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Finally, Rick Green, who has spent months railing against Republicans who refuse to support Republican Ken Paxton in the Texas senate race, predictably has nothing but praise for Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens for backing Republican Mike Rogers over Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan's senate race: "This is what you call Patriotism."

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A congressional candidate in Texas with “Nazi-ish” politics. A congressional candidate in Arizona who “stole valor” and then blamed his grandchildren. A demon-hunting gubernatorial candidate in Colorado who refuses to say precisely how many people he’s killed, and the congressional candidate dubbed the “goth groypette” rallying beside him. Another congressional candidate in Florida who called for nuking Gaza. A state senate candidate in Florida who marched with Nazis in Charlottesville. And the nominee for a North Carolina state senate seat who called into a local news station during an armed standoff with police.

• Tess Owen and David Gilbert: Here’s How the Trump Administration Is Trying to Undermine the Election

So far, Department of Justice–led efforts to sow chaos, even as Americans are already voting, have fallen flat.

• Emily Kennard and Liz Goodwin @ The Washington Post: Social account linked to former Mike Collins aide posted slurs, calls for violence

A congressional staffer who has worked with four representatives over the past four years, including GOP Senate hopeful Rep. Mike Collins (Georgia), appears closely tied to an anonymous social media account that denigrates female politicians, promotes political violence, calls for an end to democracy and laments the existence of civil rights laws, among other views, a Washington Post analysis of the account found. Details shared in posts on the account connect it to 25-year-old Jonathon Hatzistefanou, who works as a legislative assistant for Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Florida) and served as a former staff assistant for Collins, the Georgia Republican locked in a bitter fight for a Senate seat with Sen. Jon Ossoff (D).

• Brett Meiselas⁠ @ MeidasTouch Network: Fox News Caught Passing Off Rogers Campaign Backers as 'Bipartisan' Voter Panel

Four of Lara Trump's five Fox voter panelists appeared at Mike Rogers campaign events. One also serves as treasurer of a multimillion-dollar pro-Rogers super PAC.

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Mike Rogers's Wife Raked in Lucrative Government Security Contracts ...

Oct 13, 2026Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers and his wife Kristi Rogers at a campaign event in Highland Township, Michigan on October 9, 2026. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. On October 15, attorneys for Mike and Kristi Rogers sent Drop Site a letter demanding that we retract this article.

Mike Rogers’s Wife Raked in Lucrative Government Security Contracts While Rogers Served as Intel Chair

Before his second marriage, according to financial disclosures, the Michigan Senate candidate had few assets to his name and little wealth. That would soon change as the taxpayer dollars flowed.

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Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers and his wife Kristi Rogers at a campaign event in Highland Township, Michigan on October 9, 2026. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.

On October 15, attorneys for Mike and Kristi Rogers sent Drop Site a letter demanding that we retract this article. We stand by our reporting and will defend it if necessary.

Mike Rogers and his second wife, Kristi, saw their wealth rise substantially after Rogers was elevated to chair of the House Intelligence Committee in 2011 and lucrative government contracts poured her way, a review of financial disclosures finds.

Rogers was first elected to Congress in 2000, in time to be a major backer of the Iraq war. With a background at the FBI, Rogers was encouraged by Speaker Dennis Hastert to get involved in foreign policy and national security matters. According to the Rogers Archive at Oakland University, he made seven trips to Iraq between 2001 and 2005 as a member of Congress. In 2005, he was appointed to the House Intelligence Committee. (Drop Site could not independently verify the number of trips, but taking seven trips to Iraq in the space of four years would be highly unusual for a member of Congress—and trips in 2001 or 2002, before the invasion, are unlikely.)

Kristi Clemens was a top press aide to L. Paul Bremer, who oversaw the U.S. occupation of Iraq as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority. Clemens turned heads in DC in 2006, when, following her role in Iraq, she successfully pitched the major British security contractor Aegis Defence Services to launch an American offshoot. Within three years, she rose to CEO and president. Rogers divorced his wife of 17 years in 2007 and married Clemens in 2010. By 2011, when Mike Rogers assumed his chairmanship, she was vice chair of Aegis LLC US.

After his divorce, according to Rogers’s financial disclosures, the congressman had few assets to his name and little wealth. That would soon change.

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The Rogers family added at least hundreds of thousands of dollars to their net worth as Rogers was elevated to chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) and Kristi Rogers’s private military security company received increasingly large contracts from the U.S. government, according to Rogers’s financial disclosures. The couple added millions more after Rogers left the House and began working in the industry he had spent years overseeing.

While Rogers is not required to disclose his spouse’s income, their reported “Unearned Income,” including multiple investment funds, dividends, and interest income, soared over those years. They also acquired two mortgages in Maryland and Virginia—neither principal residences.

The House only requires disclosures of “Unearned Income”—interest and Dividends on investments—not spouse’s salary or bonus amounts. SBSB refers to the couple’s brokerage. Source: Legistorm.

In 2010, Aegis was named one of only eight private military contractors who were qualified to bid on $10 billion of contracts for the State Department’s Worldwide Protection (WWP) program. The biggest fish, the Kabul Afghanistan Embassy Security contract, first went to another firm but was re-competed and awarded to Aegis LLC.

Kristi Rogers claimed credit for this in a biography later scrubbed from the website of the law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, which stated she led “a two-year pursuit and capture strategy to win a five-year, $10 billion contract.” Mike Rogers was appointed Chairman on January 3, 2011; the contract was awarded to Aegis seven months later, on July 29th, 2011.

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Oct 14, 2026Former US Rep. Mike Rogers, the Republican Senate candidate in Michigan, saw his personal wealth soar after he was named chair of the House Intelligence Committee in 2011, thanks in large part to his marriage to the CEO of a powerful military contracting firm. Financial disclosures

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Mike Rogers, a former U.S. congressman who pushed false claims of a stolen 2024 election in Michigan and praised Trump’s recent primetime tirade against elections, won Michigan’s Republican primary election for an open U.S. Senate seat Tuesday.

Rogers will face Abdul El-Sayed — the former director of the Wayne County Department of Health, Human, and Veteran Services —in November’s general election, a key race that could determine which party controls the Senate. Democrats only need to flip four seats to win the Senate, but they’ll also need to hold onto a few crucial seats — including the Michigan seat currently held by outgoing Sen. Gary Peters (D).

During a campaign rally weeks before the primary election, President Donald Trump endorsed Rogers.

“He is one of the best candidates we have anywhere,” Trump said. “He’s smart. He’s tough. He’s fair.”

