Thomas Teepell, Operations Director for Josh Hawley until February, showed up to heckle Iman Abdulla El-Sayed in Caro with a gotcha question targeting him as Muslim. The Handbasket identified him via public records and LegiStorm. Multiple outlets confirmed it. His father Timmy Teepell runs Christian nationalist networks, worked for Bobby Jindal and Sean Feucht. On October 2, Michigan's student paper reported that Jindal's PAC America Next offered College Republicans $200 to boo El-Sayed and plant inflammatory questions for viral clips at his Flint town hall. Nothing stuck there. Then Tommy appeared in Caro. El-Sayed disavowed the Muslim Brotherhood on the spot and spent four minutes dismantling the question. Tommy walked out. This is what organized opposition looks like now: not winning arguments but manufacturing splinters.