Nathan Willett’s former Missouri Senate campaign sent $165,384.46 to a Georgia nonprofit one month after he launched a bid for Congress. The committee then shut down with a zero balance. That money is now the subject of two campaign-finance complaints.
Liberty Alliance USA filed complaints Monday with the Federal Election Commission and the Missouri Ethics Commission. Willett is running in the Aug. 4 Republican primary for Missouri’s Sixth Congressional District, where he and former radio host Chris Stigall are the leading candidates to replace retiring Rep. Sam Graves. RedState previously covered the increasingly bitter primary and the attacks on Willett’s record as a Kansas City councilman.
Seven weeks later, nearly the same amount turned up in the account of a super PAC backing Willett.
Willett became a federal candidate on March 30. His state committee filed termination paperwork one month later, reporting a $165,384.46 payment to Grassroots America Inc. and a cash balance of zero. On June 18, the Georgia nonprofit transferred $160,384.46 to Conservative Future Fund, a federal super PAC spending heavily on the congressional race. The amounts differ by exactly $5,000.
Grassroots America’s earlier filings make the transfer stand out. It reported $9,784 in revenue for 2022 and less than $50,000 in gross receipts in both 2023 and 2024. Jason Boles is the treasurer of both Willett’s federal campaign and Grassroots America. His compliance firm, which shares addresses with the nonprofit, received $5,500 from Willett’s campaign during the same reporting period.
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Conservative Future Fund reported more than $207,000 in independent expenditures supporting Willett or opposing Stigall. About $197,000 went to OnMessage, whose affiliated companies also handled polling and digital-texting work for Willett’s campaign. The federal complaint asks the FEC to investigate possible coordination, while acknowledging that its authors do not have evidence that campaign information passed between the two operations.
The state complaint includes another problem, one that requires no knowledge of campaign-finance law: a donor refund check that bounced.
Willett’s state committee reported $14,400 in refunds to eight donors after he switched races. One exhibit shows a $2,400 check dated April 2 and signed by Willett. A bank record says it was returned for insufficient funds in May. The exhibits also include a replacement check for the same amount from Willett’s personal account.
The committee’s April 30 termination filing certified that it had no surplus and no outstanding debts. Liberty Alliance alleges the committee should have disclosed the outstanding refund checks, the returned payments, and Willett’s use of personal money to replace them.
Neither agency has issued a finding against Willett.
Willett’s campaign dismissed both complaints as a political attack and blamed Stigall.
"This is a baseless attack from a flailing campaign desperate to talk about anything other than Chris Stigall’s history of repeated betrayals and attacks on President Trump. It’s no coincidence this frivolous complaint was launched the same day we launched www.philadelphiastigall.com detailing Stigall’s horrible attacks on President Trump."
The response did not address the matching transfers, Boles’ overlapping roles or the bounced refund checks. The complaints were signed by Liberty Alliance Executive Director Andy Bakker. Neither Stigall nor his campaign is listed as a complainant.
Graves endorsed Stigall shortly after announcing his retirement. He addressed the complaints Tuesday on the radio and said he found the evidence convincing.
#MO6 Congressman Sam Graves:
— Come and Take It PAC (@ComeTakeItPAC) July 21, 2026
"It's disturbing because one thing that is absolutely illegal is moving state money that you raised for a state race and transferring that into a federal campaign committee. That is absolutely illegal, and I looked at the evidence, and... https://t.co/g85HafwClp pic.twitter.com/peVhwWFJpk
“One thing that is absolutely illegal is moving state money that you raise for a state race and transferring that into a federal campaign committee. That is absolutely illegal, and I looked at the evidence, and it’s pretty convincing. ... I think the cover-up is probably the worst part of all of it.”
Graves also said the race was tightening and again backed Stigall, citing his maturity and experience. The primary is August 4, leaving Willett two weeks to respond to complaints centered on a six-figure transfer, a shared treasurer, and a refund check that did not clear.
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