A hidden-camera recording has surfaced showing a staffer for a pro-Talarico political action committee openly discussing a cash payment scheme tied to voter turnout.
The footage, published by Townhall, centers on Sky McAdams, who serves as organizing manager for Texas Majority PAC, a group actively working to secure a November victory for Talarico.
Caught on camera, McAdams laid out the mechanics of the arrangement in blunt terms, saying, “We are paying people $25…a roundabout way of paying people for their votes.”
That single line has thrust the PAC’s operations into the spotlight, raising questions about how the group structures its voter outreach spending.
Notably, McAdams did not appear unaware of the legal risk involved, telling the camera at one point, “You can’t pay someone to vote for someone.”
Yet in the same breath, McAdams framed the $25 payments as a method of navigating around that exact restriction, based on the recorded conversation.
McAdams even anticipated how the disclosure might land with political rivals, remarking, “If I was a Republican, I would be pissed.”
Inside the organization, the initiative goes by a formal label — what McAdams called a “paid relational program” during the taped exchange.
Behind that program sits a third-party vendor, Relentless, which McAdams identified as the entity running the effort using a platform called Rally.
Paperwork filed separately by Texas Majority PAC lends further detail to what McAdams described on camera.
According to a campaign finance disclosure submitted in July, the PAC funneled $500,000 to Relentless specifically for a “relational organizing program.”
That single transaction accounted for close to one-fifth — roughly 20 percent — of every dollar the PAC had spent up to that point in the cycle.
Doing the math on McAdams’s stated $25 figure, that sum of money could theoretically stretch to cover payments connected to 20,000 individual ballots.
Nothing in the campaign finance paperwork itself labels the spending as vote-buying; the filing simply attributes the funds to the relational organizing program by name.
Neither Texas Majority PAC nor Relentless has issued a public statement responding to the specific admissions captured in the undercover video.
Talarico’s campaign, the intended beneficiary of the PAC’s fundraising and organizing muscle, has likewise stayed silent on the matter publicly.
Texas Majority PAC continues to operate as an active political action committee engaged in on-the-ground organizing across the state.
The July disclosure remains the most recent public filing detailing the PAC’s spending tied to the relational program described in the footage.
Details about who recorded the undercover video or how it was obtained have not been made public alongside its release.
Townhall’s decision to publish the footage has drawn fresh attention to the financial ties between Texas Majority PAC and its vendor Relentless.
Taken together, the video and the July financial filing form the core evidence underpinning the current reporting on the PAC’s spending.
No new financial disclosures have surfaced since the July filing to clarify further how the Rally software factors into the PAC’s broader budget.
The $25-per-vote figure McAdams cited has not been independently verified beyond what appears in the recorded conversation itself.
As of this report, the total number of voters actually contacted or paid through the program has not been publicly disclosed by either the PAC or Relentless.