But Trump and Rogers didn’t always have a rosy relationship. In the aftermath of the 2020 election, Rogers — who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2001 to 2015 — publicly rebuffed Trump’s efforts to overturn the vote in an op-ed for the Washington Post.

“This behavior from the administration is seen in Third World dictatorships, not the leading democracy in the world,” Rogers wrote. “This needs to end. Our current challenges are too great. We must have a unified effort to tackle the problems we face.”

But Rogers’ opposition to voting conspiracies and the election-denier world wouldn’t last.

Rogers narrowly lost his 2024 Senate election to Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D) and conceded the race. But a year later, after he launched his campaign to fill Peters’ seat, he falsely claimed that the election was stolen from him.

During a speech last year, Rogers claimed without evidence that a van carrying fraudulent ballots caused him to lose the race.

“Now, there were some ballots that showed up at 5:30 — I wish I were kidding — in a van,” Rogers reportedly said. “And that swung the election on us. And it happened to be here in Detroit. We ended up losing that thing by about 17,000 votes.”

Rogers also seemed to have changed his tune on the 2020 election. Rogers praised Trump’s election speech last month, during which the president revived debunked 2020 conspiracies — including false claims of voter fraud in Michigan.

“The news coming out of the White House tonight is deeply troubling — especially that of a voter fraud scheme right here in Michigan,” Rogers said. “As we learn more in the days to come, one thing remains clear: If our nation does not have security and confidence of our elections, then we do not have much of a nation at all.”

On the campaign trail, Rogers has advocated for several voter suppression policies — like recruiting off-duty and retired cops to serve as poll watchers to intimidate voters in Detroit.

If elected, Rogers will flip a key seat and be another Trump ally in the Senate who could help to pass more voter suppression measures, including the stalled SAVE America Act.

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...Rogers received a $30,000 payment from the lobbying firm CGCN Group before his 2024 Senate run, according to a financial disclosure. The firm represented more than 50 clients in 2022 and 2023, including drug companies and medical tech companies.

Rogers campaign spokesperson Alyssa Brouillet said Rogers worked for the strategic communications side of the business, not the lobbying side, and advised on telecommunications issues. It’s not uncommon for lobbying firms to employ people who aren’t lobbyists, Beckel said, though they may still work to influence government decisions.

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Former Michigan Representative Mike Rogers is making significant strides in his campaign for the 2026 Senate race by establishing a strong statewide ground operation. His campaign recently announced the formation of a leadership team with over 100 campaign co-chairs spread across Michigan’s counties. This strategic move aims to solidify Rogers’ position and fend off any potential primary challengers.

Rogers, who narrowly lost to Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin in the previous election, is the most prominent candidate in the race for the seat being vacated by retiring Senator Gary Peters. His campaign has attracted notable endorsements, including support from the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, and Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso. Additionally, a Senate GOP leadership-aligned super PAC is backing his bid.

CALLER BS

Former Republican Michigan Rep. Mike Rogers raised $1.6 million for the year’s third quarter, padding his war chest for what is expected to be an expensive contest to flip the state’s open Senate seat red.

Rogers’ fundraising haul, obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller News Foundation, will report $2.7 million in the bank at the close of the third quarter, which runs from July to September. The Michigan Republican is neck-and-neck with his Democratic competitors in fundraising and is well-positioned for the general election after likely avoiding a potential primary challenge. (RELATED: Trump Clears Senate Field For GOP In Michigan As Dems Fight Messy Primary)

Republicans view the open seat being vacated by retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters’ as a prime pickup opportunity during the midterms. Rogers is touting the third quarter figures as evidence that he has the wind in his sails to win in 2026.

“Mike has the momentum,” Rogers campaign spokeswoman Alyssa Brouillet, said in a statement obtained by the DCNF. “From his historic groundgame operation, to President Trump’s ‘complete and total’ endorsement, and his growing campaign warchest, Mike Rogers continues to prove that he is ready to fight and win next November. Soon, we will get Michigan working again.”

The fundraising total includes contributions from more than 22,000 donors across all 83 counties. More than 98% of the contributions during the third quarter were under $100 with the average donation clocking in at under $30, according to figures obtained by the DCNF.

Rogers’ third quarter cash on hand totals more money in his campaign account than the two-time Senate candidate reported at any point in his first Senate run. Rogers came just 19,000 votes shy of beating now-Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin in 2024 despite being outraised nearly five to one.

He had less than $800,000 in the bank at this point last cycle.

President Donald Trump endorsed Rogers, who is running as a strong supporter of the president and his policy agenda, in July, effectively clearing the primary field for the former House lawmaker and army veteran. Rogers also has the backing of Senate Republicans’ campaign arm, Senate GOP leadership and several outside spending groups that could dump millions into the race in support of his second Senate run.

A pro-Rogers super PAC raised more than $5 million in 2025’s second fundraising quarter. The Great Lakes Conservative Fund has not yet announced its third quarter haul.

Rogers has also made early investments in a statewide ground game operation that aims to turn out low-propensity voters who helped carry Trump to victory in the state by 80,000 votes in 2024.

Michigan Democrats are currently engaged in a messy primary that divides the establishment and far-left wings of their party. The drawn-out contest, which will not pick a winner until August 2026, could weaken the nominee who advances to the general election to face Rogers.

The field includes Rep. Haley Stevens, state Senate Majority Whip Mallory McMorrow and former public health official Abdul El-Sayed, who entered the race with independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ endorsement.

Stevens, who appears to be the preferred candidate among most national Democrats and Senate Democrats’ campaign arm, announced a $1.9 million haul for the third quarter.

McMorrow said her campaign clocked in at $1.7 million. The 39 year-old state legislator is running on a platform of generational change and has declined to back Schumer as Democratic leader.

The three candidates appear to be tacking to the left as their campaigns compete for the support of the party’s base voters.

El-Sayed sparked controversy earlier in October by sending out a fundraising email on the anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7th attack on Israel that did not mention the invasion. The campaign message railed against Israel’s war in Gaza and criticized AIPAC, a pro-Israel advocacy organization who has previously contributed to Stevens’ House runs.

The Sanders-backed candidate told Politico the timing of the fundraising appeal was a mistake and issued another statement denouncing Hamas’ “heinous attack on Oct. 7” while still accusing Israel of genocide.

McMorrow also recently labeled Israel’s war in Gaza a genocide and said she would have supported two recent Senate resolutions sponsored by Sanders that would have cut off some military aid to Israel.

