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Sunday, October 04, 2026

Tony Lyons, the leading organizer of the Make America Healthy Again movement, promised to raise $100 million to support Republicans this year. He's nowhere close.

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... Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again movement is turning on its leader.

Not RFK Jr.

Rather, Tony Lyons, the Kennedy friend and book publisher who is the president of a web of MAHA nonprofits and political groups.

Supporters of Kennedy's message, that food and pharma companies have conspired with bureaucrats to poison Americans for profit, say Lyons is selling out to business interests who want Kennedy's ear now that he's President Donald Trump's health secretary. Ignoring the grassroots could cost Republicans running in the midterm elections who need it energized, they say.

The latest evidence: fundraising reports from Lyons' MAHA Political Action Committee that show fewer than 20 donors this year, totaling $1 million, far short of the $100 million Lyons promised to raise to help Republicans allied with Kennedy in this year's elections.

Many of its donors are companies that have interests before the Health Department, POLITICO found. The PAC has spent less than $800,000 to support candidates this year. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-10-04 01:42 PM | Reply

It's in disarray because it never made sense, and because the person leading it is a nasty goof.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2026-10-04 01:50 PM | Reply

Pennsylvania hits 977 measles cases, while numbers of MMR doses increase

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Polio Bob is a menace.

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-10-04 02:14 PM | Reply

I would imagine a life-long heroin addict would have trouble with his "movements"

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-10-04 02:16 PM | Reply

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