On Sunday, two days before Election Day, Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens stood outside a Detroit church and endorsed Republican Mike Rogers (MI) for the U.S. Senate. The woman who opened that press conference and took questions from reporters was Abigail Ronson, a spokesperson for the Rogers campaign.

She is also a registered foreign agent for the State of Israel.

That's not a guess or a smear. It is in a filing with the U.S. Justice Department. Drop Site News found it on November 1, and we pulled the record ourselves: Ronson filed a short-form registration under the Foreign Agents Registration Act on May 18, 2026. Her registrant is Clock Tower X LLC, and the foreign principal on the Justice Department's docket for that firm is listed as "State of Israel via Havas Media Germany GmbH."

And she is not the only one.

Two foreign agents on one Senate campaign

According to Drop Site, a second person doing work for the Rogers campaign, Jesse Stokes, is registered under the same firm's foreign-agent registration. The Justice Department docket shows Stokes filed his short-form registration under Clock Tower X on October 24, 2025.

Drop Site reported that the document metadata on Rogers' own press releases shows Stokes as their author, including the releases announcing Rogers' Senate run.

Both Ronson and Stokes work for Convergence Media, a Republican consulting firm. Per Drop Site, the Rogers campaign has paid Convergence millions of dollars this election, according to its federal campaign finance reports. Convergence, in turn, is one of the firms that Clock Tower X hired for its Israel contract. Drop Site counted 14 Convergence staffers working on that job.

Neither Ronson nor Stokes immediately responded to Drop Site's request for comment. A second Rogers spokesperson did not immediately respond to questions about whether the campaign knew about the arrangement.

What the Israel contract is

Clock Tower X is owned by Brad Parscale, Donald Trump's former campaign manager. In May, Responsible Statecraft reported that the firm had funneled millions of Israeli government dollars into U.S. media. Drop Site puts the contract at $46.5 million.

The work, according to that reporting, includes pro-Israel social media content aimed at young conservatives and evangelical Christians, AI-driven text messaging campaigns, and articles meant to shape what AI chatbots say about Israel. Ronson's own registration describes her work as "strategic communications, planning, and media services in support of Havas' engagement by the State of Israel to develop and execute a nationwide campaign in the united States," which it says is to combat antisemitism.

The law Ronson and Stokes registered under exists for exactly this situation. FARA doesn't ban working for a foreign government. It requires you to say so publicly, so Americans know when the person talking to them is being paid by another country. Ronson filed the paperwork.

"She's not a staffer." She's the campaign's voice.

The Rogers campaign has tried to put distance between itself and Ronson before. In June, after she posted an AI-generated image of a muscle-bound Rogers that got the campaign mocked, the campaign said she wasn't a staffer. There are no direct payments to her in the campaign's federal filings.

But Drop Site reported that she has kept speaking for the campaign. She sent statements to Drop Site from an official Rogers campaign email address. She has been quoted as the campaign's voice by the New York Times, Reuters and Fox News, including in recent days. That same email address appears in the metadata of the PDF the campaign posted in August to launch "Democrats for Mike Rogers", a supposedly grassroots group of Democratic voters that Drop Site found was funded mostly by Republican-aligned money.

And on Sunday, she was the one running the press conference where Stevens switched sides. Before it started, she told NBC News that "Mike welcomes her," according to Common Dreams' account.

The money around this race

This would be a curiosity in most races. In this one, Israel has been the story since the primary.

AIPAC spent about $30 million trying to beat Rogers' opponent, Abdul El-Sayed, in the August Democratic primary. It lost. We reported in August that AIPAC was weighing whether to spend for Rogers in the general election, and that Rogers' allies asked the group to keep its name off the ads even as he said he was proud of its involvement.

Drop Site also reported that the biggest source of money behind that "Democrats for" group, the Great Lakes Conservatives Fund, has worked with a Parscale-run AI company that Parscale also uses for his Israel contract.

Meanwhile, Ronson has been the person in the press defending Rogers' attacks on El-Sayed, who is Muslim, and accusing El-Sayed of fueling "anti-Israel hate," per Common Dreams. In October, Rogers insisted on CNN that El-Sayed hadn't disavowed the Muslim Brotherhood, even after the network played him the clip of El-Sayed doing it.

So the campaign attacking its opponent over foreign loyalties had two people on the payroll of a foreign government, through its own vendor, writing and speaking for it.

Why this matters to Michigan voters

A senator votes on foreign aid, arms sales, and whether to keep funding the war with Iran. Michigan voters are entitled to know whose interests are shaping the messages they get from someone who wants that vote.

Rogers spent years as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. He knows better than almost anyone what a registered foreign agent is, and why the law makes them register. His campaign did not immediately answer Drop Site when asked whether it knew.

In summary

Two people working on Rogers' Michigan Senate campaign through its vendor Convergence Media are registered with the Justice Department as foreign agents for the State of Israel, under a Brad Parscale firm's multimillion-dollar Israeli government contract. One of them, Abigail Ronson, has been the campaign's spokesperson to the national press and ran the event where Haley Stevens endorsed Rogers. The other, Jesse Stokes, wrote the campaign's press releases. The campaign did not immediately answer Drop Site's question about whether it knew.

Source

Two Registered Agents of Israel Are Working for Mike Rogers' Senate Campaign — Common Dreams, November 2, 2026, reporting on Drop Site News.