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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 29/06/2026

A constituent wrote a free 24-chapter book documenting all of it from federal records. Every FEC filing, every vote, every dollar traced. Includes a guide to build the same database for YOUR representative. The book: helyn.com/tom-emmer The guide: helyn.com/follow-the-money @thenation.com

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 29/06/2026

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.

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 29/06/2026

His crypto output: 24 bills. The district has zero crypto employers. Manufacturing -- the largest sector -- got zero enacted bills in 11 years. A constituent built the whole record from federal data. 24 chapters. Free. helyn.com/the-briefing/tom-emmer/the-contrast @thebulwark.com

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 29/06/2026

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.

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 29/06/2026

The full record, sourced to CBO and FEC data. Free: helyn.com/the-briefing/tom-emmer/the-bill @meidastouch.com

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 29/06/2026

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.

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 29/06/2026

The Majority Whip built the legislative architecture -- starting in 2017. Lifetime League of Conservation Voters score: 3%. In 2024: 0%. A free book documents the full record. Every claim sourced to federal records. helyn.com/the-briefing/tom-emmer/the-water @democracynow.org

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 29/06/2026

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.

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 29/06/2026

Free, sourced to federal records: helyn.com/the-briefing/tom-emmer/the-water @npr.org

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 29/06/2026

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.

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 29/06/2026

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

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 29/06/2026

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

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 29/06/2026

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

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 29/06/2026

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

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 28/06/2026

"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

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 25/06/2026

Related pattern documented in MN-06: The House Majority Whip authored the GENIUS Act regulating stablecoins, then passed the bill permanently banning the government alternative. Trump's family holds a stake in USD1. Zero crypto employers in the district. Fully sourced: helyn.com/te/king

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 25/06/2026

326 members endorsed the veterans healthcare bill. The private vote count that blocked it in committee was never released. The Majority Whip counts the votes. helyn.com/te/gate

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 25/06/2026

The banking PAC flow into individual members tells the same story. One banking PAC gave Tom Emmer exactly $10,000 — the legal max — seven consecutive cycles. $10M+ from 800+ PACs over a decade, nearly all from outside his district. helyn.com/te/dollar

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 25/06/2026

Tom Emmer voted against the PACT Act twice. Then introduced a bill to speed up veterans’ death certificates. It doesn’t hire a doctor or fill a single one of the 64,000 vacant VA positions causing those delays. helyn.com/te/dead

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 25/06/2026

The Wharton and Trustees models treat each risk separately. Seven policies from the same bill hit the trust fund simultaneously. No combined scenario has been published. helyn.com/the-briefing/tom-emmer/the-reckoning

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 24/06/2026

Seven policies drain Social Security simultaneously. The SSA has modeled none of them together. helyn.com/the-briefing/tom-emmer/the-reckoning

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 20/06/2026

The GENIUS Act created the regulatory framework for the President's own stablecoin, USD1. His family's venture had .4B in circulation when he signed it. The amendment to bring the President under the bill's own disclosure requirements failed 211-219. helyn.com/the-briefing/tom-emmer/the-loop

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 20/06/2026

The pattern holds across six 119th Congress bills. Democrats who crossed on all six: 2.1M median PAC contributions. Democrats who never crossed: .4M. 28 crossed every time. 67 never crossed once. Documented correlation — the data does not prove causation. helyn.com/follow-the-money

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 20/06/2026

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

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 20/06/2026

The GENIUS Act passed 308-122. The amendment to bring the President and VP under the bill's disclosure requirements failed 211-219. Emmer — the Majority Whip who delivered 206 Republican votes — did not publicly oppose it. helyn.com/the-briefing/tom-emmer/the-loop

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 20/06/2026

USD1 — the Trump family stablecoin — is now regulated under a law the President's Whip helped write. An amendment barring the President from profiting from his own legislation failed 211-219. Emmer voted no. @kenklippenstein.bsky.social @theintercept.com @themarkup.org

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 20/06/2026

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

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 19/06/2026

The FEC data shows it. Democrats who voted yes on the GENIUS Act received 2x the PAC money of those who voted no. The pattern holds across six bills. The data is public. We built a tool so anyone can check: helyn.com/follow-the-money @mn06watch.bsky.social @opensecrets.org @citizensforethics.org

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 19/06/2026

$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

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 18/06/2026

Sourced to CBO, SSA actuaries, and primary documents throughout. This is from a 20-chapter investigative series on the legislator who delivered the bill 215-214. Full sourcing and analysis at helyn.com #EconSky

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 18/06/2026

The Majority Whip on Tax Day: "By the time of the midterms, people are not only going to be talking about it, they are going to feel it." The provisions made permanent — corporate rates, estate exemptions, pass-throughs — aren't subject to the pressure. Tips, overtime, auto loans expire by 2029.

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 18/06/2026

The seven mechanisms: — Tax structure shifting wages to pass-through — 238,000 federal workers cut — Tariff-driven economic slowdown — $911B in Medicaid cuts — Fed pressure on $2.7T in reserves — Multiple inflation vectors, no offset — $25.7B/yr from workers deported before collecting #ScrapTheCap

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Helyn Research @helyn.com · 18/06/2026

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

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The Reckoning — The Briefing

The trust fund depletes in 2032. The bill he delivered 215 to 214.

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