A Democratic-aligned political action committee already drawing scrutiny for millions of dollars in funding from George Soros is facing new questions after one of its organizers was recorded describing a $25 political-outreach payment as a “roundabout way of paying people for their votes.”
Texas Majority PAC has since fired the organizer and disputed his account of the program, saying participants are paid to perform grassroots organizing work, not to cast ballots.
The controversy follows our previous report examining the millions of dollars flowing into Texas Majority PAC and its efforts in the 2026 Texas elections.
Now, an undercover video published by Townhall is raising a different question about how some of that political organizing money is being spent.
Organizer Describes $25 Payments
In undercover footage published by Townhall, Sky McAdams, identified as an organizing manager for Texas Majority PAC, described what he called a “paid relational program.”
McAdams said participants receive $25 to attend a one-hour Zoom class dealing with voting and partisan political messaging.
He then characterized the arrangement in stark terms.
“So it’s like a roundabout way of paying people for their votes, essentially.”
McAdams also acknowledged in the recording that directly paying someone to vote for a candidate would be illegal and described the arrangement he was discussing as “a little gray.”
But that is McAdams’ characterization of the program, not a legal finding that Texas Majority PAC paid anyone in exchange for casting a ballot.
That distinction matters.
Federal law prohibits making or offering an expenditure to a person either to vote or withhold a vote, or to vote for or against a particular candidate. Paid political organizing, however, is not inherently the same thing as paying someone to cast a ballot.
The central factual question is therefore what the participants were actually being paid to do and whether compensation was conditioned on voting.
Texas Majority PAC Fires Organizer and Disputes His Account
Texas Majority PAC responded after the video became public by firing McAdams and rejecting his description of the program.
A PAC spokesperson said participants were being compensated for grassroots organizing work and called McAdams’ description “factually incorrect.”
According to the PAC, participants attend events where they learn how to organize people they know, encourage those contacts to vote, and send voting reminders.
That explanation broadly resembles the business model publicly described by Relentless, the political organizing company connected to the program.
Relentless describes its paid relational organizing programs as recruiting voters and compensating them for time spent reaching, persuading, and mobilizing friends and family.
The distinction is significant: compensation for legitimate campaign or organizing work is different from compensation offered in exchange for a person’s vote.
The publicly available reporting reviewed for this article does not establish that any participant’s $25 payment was legally conditioned on casting a ballot or voting for a particular candidate.
Follow the Money
The controversy also puts renewed attention on the financial network behind Texas Majority PAC.
Public campaign-finance data show George Soros has contributed $7.45 million directly to Texas Majority PAC over multiple reporting periods.
Texas Majority PAC, meanwhile, has reported substantial spending connected to Relentless.
A July campaign-finance filing cited in reporting on the controversy showed a $500,000 payment to Relentless for a “relational organizing program.” Subsequent campaign-finance data cited by Current Revolt put payments to Rally by Relentless at approximately $718,450.
Those expenditures connect the newly disclosed organizing program to the larger political operation we previously examined.
Our earlier Texas Gun Rights investigation documented Soros-linked funding flowing into Texas Majority PAC and examined the Second Amendment positions of Democratic candidates the organization seeks to help elect.
The new reporting provides another window into the organizing infrastructure being built with that political money.
What the Law Actually Says
The rhetoric surrounding the video should not obscure the legal question.
Under 18 U.S.C. § 597, federal law prohibits making or offering an expenditure to a person “either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate.”
That does not mean every payment made to someone involved in voter outreach is illegal. Campaigns and political organizations routinely compensate employees, canvassers, organizers, consultants, and others for legitimate work.
Determining whether conduct crosses the line into unlawful vote buying therefore depends on facts beyond an organizer’s provocative description of the program.
Among the relevant questions are what participants were required to do to receive the money, whether they had to vote, whether their compensation depended on supporting a particular candidate, and what instructions the organization and its contractors actually provided.
The reporting reviewed here does not establish that a court or law-enforcement agency has concluded that Texas Majority PAC violated federal vote-buying law.
Questions Remain
McAdams’ comments nevertheless create an obvious discrepancy.
A person identified as an organizing manager for Texas Majority PAC described the program one way on camera. His former employer says that description was false and that participants are instead compensated for legitimate grassroots organizing.
The PAC responded by firing him.
That leaves the underlying records, program requirements, participant agreements, payment structure, and communications as potentially important evidence for determining exactly how the operation works.
For Texas gun owners, the development also adds context to the massive political spending already underway in the state.
Millions of dollars have flowed into Texas Majority PAC, hundreds of thousands have been spent on relational organizing, and the organization is working to affect turnout and electoral outcomes across Texas.
The latest controversy puts a spotlight not merely on who is financing that effort, but on how that money is being used on the ground.
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