Though Stevens is the lone Democrat in the race to hold pro-Israel stances, the four-term House lawmaker has sought to position herself at the forefront of opposing Trump’s agenda in Congress. She has introduced legislation to limit the president’s authority to deploy National Guard troops and said in September that she was drafting articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the president’s Health and Human Services secretary.

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A super PAC backing former Rep. Mike Rogers’s (R-Mich.) Senate bid in Michigan has raised more than $5 million, a sizable haul in a race that represents Republicans’ best chance at flipping a seat in the upper chamber next year.

The Great Lakes Conservative Fund (GLCF) shared the fundraising total exclusively with The Hill roughly three months after Rogers officially announced his candidacy.

“We are off to a fast start,” Andy Surabian, the super PAC’s president, said in a statement to The Hill. “This puts us on a trajectory to far surpass the $25 million GLCF raised last cycle and help Michigan elect a conservative leader who will put working class families first.”

Rogers is running on the Republican side to replace Sen. Gary Peters (D), who announced he would not seek reelection. Rogers ran last year to replace former Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), losing by fewer than 20,000 votes to Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D).

The former Congress member secured President Trump’s endorsement in last year’s race, and his campaign has ties to members of Trump’s orbit this time around. Rogers represented Michigan’s 8th Congressional District in the House from 2001-15, serving as chair of the House Intelligence Committee at the end of his tenure.

While Rogers has already earned the backing of top Senate Republicans, effectively clearing his path to the nomination, Democrats in the state are facing the prospect of a messy primary.

Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, Rep. Haley Stevens, former Wayne County health official Abdul El-Sayed and former state House Speaker Joe Tate have all entered the race seeking the Democratic nomination to replace Peters.

The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the 2026 Michigan Senate race as a “toss-up.”

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ballot pedia Mike Rogers (Michigan)

Rogers (Republican Party) is running for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Michigan. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 3, 2026. He advanced from the Republican primary on August 4, 2026.

Rogers (Republican Party) was a member of the U.S. House, representing Michigan's 8th Congressional District. He assumed office on January 3, 2001. He left office in 2015.

Rogers began his political career in the Michigan State Senate, where he served from 1995 to 2000.

Biography

Rogers was born in 1963 in Livingston County, Michigan. He earned a high school diploma from Howell High School. After graduating from Adrian College in 1985, Rogers went on to serve in the U.S. Army from 1985 to 1989. Prior to his political career, Rogers worked as a special agent in the FBI.^[1][2]^

On March 27, 2014, Rogers announced that he would not seek re-election to the U.S. House in 2014. Rogers planned to join Cumulus, a talk radio company. In a letter to supporters, he stated, "As I close this chapter please know that I am not finished with the effort to bring back American ‘exceptionalism.’" ^[3][4]

Career

Below is an abbreviated outline of Rogers' professional and political career:^[1]^

1985-1989: U.S. Army

1989-1994: Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation

1995-2000: Michigan State Senate

2001-2015: U.S. House of Representatives, 8th Congressional District of Michigan

Committee assignments

U.S. House

2013-2014

Rogers served on the following committees:^[5]^

Committee on Energy and Commerce

Subcommittee on Communications and Technology

Subcommittee on Health

Select Committee on Intelligence Chair

2011-2012

Rogers served on the following House committees:^[6]^

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman

Key votes

113th Congress

The second session of the 113th Congress enacted into law 224 out of the 3215 introduced bills (7 percent). Comparatively, the 112th Congress had 4.2 percent of introduced bills enacted into law in the second session.^[7]^ For more information pertaining to Rogers's voting record in the 113th Congress, please see the below sections.^[8]^

National security

NDAA

Rogers voted for HR 1960 - the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014. The bill passed the House on June 14, 2013, with a vote of 315 - 108. Both parties were somewhat divided on the vote.^[9]^

DHS Appropriations

Rogers voted for HR 2217 - the DHS Appropriations Act of 2014. The bill passed the House on June 6, 2013, with a vote of 245 - 182 that was largely along party lines.^[10]^

CISPA (2013)

Rogers voted for HR 624 - the CISPA (2013). The bill passed the House on April 18, 2013, with a vote of 288 - 127. The bill permitted federal intelligence agencies to share cybersecurity intelligence and information with private entities and utilities. The bill was largely supported by Republicans, but divided the Democratic Party.^[11]^

Economy

Farm bill

On January 29, 2014, the U.S. House approved the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013, H.R. 2642, also known as the Farm Bill.^[12]^ The bill passed by a vote of 251-166. The nearly 1,000-page bill reformed and continued various programs of the Department of Agriculture through 2018. The $1 trillion bill expanded crop insurance for farmers by $7 billion over the next decade and created new subsidies for rice and peanut growers that would kick in when prices drop.^[13][14]^ It also cut the food stamp program an average of $90 per month for 1.7 million people in 15 states.^[14]^ Rogers voted with 161 other Republican representatives in favor of the bill.

2014 Budget

On January 15, 2014, the Republican-run House approved H.R. 3547, a $1.1 trillion spending bill to fund the government through September 30, 2014.^[15][16]^ The House voted 359-67 for the 1,582-page bill, with 64 Republicans and three Democrats voting against the bill.^[16]^ The omnibus package included 12 annual spending bills to fund federal operations.^[17]^ It increased the paychecks of federal workers and military personnel by 1 percent, increased Head Start funding for early childhood education by $1 billion, reduced funding to the Internal Revenue Service and the Environmental Protection Agency, and protected the Affordable Care Act from any drastic cuts. Rogers voted with the majority of the Republican Party in favor of the bill.^[15]

Government shutdown

See also: United States budget debate, 2013

On September 30, 2013, the House passed a final stopgap spending bill before the shutdown went into effect. The bill included a one-year delay of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate and would have also stripped the bill of federal subsidies for congressional members and staff. It passed through the House with a vote of 228-201.^[18]^ At 1 a.m. on October 1, 2013, one hour after the shutdown officially began, the House voted to move forward with going to a conference. In short order, Sen. Harry Reid rejected the call to conference.^[19]^ Rogers voted in favor of the stopgap spending bill that would have delayed the individual mandate.^[20]^

The shutdown ended on October 16, 2013, when the House took a vote on HR 2775 after it was approved by the Senate. The bill to reopen the government lifted the $16.7 trillion debt limit and funded the government through January 15, 2014. Federal employees also received retroactive pay for the shutdown period. The only concession made by Senate Democrats was to require income verification for Obamacare subsidies.^[21]^ The House passed the legislation shortly after the Senate, by a vote of 285-144, with all 144 votes against the legislation coming from Republican members. Rogers voted for HR 2775.^[22]^

