Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Craig Scott Valdez was Alaska state Sen. George Rauscher’s Chief of Staff since November, 2025, and had worked for him since 2021. He was also the Chair of the Anchorage Young Republicans. He has been removed from all positions since his arrest on four felony charges involving child sexual exploitation.
Ricci Lee Wynne rose to fame filming homeless people to shame them on the internet. He was a MAGA influence who was invited on FOX and other rightwing channels to complain about homeless people and crime in San Francisco.
Jonathan Shaheen was a creative pastor at Timber Creek Church in Colorado Springs and a music teacher at School of Rock, a music lesson store also in Colorado Springs. In September 2023, he was arrested for attempting to sexually exploit and abuse a nine-year-old child. He was communicating with an ex-girlfriend to arrange having sex with her and her daughter who was nine.
Trammel Crow is the brother of the Supreme Court donor Harlan Crow, but he’s also a significant donor to Republicans in his own right, giving over $3 million over the years. Two women have accused him of financing a sex trafficking operation in which they were drugged, physically abused, threatened and forced to perform sex acts. They claim Crow played a critical role in financing the operation.
Kelly Garret Ivey was a youth group leader at Rock Springs Church. On an underground web site called Slave Bay, he offered to sell information, location, and movements of a young girl from church in order for her to be kidnapped and trafficked. Shockingly, the church failed to notify its congregants who found out about this in the paper.
Brian Heck was a school board member in Belgrade, MT. He ran as a parents-rights candidate striving to keep out progressive ideas. In July, he was one of eighteen people arrested in a child exploitation and trafficking investigation. He resigned from the school board.
Christopher Dorworth is a GOP lobbyist. He was a state legislature in Florida until he lost in 2012. He rose quickly before his loss. He was embroiled in the Joel Greenburg/Matt Gaetz sex trafficking of underage girls investigation. But nobody noticed.
However, Shawn Bergstrand is a registered sex offender. He was convicted in 2014 of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor. He was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison and five years of supervised release.
Tristan Tate, along with his more well-known brother Andrew Tate, is a kickboxer turned social media influencer who pushes rightwing extremism. A dual citizen of the United Kingdom and the United States. He has been indicted with his brother for rape and sex trafficking and is currently in prison in Romania. It is believed that the two of them moved to Romania because thought they could get away with their criminality. After being denied bail several times, they remain in Romania but on house arrest.
Robert Shiflet was a youth pastor in Denton, Texas, and in Little Rock, Arkansas. He took groups of kids on camping trips, crossing state lines. While camping, he isolated one of the children and sexually assaulted here. Another was assaulted on the field trip bus.