In newly released audio from a 2025 campaign event, Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers said A.I. could verify who has 'earned' Social Security and claimed there's still a lot of fraud in disability benefits.
Fairshake, the super PAC funded mainly by Coinbase, a16z and Ripple, is backing 19 House Republicans — $1 million apiece for French Hill, Bryan Steil and Bill Huizenga, the sponsor and two cosponsors of the industry's top bill. All 19 voted for it.
John James took $11,325 from two poultry-industry executives — one whose company settled claims over polluted drinking water and a scheme to suppress poultry workers' wages. As governor, James would pick Michigan's environmental and farm regulators.
The Big Beautiful Bill cuts Medicaid by close to $1 trillion over 10 years, and the Congressional Budget Office says the law will leave 10 million more people uninsured. Republicans made sure the biggest cut doesn't start until 2027 — after the midterms. 198 Republicans on this site voted for it.
In April, Tom Barrett voted against a resolution to end the Iran war, and it failed by one vote. He now runs as a critic of the war, while defense PACs and executives have given his campaign more than $58,000, according to Drop Site News.
Chris Smith co-led a 128-Republican letter — signed by 103 Republicans on this site — asking HHS's inspector general to investigate Planned Parenthood. It describes an SBA eligibility review of pandemic loans as a probe into whether affiliates 'illegally received $88 million' — months after the last attack on Planned Parenthood's funding closed nearly 30 clinics.
Two pastors from Living Word Church — where three ministers were convicted of sexually abusing children — were named to Mike Rogers' faith coalition.
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John James went to Washington to raise cash from the lobbyists of Flock, the license-plate camera company that towns across Michigan are shutting down over privacy concerns.
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Mike Rogers tells Michigan voters he put himself through college building Chrysler Sebring convertibles on an auto plant assembly line.
