Red State Blue Resources is a 527 Independent Expenditure Group (what is more commonly known as a Super PAC) founded by Charles Weigand from Ephrata, Washington. Weigand said, “I wish I had a bunch of lunatic billionaires that were funneling money through 501(c)(3)s to give to me, but I do not.” 

Weigand is the treasurer, founder, face, and voice for Red State Blue Resources. Weigand’s mission is simple: he wants to stand up to right-wing candidates. Weigand said: 

Someone has to fill this hole in the media landscape here. You’ve got conservative talk radio blasting in everyone’s vehicles. You’ve got everyone going on their Facebook pages. You have the Tri-City Herald, which would interview Dan Newhouse, and he would just come in with what [was] obviously the four things he wanted to talk about … There was no pushback, no imagination. 

Red State Blue Resources is on every major social media platform. Weigand spends his time creating content that uses information that he says he has verified to go after candidates. 

Weigand’s main target for the general election is Amanda McKinney, a MAGA Republican endorsed by Trump who is running for 4th Congressional District. 

McKinney has had controversy swirling around her for years, including her time as Yakima County Commissioner. According to Weigand, people send him tips and information all the time. He said it’s a bad idea for a candidate to call McKinney a Nazi, no matter how much evidence there is to support it. That, according to Weigand, is his job. 

Weigand was in professional broadcasting, working in talk radio as a call screener and producer for many years. In the right-wing media world, Weigand said the formula is simple: 

I don’t respect the right wing talk radio I worked in, but I learned a lot. I learned a great deal. I learned how to find a theme and stick to the theme. For instance, January 6, the president of the United States tried to overthrow the government; and if Barack Obama had tried to overthrow the government, they’d be talking about that every single day for the next 30 years. I barely hear about it.

When Weigand was in broadcasting, he actually met Donald Trump. Weigand explained that back in 2012, the show that Weigand worked for often had Trump as a guest, where Trump frequently spoke about running for president; although, at the time, no one thought he was a serious contender. Weigand said, “Everyone in that room knew that [Trump] was just there to promote his show, The Apprentice, and that he was going to drop out right before federal filings would have required him to disassociate with that show.” And indeed, a week before filing, Trump dropped out of the race. “Just like clockwork,” Weigand said.

But obviously, that’s not where it ended. “When he was running in 2016, he said those things about immigrants, and he got fired,” Weigand said. “So he had to run, and he won; that was Trump’s ’victory’.” 

Weigand eventually left radio, disillusioned with the politics he worked around. “When I had my first child, I had to leave talk radio because I can’t be raising a kid and helping propagate this bullshit,” he explained. “So I quit and became an accountant.” Weigand moved back to his hometown of Ephrata and became politically active with the local Democratic organization as a Precinct Committee Officer, but felt like it wasn’t enough. 

He kept seeing right-wing talking points all over social media, but very little messaging from the left. That’s one of the main reasons Weigand wanted to start Red State Blue Resources. “That’s the hole I’m trying to fill,” said Weigand. “That’s what I’m trying to fill every single day on people’s Facebook. You have Democrats being called child molesters who want to destroy our country. Someone needs to be pushing back aggressively.”

Weigard’s messaging is aggressive and persistent — all lessons he learned working in talk radio. He said: 

I watched the Hollywood Access tapes in which Trump said some disgusting things with Billy Bush; [but] when Barack Obama wore a tan suit, that was news for six months. We’re not talking about Trump’s character. We’re not talking about how he tried to overthrow the government. None of that conversation is happening. Someone needs to be taking these lessons that I’ve learned from right-wing talk media, and apply them to this district. There’s a big hole in the media landscape, and that needs to be filled by someone like me.

In one of Weigard’s reels, Jerrod Sessler (two-time MAGA candidate for the 4th Congressional District) claims that Amanda McKinney’s endorsement was a ‘pay for play’ from Trump. Sessler claimed that McKinney’s family paid a large amount of money to get this endorsement, and that Trump only endorsed her because of “political deals being made.” 

This isn’t new for Trump’s endorsements. In a Forbes article from 2022, Zach Everson reported that campaigns endorsed by Trump have funneled at least $1.4 million at his properties and other businesses. 

Sessler sent Tumbleweird an article going into more detail about how the McKinney family allegedly paid for Trump’s endorsement. Sessler wrote:

The real linchpin of her campaign was NOT grassroots support or policy. It was a calculated transaction. After Charlie Kirk was killed, McKinney donated $150,000 to Turning Point USA [TPUSA]. One of TPUSA’s leaders then hand-walked an endorsement request straight to White House staff. Those staffers issued an endorsement in President Trump’s name.

Weigard said he knows all about McKinney’s endorsement deals. He has made numerous exposé-type reels about them. A super PAC called Washington Rising Inc. has only one candidate they feature for support — McKinney. Public FEC records show that Washington Rising made a $150,000 donation to TPUSA in December 2025, and then TPUSA endorsed McKinney in January 2026. The PAC has provided $700,000 in support of McKinney’s campaign. 

There is no way to confirm Sessler’s allegations that this is a McKinney family Super PAC, said Weigard in a message from August 12. Weigard wrote, “Washington Rising’s website is just a single page with no information, so who knows who’s behind it.”

Tumbleweird asked Jerrod Sessler in an email on August 13 to confirm that the TPUSA donation from Washington Rising Inc. netted McKinney the Trump endorsement. Sessler replied, “The donation[s] to WA Rising are easy to find in the FEC filings. The confirmation of TPUSA leadership hand walking the endorsement to the White House is a first-person account. It is not written anywhere but it is fully confirmed. Tyler Boyer was open that he made sure she got the endorsement.” 

Tyler Boyer is COO of Turning Point Action, the 501(c)(4) organization that operates the nationwide youth effort Students for Trump. 

Tumbleweird wrote to the Amanda McKinney campaign to ask about the donations and the allegation that she (or someone connected to her) paid for Trump’s endorsement. As of August 24, we have not yet received a reply or response. 

Weigard is focused on the McKinney campaign right now, making videos to inform the voting public about what they are up to. He said that it’s vital to speak out: 

I have no idea if these are going to be effective, but what I do know is that it needs to be done. You can’t just stay silent when you have a guy like Donald Trump who’s lining his own pockets and has a really despicable history with racism and sexual assault and all that. Then we got a pay-for-play situation where Amanda McKinney has some rich relatives that give money to a PAC, and she gets [an] endorsement. One thing about America is we’ve got to speak up, and that is what I am going to be doing.

You can follow Red State Blue Resources on their website: redstateblueresources.org, which also has links to their social media accounts on FaceBook, Instagram, TikTok, BlueSky, Reddit, and Twitter.