Most Corrupt 2026

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Most Corrupt Politicians

The 19 politicians on this year's Most Corrupt list don’t represent their districts — they represent the interests of billionaire and corporate lobbies like Big Pharma, Big Oil, and Big Tech. Collectively, they have taken over $26 million from corporate PACs and advanced an agenda that has ripped critical services from Americans while lining industry donor pockets. With trust in government at an all-time low, the Most Corrupt list serves as a way to hold politicians accountable and push for electoral change.

Eli Crane

U.s. Representative, AZ-02

Rep. Crane has accepted $34,500 in corporate PAC money over his career, leading to votes that cut funding for Medicaid, CHIP, and SNAP benefits that thousands of his constituents rely on to survive.
He has also voted to roll back clean energy policies while the oil and gas industry and its employees have funneled nearly $70,000 into his campaigns.
Rep. Crane received a $5,800 contribution from Elon Musk shortly after announcing he would draft articles of impeachment against a judge who blocked actions by Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

Juan Ciscomani

U.S. Representative, AZ-06

Over his career, Rep. Ciscomani has taken over $900,000 in corporate PAC money and rewarded his donors with generous tax benefits, deregulation, and higher profits at the expense of working Americans.
The real estate industry makes up more than half of his corporate PAC donations, resulting in his votes to remove guardrails for real estate development and offer generous tax incentives to private investors and home builders.
His campaigns have also benefited to the tune of $100,000 from the family of David Mehl, a real estate developer who has also used his power on Arizona’s redistricting commission to redraw lines to help Rep. Ciscomani and his Republican allies.
Ciscomani is undermining public safety by siding with the gun lobby and opposing commonsense gun safety measures. He voted to nullify an ATF rule designed to strengthen gun safety and keep dangerous weapons out of the wrong hands. He also co-sponsored H.R.38, which would have allowed individuals to carry concealed firearms in states beyond the state they are registered to conceal carry in, overriding several state and local gun laws on conceal carry.

Gabe Evans

U.s. Representative, CO-08

As a new member of Congress, Rep. Evans has already taken $253,000 in corporate PAC donations, with less than 6% coming from his own district.
He has already broken his 2024 pledge to oppose endless wars, supporting the invasion of Venezuela and the continuation of hostilities in Iran, while raking in campaign contributions from the defense industry.
He has used his position on the House Energy and Commerce Committee to promote the interests of the oil and gas industry, which has given him $113,000 so far

Ashley Moody

U.s. Senator, Fl

Moody, a freshman senator, has accepted $531,500 in corporate PAC money since the start of 2025.
She has made suspiciously-timed stock trades and greatly outperformed the market, with a return 57.7% higher than that of the S&P 500.
Moody has used her committee positions to rake in corporate cash while voting for legislation favored by private prisons, health insurance companies, defense contractors, and the oil and gas industry instead of her constituents.

Mariannette Miller-Meeks

U.S. Representative, IA-01

Rep. Miller-Meeks has accepted a stunning $1.79 million in corporate PAC money over her career.
She catered to her Big Tech donors by voting to advance a 10-year state moratorium on AI regulation and supported policies benefiting the same oil companies that have spent $229,000 helping her stay in office.
After receiving tens of thousands of campaign dollars from the health insurance industry, she voted to undermine the Affordable Care Act and put the health of millions of Americans at risk.

Zach Nunn

U.S. Representative, IA-02

With a career total of nearly $1 million in corporate PAC money, Rep. Nunn is beholden to donors who have sought everything from massive tax breaks to lower safety standards at amusement parks.
He sits on the committee overseeing financial services, the same industry responsible for nearly a quarter of his corporate PAC donations.
Last year alone, he voted to lessen federal supervision of tech companies and to nullify overdraft fee regulation.

Kris Kobach

KS Attorney General

As Kansas Attorney General, Kobach has backed measures that roll back consumer protections while benefiting his donors in oil and gas and tobacco industries.
Advocacy groups and local municipalities have paid Kobach over $800,000 for his anti-immigration policies that have only created cruelty, financial distress, and lawsuits.
Kansas had to spend $1.9 million in taxpayer funds to successfully fight Kobach’s unconstitutional law requiring proof of citizenship to vote. Kobach also used $5,000 in taxpayer dollars to pay a court witness to testify about non-citizen voter registration, who later admitted that his research did not prove voter fraud.
In December 2022, Kobach agreed to pay a $30,000 campaign finance violation fine over the improper use of an email list associated with the group We Build the Wall.

Susan Collins

U.S. Senator, ME

Sen. Collins has accepted a stunning $8.3 million in corporate PAC money over her career and opposes a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.
She represents Wall Street, not Main Street, and rewards her donors with profitable policies — from enabling private equity tax loopholes to preventing Medicare drug price negotiations.
She opposes increasing campaign finance transparency and banning congressional stock trading, while benefiting from millions in dark money spending and owning the eighth most lucrative stock portfolio in Congress.
After Sen. Collins openly helped Navatek secure an $8 million Navy contract, its CEO was convicted in an illegal scheme to donate $200,000 to her 2020 campaign.

