Massie Raises More Than $300,000 During Marathon Livestream Fundraiser Featuring Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ron Paul

Congressman Thomas Massie on Monday night raised more than $300,000 for his re-election campaign in an attempt to hold on to his seat as President Trump comes after him. The small-dollar fundraiser was done on a livestream online, and featured appearances from Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and Congressman Ron Paul. Mr. Massie has been a thorn in Mr. Trump’s side for more than a year, having spoken out against the president’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, his military strikes on foreign countries, and his fight to keep the so-called “Epstein Files” under wraps. As punishment for his occasional defections, Mr. Trump has endorsed a retired Navy captain, Ed Gallrein, in the Republican primary for Mr. Massie’s congressional district.The “Massie Moneybomb” fundraiser on Monday night lasted for more than three hours. It was livestreamed on YouTube, X, and a website Mr. Massie had set up before the event began. As of Tuesday morning, he had raised just over $250,000. The fundraising term “moneybomb” originated in 2007 when supporters of Dr. Paul, who at the time was running for president, launched grassroots efforts to raise significant amounts of money from small-dollar donors over the course of a brief time period. Dr. Paul was the first speaker at Mr. Massie’s own “moneybomb” on Monday. “This is one record I wanna give up!” Dr. Paul said, urging donors to give even more than Mr. Massie than they had during his one-day fundraising record for a Republican politician in 2007. “He has a gang after him to keep him from having a voice in the U.S. Congress and pointing out that truth is what we’re after.”During the three-hour livestream, Mr. Massie took questions from conservative commentators and his former colleagues, discussing legislation and his relationship with other Republicans on Capitol Hill. “My late wife … she said, ‘You all aren’t playing chess up there. They’re playing checkers, and your colleagues are chewing on checkers and arguing about which color tastes better,’” Mr. Massie said during the livestream. He recounted that on the day the Epstein Files Transparency Act was passed, one of his staff members called the White House to ask if Mr. Massie could attend the bill signing ceremony. When the unnamed White House staffer learned that he was speaking to someone on Mr. Massie’s staff, he promptly hung up the phone, according to Mr. Massie. Just under an hour after the moneybomb fundraiser began, Ms. Greene — whom Mr. Massie called one of his “best friends” and the “conscience” of the MAGA movement — called in to urge viewers to donate to Mr. Massie. “This woman is tough as nails. She has more spine than any man in Congress,” Mr. Massie said as he was introducing her. “Behind the scenes, she is as tough or even tougher than you see her on TV.”At the outset of her appearance, Ms. Greene said that there are only four kinds of Republican members of Congress — the virtuous who don’t know how to fight, the corrupt, the moronic, and the evil. She says Mr. Massie is the only GOP lawmaker who does not fit into any of those buckets. “I can tell you … he takes that job title very seriously,” she told viewers. “That voting card that he holds in his hand, when he goes to vote on your behalf, he is genuinely voting for you and your families and your children and your grandchildren and your businesses and your entire future.”Ms. Greene said that the “swamp” — including the president and his entire political operation — is “crushing” Mr. Massie. To date, more than $5 million has been spent to unseat the congressman. “This whole experience of MAGA is not really turning out like [how] we campaigned. I can say that because I campaigned the hardest for it,” Ms. Greene said. She argues Mr. Massie is the only elected Republican willing to hold his colleagues “accountable” for failing to live up to expectations. “We don’t live in a country where we’re supposed to just say yes to everything just because a certain person says it,” Ms. Greene said. Mr. Massie was joined during the program by a host of other guests, including libertarian writer Scott Horton, comedian Dave Smith, and independent reporter Clayton Morris, among others. A former colleague of Mr. Massie’s — Congressman Justin Amash — also joined the program. Mr. Amash represented western Michigan in the House as a Republican for nearly a decade, before joining the Libertarian Party during his final year in office. “Of all the people I ever served with, he’s the one who lived up to the hype,” Mr. Amash told viewers.

Massie Raises More Than $300,000 During Marathon Livestream Fundraiser Featuring Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ron Paul

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