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Articles about Mike Rogers (MI)
Mike Rogers Sat on the Audit Committee of a Cybersecurity Firm That Lost 99% of Its Value. He Got Paid, Lent It Money at 13.8% and Got in Line Ahead of Investors.
IronNet paid Rogers nearly $725,000 in 2022 and 2023 alone as a board member. As it collapsed, he was one of the insiders who lent it money through secured notes that put them first in line. Ordinary shareholders were wiped out.
Mike Rogers Spent More Than $100,000 of Campaign Cash on Luxury Travel in Three Months, Most of It on Private Jets
Campaign records reviewed by The Intercept show Mike Rogers' Senate campaign paid $93,152 to one charter company in September alone, including a single $40,000 bill, plus chauffeurs, limos and a stay at The Breakers in Palm Beach, while Michigan families pay war-driven fuel prices.
CNN Played Mike Rogers the Clip of His Opponent Saying 'Yes, Absolutely' He Disavows the Muslim Brotherhood. Rogers Said, 'That's Not True.'
On CNN's State of the Union, Mike Rogers kept saying Abdul El-Sayed 'didn't disavow' the Muslim Brotherhood after Dana Bash played video of El-Sayed doing exactly that — and wouldn't say whether he wished Trump hadn't called El-Sayed a 'jihadist.'
Mike Rogers Wrote the UAW's President to Complain His Autoworkers Were 'Confrontational.' Union Members Say They Ended Up Meeting His Staff in the Hallway.
As Mike Rogers runs for Senate in Michigan, UAW members say that when they came to lobby him in Congress they were met by staffers outside his door. A 2003 letter from his own archive complains about them — and in 2007 he publicly opposed their strike against GM.
Mike Rogers Cheered the Iran War That Pushed Michigan Gas to $4.59. His Wife Is Handing Out $10 Gas Cards in Detroit.
Kristi Rogers walked a Detroit gas station lot handing out $10 gift cards while Michigan gas sat at $4.59 a gallon. Her husband called the Iran war behind those prices a 'win-win-win.' His campaign hasn't said who paid for the cards.
Mike Rogers Took Over the House Intelligence Committee. Seven Months Later, His Wife's Military Contractor Won a $1 Billion Embassy Contract.
Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers became chair of the House Intelligence Committee in January 2011. In July 2011, the private military firm his wife helped run won a $1 billion-plus contract to guard the U.S. embassy in Kabul. Before the marriage, his disclosures showed almost no wealth. Today the couple is worth millions.
Mike Rogers Stood Next to a Senator Who Said His Muslim Opponent 'Sleeps in a Bin Laden Jersey' — and Laughed
Campaigning for Mike Rogers in Michigan, Sen. John Kennedy said AIPAC wouldn't be spending in the race if Abdul El-Sayed 'didn't sleep in a Bin Laden jersey.' Rogers laughed.
Mike Rogers Shared a Post Calling His Muslim Opponent a 'Terrorist' and Said It Was 'Exactly Right.' His Campaign Answered With a Football Joke.
Barstool's Dave Portnoy wrote that Abdul El-Sayed 'really is a terrorist.' Mike Rogers reposted it and said Portnoy was 'exactly right,' and the Senate Republicans' campaign arm shared it again. It was the latest in a string of attacks tying a Muslim American doctor to terrorism.
Four Republican Senate Candidates Wouldn't Say How They'd Stop Social Security's 22% Benefit Cut. Ashley Hinson Brought Up Millennials' Savings Habits.
States Newsroom asked Senate candidates in nine close races what they'd do about the automatic Social Security cut coming in 2032. Dan Sullivan, Roger Marshall, Michael Whatley and Jon Husted didn't respond. Ken Paxton, Mike Rogers and Ashley Hinson offered promises with no plan — weeks after Paxton was recorded telling lobbyists 'we have to suck it up' on spending cuts.
Mike Rogers Mocked Michiganders for Worrying About Tariff Prices. With 27 Days to Go, His New Ad Says 'End This Tariff War Now.'
For more than a year, Mike Rogers defended Trump's tariffs, called the critics 'fear mongering' and joked about voters complaining that 'coffee went up.' Now, with absentee ballots already being cast, he's in a bar with a Canadian beer saying 'Canada is not our enemy.'
Mike Rogers Stood by the Detroit River and Promised You'd Never Pay More for Prescriptions Than Canadians. In Congress, He Voted at Least Four Times Against Letting Them In.
In a Senate ad shot with Windsor behind him, Mike Rogers says he'll make sure Michiganders don't pay more for prescriptions than Canadians. Bridge Michigan's fact-check found that as a congressman he voted at least four times against bills, motions or amendments to let cheaper drugs be reimported from Canada.
Mike Rogers Wants A.I. to Help Decide Who Gets Social Security. He Says There's 'Still a Lot of Fraud' in Disability Benefits — Disability Overpayments Ran Under 1%.
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.
Mike Rogers Was Asked Why a Pastor Who Backed a Convicted Child Abuser Is on His Campaign Team. He Changed the Subject to 9/11.
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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Mike Rogers' auto assembly line story is fake #maga #michigan #mikerogers
Mike Rogers tells Michigan voters he put himself through college building Chrysler Sebring convertibles on an auto plant assembly line.
Mike Rogers Says He Built Chrysler Sebrings on an Assembly Line. The Sebring Didn't Exist Until He Was a State Senator.
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.
