Ro Khanna has spent months posturing as a fearless truth-teller on the Epstein files. Now he gets a moment of truth — a chance to show whether this has ever been about accountability or whether it’s just more selective outrage dressed up as principle.
Because after the latest document dump on Monday, the scandal is no longer abstract or conveniently aimed at Republicans. It’s getting uncomfortably close to home.
Newly surfaced emails further implicate Stacey Plaskett, a fellow Democrat, revealing that she used a pseudonym to solicit funding from Jeffrey Epstein for a so-called “new voter file” designed to help her win elections in the Virgin Islands:
Democratic congresswoman Stacey Plaskett (V.I.) beseeched Jeffrey Epstein for help funding a new “voter file” that would allow her to “completely outperform anyone in any race.”
Using the email handle “LeRoy Daughter,” Plaskett pitched Epstein on the idea in an email on May 5, 2017, according to documents released by the Department of Justice. In the pitch, Plaskett asked Epstein to fund a one-year project to “create a new voter file” of Virgin Islands voters.
The goal, according to Plaskett, was to compile data on Virgin Islanders who had voted in recent elections and update their phone numbers, email addresses, and home addresses to help Plaskett’s campaign and those of her allies in other races.
“This is the most important group to poll for messaging and later phone banking for support and get to the polls,” wrote Plaskett, adding that the list would help candidates decide what political positions to take and assist “messaging and campaign work.”
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And this didn’t come out of nowhere.
Long before the latest emails surfaced, it was already known that Stacey Plaskett was texting with Jeffrey Epstein during a 2019 congressional hearing, allegedly receiving guidance on what questions to ask. Her defense at the time — that she was merely listening to a “constituent” — was laughable on its face. Most Americans don’t get to live-text their member of Congress with suggested questions during official hearings. Pretending that was normal never passed the smell test.
What makes it worse is the timeline.
Jeffrey Epstein was first convicted in 2008 for soliciting a minor, among other crimes. By the time of these interactions, there was no ambiguity about who he was or what he’d done. Yet Plaskett’s relationship with him appears to have continued well after that conviction — to the point where she allegedly invited him, under a pseudonym, to a New York fundraiser and even asked in 2018 whether she could refer to him as a “friend.” He reportedly agreed.
That’s not incidental contact. That’s familiarity. And it’s indefensible.
Which brings us back to Ro Khanna. He’s said repeatedly that anyone personally connected to Epstein should be hauled before Congress and forced to answer questions. Fine. Here’s his chance.
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— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) February 10, 2026
So the obvious questions remain unanswered: how deep did the relationship between Epstein and Plaskett really go, and what else did it involve? And why, of all people, was Stacey Plaskett giving Jeffrey Epstein outsized access and apparent influence as late as 2019 — the very year he was arrested again and charged with multiple sex crimes?
By that point, there was no plausible deniability left. No gray area. No “we didn’t know.” And yet the communications, the familiarity, and the access appear to have continued anyway.
And that brings us back to Ro Khanna. He’s talked a big game about accountability, about dragging those personally connected to Epstein into the light. If he’s not just another partisan hack, this is exactly where that work should begin.
Will it? Don’t hold your breath. Khanna is a Democrat, after all, and hypocrisy is the name of their game.
