BY ELIANA JONSHON OCT 22 2026 -------------------- Abdul El-Sayed (Scott Legato/Getty Images for MoveOn) At least six men who joined Abdul El-Sayed in signing a notorious 2012 letter calling for a Muslim Brotherhood “purge” of the media and police have also donated handsomely to his two runs for office, mostly to his current Senate campaign, records reviewed by the Free Beacon show. The total haul from his fellow Brotherhood backers—who, along with El-Sayed and other “leaders of the Egyptian community,” voiced support for Egypt’s struggling Muslim Brotherhood government—was at least $25,850, according to the records. The donors include Dr. Hany Saqr, who signed the letter as part of the “Egyptian Association in America” and has given at least $1,000 to El-Sayed’s Senate campaign. He was listed in a 1992 phone directory of U.S.-based Muslim Brotherhood leaders submitted by federal prosecutors as part of the 2008 terror financing case against the Holy Land Foundation. Another donor, Dr. Khaled Elsayes, signed the letter as a representative of “Rebuilding Egypt.” He remains in charge of the organization, a tax exempt nonprofit in Pearland, Texas, to this day. Though its website has been deleted, archives of the page from 2011 and 2012 showed the group actively backing the Muslim Brotherhood revolution in Egypt that brought Morsi briefly to power. “While El-Sayed has denied any ties to the Brotherhood, his own mother spent time working for a charity which was later shut down over its association with al Qaeda,” our Jon Levine writes. “His half-sister Eman Abdelhadi has said the family has deep ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, according to now-deleted social media posts. She specifically pointed to her and El-Sayed’s mother’s role as a Muslim Brotherhood activist as a college student in Egypt in the 1970s. “On Wednesday evening, El-Sayed dismissed the scrutiny into his family during a debate against Republican opponent Mike Rogers, who referenced the 2012 letter by accusing El-Sayed of calling to ‘defund the police there’ in Egypt. ‘He keeps raising this question about this association with an organization I’ve never been a part of because of my mom who’s a nurse in Missouri?’ El-Sayed said, omitting her work for the charity shut down over terror fundraising. ‘To bring into question my commitment to the Constitution is really beneath you.’” READ MORE: El-Sayed’s Fellow Muslim Brotherhood Supporters, Who Signed Letter With Him Urging Brotherhood To ‘Purge’ the Media and Police, Have Poured Thousands Into His Campaign ----------------------------------- https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z5Oi!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc491ca2b-ebdc-414d-b12a-31a22a535664_2048x1365.jpeg James Talarico (Danielle Villasana/Getty Images) James Talarico is running for Senate as a friend of Texas’s oil and gas industry. But as a state representative pushing a Texas version of the “Green New Deal,” he sought to eliminate a natural gas tax exemption that helps consumers save on their energy bills, the Free Beacon’s Thomas Catenacci reports. In 2019, Talarico told the Austin Chronicle that he opposed the so-called high-cost natural gas exemption, calling it an “outdated and inefficient” loophole. The exemption, which the Texas state government created in 1989, reduces the tax companies have to pay on natural gas drilled from more expensive wells. Talarico argued that “advanced” technology had made the tax outdated, “but because of special interests that exemption is still in place in our tax code.” The exemption, however, only applies to nontraditional oil fields that may not otherwise be cost-effective. The use of those fields to produce gas that would otherwise sit in the ground has led to economic growth, jobs, and increased funding for local schools, police, and hospitals, Craig Clayton, a prominent San Antonio-based oil and gas industry accountant, wrote in a 2012 column after environmental activists called for legislators to eliminate it. “Why raise taxes on an industry that is the growing bright spot for our local and regional economy?” he wrote. Mike Palicz, the vice president of federal affairs at the right-leaning Americans for Tax Reform, agreed: “As a lawmaker he supported tax hikes and sweeping new regulations on American energy producers that would’ve hammered Texans with higher energy bills and rising gas prices,” Palicz told the Free Beacon. “Talarico has increasingly presented himself as a supporter of the state’s oil and gas industry amid a tight Senate race against Texas attorney general Ken Paxton,” writes Catenacci. “In a campaign ad released this month, Talarico promised to ‘fight for the good-paying oil and gas jobs that power our economy.’” He made similar remarks during a recent CNN town hall, saying, “I’ve had family members who have worked in the oil and gas industry here in our state. I went to public schools here in Texas that were funded by the oil and gas industry. That’s how we fund public education in the state.” READ MORE: Unearthed Interview: James Talarico Sought To Punish Texas Oil Industry by Spiking $1 Billion T ///