Federal Pay Adjustment Act

Rogers voted for HR 273 - Eliminates the 2013 Statutory Pay Adjustment for Federal Employees. The bill passed the House on February 15, 2013, with a vote of 261 - 154. The bill called for stopping a 0.5 percent pay increase for all federal workers from taking effect. The raises were projected to cost $11 billion over 10 years.^[23]^

Immigration

Morton Memos Prohibition

Rogers voted for House Amendment 136 - Prohibits the Enforcement of the Immigration Executive Order. The amendment was adopted by the House on June 6, 2013, with a vote of 224 - 201. The purpose of the amendment as stated on the official text is to "prohibit the use of funds to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the Morton Memos." These memos would have granted administrative amnesty to certain individuals residing in the United States without legal status.^[24]^ The vote largely followed party lines.^[25]^

Healthcare

Healthcare Reform Rules

Rogers voted for House Amendment 450 - Requires Congressional Approval for Any Rules Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The amendment was adopted by the House on August 2, 2013, with a vote of 227-185. The amendment requires that all changes to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act be approved by Congress before taking effect. The vote was largely along party lines.^[26]^

Social issues

Abortion

Rogers voted for HR 1797 - Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. The resolution passed the House on June 18, 2013, with a vote of 228 - 196 that largely followed party lines.^[27]^

Government affairs

HR 676

See also: Boehner's lawsuit against the Obama administration

On July 30, 2014, the U.S. House approved a resolution 225 to 201 to sue President Barack Obama for exceeding his constitutional authority. Five Republicans—Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Paul Broun of Georgia, Scott Garrett of New Jersey, Walter Jones of North Carolina and Steve Stockman of Texas—voted with Democrats against the lawsuit.^[28]^ Rogers joined the other 224 Republicans in favor of the lawsuit. All Democrats voted against the resolution.^[29][30]

Previous congressional sessions

Fiscal Cliff

Rogers voted for the fiscal cliff compromise bill, which made permanent most of the Bush tax cuts originally passed in 2001 and 2003 while also raising tax rates on the highest income levels. He was 1 of 85 Republicans who voted in favor of the bill. The bill was passed in the House by a 257 - 167 vote on January 1, 2013.^[31]^

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Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker(R-Miss.) said on Thursday that he has seen “no evidence of war crimes” committed during the U.S. military’s Sept. 2 strikes against an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean, and he indicated that his panel does not plan to further probe the controversial operation.

“I have seen no evidence of war crimes. The fact is that our military is asked to make incredibly difficult decisions. Service members must do so based on the best available information and often under very tight timelines,” Wicker said in a lengthy statement.

Wicker said he is “satisfied” with all of the information the committee has received regarding the Sept. 2 attack, where two survivors were killed in a strike authorized by Navy Adm. Frank Bradley. Wicker said the strikes against “narco-terrorists” in the U.S. Southern Command area are based on “sound legal advice.”

“When reports first surfaced about a secondary strike, my office immediately directed inquiries to the department to ascertain the veracity of these reports. I promised that SASC would take this matter seriously and conduct thorough oversight. We have done so,” the Mississippi senator said. “Both military and civilian Pentagon leaders have worked in good faith to provide answers to us without any delays.”

Wicker’s panel said it would investigate the Sept. 2 operation, during which the U.S. military conducted four strikes against the purported drug-trafficking vessel in the Caribbean, shortly after The Washington Post revealed a second strike, ordered by Bradley, took place during the mission.

Some Democrats and law-of-war experts have asserted the follow-up strike constituted a violation of international law. Democrats have pushed for a complete investigation of the incident and for the Trump administration to release the full video of the mission. Administration officials and Republicans in Congress have argued that the operation is lawful and that two survivors in the water were trying to flip over the boat, which was severely damaged after the first strike that killed nine people on board, and continue on with their mission.

Wicker’s statement comes days after the chair of the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Mike Rogers(R-Ala.), said he will end his panel’s inquiry into the Sept. 2 strikes.

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Resignations

Mike Rogers, former House Intelligence Committee Chair: Rogers resigned from the transition team on November 15, 2016. He helped to guide the transition's work in national security issues.[1]

Michael Catanzaro, lobbyist at CGCN: Catanzaro resigned from the transition team on November 21, 2016, after the incoming administration required lobbyists to terminate all existing lobbying contracts.[2] Catanzaro had been an energy independence advisor.[3]

Michael Torrey, owner of Michael Torrey Associates: Torrey resigned from the transition team on November 21, 2016, after the incoming administration required lobbyists to terminate all existing lobbying contracts.[2] He had been an agriculture advisor.[4]

Michael McKenna, lobbyist with MWR Strategies: McKenna resigned from the transition team on November 21, 2016, after the incoming administration required lobbyists to terminate all existing lobbying contracts.[2] He had been an energy advisor.[4]

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The National Pain Care Policy Act was federal legislation introduced in the late 2000s to improve chronic pain management and research. Its key provisions were ultimately incorporated into and passed as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010, establishing structured research and education programs for pain care. [1, 2]

Key Goals and Components

Research Expansion: Required the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish a Pain Consortium to set a national research agenda for the causes and treatment of pain. [1]

Advisory Committees: Mandated the creation of the National Pain Care Research Advisory Committee to evaluate federal pain research. [1]

Data Collection: Directed the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to collect and distribute evidence-based pain care practices. [1]

Education and Awareness: Authorized funding for training health care professionals in pain management and launched a national public awareness campaign. [1]

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Former U.S. Representative Mike Rogers received over $1 million in career campaign contributions from the pharmaceutical and health products industry, including funds from companies and distributors tied to the opioid epidemic. During his congressional tenure, investigative reports highlighted his advocacy for expanded pain management and access to opioid medications alongside alignment with industry-backed advocacy groups. The Michigan Independent +4

Campaign Contributions and Pharma Ties

Total Funding: Accumulated over $1 million from pharmaceutical and healthcare sector political action committees (PACs) and donors since 1999. The Michigan Independent +1

Leadership PAC Support: Received hundreds of thousands of dollars additionally through leadership vehicles like the MIKE R Fund. Michigan Democratic Party

Distributor Donations: Collected funds from major pharmaceutical distributors involved in supplying prescription painkillers to Michigan and facing subsequent national litigation settlements. Michigan Democratic Party

Legislative Record and Advocacy

Pain Management Bills: Sponsored and promoted early 2000s legislation—such as the National Pain Care Policy Act—designed to increase access to pain treatment and opioids. Michigan Democratic Party +1

Industry Alignment: Co-operated or appeared alongside front groups like the American Pain Foundation and Pain Care Forum, which later faced scrutiny or closure over undisclosed funding from opioid manufacturers like Purdue Pharma. Michigan Democratic Party

Price Negotiations: Voted against legislative efforts allowing Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices and opposed drug reimportation initiatives. The Michigan Independent +1

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Bankrolled by pharmaceuticals, Mike Rogers helped block Medicare price negotiation | The Michigan Independent

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LANSING — New reporting from American Journal News reveals multi-millionaire Florida resident Mike Rogers has started “misrepresent[ing] his record” of advocating to boost access to opioids while he was in Congress.

