It has been months in the making, but today I launched the 2026 Midterms Candidate Due Diligence website. midterms.theleahfiles.com For far too long we have not had a comprehensive side-by-side picture of who is funding our candidates, who pays for them to get elected, their stance on issues we care about, and many more important factors. So, I built what I could not find: a page for every single person on your ballot, showing exactly who is paying for them. Pick your state and you get your voting rules, issues on your specific ballot this midterm, a map of your congressional districts, the measures on your ballot and what they actually do, and a profile on all 2,517 candidates for governor, Senate and House. For each candidate it shows where their money came from and who wrote the checks, what outside groups spent for them and against them, the companies and nonprofits they own out of their own financial disclosure, and where they stand on the issues with the vote or the quote behind it. Every number links back to the filing it came from. If something is missing or something is wrong, tell me and I will fix it. Finalizing some of the smaller elections now, but it's 80% done. It is free and the site doesn't ask for donations. But if you would like to support my work you can subscribe to my Substack (link in bio) or buy me a coffee at buymeacoffee.com/theleahfile… I hope you enjoy!

Part 2, and my last post about my Shawn Ryan Show episode. Last I heard, it had been edited. Then Shawn went on Diary of a CEO and described a woman whose interview he’d never release. That woman wasn’t me, unless he was lying. But I never expected it to air, and here’s why: I spent weeks prepping with Shawn’s team. I was booked to follow the money on TPUSA and the surveillance state, and naming names is what I do. I’m meticulous, and I never say anything I can’t prove. Then, right before we started filming, I was told I couldn’t name names. When I brought up who funds Flock Safety, the license plate cameras now in thousands of American towns, I was told not to say Andreessen Horowitz or Peter Thiel. You can’t follow the money without showing where the money flows. That’s when I realized this episode would never air, before we had even started. So when I got home, I did what I do. I followed the money. And, turns out Shawn Ryan is invested in companies backed by the exact people I was told not to name, plus Israel. (1) Anduril Industries: Ryan has been an investor since October 2025. Anduril started with surveillance towers and now builds drones and autonomous weapons. Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund led its June 2025 round, and Andreessen Horowitz co-led its $5 billion round in May 2026. Those are the two names I was told to leave out. In February 2026, Anduril’s founder, Palmer Luckey, made an undisclosed trip to Israel and met with Netanyahu and senior defense officials. By June, Anduril was setting up an Israel operation to sell to Israel’s Ministry of Defense. Shawn had Palmer on his show in February 2025 and invested eight months later. (2) Shield AI: Ryan has been an investor since November 2025. It builds AI-piloted drones and fighter jets. Andreessen Horowitz led its first major round and has kept investing ever since. Shawn had its co-founder on the show the same season he invested. (3) Sesh: Ryan has been an investor since August 2025. Its $40 million round was led by 8VC, the venture firm of Joe Lonsdale, who co-founded Palantir with Peter Thiel. Lonsdale was a guest on Shawn’s show on May 7, 2026, less than three months before I taped. Palantir signed a strategic partnership with Israel’s Ministry of Defense in 2024. And Flock Safety, the company I came to talk about, is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, which led two of its rounds, and by Founders Fund, Peter Thiel’s fund. So I was booked to expose who funds the surveillance state. I was told not to name Andreessen Horowitz or Peter Thiel. And the host has money in companies backed by Andreessen Horowitz, by Thiel’s fund, and by Thiel’s Palantir co-founder, including one that is building its business in Israel. Then there’s the rest of it. Sarah Adams, his former network host, was messaging his team to keep me off (see Part 1 if you missed it). An IDF settlement contractor tagged the two of them together. Pro-Israel groups passed around her clip from his show as proof that Israel didn’t drive the war. And after his Diary of a CEO interview, accounts from the same network that spent the summer smearing me told everyone his “CIA woman” was me, citing “sources.” It wasn’t me. I never discussed a polygraph with Shawn Ryan, and it was never why I went on. So either he was talking about someone else, or somebody turned his story into a weapon against me. Honestly, I don’t want the episode to air, and I told them so right after we taped, because it was a watered-down version of my work. How it all happened was a tough lesson learned for me in this industry. Now you know what was going on behind the scenes. If this episode doesn’t air, I can assure you it’s not because I’m a fraud. It’s because I won’t water down who funds the surveillance state, and I won’t sell out to protect anyone’s investments. So there you have it.

