George Soros has spent years wiring money into Texas trying to purchase an election Republicans keep winning.
Now one of his PAC managers got caught on tape laying out exactly how they do it.
The Justice Department just opened a criminal investigation – and the PAC's own spokesman confirmed the tape is real.
Texas Majority PAC Operative Admits $25 Zoom Class Was a Vote Buying Scheme for Talarico
Townhall released the undercover footage on September 16. Sky McAdams, then an organizing manager for Texas Majority PAC, sat across from an undercover journalist and explained a program his group was running to boost Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico.
"We are paying people $25 to attend a one-hour Zoom class to learn why voting is important and why the Republicans are causing all of these bad things," McAdams said on the tape. "So it's like a roundabout way of paying people for their votes, essentially."
He kept going. McAdams told the undercover reporter you cannot hand someone cash and say, "Here's $25, go vote for me." What you can do, he said, is pay them to sit through a class. "And then the class just talks about, like, the importance of voting."
He named the program: the "Paid Relational Program," officially called "Rally Texas."
Then McAdams finished his own thought: "If I was a Republican, I'd be pissed. I'd be like, that's shady as f**k."
By the following day McAdams was gone. The PAC labeled him a "rogue employee" who "mischaracterized" the program, insisting that participants "are being paid for grassroots organizing work."
The story might have ended there – except the PAC's own spokesman told Fox News Digital the video is real, unaltered, and unedited.
They can call him rogue. They cannot call the tape fake.
Federal law is unambiguous on the underlying act. Paying someone to vote, or to vote for a specific candidate, is a federal crime.
The workaround McAdams described is the precise legal question now before the Justice Department – dress the payment as a "class," aim the newly motivated voter at the Democrat on the ballot, and argue the two things are unconnected.
The program is run by a firm called Relentless. In a July campaign finance filing, Texas Majority PAC paid Relentless $500,000 for a "relational organizing program" – roughly one-fifth of the PAC's total spending at that point.
At $25 per person, that sum covers approximately 20,000 payments.
Relentless describes its model as recruiting "low-propensity voters" and compensating them "for their time as they reach, persuade, and mobilize their friends and family to vote." That language does not mention Zoom classes on why Republicans are the problem.
Relentless Already Ran This Voter Fraud Scheme Across Five Battleground States
Relentless brought the same paid model to Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania in 2024, claiming credit for delivering tens of thousands of Democrat votes across those races.
Texas Majority PAC is not a shoestring operation. According to Transparency USA figures cited by Fox News Digital, the PAC raised nearly $10 million in the 2026 election cycle by the end of the second quarter, spent nearly $9 million, and still held more than $1.3 million in cash.
The group was built by veterans of Texas Democrat campaigns with one goal: making Texas a blue state permanently.
Attorney General Ken Paxton – Talarico's Republican opponent – called the tape exactly what it is. "Absolutely outrageous! James Talarico's team just admitted they are trying to bribe people for votes. Texans aren't for sale, no matter how much James Talarico thinks they are."
Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) wrote to Attorney General Todd Blanche demanding a federal investigation.
"Americans deserve to participate in elections that are free of illegal immigrant voting, foreign adversary financing, and especially shady political organizations that seek to purchase the votes of Americans," Fallon wrote.
Two weeks after that letter, sources confirmed to Fox News Digital that the Justice Department opened a probe.
Federal vote-buying convictions carry real consequences. A Louisiana police chief and city councilmember were each sentenced to a year in federal prison in 2022 for paying voters $10 to $20 per ballot – schemes that look almost primitive compared to a $500,000 professional organizing contract.
Texas Majority PAC is betting the "class" wrapper is enough legal cover. It may be right.
But McAdams already told a journalist on camera his own program was a roundabout way to buy votes. The Justice Department under Todd Blanche now gets to decide whether the fig leaf is thick enough to hold.
Talarico's Senate campaign was already on defense – he recently walked back his own claims that God is non-binary and that six sexes exist.
A federal vote-buying probe tied to his biggest PAC backer does not make Texas any easier to flip.
Sources:
- Hannah Nightingale, "That's Shady as F*ck: Texas PAC Operative Admits Dems Are Paying Voters in Roundabout Way to Vote for Talarico," Townhall, September 16, 2026.
- Fox News Digital Staff, "Trump DOJ Investigating Dem Group in Texas After Viral Undercover Video Sparks Massive Uproar," Fox News Digital, September 30, 2026.
- Jim Hoft, "DOJ Investigating Dem PAC After Operative Boasted of Roundabout Way to Buy Votes," Gateway Pundit, October 1, 2026.