Dem lawmakers conspicuously and unanimously absent from election fraud hearing

Make no mistake about it, the actions of Democratic lawmakers screams that they could not care less about the fleecing of U.S. taxpayers — in large part because their party appears to be on the receiving end of the largess.

The Senate Homeland Security Committee held a hearing titled “Exposing Fraud in America.” Chaired by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), the hearing focused on waste, abuse, and illegal activities within various federal programs and election systems and only one Democrat showed up. Briefly.

Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), the ranking member on the committee, showed up for the hearing’s opening statements, but apparently left before Paul addressed witnesses Nick Shirley, James O’Keefe and Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette.

🚨 BREAKING: The Senate is holding an anti-taxpayer fraud meeting right now with Nick Shirley and James O’Keefe…

…and stunning new footage shows EVERY SINGLE DEMOCRAT SEAT is *empty*

100% of Democrats on the committee were invited, 0% SHOWED UP.

The Party of Fraud. They… pic.twitter.com/ZaJiyti5eK

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 15, 2026

Shirley has been instrumental is exposing hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud around the country, including the Somalian daycare theft ring in Minnesota. Democrats dispute his efforts while members of the corrupt media have actually targeted him for daring to expose the fraud.

“When we talk about fraud, we are talking about money stolen from hardworking, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens,” Shirley said at the hearing.

“This issue has nothing to do with political parties, because no dollar says Republican or Democrat on it,” he added. “When a fraudster commits fraud, he or she steals from all of us. The worst part is that fraud affects the most vulnerable and needy, as they rely the most on government services.”

Literally no Democrats showed up the fraud hearing in the senate for myself or Nick.

We predicted personal insults or difficult cross examination by the truth and the facts of what’s on video probably transcends the partisan divide. pic.twitter.com/vERpz3wJiD

— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) July 15, 2026

Here’s more from Shirley about the no-show Democrats: “Imagine this: you get paid by our tax dollars and you don’t even show up to do your job when it involves our tax dollars being stolen. Wtf are these people doing in office if they don’t even care about our money being stolen and wasted? They are simply working against us.”

Imagine this: you get paid by our tax dollars and you don’t even show up to do your job when it involves our tax dollars being stolen.

Wtf are these people doing in office if they don’t even care about our money being stolen and wasted? They are simply working against us. pic.twitter.com/kSIgcPrYKE

— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) July 16, 2026

“Working against us” is an understatement, given today’s Democratic Party. It’s clear that they want the status quo to continue, but then, their goal all along has been to overwhelm and otherwise collapse the federal government. At taxpayer expense.

The only consistency here is that no one is ever held accountable — here’s a sampling of responses to the story, as seen on X:

They don’t want the fraud to stop in their system of patronage.

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) July 17, 2026

A Senate hearing on fraud.

$521B stolen from taxpayers every year.

Minnesota daycare schemes. California hospice mills.

Every Democrat seat empty.
Nobody has to explain what they didn’t show up to answer for.

The Tim Walz and Gavin Newsom playbook.

— Chuck Flint (@ChuckAFlint) July 16, 2026

I literally just posted about this too. They don’t want the grift to end. They were voted in to represent the American people and yet they hide when fraud is exposed. This is taxation without representation. Party of fraud .

— Sassafrass84 (@Sassafrass_84) July 16, 2026

This is why the democrats started the hate campaign against President Trump back in 2016. They knew their corruption would be exposed and their power would come to an end. They are sick, obsessed people for what they have done and continue to do to the citizens of our country.…

— Thinksolutions (@wecansolvethis) July 16, 2026

Absolutely disgraceful – @TheDemocrats actually supporting fraud of their party members’ hard earned cash. How does any rational person stay in that party? They are not interested because most are complicit in the money laundering. May the @JDVance fraud focus send many to prison

— SFFK (@SFFK14) July 15, 2026

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