For those wondering why my Shawn Ryan Show episode hasn’t aired, here is Part 1 of the hammer dropping. @sarahadams, does the attached message look familiar? The top is what you sent Shawn Ryan’s producer the day before I flew out to film. The bottom is that producer telling the team you were “oddly pushing” to keep me off the show. You had left the Shawn Ryan network three weeks earlier, so why were you so obsessed with keeping me off? That’s rhetorical, by the way. I have a pretty good idea. First, let’s be clear, for the 100th time: everything you said about me is false. I am not a fraud. I worked where I said I worked, and I did not lie about my career. I have NEVER worked in bank fraud. And I can’t wait to see your evidence of the “misinformation” I was spreading, because I will go toe to toe with you on that any day. Making false statements about someone to cost them an opportunity has a name: defamation. Some background for those who are new here. For months, a network of accounts has doxxed me and harassed me and my family, including my minor children. I’ve had to notify the police and my children’s school and file multiple internet crime reports. They’ve posted about me hundreds of times, calling me a fraud and spreading lies in a coordinated smear campaign. You were in their threads, Sarah. Two days before I taped, one of them told you, “We got her,” and “I DM you, but we found out who she is.” The night I taped, another posted that they had “exposed” my work history, then tagged you and asked, “did I miss anything?” I was booked to follow the money on the surveillance state, TPUSA and their Israel ties, and to name names, which is what I do. Hold that thought, because it matters for Part 2. For now, let’s talk about you and Israel, because it all got a lot clearer once I looked into YOUR work history, which is far shadier than I could have imagined. Pro-Israel groups shared a clip of you from the Shawn Ryan Show, promoting it as you dispelling “the lies of Mossad/Israel driving the war” with Iran. In December 2024, the CEO of Fox2Sierra, a former IDF paratrooper whose Israeli company is registered in a West Bank settlement, tagged you, Shawn Ryan and Israel’s consul general in photos of his company’s settlement security work. The intelligence firm you advise published a report he co-wrote. Your own October 7 report says your network’s tips were “provided to Israel.” A charity where you say you sit on the board took money from the foundation behind Israel Friends, which buys drones and surveillance gear for Israeli troops. And here’s what you’ve been telling Americans this year: “If you are worried Israel is influencing your local elections you need some better news sources.” “Israel literally can’t donate to a governor’s campaign… show us these hidden donations, haha.” “So every loser in the world is now going to blame Israel.” That’s a lot of energy spent defending a foreign government for someone who calls herself an American counterterrorism expert. Three weeks after your message to Shawn’s team about me, The Daily Wire announced it had “asked Sarah to work with us.” Was that your prize for the smear campaign against me? And since you love the word fraud, let’s look at your record. Shawn’s audience knew you as “former CIA” while you were a current Air Force employee, a “program analyst” to be exact. That’s not the title anyone was sold, and for a self-described CIA targeter, it’s quite a step down. I asked director-level agency people and old friends and coworkers in the DO about you, and none of them knew who you were. By your logic, that would make you a fraud. I won’t say that, because unlike you, I need evidence. By your own dates, you were also on a private investigations firm’s payroll for eight years while you worked for the CIA, Congress, the Navy and the Air Force. Did every one of those employers sign off on that? Then there’s Ukraine. You became chief of operations of a Ukraine NGO network one month before Russia invaded. It advertised bomb disposal teams and “intelligence collection” in a war zone. The charity behind it told the IRS it had no foreign activity and checked “no” on grants to people or organizations. Then it gave away nearly every dollar it raised anyway, about $694,000 to people it never named, and never listed you once. After your title ended, the money dried up and the charity basically disappeared. Where did it all go, Sarah? So, to recap: Ukraine ties, Israel ties, a private intelligence paycheck, and an Air Force “program analyst” job until August 2025. Then you leave the Shawn Ryan Show, try to keep me off it, and land at Ben Shapiro’s company. Yikes. Part 2 is coming. Also, I am of sound mind, would never harm myself, and love my life. 💃🥷

Why would Epstein want to meet with lying Lutnick’s nanny 10 months after they were on his island 👀

For those who prefer video, here’s the follow the money rundown of clipit and the influence operations machine in your feed. Enjoy! 💃🏻🥷