Bill Huizenga

U.s. Representative, MI-04

Rep. Huizenga has accepted over $5.6 million in corporate PAC donations over his career, with only 1.08% of contributions coming from small individual donors in 2024.
He has voted for legislation enriching his friends in the oil and gas industry, lobbyists who work for ICE, and a firm that hired his former aide — while accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from them in campaign contributions.
As Vice Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, Rep. Huizenga consistently uses his position to benefit corporate donors by weakening oversight agencies and consumer protection laws.

Tom Kean Jr.

U.s. Representative, NJ-07

As a second-term member of Congress, Rep. Kean has accepted $679,000 in corporate PAC donations, and less than 4% of contributions came from small individual donors in 2024.
While using his position on the House Energy and Commerce Committee to roll back clean energy policies and delay drug price negotiations, he has received over $290,000 from oil and gas companies and owns over $250,000 worth of pharmaceutical stocks.
Rep. Kean is a Washington politician through and through. He campaigned on a pledge to place his assets in a blind trust, but since his election, he has instead become one of the most prolific stock traders in Congress. In total, he has made 141 stock trades at a $2.6 million volume.

Mike Lawler

U.s. Representative, NY-17

Rep. Lawler has taken over $875,000 in corporate PAC money since his first election to Congress in 2022.
He uses his position on the House Financial Services Committee to enrich his donors while harming consumers, raking in over $1.1 million from individuals and PACs in the industry.
Rep. Lawler is a former lobbyist who represented a pro-gas advocacy group and funneled $500,000 in campaign committee funds to his own firm, in which he owned a 50% stake at the same time.

Chuck Edwards

U.s. Representative, NC-11

Rep. Edwards, who is in his second term in Congress, has already accepted nearly $270,000 in corporate PAC money
He has paid himself over $350,000 through his campaign committee and used campaign dollars to enrich supporters, such as leasing a vehicle from a company whose manager put nearly $60,000 toward his campaign.
Rep. Edwards, who owns McDonald’s franchises worth up to $25 million, has introduced legislation to weaken worker power at companies like his.

Jon Husted

U.S. Senator, OH

Sen. Husted is embroiled in the largest public corruption scandal in Ohio history, a $60 million bribery scheme involving FirstEnergy Corporation that took place when he was Lieutenant Governor.
He has taken $116,892 in campaign contributions from Leslie Wexner, an alleged Epstein co-conspirator, and voted to block a Senate Amendment that would have required the public release of documents on Epstein.
Sen. Husted accepted $552,225 in corporate PAC money during his Senate campaign last year

Ryan Mackenzie

U.s. Representative, PA-07

As a new member of Congress, Rep. Mackenzie is already raking in corporate PAC money, cashing in $83,500 in 2025 alone.
He is heavily backed by the fossil fuel industry, defense contractors, the gun lobby, and a private prison company that contracts with ICE.
In return, he voted for legislation that put money into these special interests while hurting the 40,000 households that benefit from SNAP and the 172,000 constituents who rely on Medicaid in his district.

Rob Bresnahan

U.s. Representative, PA-08

Rep. Bresnahan is one of the most prolific stock traders in Congress, buying and selling hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stock in industries impacted by his votes — including selling up to $250,000 of Pennsylvania hospital bonds right before voting for massive health care cuts.
He manages a firm that purchased a private helicopter worth over $1 million, resulting in an ethics complaint filed by ECU about his failure to disclose campaign travel expenses.
As a freshman member of Congress, Rep. Bresnahan has already taken over $216,000 in corporate PAC money.

Scott Perry

U.s. Representative, PA-10

Rep. Perry is beholden to special interests, having accepted $935,000 in corporate PAC money, as well as donations from billionaires who gained large tax breaks from legislation that he supported. For example, over his career, the investment and securities industry has funded Rep. Perry’s campaign to the tune of $319,000.
Facing ethical controversies, he has spent over $435,000 from his primary campaign account on legal fees, largely to stall the January 6th investigation process.

Andy Ogles

U.s. Representative, TN-05

As a second-term member of Congress, Rep. Ogles has accepted $84,000 from corporate PACs already.
Instead of serving his constituents, he has focused on introducing bills that indulge Donald Trump such as lengthening presidential term limits and codifying the executive order to close the Department of Education.
Ethics issues have followed Rep. Ogles throughout his congressional career as he has misrepresented campaign loans, spent thousands on apparently nonexistent companies, and established a “pattern of malfeasance” that led to civil penalties by the Federal Election Commission.

Rob Wittman

U.s. Representative, VA-01

Rep. Wittman has accepted a staggering $3.3 million in corporate PAC money over his career, including $2 million from the defense industry while he is Vice Chair of the House Armed Services Committee.
He has a 15-year record of opposing legislation that would bring down health care costs, voting instead to enrich the greedy corporations that fund his campaign.
His votes in Congress have often benefited his stock portfolio, which includes tens of thousands of dollars worth of investments in pharmaceutical and Big Tech companies.

Derrick Van Orden

U.s. Representative, WI-03

Rep. Van Orden has taken $142,500 in corporate PAC money over his career, of which $37,500 came in during 2025.
He consistently puts industry interests over constituent voices, voting for measures that put money into the pockets of corporate titans while cutting Medicaid and SNAP benefits affecting tens of thousands of people in his district.
Rep. Van Orden was photographed at the “Stop the Steal” rally on January 6th, 2021 and allegedly spent campaign funds to travel there.