14 Republicans Are Running Away From Trump Six Weeks Before the Election. Twelve of Them Voted for His Budget Bill.
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 voted 6 times to keep the Iran war going. Now she want it over. #maga #war #iowa
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.
Ashley Hinson and Mike Rogers Now Say Trump's Iran War Has to End. Six Days Earlier, Hinson Voted to Keep It Going.
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.'
Twenty-Four Republicans on This Site Have Refused to Debate Their Opponents This Year. Cliff Bentz Turned Down Four Invitations.
Updated October 15: David Rouzer skipped a UNC Wilmington forum and Russell Fry backed out of an NAACP forum six hours before it started; Tom Cotton's only agreed debate fell through. October 12: Keith Self, asked on national TV whether he would debate, called the district 'my seat.' October 10: Cliff Bentz declined four debate invitations because accepting would make his opponent look 'credible,' Jim Pillen called debates 'theater,' and Julie Fedorchak pulled out of North Dakota's public TV debate. Earlier: 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.
Mike Rogers Now Wants Michigan's Gas Tax Suspended. He Voted to Raise It, and Once Warned a Suspension Might Not Lower Prices at All.
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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Mike Rogers wants to represent Michigan. He can't leave his Florida mansion.
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.
The Republicans We Cover Keep Putting White Nationalists on the Payroll, the Stage and the Ballot. Asked About It, They Denounce Racism in General and Never Say the Name.
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.
Mike Rogers Put a Student on His Campaign Team Who Defended the 'I Love Hitler' Group Chat. Rogers Chaired the House Intelligence Committee and Spent Years as an FBI Agent.
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.
Tom Cotton Asked for His Arkansas Ballot to Be Mailed to Virginia. Mike Rogers Campaigned From His Florida Mansion. Zach Lahn's Plane Spent More Nights in Kansas Than at His Iowa Home.
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.
Mike Rogers, Mike Rounds, Tom Tiffany and Rick Jackson All Turned Down Debates This Week. Three of Them Said They Were Busy Talking to Voters.
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.
Mike Rogers Said You 'Have to Protect' People Who Flew With Epstein. Seven Donors Named in the Epstein Files Have Put More Than $4.6 Million Behind Him.
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 Exploits 9/11 Heroes for Ads After Voting to Deny Them Healthcare
Mike Rogers is running ads using a 9/11 first responder who got cancer at Ground Zero.
These 26 Republicans Voted to Block Health Care for 9/11 First Responders. Thirteen of Them Voted No Again on the Deal That Finally Passed.
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.
Mike Rogers Is Running a 9/11 Tribute to a Firefighter Who Got Cancer at Ground Zero. He Voted Twice Against the Law That Treats Responders Like Him.
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.'
Elon Musk's Super PAC Is Spending $5.1 Million on the Midterms, Almost All of It in Races With 18 Republicans on This Site. It Spent $3.7 Million of That Attacking Democrats.
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.
Mike Rogers Wants to Charge You $50 for Preventive Care Your Insurance Has to Cover for Free. 'That's Probably Okay, Right?'
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.
Mike Rogers Told Donors He Saw Osama bin Laden's Body 'With My Own Eyes.' He Was at Home in Washington, and What He Saw Was a Photograph.
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.
Mike Rogers Spent 20 Years Saying Iran Was Building a Nuclear Weapon. U.S. Intelligence Kept Saying It Wasn't.
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.
Twelve Republicans We Track Told Voters High Prices Aren't Really a Problem. One Said to Pick a Different Protein.
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.'
Mike Rogers Says He's 'Proud' to Have AIPAC's Support. His Own Team Asked Them to Take Their Name Off the Ads.
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.
Three Out of Four Americans Oppose Data Centers Near Their Homes. These Eight Republicans Spent the Year Helping the Build-Out. Five Have Since Discovered Concerns.
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.
Mike Rogers Holds Up to $2.6 Million in Companies That Stand to Gain From the AI Build-Out. Days After That Came Out, He Called for a Moratorium.
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.
Mike Rogers Took $95,000 From Phone Companies. Then He Wrote the Bill to Let Them Hand Your Data to the Government.
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.
Mike Rogers Voted Against a Bill to Stop Gas Price Gouging. Oil and Gas Has Given Him Nearly $700,000.
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.
"You Can't Have Your Privacy Violated If You Don't Know Your Privacy Is Violated." Then Mike Rogers Took $94,241 From a Company Spying on People Who Didn't Know.
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.
Mike Rogers Says He'll Root Out 'Every Waste, Every Fraud.' He Took $234,000 From Donors With Fraud Cases of Their Own.
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.
Mike Rogers Wants a Disavowal. Trump Said He Was 'Glad' Robert Mueller Is Dead.
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.
Republicans Spent $10 Million Making 'Sharia' a Campaign Word. Then Michigan Nominated a Muslim.
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.
Rogers Says Michigan Stole His Election. He Never Asked for a Recount — He Asked for Donations.
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.
Mike Rogers Says His Opponent 'Believes America Deserved 9/11.' PolitiFact Rated It Pants on Fire.
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.
AIPAC Lost a $32 Million Bet in Michigan. Now It's Thinking About Buying the Seat for Mike Rogers.
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.
In 2021 Mike Rogers Said Trump's Election Lies Were Behavior 'Seen in Third World Dictatorships.' Now He Tells Them Himself.
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.
Mike Rogers Is Worth Millions. He's Still Cashing Taxpayer Pension Checks.
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.