According to the report, Rogers falsely claimed in a recent op-ed that the legislation he supported in Congress included safeguards to prevent overprescription and addiction, when in fact it “did not include any penalties for doctors who overprescribe” and “didn’t set prescribing limits or expand law enforcement’s ability to police opioids.”

Mike Rogers was “blasted” over his opioid record during his failed 2024 campaign. Bridge Michigan first reported that Rogers was a “leading advocate” in Congress to “boost opioid prescriptions”—and that he did so while receiving “hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions” from the same drug companies that now are paying “billions of dollars in national opioid settlements for their roles in causing the epidemic.”

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American Journal News: Mike Rogers distorts opioid record to boost Senate bid

Mike Rogers, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan, misrepresented his record on fighting the opioid epidemic in a recent editorial for Deadline Detroit.

Rogers has been criticized for championing the National Pain Care Policy Act when he served in Congress from 2001 to 2015, a law that some say encouraged doctors to treat chronic pain with pharmaceuticals like OxyContin.

“In Congress, I voted to allow Americans who are suffering from debilitating pain to have access to the treatment they need to live comfortably,” Rogers wrote. He added that the legislation had safeguards to prevent overprescription and addiction.

But this isn’t true. The National Pain Care Policy Act did not include any penalties for doctors who overprescribe. It also didn’t set prescribing limits or expand law enforcement’s ability to police opioids.

In 2003, Rogers held a press conference touting the National Pain Care Policy Act with the American Pain Society, a nonprofit group that raised awareness about chronic pain and backed pharmaceuticals to treat it. The group disbanded in 2019 over allegations that it colluded with pharmaceutical companies to promote opioids.

Rogers has also been criticized for accepting large donations from the pharmaceutical industry. Since 1999, he has received more than $1 million in contributions from Big Pharma and other health care-related entities.

Data from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services show a clear correlation between the rate of opioid prescriptions and overdoses in the state, particularly between 2001 and 2010. In 2010, the FDA cracked down on opioid prescriptions and reformulated OxyContin so it was harder to crush or dissolve for illicit use. In subsequent years, the rate of heroin and fentanyl overdoses has skyrocketed.

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Kevin McCarthy's 14th failed attempt to become Speaker of the House was punctuated by a spat between Republicans Mike Rogers and Matt Gaetz. Gaetz clowning around had already humiliated Rogers' good friend Kevin McCarthy so many times that when his latest clever vote of "Present" wasn't enough to help close the deal, Rogers lost control and had to be muzzled.

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AI Overview

The association between Mike Rogers and DTE Energy stems from political attacks and historical campaign finance records where his past congressional campaigns accepted corporate PAC contributions from DTE Energy. [1]

Details on Mike Rogers and Utility Funding

Historical Support: During his previous tenure as a U.S. Representative for Michigan, Mike Rogers' campaign committees received contributions from corporate political action committees, including DTE Energy. [1]

2026 Senate Campaign Context: In the 2026 Michigan U.S. Senate race, political opponents (such as Democratic nominee Dr. Abdul El-Sayed) have highlighted Rogers' historical ties to corporate PACs like DTE Energy, contrasting them with candidates who reject corporate PAC money. [1, 2]

Broader Fundraising Profile: Rogers' current Senate bid (competing in the 2026 general election) has heavily relied on joint fundraising committees (Team Rogers, Mike Rogers Victory) and substantial outside super PAC backing—such as millions tied to conservative megadonors and outside groups like the Great Lakes Conservative Fund and the Senate Leadership Fund—rather than direct contemporary funding from utility PACs. [1, 2, 3]

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AI Overview

Former Michigan U.S. Representative and Senate candidate Mike Rogers has faced scrutiny for financial and professional ties to defense contractors, funneling political/campaign money into security advocacy groups, and receiving contributions from defense and federal contracting political action committees (PACs). [1, 2, 3]

Defense and National Security Ties

Defense Contractors & PACs: During his congressional career and subsequent political campaigns, Rogers received substantial funding from organizations and PACs tied to defense and intelligence contractors, such as SAIC. [1]

Advisory Roles: After leaving the U.S. House of Representatives, Rogers held leadership and advisory positions with national security organizations, tech firms, and investment groups like Forgepoint Capital and the MITRE Corporation, which frequently interface with federal defense spending. [1, 2, 3]

Political Funds and Advocacy

Securing America's Future: Upon leaving office in 2015, Rogers converted his principal campaign committee into a PAC named Securing America's Future to finance broader political activities. [1]

Policy Group Launch: He established Americans for Peace, Prosperity and Security (APPS), a national security advocacy nonprofit organization, which critics note aligned closely with defense contractor interests regarding foreign intervention. [1]

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AI Overview

“Team Rogers” is a joint fundraising committee supporting Republican Mike Rogers’ U.S. Senate campaign in Michigan. It pools contributions for his campaign, leadership PAC, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), and the Great Lakes Conservative Fund super PAC. The joint committee has drawn scrutiny for its reliance on high-dollar corporate and mega-donor contributions, and an incident involving $16,700 lost to email invoice fraud. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

Structure and Financing

Joint Effort: Combines funds from Rogers' primary campaign committee, the NRSC, and aligned conservative PACs. [1, 2]

Major Donors: Relies heavily on high-net-worth contributors, corporate PACs, and financial industry figures, alongside support tied to super PAC contributions from national conservative donors. [1, 2, 3]

Reporting Controversy: The campaign faced local criticism for initially blending its direct campaign income with Team Rogers' haul to report larger combined fundraising totals in periodic announcements. [1, 2, 3]

Recent Incidents

Invoice Fraud: The committee lost $16,700 after paying a fraudulent vendor invoice sent via a hacked email address; banks were unable to claw back the funds due to insufficient balances in the destination account. [1]

