Independent · FL-22 · 2026

I'mnotrunningforme.I'm running for US.

Enough is enough. I came to America from the Soviet Union as a four-year-old refugee. I helped Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani build MAGA — and I woke up. Nobody knows how this system operates better than I do, and nobody will fight harder to expose it. I'm not backed by corporations. I'm not backed by PACs. I'm backed by you.

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Meet Lev

Refugee.
Father of seven.
Witness.
Whistleblower.
Fighter.

I came to America from the Soviet Union as a four-year-old refugee. America took my family in. Brooklyn raised me. Florida built me. I've been a husband, a father of seven, a businessman in this community for three decades.

Then I got close to Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani. I learned the hard way what was really happening in there. And I woke up. I stood up for democracy — I testified under oath, on camera, and took on the system to get the truth out. The rest of that story is worth reading.

Nobody knows how this system operates better than I do. I've sat in the rooms. I've watched both parties protect their own while the families on this block get squeezed — groceries, rent, healthcare. I'm done watching. I'm running for the people of Florida's 22nd. Enough is enough.

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From Lev, personally

I almost lost my family.
I'm running so you don't lose your family — or your country.

My family came to America with nothing. America gave us a future. I have seven kids of my own and a district full of neighbors I love. I want every one of them to have the chance my parents fought to give me. Every word on this site is mine. Every position is something I will fight for. I am asking for your help to do it.

Lev Parnas

Independent Candidate, Florida's 22nd

In his own words

“Trump knew exactly what was going on.”

Lev Parnas, MSNBC interview with Rachel Maddow, January 2020

Lev Parnas on MSNBC with Rachel Maddow — January 2020 — The interview millions watched.

I've spent five years telling the truth about Washington — under oath, on television, in the country's newspapers. Now it's time to take that fight directly where it belongs. To Congress.

In the public eye

The moments that built the case for running.

Every link below is on the record. Watch it. Decide for yourself.

January 2020

Rachel Maddow, MSNBC

"Trump knew exactly what was going on."

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March 2024

House Oversight Committee

"The American people have been lied to."

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January 2020

The story of Yovanovitch

Lev describes the campaign to remove the US Ambassador to Ukraine.

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May 2026

West Palm Beach. With the survivors.

Sat in the House Oversight field hearing with Maria Farmer, Sky Roberts, and the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein. The scene of the crime.

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2024

Shadow Diplomacy

Lev's memoir. Brooklyn to Trump's inner circle, in his own words.

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Where I Stand

Six fights I'm taking to Washington.

No 27-point plans. No focus-grouped platitudes. Six fights, in plain English, that I will not stop pushing for. You can hold me to every one of them.

01Affordability

Florida's 22nd is being squeezed. Washington argues.

Families in our district are being squeezed from every direction — groceries, rent, healthcare, insurance. Hurricane-zone premiums on a South Florida home have tripled in five years. Wages haven't moved. And while families on this block get pushed out, both parties argue about whose fault it is. I'm not interested in the argument. I'm interested in what we do about it.

02Drain the Swamp

I know this swamp from the inside. Now let's actually drain it.

I was in the rooms when the money moved. The stock trading. The lobbying revolving door. The donations with strings the public never sees. Trump's people do it. Democratic leadership does it too. I'm not interested in a side. I'm interested in ending it. Nobody knows how these people operate better than I do.

03Accountability

The American people have been lied to. Here's how we fix it.

I was a witness in the first Trump impeachment. I testified before the House Oversight Committee under oath, on camera. I watched lawmakers ask the questions they wanted asked and skip the ones they didn't. I watched officials lie to Congress and walk away. Speaking truth to power is one of the toughest things to do in this town. We can build a Congress that actually does it.

04Immigration

I came here at four years old. America took my family in. We've forgotten how to do that.

Florida's 22nd is full of people who fled places — Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Haiti, the Soviet Union. So am I. Most of us know exactly what dictatorship and authoritarianism look like, and we know what we owe to the country that took us in. We need an immigration system that enforces the law without cruelty. Both can be true. The politicians who tell you otherwise are selling you something.

05Democracy

I helped build MAGA. I know exactly what authoritarianism looks like.

I watched Donald Trump operate up close. I watched what he tried to do to Ukraine — the country my family came from. I watched what he tried to do here. Putin doesn't want peace. He wants submission. And too many people in Washington — on both sides — are willing to look away. Democracy is not a Democratic issue. It is not a Republican issue. It is an American one.

06Epstein survivors

I stood in the room with them. I'm not stopping.

I sat in the field hearing in West Palm Beach — minutes from this district, the scene of the crime — and listened to Maria Farmer, Dani Bensky, Courtney Wild, Jena-Lisa Jones, and Virginia Giuffre's brothers Sky and Daniel. I traveled to New York for the 24-hour reading of the Epstein files. I delivered new material directly to Congress. The Epstein class — the people in powerful seats on both sides of the aisle — has every reason to keep that file half-redacted forever. They're going to find out what one congressman who actually shows up looks like.

The system isn't broken.

It's working exactly as the people who built it intended. I was in those rooms. We're going to change who's in them.

I'm backed by you

No corporations. No PACs. Just you.

I'm not backed by corporations. I'm not backed by PACs. I'm backed by you. Every dollar comes from neighbors — capped at $3,500 by law, $5 is plenty, recurring monthly is what keeps us alive. That's the whole point.

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Then stand with me.

If you believe in accountability. If you believe our government should serve the people. If you believe it's time to say enough is enough — get on the list.

I'mnotrunningforme.I'm running for US.

Refugee.Father of seven.Witness.Whistleblower.Fighter.

I almost lost my family.I'm running so you don't lose your family — or your country.

The moments that built the case for running.

Six fights I'm taking to Washington.

Florida's 22nd is being squeezed. Washington argues.

I know this swamp from the inside. Now let's actually drain it.

The American people have been lied to. Here's how we fix it.

I came here at four years old. America took my family in. We've forgotten how to do that.

I helped build MAGA. I know exactly what authoritarianism looks like.

I stood in the room with them. I'm not stopping.

No corporations. No PACs. Just you.

Refugee.
Father of seven.
Witness.
Whistleblower.
Fighter.

I almost lost my family.
I'm running so you don't lose your family — or your country.