🍻 In This Week's Hill Spill Newsletter: Congress’ Perv Purge, The "Yelp" for Sex Workers Where Politicians Keep Popping Up, and Summer House Swaps the Hamptons for the People’s House

Welcome to this week's Hill Spill — it's Thursday, so you know what that means! It’s tea time. 🫖 It's been a big week for pervs resigning from Congress, so this week we're wading into some allegations of pretty egregious behavior. And while we are a happy hour-themed newsletter, we don't want to minimize the gravity of what we're reporting. We here at Sources Say know all too well how certain people in power can get creepy! But it's not all heavy — we've also got tea on an array of things, including one Summer House star spilling on how he's making his way into politics, and more! So let's get into it...

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It has been a long time since sex scandals sparked real consequences in Washington, in what seemed like an increasingly desensitized city. This week was different.

It wasn't that long ago that Eric Swalwell sat down with us, confident and energized about his gubernatorial run. We're not sure we've ever seen such a swift fall from grace — from frontrunner to leaving Congress amid bipartisan calls to resign. Five women have come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct, including a former staffer who alleges rape. One accuser says more than 30 women reached out to her after she went public. The harassment allegations? We weren't shocked. But the rape allegations are something else entirely.

Swalwell — once one of the most vocal lawmakers on Epstein and who had no shortage of tweets urging people to believe all women — maintains there were no illegal actions and plans to fight the allegations, though he did apologize to his wife. It hasn't stopped some of his closest friends and allies from being quick to denounce him and express support for the women who came forward. Even his own staff said they stood with the women and one lawmaker told us, “he belongs in prison.”

And then there's Tony Gonzales. Widower Adrien Aviles first sent us texts about this story back in February. Those messages, later confirmed through forensic extraction of Regina's phone, show Gonzales making explicit sexual requests to his district staffer in the early stages of what became an affair. She repeatedly pushed back on requests before ultimately relenting.

"This is going too far, boss," she wrote to her boss in May 2024 in response rto requests for sexual photos.

Regina Santos-Aviles died on September 14, 2025. The county medical examiner determined her death was the result of self-immolation. Her widower's attorney has said the deterioration of her mental state was directly tied to what happened in that office, and that the power dynamics between a congressman and his staffer made her resistance to his advances anything but simple. Multiple sources corroborated a toxic work environment.

For weeks Gonzales denied everything, calling it political smears orchestrated by his primary opponent. Then came a bizarre interview in which he finally admitted to the affair and proceeded to deflect blame onto Adrien and the media. Both he and Swalwell resigned this week as expulsion votes loomed. Two lawmakers. One week.

We hope Regina's family is able to find peace.

We've heard from lawmakers who say they are genuinely worried about the culture that allowed all of this to fester for so long. Whether that worry translates into anything institutional remains to be seen.

We have heard no shortage of allegations about other lawmakers in the wake of the resignation that we are still reporting out.

Two lawmakers embroiled in scandal are gone, but all eyes are on whether Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) and Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) are next.

Rep. Cory Mills is facing a growing pile of serious allegations. An active Ethics probe. A domestic assault allegation. A restraining order was granted against him for cyberstalking and threats of revenge porn. Allegations of soliciting sex workers on a trip to evacuate Americans out of Afghanistan following the chaotic 2021 withdrawal — you may remember a photo multiple sources told us depicted a sex worker on that trip, which Mills denied. An alleged secret nonprofit he failed to disclose as required by law. Dan Crenshaw told us flat out he warned leadership about Mills years ago.

His long-time chief of staff recently left the office, signing off on her departure with a line that raised eyebrows all over the Hill.

"The horrors persist, but I do not."

Mills, meanwhile seems to think he's in a different category from the lawmakers who just resigned. He got divorced a couple of months ago. The alleged behavior doesn't involve a staffer. So apparently, in his mind, that settles it.

"I don't even fall into the category of Swalwell or Gonzales," he told NewsNation this week.

His colleagues aren't buying it — and some lawmakers have told us his behavior raises serious national security concerns.

Speaker Johnson has been direct about Cherfilus-McCormick.

"I do think, certainly on Cherfilus-McCormick, the Ethics Committee has gone through all of its processes, and they found some alarming facts. I think the facts are indisputable at this point," he said.

Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) has filed an expulsion resolution and plans to force a vote once Ethics wraps up on April 21st. Bipartisan members have begun expressing support for her removal.

Cherfilus-McCormick is accused of stealing $5 million in COVID-19 disaster relief funds from FEMA and using a portion to fund her first successful run for Congress in 2021, according to prosecutors. Her brother, former chief of staff,and accountant were also charged. She has pleaded not guilty and trial is expected next year.

She's called the Ethics proceedings an unjust indictment and her lawyer has argued they could blow up her criminal trial. Her defenders say she's being singled out and the process is being weaponized. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters Tuesday he is waiting to see the panel's recommendations before weighing in.

It has been a big week for oppo research and we had Pat Dennis, the president of American Bridge, on the pod to break down the state of American politics. The Democratic opposition research firm's entire job is digging up dirt on Republicans and Dennis is feeling very good about 2026.

He calls Mark Robinson — the North Carolina gubernatorial candidate who was found to be an active participant on porn sites and called himself a Black Nazi — the gold standard oppo hit of last cycle. He's watching a generic ballot with Democrats up seven, thinks Republican gerrymanders in Texas are going to backfire badly projecting 2024 Hispanic turnout numbers don't materialize again, and has a pretty simple message for every Republican who thinks they can run the Trump playbook: it didn't work for you then and it's not going to work for you now.

Grab a bev and tune in!

A while back we found out about this app, allegedly used by sex workers to rate their clients. Basically Yelp, but for… you get the idea.

And look, sometimes when I’m bored, I’ll scroll through and see which power players in Washington might be popping up! Purely for research purposes, obviously.

We’re not naming names, for a lot of very obvious reasons. There’s no real way to verify any of it, and we’re not trying to get sued before last call.

But we can share a few of the more… interesting reviews we came across, in blind item form.

👀 Here’s the reviews of one former senior campaign advisor who we happened to find…

😬 And this other one we found did make us laugh pretty hard lol.

Oye vey, one would think these people would use burner phones for this sort of extracaricular activities but alas. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Politicians, amiright?

Reality TV alum Luke sat down with Sources Say News to make the case that he's more than a Bravo fan fave — he's a congressional candidate for Minnesota's 8th district. The self-described "small town kid from Northern Minnesota" opened up about growing up on Medicaid and food assistance, why he thinks Congress already is a reality show (cameras optional), and his pitch for protecting rural healthcare, boosting mining jobs, and cutting exec bonuses to fund the people who actually need it.

He name-dropped Paul Wellstone, called Rep. Pete Stauber (R-Minn.) a "fake and a phony," and gently declined to weigh in on whether West is a scumbag. (Jury's still out.) And yes, he is still texting Lindsay.

The trash took itself out of Congress this week — one Democrat, one Republican — so we are going to give "the clean sweep" a whirl. We added a lemon twist, because the whole thing left a bitter taste.