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Former U.S. Representative Mike Rogers has extensive ties to the defense and cybersecurity sectors, including serving as Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the MITRE Corporation, a non-profit that manages federally funded research and development centers. [1, 2]

Mike Rogers and Defense/Intelligence Background

Congressional Career: Rogers, a Republican, represented Michigan's 8th District (2001–2015) and chaired the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), overseeing a $70 billion intelligence budget. [1, 2]

Defense Industry Funding: As a prominent legislator and committee leader, Rogers has historically received substantial campaign contributions from individuals and political action committees (PACs) affiliated with the defense and national security sectors. [1]

MITRE Corporation Role: Rogers joined MITRE Corporation's board in 2016, became Vice Chairman in 2018, and was elected Chairman of the Board in November 2021. [1]

Financial Disclosures and Connections

Corporate and Board Positions: Aside from his work with MITRE Corporation, Rogers has held advisory or director roles with various tech, cyber, and defense-aligned entities (such as Forgepoint Capital and D-Wave Quantum), drawing scrutiny from political opponents over potential conflicts of interest regarding federal contracting and defense spending oversight. [1, 2]

Mike Rogers - National Security Institute

National Security Institute

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Truthout

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Dec 10, 2022 — Rep. Mike Rogers, now set to influence military budgets, took more defense sector money than any other lawmaker in 2022.Read more

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Michigan Advance

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Mar 10, 2026 — Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers has indicated that he wants to sit on the upper chamber's banking committee, which deals in key ...Read more

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Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers has indicated that he wants to sit on the upper chamber’s banking committee, which deals in key regulation and oversight of the banking and financial sector, if elected in November.

His most recent Federal Election Commission reports, however, show that the White Lake Republican has collected millions of dollars in 2026 campaign contributions from the very people he would regulate and oversee on that committee, raising questions over how that money could influence his decisions if Michigan voters put Rogers back in Congress.

Historical campaign finance records also show that Rogers’ campaign donations from the banking sector go all the way back to his time in the U.S. House of Representatives as well as his stint prior to that in the state Legislature. The reports all detail a cozy campaign donor relationship between Rogers and banking and investment industry figures.

That relationship has a sharpened focus after the Washington Examiner reported in February that Rogers, speaking on behalf of his housing affordability initiative, “said he would love to get a seat on the banking committee if he wins in November.”

During his time in the Michigan Senate, Rogers supported legislation that eliminated credit caps and allowed for higher fees to be charged to Michigan residents, ultimately benefiting his wealthy bank and investment industry donors.

Michigan Advance asked Rogers’ campaign if his multi-million dollar donations from the banking industry would curry his favor when writing or supporting pro-banking industry legislation as a U.S. Senator, or if it would color his judgment when deciding on new regulations for that industry if he beats the Democratic Party nominee this year and is indeed installed to the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee.

The question is important, the Advance told the Rogers campaign, because the committee has a responsibility to regulate banking, insurance and financial markets, as well as a duty to provide oversight over securities, housing, urban development and mass transit. International trading, finance and economic policy are also in the committee’s legislative and regulatory purview.

Of note, the committee oversees the Federal Reserve, which has come under intense scrutiny from President Donald Trump, and the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is charged with compelling the financial industry to act honestly and ethically.

Rogers campaign spokesperson Alyssa Brouillet said that “anyone who donates to Mike’s campaign does so because they want to support his mission, not the other way around.”

“Look, we know the Democrats love their quid pro quos, but Mike Rogers couldn’t be more different,” Brouillet said.

Brouillet said Rogers was one of several U.S. House Republicans who voted twice against the Troubled Asset Relief Program, often referred to as the Wall Street bailout following the financial recession of 2008, when the bill was being approved by Congress that year.

Still, Rogers past and present campaign finance disclosures raise questions over whether he could be completely impartial to the financial industry, especially considering his votes on other key legislation.

Rogers committee, joint fundraising wing flushed with banking industry dollars

A year-end FEC report for Rogers’ 2026 campaign committee, combined with his joint-fundraising committee and his Great Lakes Conservative Fund Super Political Action Committee, raised $817,000 to support the candidate’s senatorial ambitions. Of that money, his principal campaign committee and joint-fundraising committee collected $62,000 from banking industry donors.

Between October 2025 and December 2025, FEC reports show that the Rogers for Senate committee received $32,000 from a mixture of banking-related PACs and individual donors involved in the financial sector.

That includes the American Express PAC, which gave $5,000, and the Mortgage Bankers Association PAC, which donated $4,500 to Rogers’ campaign.

During that same period, the Team Rogers joint-fundraising operation, which collects shared fundraising dollars from the Michigan’s Resurgence PAC, Great Lakes Conservative Fund and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, received another $35,000 from financial institutions, investors and advisors.That included $12,000 apiece from Thomas W. Smith of Prescott Investors and Andrew McKnight of Fortress Investment Group.

Republican Senate candidate and former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-White Lake) and U.S. Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) (left) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) (right) at a rally in Grand Rapids on Oct. 16, 2024. | Kyle Davidson

Rogers-supporting Super PAC also saw large donations from bankers, financial executives

Rogers’ Great Lakes Conservative Fund netted $750,000 between October and December of 2025 from some of those same types of donors. The Super PAC received $100,000 from Bluff Point Associates Corp, while International Bancshares Corp and North Point Mergers & Acquisitions Inc. each gave the PAC $25,000.

And that’s just a snapshot of the kind of money flowing to the Rogers 2026 senatorial campaign.

Earlier in 2025, between March and September, Rogers received $157,303 from the financial industry, which includes a $50,000 contribution from Paul Singer, the founder of Elliott Management, and a $50,000 contribution from John W. Childs of Childs Associates to the Great Lakes Conservative Fund. Childs also gave $7,000 directly to the Rogers for Senate committee. Rogers received another pair of separate contributions of $7,000 from Stephen Schwarzman, chairman of Blackstone, and Marc Rowan, CEO of Apollo Global. Also among his biggest contributors during that period was Mara Letica Saad, CEO of Letica Investment LLC, who gave $50,000 to the Team Rogers joint-fundraising arm in September 2025.

Past reports show Rogers’ previous campaigns raked in millions from the baking sector

Since 1999, records on Open Secrets, a database for tracking campaign fundraising, spending and allied contributions through PACs, show that Rogers received $1.25 million from the securities and investment industry throughout his career in the U.S. House.

