Rogers has told rallies, donors and TV audiences he worked on an auto assembly line building Chrysler Sebrings — or LeBarons. A Michigan Advance investigation found he worked at a Brighton aftermarket shop that converted finished cars, and the Sebring wasn't made until 1995.
They're deleting Trump from their websites, calling for an end to his Iran war, and telling him his immigration crackdown went too far. Every one of them who was in Congress voted for Trump's budget bill, and every House member among them voted for $70 billion more for ICE.
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Ashley Hinson just posted that Trump's war with Iran needs an immediate stop — after voting six separate times to keep funding and continuing it.
With diesel at a record $6.51, two Republican Senate nominees who backed the Iran war called for it to end on the same day. Hinson had voted against ending it six times, most recently on Sept. 15. Rogers had called it 'absolutely right.'
Jeff Hurd declined televised debate invitations and agreed to one 30-minute session before a friendly audience instead. John McGuire says he'll debate when his opponent apologizes for raising a BlackRock sale the disclosure records in his wife's retirement account. They join fourteen Republicans we have already documented ducking the one event they can't script.
With Michigan gas near $5 in large part because of an Iran war he called a 'win-win-win,' Mike Rogers is calling for a gas tax holiday. As a state senator he voted to raise the gas tax, and he once said suspending it was 'not a foolproof method.'
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After leaving Congress, Mike Rogers moved to a $1.7 million Cape Coral estate, registered to vote in Florida and claimed a tax break on it as his primary residence.
A chief of staff in a group chat with Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer. A political director whose profile picture showed Hitler's SS. A student outreach recruit who asked whether Jews should be sent to North Korea. A swastika flag in a congressman's office. Eight Republicans on this site, one answer.
Rogers announced 'Students for Mike Rogers.' One member had written 'Send them to North Korea?' in reply to a post about 'these people'; another had told Facebook that the answer to a leaked chat praising Hitler was 'Loyalty is the only political virtue that matters.' His campaign's response was to blame Democrats.
Eight Republicans on the 2026 ballot want to represent places where the paper trail — mortgages, ballots, flight records, voter rolls — keeps pointing somewhere else: Virginia, Florida, Kansas, or the next district over.
In four states, in three days, four Republicans on this site said no to a debate or forum their opponent was ready to do. A Michigan Senate debate went on with an empty podium, South Dakota's public broadcaster aired its Senate debate without the senator, and a second Wisconsin governor's debate was canceled.
Michigan's Republican Senate nominee argued that people named in the Epstein files need protecting if there's no evidence of a crime. FEC records show seven of them have given more than $4.6 million to his campaign, his committees and the super PAC backing him — $4.5 million of it from Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman.
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Mike Rogers is running ads using a 9/11 first responder who got cancer at Ground Zero.
A list of the Republicans who voted to block the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act went around X this week. We checked all 42 names against the official roll calls. Every one of them voted against the bill — and the record is worse than the list says.
Days before the 25th anniversary of September 11, Michigan's Republican Senate candidate posted a tribute to a Monroe fire captain who developed cancer after driving to Ground Zero. In 2010, Rogers voted against the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act twice, warning that guaranteed care for sick responders would 'jeopardize the financial health of the United States of America.'
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 tracks election cycles more closely than it tracks 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.
