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== Destiny responds to Hasan's FEC filing coverage of Progressive Victory == | == Destiny responds to Hasan's FEC filing coverage of Progressive Victory == | ||
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On September 2, 2025, Hasan Piker reacted on stream to a [[BadEmpanada]] video covering publicly available FEC disbursement filings from Progressive Victory PAC. In the Video, personally identifiable information (addresses/full legal names) of several | On September 2, 2025, Hasan Piker reacted on stream to a [[BadEmpanada]] video covering publicly available FEC disbursement filings from Progressive Victory PAC. In the Video, personally identifiable information (addresses/full legal names) of several individual’s who had received payments from PV at the time was shown. Several of the individuals who's information were revealed were smaller streamers and friends of Destiny. Upon hearing this, Hasan concludes that the PAC itself must have been a {{wiki|slush_fund|slush fund}} for Destiny and his friends. Throughout the video, Hasan makes several disparaging remarks about Destiny, individuals in his circle, and argues that PV had betrayed its progressive mission and instead functioned as a vehicle for enriching Destiny and his friends. <ref>{{cite | ||
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Progressive Victory (PV) is a political action committee (PAC) founded in 2022 by Sam Drzymala that is focused on combining online activists, creators, and volunteers with more mainstream political movements. The organization is known for pairing livestreamer communities with traditional electoral field work such as canvassing and voter outreach.
During the 2024 political season, Destiny worked with Sejin and various others to set up and fund deep canvassing efforts across the US through PV, which Drzymala credited with contributing to approximately 1.6 million voter contacts and 340,000 door knocks over the cycle (the vast majority of door knocks coming from DGG).
By 2025, Destiny had publicly distanced himself from the organization following a reaction stream by Hasan Piker that read aloud the names and addresses of PV payment recipients from the PAC's public FEC filings. During the stream, Destiny rejected Hasan's framing of PV as a "slush fund" for his friends and floated pursuing a defamation case. In the midst of this controversy, PV released a multi-post thread on X
acknowledging that its own FEC filing had inadvertently exposed several content creator's information. In the same threads, PV claims to have "scuttled" their media program after the election pointing to a desire to no longer "mix liberal creators with [their] leftist values."
By 2026, PV had pivoted toward working primarily with Vaush, Hasan Piker, and other figures on the online left, which resulted in a brief (but heated) feud between Destiny and the PV social media account manager over X.
Destiny responds to Hasan's FEC filing coverage of Progressive Victory
On September 2, 2025, Hasan Piker reacted on stream to a BadEmpanada video covering publicly available FEC disbursement filings from Progressive Victory PAC. In the Video, personally identifiable information (addresses/full legal names) of several individual’s who had received payments from PV at the time was shown. Several of the individuals who's information were revealed were smaller streamers and friends of Destiny. Upon hearing this, Hasan concludes that the PAC itself must have been a slush fund
for Destiny and his friends. Throughout the video, Hasan makes several disparaging remarks about Destiny, individuals in his circle, and argues that PV had betrayed its progressive mission and instead functioned as a vehicle for enriching Destiny and his friends. [1]
On September 4, 2025, Destiny responded on his own stream, taking great issue with the brazen manner in which Hasan chose to reveal the personally identifiable information of individuals who had assisted PV, as well as his disparagement of their work on the campaign. Destiny begins by rejecting Hasan's claim that PV was a front for any nefarious financial arrangement, pointing out that 527 PACs
would be a poor method for funneling money "discreetly" since the law requires them to publicly file the very same disclosures Hasan was reading from on stream. [2] Furthermore, Destiny states that his involvement with PV was limited to promoting campaigns and fundraising. To further counter Hasan's "slush-fund" accusation, Destiny pulls up a clip of PV founder Sam Drzymala shouting out DGG for their contributions to their canvassing efforts (1.6 million voter contacts, 340,000 doors knocked, the vast majority of which were DGGers).[3][4] Repeatedly throughout the stream, Destiny floats the idea of pursuing a defamation case against Hasan.[5]
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PV Responds

On September 5, 2025, Progressive Victory issued a multi-post thread on X responding to the controversy. PV claimed that its own FEC filing had "inadvertently doxxed Dylan Burns and other creators" and stated that "creators who use our FEC filing as a source are not at fault."[6] With regards to Destiny and DGG specifically, PV stated their 2024 collaboration was part of a broader "media program" aimed at cross-promoting political creators, which they claimed to have "scuttled" after the election pointing to a desire to no longer "mix liberal creators with [their] leftist values." PV also pointed to their revised mission statement: "replacing centrist Dems with real progressives".
Destiny argues with Progressive Victory's social media account
In March 2026, ahead of Progressive Victory's "Choose Your Fighter" rally on March 28, Destiny criticized the event and its guest list which included extreme left-wing individuals such as Michael Beyer and Hasan Piker.[7] Progressive Victory's social media account responded directly, leading to a heated exchange over several hours.
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- ↑ Destiny. (2025, September 4). Hasan has gone too far this time.. Retrieved 2026, April 19, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r43ta7GAWE4.
- ↑ Destiny. (2025, September 4). Hasan has gone too far this time. (15:41). Retrieved 2026, April 19, from https://youtu.be/r43ta7GAWE4?t=941.
- ↑ Destiny. (2025, September 4). Hasan has gone too far this time. (23:20). Retrieved 2026, April 19, from https://youtu.be/r43ta7GAWE4?t=1400.
- ↑ Destiny. (2025, September 4). Hasan has gone too far this time. (3:20). Retrieved 2026, April 19, from https://youtu.be/r43ta7GAWE4?t=200.
- ↑ Destiny. (2025, September 4). Hasan has gone too far this time. (35:54). Retrieved 2026, April 19, from https://youtu.be/r43ta7GAWE4?t=2154.
- ↑ Progressive Victory. (2025, September 5). It was our PAC's FEC filing that inadvertently doxxed Dylan Burns and other creators we worked with last year. Creators who use our FEC filing as a source are not at fault.. Retrieved 2026, April 19, from https://x.com/ProgressiveVic/status/1964043118497378606.
- ↑ blqckplqguej [@blqckplqguej]. (2026, March 27). GOD AWFUL EVENT? @TheOmniLiberal expresses his feelings on the new @ProgressiveVic event [Tweet]. X. https://x.com/blqckplqguej/status/2037608880998338671