themarkup.org

64,000 VA positions vacant. He voted against hiring 62,000 VA employees. Twice. Then whipped through a bill that cuts $911 billion from Medicaid. The full record — 24 chapters, all free. helyn.com/tom-emmer @hca-mn.bsky.social

14 of 14 copper sulfide mines contaminated surrounding water. Wisconsin had a law: show us one that didn't. In 19 years, no company on Earth could. It was repealed. Then Congress permanently lifted the Boundary Waters protection. 214-208. helyn.com/the-briefing/tom-emmer/the-water @sierraclub.org

The man who forced the Epstein files open lost his seat in a $32M primary. One of the donors who funded his defeat -- John Paulson -- is in Epstein's black book. The Whip who tried to block the files called them a "non-issue." The receipts are in a free book. @allinwithchris.bsky.social

"Our duty to our veterans must not end with their final breath." Tom Emmer said that introducing a bill to speed up death certificates. It hires no doctors. It fills none of 64,000 vacant VA positions. He voted against the bill that did. 24 chapters free: helyn.com/tom-emmer @cd6dflmn.bsky.social

The President signed a stablecoin law while earning 7M from his crypto venture — per his disclosure. 102 Democrats voted yes. Democrats who crossed had 3.6x more in career PAC contributions than those who didn't. The money preceded the vote by months. FEC bulk data + VoteView. @opensecrets.org

The GENIUS Act took effect July 2025. Regulators just issued joint implementation rules — monthly reserve disclosures, AML/KYC requirements for every stablecoin issuer. Every issuer except one family's product got an exemption vote. It failed 211-219. helyn.com/the-briefing/tom-emmer/the-loop

$TRUMP token: launched 3 days before inauguration. Family kept 80% of the supply. Made $2.3B. Retail investors lost $2.3B. Down 97%. "The Loop" documents how the President profits while his Whip writes the rules. helyn.com/the-briefing/tom-emmer/the-loop

The Social Security trust fund depletes in 2032. The Trustees Report moved it up a year. It models each risk separately. We identified seven policies — several from the same bill — all hitting the fund at once. No combined scenario has been published. helyn.com/r/reckoning #SocialSecurity #OBBBA