Who is… Yemisi Egbewole?

Hired onto Third Way's $15M campaign against democratic socialists and Medicare for All with zero published policy papers on her Third Way staff page. Appeared repeatedly on CNN and Fox News attacking Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, Maine populist Graham Platner, and DSA municipal winners while broadcasts omitted her Third Way title, with CNN transcripts inflating her $84K to $88.5K internal press-shop coordinator job to "Former Chief of Staff to Biden White House" on Oct. 22 and Oct. 29, 2026, and "Former Obama Chief of Staff" on Oct. 31, 2026, an era when she was an undergraduate at Liberty University.

Source: The New Republic: Centrists Plan to Spend Millions Against Socialists After El-Sayed Win

Runs a private Washington media consultancy with zero federal Lobbying Disclosure Act registrations or FEC vendor disclosures while appearing on air as an unaffiliated strategist and placing targeted industry commentary, including a July 8, 2026 Washington Examiner op-ed opposing Sports Broadcasting Act reforms to pool college media rights and an Oct. 14, 2026 InsideSources column targeting Pepco utility rate structures without disclosing Third Way.

Source: Washington Examiner: Congress Might Sideline Women's Sports in the Rush to Rewrite the Rules

Serves on the leadership board of a Plano-based 501c4 youth group that withholds its donor rolls alongside former GOP Rep. Joe Walsh and WelcomePAC co-founder Lauren Harper Pope, following a Spring 2026 USC Dornsife fellowship alongside former GOP Rep. Garret Graves and regular visits to Navy Yard MAGA hangout Scarlet Oak, which she described to The Washington Sun as a "clubhouse" useful if she were a business or lobbyist gathering intelligence on Republicans.

Source: Dream for America Leadership Directory

Appeared on Fox Business on Aug. 11, 2026 without her Third Way title to denounce Los Angeles tenant union rent strikes for destroying "property owners' livelihoods," telling renters "you have to participate in capitalism by getting a job." Dismissed staff-abuse allegations against centrist Senate candidate Mary Peltola in The Washington Sun as shaking Democrats' image as "soft, collegial academics."

Source: Fox Business Video — Aug. 11, 2026

Operates as Senior Fellow for a Wall Street-governed 501c4 organization documented by Sludge and Common Dreams as taking corporate checks from CVS Health, Johnson & Johnson, coalitions representing UnitedHealth, Cigna, Elevance, and Centene executives, historical oil funder Chevron, and a $50K grant from Blue Cross-affiliated Better Solutions for Healthcare, run out of Republican consulting firm Targeted Victory.

Source: Sludge: Health Insurers Are Paying Third Way as It Targets the Left

Attended private September 2025 Washington briefings featuring NVIDIA robotics executive Deepu Talla and crypto lobby group Solana Policy Institute, joined Congressional Black Caucus Week panels alongside data-center lobbyists, dismissed blue-collar displacement on The AI Movement podcast by stating manufacturing jobs will phase out "regardless if grandpa keeps his job in the factory," called Trump "good on crypto" on CNN on July 2, 2026, and lectured voters opposing water-intensive AI data centers on CNN on Aug. 20, 2026 to "slow down your consumption of artificial intelligence."

Source: CNN News Central Transcript — Aug. 20, 2026

Entered a billion-dollar congressional antitrust battle via the Washington Examiner to warn against pooling college-sports broadcast rights under a centralized system, aligning with lobbying by Fox, ABC/Disney, the Big Ten, and the SEC, and promoted Pennsylvania's utility regulatory framework across syndicated newspapers while Third Way backed the oil-and-gas-friendly BAAJA permitting bill.

Source: CBS Sports: SEC & Big Ten Oppose Cantwell Broadcast Pooling Amendment

Appeared on On Call by Paging America, a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund- and Hopewell Fund-backed 501c4 Committee to Protect Health Care, to advocate Affordable Care Act premium tax-credit extensions rather than universal single-payer healthcare while serving alongside operatives from Michael Bloomberg- and Walton-funded WelcomePAC.

Source: Sludge on Committee to Protect Health Care & Sixteen Thirty Fund