There’s something uniquely unsettling about discovering that the people you’ve invited into your home — through a screen, sure, but into your home nonetheless — harbor views that would make your stomach turn. For millions of American families, children’s YouTube has become the default background noise of daily life. Grandma sets up the tablet, a cheerful host starts singing about shapes and colors, and everyone assumes the content is harmless. Nobody thinks to Google the host’s political donations.

Maybe they should start. Because one of the most-watched children’s entertainers in the country has been quietly writing checks to radical political candidates — the kind who cozy up to Hamas sympathizers, dismiss 9/11, and traffic in open antisemitism. And she’s been doing it with money earned from your family’s trust.

From the New York Post:

Controversial kids YouTuber Ms. Rachel doled out $3,000 to far left Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El Sayed’s campaign — her latest bid to boost candidacies of anti-Israel radicals.

Ms. Rachel — whose real name is Rachel Griffin Accurso — quietly reported the handout in Federal Election Commission filings dated July 19. It’s unclear whether the payout is a donation or a loan.

Let that settle for a second. The woman your grandchildren know as “Miss Rachel” — a personality commanding over 20 million YouTube subscribers and 5 million Instagram followers — is bankrolling one of the most dangerous political candidates in modern American politics. Every parent and grandparent in this country deserves to know exactly who she’s supporting and why.

A candidate too extreme even for Democrats

So who is Abdul El-Sayed? He’s not just another progressive with bad ideas about taxes. He’s a Michigan Senate hopeful whose Islamist-aligned, anti-American positions are so extreme that even Sen. John Fetterman — no conservative, to put it mildly — publicly labeled him a “pro-Hamas candidate.”

El-Sayed has branded the Israeli government a “rogue state” guilty of “genocide.” He has pushed to defund police. He’s claimed ICE exists to “terrorize people on our streets.” And he chose to campaign alongside influencer Hasan Piker, a man who declared on camera that “America deserved 9/11” and called Orthodox Jews “inbred.” These are the people El-Sayed surrounds himself with. Voluntarily.

Here’s the detail that tells you everything: Jewish voters in Detroit — lifelong Democrat donors — have announced they’ll raise money for Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers rather than let El-Sayed anywhere near the U.S. Senate. When your own party’s donor base is actively funding your opponent, you’ve gone somewhere most decent people refuse to follow.

And Ms. Rachel followed him there, checkbook in hand.

A pattern, not an accident

If this were a one-time lapse in judgment, you might — generously — chalk it up to ignorance. But Rachel Griffin Accurso has been at this for a while now.

In January, she took to social media and helped spread the message to “free America from the Jews.” Read that again. A children’s entertainer. “Free America from the Jews.” In 2025, she sat down with antisemitic blogger Mehdi Hasan to push Hamas talking points about Palestine on camera, apparently unbothered by the company she was keeping.

She recently urged her millions of followers to vote for Democratic Socialist Melat Kiros — a candidate who described the September 11th attacks as “inevitable.” And she donated $3,500 to a slate of far-left New York City candidates aligned with socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who swept their primaries riding a wave of anti-Israel outrage.

Netflix star and Iranian refugee Sheila Nazarian captured the absurdity perfectly. Ms. Rachel’s support for El-Sayed, Nazarian said, “raises the question of why someone who built a brand around kindness would lend credibility to antisemitic and hateful rhetoric.”

Good question. We’re still waiting on an answer.

Twenty million reasons to pay attention

The media has called Ms. Rachel a modern-day Mister Rogers. The comparison is grotesque. Fred Rogers never funneled money to candidates who campaign with people celebrating the murder of 3,000 Americans. He never amplified messages about “freeing” the country from an ethnic group. Invoking his name here is an insult to everything he stood for.

NRSC spokeswoman Samantha Cantrell put it bluntly: El-Sayed and Ms. Rachel are “one and the same, forcing their socialist, they/them, anti-America agenda on our children, and parents should be worried when they head to the ballot box.”

Ms. Rachel declined to respond to requests for comment. Telling, but unsurprising. She doesn’t owe the media an explanation — but she absolutely owes one to every family that trusted her with their children’s attention.

What you can do

You don’t need a congressional hearing to handle this. You don’t need some Silicon Valley algorithm to sort it out for you. Conservative families have never needed permission to protect their own kids, and that hasn’t changed.

If Ms. Rachel is on your grandchild’s screen, shut it off. Have the conversation with your sons and daughters about who they’re letting into their living rooms. Vet the people who have access to young, impressionable minds — because clearly, the platforms won’t do it for you.

The ABCs can wait. Your values can’t.

Key Takeaways

• Ms. Rachel donated $3,000 to Abdul El-Sayed, a candidate even Democrats call “pro-Hamas.”
• This is part of a documented pattern of funding radical, antisemitic political movements.
• Over 20 million children watch a content creator actively backing extremist candidates.
• Parents and grandparents must take responsibility for who influences their kids.

Sources: Breitbart, New York Post