Overview
- An undercover video published Wednesday shows Sky McAdams, an organizing manager for Texas Majority PAC, saying the group pays $25 for people to attend one‑hour Zoom sessions and calling that “a roundabout way of paying people for their votes.”
- Texas Majority PAC’s July campaign finance filing shows a $500,000 payment to vendor Relentless for a “relational organizing program,” a sum the filings say funded roughly one‑fifth of the PAC’s expenditures to date.
- Relentless promotes so‑called paid relational programs that use Rally software to recruit low‑propensity voters, compensate them for outreach, and claims on its website that similar efforts netted 47,533 Democratic votes in 2024.
- The PAC says McAdams mischaracterized the program and was fired, while Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton publicly condemned the admissions and pointed to prior oversight of the PAC; conservative outlets led coverage of the tape and the video was widely shared on social platforms.
- Federal law bans paying someone to vote for a candidate and carries criminal penalties, but no new criminal charges have been reported so far, leaving legal and ethical scrutiny to play out as the 2026 midterms approach.