BREAKING: Israeli spyware is confirmed on our phones. This should be headline news but none of our mainstream media is covering it, of course. So we will. An Israeli ad company called Discover-Tech used ordinary online ads to plant spyware on people’s devices, and nobody had to click anything. The ad just had to load on a website or inside an app for you to be infected. Citizen Lab and the ad security firm Confiant published the findings yesterday. Researchers went through roughly 4 billion ad-bidding records and found Discover-Tech ads running on more than 120,000 websites and 70,000 apps between March and June of this year. Confiant says the company was serving at least 10 million ads a day. The platform was called Controlium. According to Citizen Lab, it let spyware companies use ad auctions to profile and unmask users, then send an infected ad to the one person they wanted to hack. The ads were also pulling cookies and login tokens from the sites they ran on. Israeli corporate records list Dekel Boni as the company’s founding director and sole shareholder. The main spyware customer was Candiru, the Israeli firm the U.S. government blacklisted in 2021, which now goes by Integrity Labs. Five years after that blacklisting, it was still reaching devices through ad inventory on Google, Comcast-owned Beeswax and Russia’s Yandex. Google had Discover-Tech on its approved vendor list from 2020 until this week. At least 45 Al Jazeera devices were targeted in 2024 and 2025. Candiru’s 2021 shareholder filings reportedly listed a minority investor described as a proxy for Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, and Qatar also funds Al Jazeera. If that holds up, Qatari state money was sitting inside the company whose spyware was later aimed at Qatar’s own news network. The heaviest targeting was in the Palestinian territories, where Discover-Tech served almost 2% of all digital ads and about 10% on April 7. Traffic also reached the Armenian prime minister’s office, courts, universities and defense organizations. Google and the other ad platforms cut Discover-Tech off after the report came out. What nobody has answered yet is who paid for the ad buys, and how a company working with a U.S.-blacklisted spyware vendor passed vendor review for six years. I am going to look into this today to see if we can figure out who was buying the ads. Interesting timing considering my article yesterday.... Here's what to do to protect yourself: (1) Use an ad blocker. Citizen Lab calls ad-blocking a cybersecurity best practice and says there is no consistently safe way to be exposed to targeted ads. On iPhone, add a Safari content blocker. On Android, use Brave or Firefox with uBlock Origin. Ad blockers only work in your browser, not inside apps, so it also helps to delete free ad-supported apps you don’t need. Kill your advertising ID. (2) iPhone: Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking, and turn off “Allow Apps to Request to Track.” Then Settings > Privacy & Security > Apple Advertising, and turn Personalized Ads off. (2) Android 12 or later: Settings > Privacy > Ads > Delete Advertising ID. Then in Settings > Google > All Services > Privacy & security > Ads > Ads privacy, turn off Ad topics and Ad measurement. (3) Windows 11: Settings > Privacy & Security > General, and turn off personalized ads using your advertising ID. (4) Update your phone and restart it often. Many zero-click exploits don’t survive a reboot, so a daily restart forces attackers to reinfect you. Stay tuned!

So many of you asked me to look into ClipIt, the company paying people by the view to post political clips. I did, and it connects to Israel’s $55.5 million American campaign, Trump’s former campaign manager, Turning Point and the operatives working for the Speaker of the House. A few highlights are below, and the full article with receipts is up on Substack now (link in bio, and it’s free). (1) The man who runs ClipIt goes by “Matt Servius” online and has never been publicly named. Wyoming and Latvian records point to Matīss Tabūns, a 23-year-old in Talsi, Latvia, who formed ClipIt’s American company on May 28, 2025, with a one-dollar stake. (2) Fourteen days later, on June 11, Brad Parscale formed Clock Tower X. It went on to register as Israel’s foreign agent. (3) ClipIt’s own records label a campaign “Political” for December 14 to 21, the week of AmericaFest. In those same days, Clock Tower X took in $6 million from Israel. (4) ClipIt’s campaigns kept Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson out of their clips. Israel’s campaign websites attacked both of them by name. (5) Israel’s campaign made its own clip titled “Charlie Kirk,” and its contract appears written to collect repost rights to content made by outside influencers. (6) Everyone keeps asking who paid. ClipIt paid its clippers from a $20 million crypto wallet that traces back to Stripe’s stablecoin system, and one clipper thanked the boss for his “Political Payout of December.” That means an American company has the name of whoever ordered the political payouts, and that record can be subpoenaed. (7) ClipIt rewrote its terms the day before The Atlantic’s story ran. Then it changed its founding year and blocked visitors from the United States. (8) Israel’s campaign sent $4.4 million for “media placement” to a firm run by Mike Shields. His other firm has been paid $2.98 million by Speaker Mike Johnson’s campaign. (9) Parscale’s Israel firm uses the same Ohio office suite as his company’s White House contract. (10) Turning Point denies working with ClipIt. But, it has paid Jake Hoffman’s firms millions a year, and Hoffman ran Turning Point’s 2020 teen troll farm. The attack operation on X reeks of Jake Hoffman's troll famrs Enjoy the article!

We became a bestseller on Substack yesterday and top 10 rising in US Politics. A milestone that I actually celebrated, which is rare for me. From the bottom of my heart, thank you all so much for your support. If you ever want the sources, models, methodologies, or deep dives of my work, you can find it over on substack. If you haven't joined us over there, please do so! The link is in my bio. 💃🥷