America PAC has reported $5.1 million in independent spending this cycle. Eighteen Republicans with report cards on this site are the main beneficiaries — and nearly three-quarters of the money went to attack ads, not to making a case for them.
Michigan's Republican Senate nominee told a private audience he likes the idea of charging people for the cancer screenings and other preventive care that are free today. Four months later he released a health care plan that never mentions it, and his campaign will not say whether it is still his position.
A fundraising email from Michigan's Republican Senate candidate told supporters he saw bin Laden's dead body himself. Rogers was 7,000 miles away, and in 2011 he publicly argued about whether to release the photographs — because a photograph is what he had seen.
Michigan's Republican Senate candidate has been pushing for war with Iran since 2006, on a nuclear weapons claim America's own spy agencies rejected again and again. Now Michiganders are paying for that war at the pump.
A NOTUS column collected what Republican candidates have been saying about the cost of living. Twelve of them have report cards on this site. Their answers range from 'earn more' to 'the Democrats invented this term affordability.'
Axios reports Rogers' allies asked AIPAC not to advertise for him, and floated routing the group's donors to a friendly super PAC instead. The money would be the same. Only the label would change.
A year ago Americans were split on AI data centers. Now 75% oppose one in their area. These eight Republicans spent that year helping the build-out along, taking the industry's money, or both. Five have spent the last few weeks repositioning. Three are still making the industry's case.
A Lever investigation found Rogers holds $1.7 to $2.6 million in companies positioned to profit from the AI build-out, including a stake in a Blackstone trust that is 29 percent data centers while Blackstone helps build a $16 billion data center near Ann Arbor. In March he endorsed Trump's plan to speed up data center permitting. On August 20 he called for a one-year moratorium.
AT&T, Verizon and the wireless industry's trade group gave Mike Rogers $95,000 over two decades. He wrote a bill to let them hand customer data to the NSA without a warrant — then went to work for AT&T.
Three roll calls tell the story: yes on the 2005 energy bill loaded with oil and gas subsidies, no on the price gouging ban, no on the energy independence bill the American Petroleum Institute opposed.
As Intelligence Committee chairman in 2013, Rogers said a secret surveillance program can't violate your privacy if you never find out. Then he spent six years on the advisory board of a phone company that was secretly tapping 1.5 million Venezuelans for Nicolás Maduro.
One donor's company paid $9 million to settle federal claims it lied to get a pandemic loan forgiven. Another pleaded guilty in the Jack Abramoff casino scandal and was pardoned by Trump last month.
Rogers launched his general election by demanding his opponent answer for a Twitch streamer's 2019 comment. The president who endorsed Rogers wrote 'I'm glad he's dead' about Robert Mueller. Nobody has asked Rogers about that one.
A pollster found anti-Muslim sentiment spikes during election cycles, not after terrorist attacks. Within a day of Abdul El-Sayed winning Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, Republicans proved her point.
Michigan's election office says the Republican Senate nominee never requested a recount or filed a court challenge over his 2024 loss. He did put Trump's 'they rigged the election on you' line in a fundraising pitch.
Rogers attributed a Twitch streamer's 2019 comment to Abdul El-Sayed, who had said the opposite on Fox News. PolitiFact gave it their worst rating and noted the attack evokes anti-Muslim tropes.
A super PAC called the United Democracy Project spent $32 million trying to pick Michigan's Democratic nominee. Voters said no. Now it may spend tens of millions more electing a Republican who says a van stole his last election.
Michigan's new Republican Senate nominee wrote an op-ed condemning Trump's attempt to overturn 2020. Five years later he claims a van in Detroit stole his own election — and can't produce any evidence.
Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers has collected $125,600 from a state pension since 2022 — even though his financial disclosures show he's worth many millions of dollars.
