https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/20/abdul-el-sayed-hecklerMichigan heckler the son of Republican adviser paid for ‘influencer marketing’ against El-SayedTimmy Teepell’s firm paid $250,000 by America Next, which has been trying to gin up ‘organic’ opposition to El-SayedThe man who attempted to ambush the Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed with a question about his supposed allegiance to the Muslim Brotherhood – which El-Sayed parlayed into a viral clip for his campaign – is the son of a political operator who recently received $250,000 for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed, the Guardian has learned.In the now-famous exchange, a man – first identified by the Handbasket as Thomas “Tommy” Teepell – asked El-Sayed if he would “disavow” the Muslim Brotherhood. El-Sayed said he would, but then asked: “What are you implying? Do you assume that I wouldn’t?” What followed was a five-minute exchange that has drawn over 50m views across several social media platforms, in which El-Sayed queries the man about the guarantees of religious freedom in the constitution.Teepell is the son of Timothy “Timmy” Teepell, a longtime strategist for the Missouri Republican senator Josh Hawley as well as former Republican Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal. Timmy Teepell’s firm, Breakthrough LLC, was paid $250,000 on 29 September by America Next, a 501(c)(4) non-profit with which it shares a Baton Rouge office suite, according to a filing with the Federal Election Commission (FEC).The filing says the money would fund the canvassing and influencer marketing in opposition to El-Sayed. It is the only independent expenditure the group has reported since 2015, when it paid OnMessage Inc for television advertising backing Bobby Jindal’s presidential campaign.
America Next has been trying to gin up “organic” town hall opposition to El-Sayed, as the Handbasket report noted. On 1 October, a member of the University of Michigan College Republicans, saying he was acting for America Next, reportedly offered students $200 to boo and question El-Sayed at a town hall in Flint.The same Baton Rouge suite is also the registered address of a Christian non-profit for which Teepell is the registered agent, and whose four directors include two other Teepell family members. Hawley’s campaign committee has also paid Breakthrough. (The Handbasket report also outlines the close relationship between Sean Feucht and the elder Teepell.)Pennsylvania business records list Timmy Teepell as a director of Sean Feucht’s ministry, which owns a townhouse on Capitol Hill in Washington.Timmy Teepell, Thomas Teepell, America Next and Hawley’s office did not immediately respond to requests for comment.Nothing in the filings shows that Thomas Teepell was paid by Breakthrough or America Next.Jindal launched America Next as a policy non-profit in 2013, and its website still publishes his columns. The group does not disclose its donors. In the year to July 2024 its tax filings reported $5,066,000 in contributions.Other groups’ tax filings show where some of the money came from. American Action Network, a group the Guardian has previously described as a dark-money outfit and which is connected to House Republican leaders, gave America Next $500,000 for “issue support” in its tax year ending in June 2022, according to its tax filing for that year. Secure Florida’s Future, a 501(c)(4) based in Tallahassee, gave America Next $250,000 in 2022, according to its own filing.In 2022, America Next paid OnMessage Inc $5,020,808 for “media services and consulting”, against total expenses of $10,130,638, according to its 990 filing for the year.
America Next has also funded Republican Super Pacs, giving them at least $1,475,000 since 2018, FEC records show.The ministry’s tax filings do not show when he joined either. Its most recent public return, for 2020, lists three directors: John Feucht, Robert Zoellner and Alvin Chun. It does not mention Timmy Teepell or OnMessage, as RNS reported in 2024. The ministry’s revenue that year was $5,314,148, up from $283,526 in 2019. IRS records now classify Sean Feucht Ministries as a church, a category that is not required to file public returns, and list no return after 2020.In June 2025, former staffers accused Feucht of “potential financial crimes” and spiritual abuse, and said that “the members of Mr Feucht’s board have potentially failed in their fiduciary duty to exercise appropriate oversight”, as RNS reported.In a video posted on 11 June 2025, Feucht said “none of those allegations are true”, describing his accusers as “embittered, angry, upset … former volunteers” who “know nothing about our financial situation”. He said: “Every single penny that has been raised that you guys out there have donated has gone to fulfill its kingdom-ordained purpose.”Separately, a California donor is suing Sean Feucht Ministries in federal court for fraud. The complaint, filed in March, alleges that a $250,000 donation solicited in 2023 for Feucht’s Let Us Worship tour was “diverted, in whole or in part, to other uses controlled by Mr Feucht”. A judge dismissed the original complaint in September, finding that the fraud claims had not been pleaded with enough specificity, but allowed the donor to amend it, and an amended complaint was filed on 30 September. The ministry has argued that the claims are time-barred and barred by the church autonomy doctrine.
