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Who’s behind The Congressional Insider?

thecongressionalinsider.com

The Congressional Insider (thecongressionalinsider.com) is one of 154 websites that present themselves as separate news outlets while sharing ad accounts, software and back-office infrastructure. On its own pages it does not name a publisher on its About page and lists the mailing address 750 N Saint Paul St Ste 250, PMB 49440, Dallas, TX. Behind the scenes it belongs to the group of 19 sites run with the shared WordPress login spauldingpub and is paid through ad account 1 (confidential).

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What the public records show

Publisher named on site: None named on About / Contact pages
Mailing address listed: 750 N Saint Paul St Ste 250, PMB 49440, Dallas, TX
Google ad account: Ad account 1 (confidential) (ca-pub-1904937421153004)Checked against Google’s seller list. Saved copy Original
Shared WordPress login group: “spauldingpub”
Organizational logins exposed: spauldingpub, editorFrom its public user list. Saved copy Original
WordPress site number: Site #8 (this installation has created at least 38 sites; 18 are visible)
Newsletter ad account (Jeeng): jeeng.com, 2497, DIRECTFrom its ads.txt file. Saved copy Original
Company named in Decide’s registry: Spaulding PublishingNamed in Decide’s seller list. Saved copy Original
Earnware sign-up software: Loads earnware-connect
Cloudflare name servers: shane / ulla

The records, as we saved them

Copied on October 14, 2026, so they stay checkable even if the site changes. All evidence

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Public user list

Saved copy Original

spauldingpub  (ID 2, byline “Digital Editor”)
[redacted-personal-login]  (ID 29, byline “Editor”)
editor  (ID 34, byline “Editor”)

Key lines from its ads.txt

Saved copy Original

google.com, pub-1904937421153004, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0
jeeng.com, 2497, DIRECT
decide.co, 12395819970311936, DIRECT, 5e1158f8c4b38075

Earnware add-on in its page code

/wp-content/plugins/earnware-connect/public/js/earnware-lib.js?ver=1.0.82
/wp-content/plugins/earnware-connect/public/js/earnware-tracking.js?ver=1.0.82
/wp-content/plugins/earnware-connect/public/js/earnware-merge.js?ver=1.0.82

Other sites using mailbox PMB 49440 across 9 states (14)

Other sites run with the login “spauldingpub” (18)

What this does and doesn’t show

These records show that The Congressional Insider shares ad accounts, software or back-office logins with the other sites on this page. They do not by themselves establish which company legally owns the domain, and nothing here alleges unlawful conduct. Data was checked and archived on October 14, 2026.