Among the 1,712 representatives who served between 1990 and 2024, Open Secrets also shows that Rogers was one of the top recipients of banking and financial sector campaign cash, which settled him into the top 11% of lawmakers receiving contributions from bankers and investors.

That sum includes $319,088 from commercial banks and $69,749 from finance and credit companies — a total of $388,837 — between 1999 and 2014.

Of note, Rogers was a member of the Michigan Legislature between 1995 and 2000, and then was a member of the U.S. House between 2001 and 2015.

In his 1998 campaign for the Michigan Senate, his last for the state Legislature, Rogers took $5,180 from the banking industry, with $1,300 of that sum coming from the Michigan Bankers Association, and $400 from the Michigan Mortgage Bankers Association.

Rogers was a key supporter of the Credit Reform Act, which had banking industry support

Within his first year in the Michigan Senate, Rogers introduced and helped pass legislation to eliminate credit card interest rate caps, which increased the cap on interest rates and other kinds of debt, as well.

Rogers helped write the original version of the Credit Reform Act, which became Public Act 162 of 1995. Several of the bills in the package were tie-barred, which means they would all need to pass for the whole of the act to pass, and three of them were sponsored by Rogers — each increasing the interest rate limit for loans made by credit unions and motor vehicle financing. More specifically, the Rogers-sponsored portions of the act deleted an 18% cap on second mortgages and deleted the variable 16.5% and 22% rate limit on car financing.

Rogers offered a supportive vote on the package of bills, including those he sponsored.

Archival newspaper clippings from 1995 show that Francis Flanders, then the chairman, president and CEO of CB North, wrote a guest column in the Petoskey News-Review urging the state Legislature to pass the Credit Reform Act. Flanders mentions in the column’s lead paragraph that he was making that request alongside the Michigan Bankers Association, Michigan-based lenders and the Financial Institutions Bureau, one of the many predecessors to the Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services, which formed in 2013.

Critics of the act warned that it would allow lenders to set rates at any level and could take advantage of the consumers in the process.

The law is still on the books, although there have been past bipartisan attempts to rein it in. HB 4581 of 2025, if enacted, would have amended that law to cap credit card interest rates at 10%. The bill was introduced and placed before the House Regulatory Reform Committee in June of last year, but has yet to see a committee hearing in the GOP-controlled lower chamber.

Rogers’ Congressional votes tracked with banking industry donations

As a congressman, Rogers’ votes lined up with pro-Wall Street priorities.

Rogers voted twice against former President Barack Obama and the Democrats’ hallmark financial regulations: The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, known as Dodd-Frank after the lawmakers who spearheaded the bills.

Dodd-Frank also created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Soon after Trump took office in 2025 following his election to a second term in the White House, he created the Department of Government Efficiency, led by billionaire tech provocateur Elon Musk. DOGE effectively killed the CFPB, an independent agency created specifically to keep banking practices ethical and accountable to the consumers that they serve.

Rogers also voted for the Swaps Regulatory Improvement Act in 2013, which would have amended Dodd-Frank. The bill passed the House but never left the Senate, and Obama at the time voiced opposition to the bill, but had not threatened to veto it if it came before him. It never did.

It was reported by the New York Times in 2013 that CitiGroup’s lobbyists wrote the legislation, and if it was passed and signed into law, the act would have exempted broad swaths of trades from new regulations, including the bank’s recommendations for amendments that would have changed a majority of Dodd-Frank.

The Advance asked Rogers if his future hypothetical voting record in the U.S. Senate might look similar: close alignment with banks and the financial industry on some of their key priorities, even if they were at the expense of consumers and average families looking for a financial leg up against what critics say is a predatory industry.

Brouillet said voters should look to his record in Congress.

“Mike Rogers voted against the Wall Street bailout and for the auto rescue,” she said. “This is only one of the numerous examples of Mike putting Michigan first, as he always does.”

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Rogers and his campaign’s political director, Liam Putz, spoke repeatedly on last month’s call about the benefits of running unopposed in the GOP primary while Democrats duke it out.

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Mike Rogers (Michigan politician)

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ADVANCE

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers’ joint fundraising committee lost nearly $17,000 earlier this year after unknowingly paying a fraudulent invoice tied to a hacked vendor email, according to a recent Federal Election Commission filing.

As first reported by NOTUS, Rogers’ campaign listed the April 21 loss as a “fraudulent transaction” in its latest campaign finance report.

In a statement to Michigan Advance, campaign spokesperson Alyssa Brouillet said the committee paid the $16,700 invoice after it was “received in the normal course of business” and approved through normal channels.

“Unfortunately, a week later, Team Rogers was notified that the vendor’s email had been hacked and that the invoice was fraudulent. Despite an immediate request from Team Rogers, the bank was unable to recall the funds due to insufficient funds in the fraudulent account,” Brouillet said.

Rogers, who chaired the powerful House Intelligence Committee during his seven terms in Congress, pitched himself as a cybersecurity expert after he stepped down in 2015. He has also made it a key position in his campaign, with his website noting that Rogers is “passionate about the field of cyber security, working with companies large and small to protect their data from criminals and bad-acting countries like China.”

Rogers is not the first to deal with campaign-related financial thefts. The leadership PAC of U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) reported more than $7,000 in “unauthorized” disbursements in January — which were later recovered — while U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey had $3,000 stolen from his campaign account through a fraudulent credit card charge in December 2025.

Rogers is running unopposed in the Aug. 4 Republican primary for Michigan’s U.S. Senate seat. He will take on the winner of the Democratic primary in November. That contest pits epidemiologist Abdul El-Sayed against U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Birmingham).

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Michigan Democrats Allege ‘Dark Money’ Group Violated TV Ad Rules

June 18, 2026

Michigan Democrats are crying foul over a conservative “dark money” nonprofit group’s streaming TV ad boosting Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers, alleging the group violated a federal disclosure rule.

In a complaint to the Federal Election Commission, filed Thursday, the Michigan Democratic Party accuses the Senate Opportunity Fund of failing to publicly disclose its donors — something the Democrats argue it must do by law because the group is overtly urging voters to go to Rogers’ campaign website, RogersForSenate.com.

“[T]he advertisements cannot be interpreted as anything other than advocacy to elect Mike Rogers to the U.S. Senate,” the Michigan Democrats argue in their complaint.

The ad praises Rogers’ service in the United States Army and FBI and urges viewers to “tell Mike Rogers to keep fighting for Michigan families,” which does not inherently trigger disclosure requirements with the agency because the language does not expressly advocate for the election or defeat of a candidate.n

But by adding the Rogers campaign website URL at the end of the ad, the nonprofit is expressly advocating for the Rogers campaign, which would trigger disclosure requirements, according to the Democrats’ complaint.

