Jimmy Kimmel to Headline Fundraiser in LA for DCCC With Shonda Rhimes, Pelosi, Jeffries -- Minimum Ticket $25K
Source: MEDIAite
Feb 17th, 2026, 7:37 pm
Late night host Jimmy Kimmel will be headlining an upcoming fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, according to an invitation to the event shared by MS NOW contributor Teddy Schleifer.
Kimmel, along with fellow late night hosts like Stephen Colbert, has been a target of criticism from President Donald Trump, including threats of some sort of intervention from the Federal Communications Commission and calls for him to be fired. Thus far, Kimmel has managed to shrug off the attacks from the White House, other than a brief suspension that arguably raised his profile in anti-Trump circles, and just signed a contract extension with ABC last December.
On Tuesday, Schleifer shared a screenshot of the invitation to a fundraiser for the DCCC scheduled for the evening of March 10 in Los Angeles.
According to the invitation, Kimmel will be a “Special Guest” at the event, along with headliners Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY). Also listed among the ambassadors, Democratic donors, and other politicos on the host committee is Shonda Rhimes, the television producer behind popular series including Grey’s Anatomy and Bridgerton.
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Jimmy Kimmel is doing a fundraiser for Hakeem Jeffries and the DCCC, per invite.
Shonda Rhimes involved too.
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1:25 PM · Feb 17, 2026
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Good!
Not to mention Michael S. Smith, Michelle's interior designer.
I think I have to wash my hair ... or something ....
That really gives the "going after the working man" vibe.
It's a big club, and we ain't in it.
a billion emails/texts for $5 as part of fundraising to support the DCCC, DSCC, and/or some (D) candidate?
(Newsflash - once the 2010 Citizen's United SCOTUS ruling destroyed the meat of campaign finance regulation by overturning "McCain-Feingold", where neither Senator bothered to revise their bill to address the SCOTUS complaints, then massive amounts of money are now needed FROM ALL INCOME LEVELS OF THE POPULACE in order to compete today - at least to compete at the "national level" )
There needs to be a better way but that Citizen's United thing needs to be rectified. Otherwise we'll always be at a disadvantage when you have a single douchebag alone like Muskrat, pumping 1/4 $BILLION into a Presidential election. That forces us to have to go to BOTH big donors and small. 
