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Fact Check 2026
Fact Check

Peggy Flanagan is telling voters she doesn’t take corporate PAC money.

Our Rating False

The filings say otherwise. Before running for Senate, she personally raised millions for a special interest organization — one now spending millions on Super PAC ads in the Minnesota Senate race.

The Candidate Peggy Flanagan
Peggy Flanagan tells voters she doesn’t take corporate PAC money. Federal filings tell a different story.
The Truth

Peggy Flanagan took over $2 million in big-dollar corporate contributions.

Through the special interest organization she led, Flanagan raised millions from corporate special interests. Here’s where the money came from.

$35,000

Big Oil

Receipts from EQT Corporation — the largest U.S. natural gas producer — the American Gas Association, and American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM).

FEC filings, DLGA Q2, Q3, Q4 2024 Reports. EQT Corp + American Gas Assn + AFPM. Dated 4/25/2024, 9/12/2024 & 10/16/2024. See: FEC.gov.
$105,000

Big Tobacco

Receipts from PMI Global Services Inc.

FEC filings, DLGA Q1 & Annual 2024 Report. PMI Global Services Inc. Dated 3/20/2024 & 11/14/2024. See: FEC.gov.
$392,000

Big Pharma

Receipts from Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Vertex, Novartis, PhRMA, BIO, Novo Nordisk, Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly, Biogen, and more.

FEC filings, DLGA Q1, Q2, Q3 & Annual Reports 2024. Pharmaceutical companies & trade groups. Dated 2/23/2024 – 12/4/2024. See: FEC.gov.
$25,000

Private Prisons & ICE Detention

A receipt from CoreCivic — a company that builds private prisons and ICE detention centers. That includes the detention facility where Liam Ramos’s family was held.

FEC filing, DLGA Q1 2024 Report. $25,000 receipt from CoreCivic, dated 2/2/2024. See: MPR News.
The Human Cost Liam Ramos
The detention facility where Liam Ramos’s family was held was run by CoreCivic, a company that received $25,000 from the organization Peggy Flanagan led. FEC filing, DLGA Q1 2024 Report. See: FEC.gov
The organization Flanagan led is now spending millions running Super PAC ads in the MN Senate race smearing her opponent.
NBC News, "...Group launches...attack against Rep. Angie Craig in Minnesota Senate primary", May 21, 2026.

The receipts don’t lie.

Peggy Flanagan has taken corporate PAC money from Big Oil, Big Tobacco, Big Pharma, and Private Prisons.