January was quite a month for Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), starting with the senator’s anti-election efforts that turned him into a political “pariah” on Capitol Hill.
But as regular readers know, that’s really just the start. Hawley has been denounced by former allies; businesses don’t want anything to do with him; several independent outlets have called on the Missouri Republican to resign in disgrace; and seven of his Senate colleagues recently filed an ethics complaint against him.
Hawley, however, acts like a politician who doesn’t have any regrets — and this new Axios report helps explain why.
January was Sen. Josh Hawley’s best fundraising month—by far—since his 2018 election, with a flood of small-dollar donations more than eclipsing the corporate cash he lost after leading an effort to block certification of President Biden’s Electoral College win…. Corporate PACs cut ties with the Missouri Republican after the Capitol insurrection that followed the Hawley-led gambit. But his grassroots fundraising bonanza in the weeks after shows the GOP base still firmly in Hawley’s camp.
So, on the one hand, there are companies like Hallmark, which recently requested that Hawley give back the money Hallmark’s political action committee gave him, saying the senator’s recent actions “do not reflect our company’s values.”
But on the other hand, the Missouri Republican almost certainly finds it easy to brush this off, thanks to “roughly 12,000 new donors” who were only too pleased to reward Hawley for his role in trying to undermine our democracy.








