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About Scott Chafian is a retired U.S. Naval officer and husband of conservative activist Cindy Chafian, founder of the Eighty Percent Coalition (EPC), a group founded in order to rally in support of Trump after he lost the 2020 presidential election. He served in the Navy from 1992–2012, specializing in surface warfare, according to the … Read more
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About Jenna Ellis is a right-wing Christian lawyer who served as a legal adviser to Trump during his final year in office. With a law degree from the University of Richmond in Virginia, she began her legal career as a deputy district attorney in Weld County, a rural area of Colorado. Ellis later worked at … Read more
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About Lynn Fitch (R) has served as attorney general of Mississippi since January 2020 and is the first woman to hold the position. Prior to that, she served as Mississippi’s state treasurer from 2012–19 and was also the first Republican woman to hold that position. Her family history includes owning a slave plantation, ties to … Read more
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About Curtis Hill (R) is a lawyer who served as Indiana’s attorney general from 2017–21. In that role, he advocated for conservative legal measures, including defending civil forfeiture and backing a measure to require parental consent for minors prior to an abortion. In 2018 multiple women accused Hill of sexual harassment and misconduct, prompting calls … Read more
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About Trent Kelly (R-Miss.) is an attorney who has represented Mississippi’s 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since winning a special runoff election in June 2015. A member of the conservative Republican Study Group, he ran for reelection in 2022 with Trump’s endorsement and won in his solidly Republican district. Previously, Kelly served … Read more
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About Steve Marshall (R) has served as Alabama’s attorney general since 2017 and readily won reelection in 2022 given the Republican dominance in the state. Prior to being elected as AG, he served for 16 years as district attorney in Marshall County, Alabama. Marshall is a member of the right-wing Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), … Read more
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About Robert Mercer is a reclusive, multimillionaire hedge-fund manager and a major financier of Trump’s two presidential campaigns. In 2016 he donated $15.5 million to the pro-Trump Make America Number 1 PAC and in 2020 the Mercer Family Foundation funneled an estimated $20 million in dark money to Donors Trust, which is not legally required … Read more
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About Eric Schmitt (R) has served as attorney general of Missouri since 2019 and ran for the U.S. Senate in 2022 with Trump’s endorsement. After winning in November, he will fill the seat of retiring Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.). Schmitt previously served as state treasurer from 2017–19 and was a member of the Missouri Senate … Read more
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About Wayne Stenehjem (R) was the attorney general of North Dakota from 2000–22, becoming the state’s longest-serving AG before he died of cardiac arrest in February 2022. Following his death, Stenehjem’s staff deleted large quantities of his emails, leading to allegations that they were trying to hide something from the public. His successor, Drew Wrigley … Read more
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About Alan Wilson (R ) is a lawyer who, after easily winning the GOP primary earlier in 2022, is running unopposed for his fourth term as South Carolina’s attorney general with Trump’s endorsement. As AG he has litigated as a right-wing politician, opposing same-sex marriage, the Affordable Care Act, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals … Read more