EXPOSED: Stelson’s Shady Income
Corrupt Janelle Stelson has just been exposed in a bombshell report, which details how she took tens of thousands of dollars from dark money Democrat groups.
Stelson took $45,000 to host four podcast episodes, which could not be listened to anywhere until Stelson’s corruption was exposed today. The lump sum payment from “Voting for America” constituted a “meaningful portion of her income in 2025.”
Stelson talks a big game about being one of the people in PA-10. Do most Central Pennsylvanians earn tens of thousands of dollars to host four podcast episodes?
“Corrupt Janelle Stelson took tens of thousands of dollars from Democrat dark money groups while Central Pennsylvanians continue to struggle from the residual effects of the Biden-era policies she supports. Stelson is running for office for one reason: to enrich herself.” – NRCC Spokesman Reilly Richardson
Read more from NOTUS here or see excerpts below:
‘Dark Money’ Group Paid Democrat Janelle Stelson for Disappearing Podcast
Avani Kalra
NOTUS
July 2, 2026
Janelle Stelson, a former local news anchor who Democrats are hoping will unseat Republican Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pennsylvania) this November in one of the nation’s hottest House races, was paid by a “dark money” group to produce a podcast that no longer exists online, federal records show.
Stelson was paid $45,000 between January 2024 and October 2025 by Voting for America to produce four episodes of “Voices of Central Pennsylvania With Janelle Stelson,” according to her 2025 financial disclosure report. Tax records show the organization, which has ties to Democrats, reported less than $50,000 in total income in 2025.
District of Columbia records show that Voting for America was founded in June 2024 and led by three alumni of the Democratic National Committee and House Democrats’ campaign arm, alongside a political lawyer.
Mara Kunin, a Democratic operative listed as the organization’s principal on its tax records, did not respond to a request for comment from NOTUS.
The podcast series appears on only one audio platform, Podchaser, and the four episodes taped by Stelson and published in 2025 are not playable due to an “error in episode file” or an “episode file missing.”
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Michael Beckel, the director of money in politics at Issue One, a nonpartisan political reform organization, told NOTUS that the circumstances behind the podcast and payment seem murky.
While Stelson is a respected former news anchor, and it’s not uncommon for a Democratic group to work with someone like her on a podcast series, a lack of information about the funding organization and its spending raises some questions, Beckel said.
“It’s certainly a stream of revenue that helps her continue to share news with fellow Pennsylvanians, or share information,” Beckel said. “But it’s very unclear from public records alone who was behind Voting for America and what types of pet policies they might be pushing for if she’s elected to Congress.”
This is Stelson’s second bid for Congress after she failed to oust Perry in 2024.
Her federal financial disclosure forms show the podcast was a meaningful portion of her income in 2025 –– her campaign committee also paid her about $19,000 and a political analytics group paid her about $15,000 in consulting fees. Stelson also reported earning around $45,000 from her retirement plan in 2025.
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