Their website testimony named Zoellner as a board member of Sean Feucht Ministries, and alleged that former key employees “were never made aware of their names”. It did not name Timmy Teepell. Feucht did not respond to RNS’s request for comment at the time.Feucht has prayed in public for the elder Teepell’s political work. Laying hands on Teepell at an event in Florida, Feucht said, “We pray that Timmy would put more revivalists in public office,” according to RNS. A video shows Feucht praying over Teepell and his family. Teepell was also on the bill at Feucht’s “Hold the Line” conference at the Trump International hotel in Washington on 11 September 2021, scheduled to speak on “2022 Forecast and Polling”, according to the event’s listing on Eventbrite, which gives his name as “Timmy Teeple”.Hawley spoke at Feucht’s Let Us Worship rally on the National Mall in October 2020, according to a Daily Caller video, and afterwards posted that it was a “huge privilege to be on the mall tonight with thousands and thousands of Christians gathered to worship and pray”.There, Feucht led the crowd in prayer for Hawley, “calling on God to elevate ‘men and women of faith’ into positions of political power”, RNS reported at the time. Feucht’s channel also carries a video of Hawley addressing his Let Us Worship event in Washington in 2022.The Guardian has previously reported on Canadian cities cancelling Feucht’s performances.The Guardian emailed Feucht for comment via Sean Feucht Ministries.
Teepell reportedly became Jindal’s chief of staff when Jindal took office as Louisiana governor in January 2008, and left the post in 2011 to become a partner at OnMessage. He managed Jindal’s 2016 presidential campaign, the Guardian reported in 2015.OnMessage’s biography of Teepell, archived in 2019, describes him as Jindal’s “first chief of staff” and says he “served as lead consultant for Senator Josh Hawley’s upset victory over incumbent Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill” in 2018. Hawley’s campaign paid OnMessage $7,489,181 during that election cycle, FEC records show.The younger Teepell joined Hawley’s Senate office as an intern in 2023 and rose to operations director before leaving in February, the Guardian reported on Monday, citing staff records. Before that, he was a part-time associate at OnMessage Inc from May 2020 to May 2023, according to his LinkedIn profile. After leaving Hawley’s office he became political director for Philip Sarnecki’s campaign for governor of Kansas. Sarnecki lost the Republican primary on 4 August.Republicans have pressed the Muslim Brotherhood line against El-Sayed for several weeks. His opponent Mike Rogers, raised alleged Brotherhood ties during a debate, and Donald Trump has said without evidence that El-Sayed is “100%” Muslim Brotherhood. There is no evidence that El-Sayed has been involved with the group.The Michigan Daily found no evidence that Rogers’ campaign was involved in the plan to disrupt the Flint town hall, and FEC records show no payments from Rogers’ campaign to Breakthrough.
EL CID!! vs EL-SAYED!!who will be the Great White Hope to defeat this Moorish invader?https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BE7QDaBoo_4&pp=ygUTRWwgQ2lkIDE5NjEgVHJhaWxlcg%3D%3D
>>1544058Not Mike Rogers, that's for sureThat dope managed to lose his last Senate race two years ago in an election where Republicans flipped four seats and Trump even won in MichiganMeaning that about 200,000 Michigan Republicans came out and voted for Trump then either left the Senate seat blank on the ballot or actively voted against him
>>1544069Of courseThey couldn't actually find anyone in state to drum up 'organic' opposition and had to bring in out of state retards for tons of moneyIf they can't find anyone local to support Mike Rogers, how can they expect anyone to vote for him?
>>1544077Remember how trump always says actual Americans protesting his destroying America and the founding father vision are 'paid protestors' Once again, every accusation is a confession.
