When Big Tech sugar daddy Reid Hoffman isn’t trying to explain his past adventures with the late-serial pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, he’s busy pumping cash into the campaign coffers of liberal hypocrites.
The LinkedIn co-founder over the past four years has written more than $1.8 million in checks to the Welcome PAC, a so-called “dark money” funding machine for Democrat candidates. And Hoffman’s generosity is feeding the campaigns of “moderate” Democrats like California’s Adam Gray, Michigan’s Kristen McDonald Rivet, and other left-leaning candidates facing tight midterm races.
Part political action committee, part super PAC able to inject unlimited money into elections, Welcome PAC paints itself as a moderate force — “a community of Democrats focused on winning majorities, reducing polarization, and governing well.”
The Welcome PAC’s moderate front is a put-on. Its co-founder, Lauren Harper Pope served as South Carolina state director for Texas leftist Beto O’Rourke’s presidential campaign, certainly no centrist.
Like its mega-donor friend Hoffman, the Welcome PAC is interested in liberal power and doing away with President Donald Trump and the Make America Great Again movement. The organization has warmly welcomed contributions from one of its biggest benefactors who finds himself again embroiled in the Epstein scandal.
So, too, have the Democrats benefitting from Hoffman’s largesse. How do they feel about those campaign funds after the latest emails showing Hoffman more involved with Epstein than previously understood? Apparently just fine.
In November, Hoffman goaded the White House to “Simply release all the files, and expose the people who had both deep and ongoing relationships with Epstein.” He has admitted no wrongdoing, although he may have gotten more than he bargained for. Perhaps the Dems who have taken money from the billionaire have, too.
Conservative Liberals?
Here’s a look at some of the faux moderates with their hands out to Hoffman via the Welcome PAC in 2025:
› Rep. Maxine “F – – – Trump” Dexter, an Oregon leftist who delivered arguably the Democrats’ most painfully awkward invectives of 2025 against the president ($7,000)
› Rep. Adam Gray, a freshman Democrat from California, backed by an array of leftist groups, voted against the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act and a bill that would make it a felony to perform trans surgeries and procedures on children. Most of Gray’s “moderate” liberal friends followed the Democrat Party line on those social issues. ($47,500).
› Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet, a Michigan Democrat backed by Big Abortion and its funders, EMILY’s List and Planned Parenthood. ($26,000)
› Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a two-term Washington liberal identifying as a moderate, earning failing grades from Gun Owners of America, Susan B. Anthony Pro-life and Moms for America, among other conservative organizations ($48,000).
› Rep. Tom Suozzi, a poser “conservative” Democrat from New York who instantly “regretted” his recent vote to fund Immigration & Customs Enforcement after he heard from ICE-hating constituents in his blue-leaning congressional district. ($41,000).
› Rebecca Cooke, the Democrat challenger in Wisconsin’s swing 3rd Congressional District whose list of endorsers reads like a who’s who of far-left groups and politicians, including socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders and Wisconsin’s First Lesbian, Sen. Tammy Baldwin ($24,000).
› Shannon Bird, a Colorado liberal who scored a 17 out of 100 in pro-liberty votes, voting for expanded welfare for illegal immigrants, a “Racial Equity Commission,” and extending the state’s allowances for assisted suicide ($22,500).
‘Keep Cashing Checks’
In total, Welcome PAC contributed more than $375,000 to House Democrats and Leadership PACs in 2025, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
These “centrist” Democrats have much in common, most glaringly that they’re not really centrists and many are in tight midterm races. Many have clamored for the release of the Epstein files. And they’ve been conspicuously silent on the recent revelations about their tech billionaire benefactor.
“These vulnerable House Democrats and frontline challengers so comfortable taking political help from a dark-money group bankrolled by a donor with such serious and unresolved controversies tied directly to Jeffrey Epstein,” Mike Marinella, national press secretary for the National Republican Congressional Committee, said in a statement to The Federalist. “Each of these candidates must answer whether they will publicly denounce the support from Hoffman or keep cashing checks and hoping no one notices.”
Regrets
After previously expressing deep regret about his “past associations” with the dead pedophile, Hoffman has of late been forced to explain a newly released Aug. 20, 2015 email in which Epstein boasted about a “wild” dinner with the LinkedIn co-founder and fellow tech billionaires Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Peter Thiel. The soiree in Palo Alto reportedly was in honor of MIT neuroscientist Ed Boyden.
As the New York Post reported, the latest tranche of Epstein file documents released includes an email in which Hoffman’s staff discusses upcoming visits to the convicted sex offender’s private island, as well as other Epstein residences in New Mexico and New York City.
“Reid will spend the night at 71st,” the 2014 email from Hoffman’s team advised, in reference to Epstein’s Upper East Side townhouse, the Post reported.
Hoffman and his high-profile dinner guests have tried to distance themselves from the notorious financier who officials say hanged himself in his New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center jail cell in 2019. Hoffman posted a long statement on X Wednesday acknowledging he was mistaken when he previously told left-wing publication Axios in 2019 that his last meeting with Epstein was in 2015. A fresh look at his calendar entries, Hoffman explained, found he had “additional fundraising meetings in 2016 and 2018.” He had previously expressed regret that participating in fundraising activities with Epstein “helped to repair his reputation and perpetuate injustice.”
Epstein’s former associate expressed new “regret” on Wednesday.
No regrets it seems from the Democrats Hoffman has richly contributed to, individually and through one of his pet Super PACs.
Interestingly, the Hoffman Dems have something else in common. Many are endorsed and praised by End Citizens United, which has spent the past decade ostensibly fighting against super PACs and “dark money nonprofits” like Welcome PAC and liberal sugar daddy donors like Hoffman.
Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.