>>1544080>>1544080That's why young Tommy Teepell's stunt went so poorly and he was so unprepared for El-Sayed's responseHe was probably expecting that either the crowd would swarm and attack him, like miggers do protesters at rallies while Trump cheers them on, and use that footage against the DemocratsAnd if that didn't happen, he was expecting El-Sayed to unravel at his question and either not answer or have a meltdown on stage. Because that's how Republican politicians react to questions they don't likeThe idea that El-Sayed would actually respond calmly, immediately answer, and be quick enough on his feet to then turn the question back on him wasn't even a possibility in young Tommy's mind
>>1544051Vivek is experiencing a similar fuckup after getting Amy Acton's mom to participate in an ad against her... apparently either not realizing that said mom lost custody of Acton when Acton was 12 because she let her husband/Acton's stepfather to routinely sexually abuse her or being stupid enough to think that doesn't disqualify her as a source of anything on her daughter.
>>1544085Jesus, you aren't kiddingI had really thought Paxton was the most odious shitsack the Republicans are trying to shove down America's throat for midterms, but Vivek just leapfrogged to the top with that
>>1544088I genuinely can only think he didn't bother checking, just reached out and was like "Hey, would you describe your daughter as a... liar?" not realizing the last time she did so was saying her daughter was lying about her husband having raped her right before the rape kit revealed it did actually happen and she lost custody.Like literally just saw estranged and was like "I can make a campaign ad!" without checking WHY.
>>1544088not as bad as the domestic terrorist and nepobaby party.kys
>the domestic terrorist and nepobaby party.But enough about the Republicans.
The liggeral media is lying, again. No surprise there. Any person that saw the entire video of the exchange knows Cuckdul embarrassed himself and exposed himself as a terrorist sympathizer. Go ahead and ask him if he wants Iran to defeat America, the answer won't shock you. Of course he does. All liggerals want America to lose. All liggerals want a global Islamic caliphate. Anyways it doesn't matter, in Islam all mudslimes are taught the tactic of "taqiyya" which encourages them to lie whenever they can in order to achieve the aims of their religion.
>>1544096The guy hired to agitate walked out after he said he doesn’t support separation of church and state
>>1544088When you define intelligence, integrity competence, honesty, kindness, and so on, basically ever positive trait as woke libtard garbage, then it stands to reason that you’re going to attract nothing but THE absolute shittiest people alive. The entire MAGA party is a race to the bottom.
>>1544097Based as fuck. Fuck atheistic liggeralism.
>>1544100Imagine saying your opponent doesn’t support the constitution to just turn around say>I proudly don’t support the constitution
>>1544097The other big thing not reported was the republican spy waited until the very end of the town hall when El-Sayed was leaving before yelling out his 'gatcha' question, which is another prong of the far right smear machine against El-Sayed since he'd just claim El-Sayed ignored his question and use that as proof of guilt.Of course El-Sayed came back to not only answer, but totally dismantle and expose the republican spy. The fact El-Sayed outed the Republican spy as a christian supremacist who wants to betray the vision of the founding fathers was just icing of the cake.
>>1544099It's more over that anyone with any of those traits would not be able to stand working for Trump. We've reached the point where even the people willing to be pragmatic about these things are gone and it's just ghouls and grifters left in the party.
>>1544099>>1544088Speaking of a race to the bottom and Paxton. They banned a one of the ultra rare Black MAGA influencers from one his rallies, she was there doing normal shill work for Republicans and they just kick her out.
>>1544099>intelligence, integrity competence, honesty, kindnessNone of this describes liggerals>Intelligence Most liggerals are low IQ nonwhites. They also believe chopping your genitals off magically changes your gender>Integrity Liggerals pretend to care about women and gay rights, than support global Islamic domination and the trampling of said rights. Liggerals pretend to hate dogmatic authority but will willingly surrender all their rights if ((((scientists and doctors)))) tell them to, like we saw during the plandemic. Liggerals pretend to resist fascism when they willingly give up firearms to ensure that the only weapons are in the hands of the government >CompetenceThe disasterous Briben and Obongo regime prove liggerals have 0 competence >HonestyTies into integrity. Liggerals lie and hold contradicting values all the time>KindnessLiggerals call everyone who disagrees with them Nazis and hold to the belief that all Nazis deserve to be killed, beaten, or cancelled. Consequentially, liggerals become violently enraged at almost everyone right of Mao. They are the most mean spirited people on the planet.
lots of filtered posts in this thread, ESL shill must be melting down
>>1544051Is this the guy they're trying to humiliate?https://nypost.com/2026/08/13/us-news/internet-dumbfounded-over-resurfaced-abdul-el-sayed-blues-clues-spoof-cant-be-real/If so, it seems pointless to even try.
>>1544107do you have an actual link that doesn't go to a paid propaganda site?
>>1544107>Russia postSo this is the best smear job the trump and putin can do against El Sayed.
>>1544108>>1544109Why are you double posting?https://x.com/LoomerUnleashed/status/2070509786618048971Anyways here's the link
>>1544051If you watch that video, and think it made El-Sayed look good, I cant help you.
If you watch that video, and think it made the professional agitator nepobaby the GOP paid $250,000 look good, you don't deserve help.
>>1544116No one says it makes him look good. What everyone is pointing out is that ES absolutely spazzed out over a very relevant question. You know it makes him look bad because you guys have two threads up on the subject. What a smooth operator would do is>What a stupid question, of course I totally disown and disavow the Muslim Brotherhood. Do you have another question?
>>1544110do you have an actual link that doesn't go to a paid propaganda site?
>>1544118>instead of dealing with the subject matter >hes complaining about links
>>1544117>Being able to answer the question then turn it back on a bad faith actor is spazzingJust because no one on your side is capable of that level of competence doesn't mean its a bad thing
>>1544110>Posting to Russian social mediaesl shill is really phoning it in today.
>>1544120They're angry at being completely blown out, so they're pretending that El-Sayed overreacted instead of owning them>>1544119So you don't, thanks for conceding. You can keep impotently seething in this thread, redditor shill
>>1544118>>1544121https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW0AZGZCr7A
>>1544124>Two weeks before midterms and this is the best they've gotGod, Republicans are in more trouble than I thought
>>1544120>>1544123>theyWho is "they"? He looks like a fucking wacko. if you cant see that, good luck on election day.
>>1544123>So you don't, thanks for conceding.Conceding what? You're the one refusing to acknowledge the video.
>>1544126>He's WEEEEEEIRD!How'd that strategy work out for Democrats two years ago?Speaking of, did you know his opponent already lost a Senate run two years ago when Trump was on the same ballot he was and won?
>>1544128Rogers lost to Slotkin who ran as a centrist dem. Is ES a "centrist"?
>>1544130You were calling Slotkin an elitist leftist two years ago anyway, your hot takes on electability are less than worthlessFun fact: Rogers was closer to Slotkin in the polls on October 20th 2024 than he is against El-Sayed now, in an election where Trump won't be on the ballot to help buoy him
>>1544130>>1544133Only way Rogers wins now is because AIPAC bought the election for him.
>>1544139I dunno, I feel like people who voted for Trump haven’t actually changed their minds, they’ve just gotten quiet with their support since the war started
>>1544140MAGA will support trump no matter what, it's the fickle independents that only care about their self interests that turned on him. And they're all pissed about trump's latest war causing the prices of everything to explode.
>>1544133>You were calling Slotkin an elitist leftist two years ago anyway,You know who I am? >Rogers was closer to Slotkin in the polls on October 20th 2024 than he is against El-Sayed nowIncorrect. Slotkins October lead was ~3%. She won by 0.3%. El-Sayed currently leads by 2%. If the polling miss is the same as last time, Rogers wins. >>1544141>so they are going to vote for the party of high gas prices Elections two weeks away. EV data is already coming out. No need to get more egg on your face than necessary.
>>1544141I really don't see how someone can go from Trump to Abdul in 2 years
>>1544142>>1544143>Thinking trump betraying the west to Putin will lower prices significantly. MAGA cope is really something.
>>1544143The thing you have to understand is the median voter is mentally ill.
>>1544104Literally can't understand anyone black still going to bat for the Republicans after they gave the OK to ICE racially profiling people. Like, what did she think would happen? They'd welcome her with open arms as being "one of the good ones"? They literally openly admit they want to deport/cubstomp every brown people they see and you think sucking up to them will save you?
>>1544151It might have something to do with exposure to reality.Do you understand why so many U-hauls are leaving California?