The Senate Opportunity Fund spent about $349,000 to run the ad between March 6 and June 1, according to data from the advertising tracking company AdImpact.

A Rogers campaign spokesperson directed NOTUS to Rob Collins, the executive director of Senate Opportunity Fund. Collins did not respond to a phone call, and the Senate Opportunity Fund did not respond to emails requesting comment.

The FEC does not comment on complaints or enforcement matters.

Despite the complaint, it’s unlikely the nonprofit will face FEC enforcement actions before the 2026 midterm, if ever.

That’s because only two of the six seats on the commission are currently occupied, which means the FEC is currently unable to pursue enforcement actions and carry out other high-level duties.

And almost a year and two months into the de facto shutdown, the agency has a sizable backlog of enforcement matters: 253, FEC Chair Shana Broussard, a Democrat, posted on BlueSky last Friday. That means even if the agency votes to pursue the matter, which is not a guarantee given the agency’s limited resources, it may not get to the case until well after the 2026 midterms if enough commissioners eventually vote to advance the case at all.

Screenshot of Senate Opportunity Fund ad from AdImpact website.

Screenshot of Senate Opportunity Fund ad from AdImpact website. AdImpact

Nevertheless, campaign finance experts told NOTUS the Senate Opportunity Fund likely triggered federal disclosure requirements by including a URL to Rogers’ campaign website at the end of its ad — a hallmark of a campaign-finance-law disclosure benchmark known as “express advocacy.”

The Senate Opportunity Fund — which works to “advance conservative solutions through research and communication on public policy issues,” according to its website — is also not registered as a political committee with the FEC.

“The URL clearly uses the magic words of encouraging votes for Rogers for Senate, which has long been the primary standard of express advocacy,” said Craig Holman, a government affairs lobbyist at Public Citizen.

But according to Dan Weiner, director of the elections and government program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, it’s not a slam dunk.

“Rogers for Senate is about as direct a call as you can imagine,” Weiner, a former FEC lawyer, told NOTUS. But the real question is “any other reasonable interpretation” of the URL, Weiner said, adding that the nonprofit could feasibly argue it included the URL as a way for viewers to contact Rogers — although the ad’s vague appeal to reach out to a man who doesn’t hold public office somewhat undercuts that argument, he added.

The nonprofit reported nearly $3.1 million in grants and contributions in 2024, the most recent year for which data is available, according to a copy of its latest filing with the Internal Revenue Service available through ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer.

As a nonprofit, Senate Opportunity Fund does not legally have to disclose its donors, meaning voters have little insight into who is behind the pro-Rogers ads.

That’s not uncommon or inherently illegal. Groups can run so-called “issue ads” that don’t expressly advocate for the election or defeat of a candidate without triggering disclosure requirements. Even if the ad sings the praises of the candidate, unless it uses the “magic words” like “elect” or “support,” the group running the ad does not have to file reports with the FEC.

Michigan’s Senate primary is August 4. Rogers is all but assured to win the Republican nomination and is poised to face the winner of a competitive Democratic primary that features Rep. Haley Stevens, state Sen. Mallory McMorrow and former Wayne County Health Director Abdul El-Sayed.

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Taylor Giorno Taylor Giorno is a reporter at NOTUS.

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2002 $1,554,093 $1,535,948

2004 $2,121,838 $1,875,794

2006 $1,435,196 $1,046,770

2008 $1,471,800 $2,047,779

2010 $1,141,732 $943,060

2012 $1,066,622 $978,833

2014 $1,107,165 $941,399

2016 $1,137,285 $1,069,552

2018 $1,349,986 $1,347,847

2020 $1,193,111 $1,218,564

2022 $2,206,156 $1,682,055

2024 $2,871,792 $1,977,793

2026 $2,117,637 $1,449,008

Large Individual Contributions$1,619,04656.38%

Small Individual Contributions (< $200)$21,9160.76%

PAC Contributions$1,080,89737.64%

Other$149,9335.22%

Candidate Self-financing$00.00%

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Koch Inc. Political Action Committee (Kochpac)

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$8K

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Trinity Industries Employee Political Action Committee Inc.

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$5K

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the Home Depot Inc. Political Action Committee

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$5K

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Dec PAC

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Corecivic PAC

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Rocket PAC

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Continental Resources Inc. Political Action Committee

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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers was a member of an advisory board at Telefonica, a cell phone service provider operating largely in Latin America which admitted in 2022 to collaborating with the Venezuelan government — then led by the now-deposed Nicolas Maduro — to spy on its citizens.

Rogers, a former Congressman who represented a mid-Michigan district from 2001 to 2015, sat on the company’s cybersecurity and technical innovations board for more than five years, earning nearly $100,000 in compensation as a result, according to public financial disclosures filed during his 2024 run for the U.S. Senate and his most recent bid.

When asked, Rogers’ campaign claimed that it was the first the former representative knew of the connection between Telefonica and the Maduro regime, despite the incident being widely reported by both a Spanish news outlet and The Washington Post.

Rogers’ campaign also said that his work with the board largely focused on advising Telefonica’s cybersecurity division on technical items and threats from China.

The campaign further blamed Democrats working against him for drawing a connection to him and Maduro that it claims did not exist, and chalked it up to “fake news about a former House Intelligence Chair and national security expert having ties to the very regime he has outspokenly condemned, and celebrated the downfall of.”

“Mike merely served on a technology advisory board, where he advised on how to stop the Chinese Communist Party from infecting the company’s networks,” said Rogers spokesperson Alyssa Brouillet. “This is nothing more than a flailing attempt to distract from the fact that the Michigan Democrat candidates are out-of-touch with working people and consistently trailing Mike Rogers by every barometer.”

The campaign was asked to provide Michigan Advance with a job description outlining Rogers’ role with the company showing that his work was focused solely on China.

An offer letter from Telefonica outlining Rogers’ role states that he would provide the board with “input, ideas and expert advice about Telefonica’s security decisions as requested by the company from time to time” according to the board’s specific charter.

The offer letter does not, however, specifically note that Rogers’ input and expertise was solely focused on Chinese security and network threats.

For years, there have been suspicions about the pervasiveness of tapped calls and the excessive and unjustified monitoring of other forms of communication, but this report has shed a light for the first time on the real scope of this threat to civil and digital rights across the country.

– Watchdog group Ve Sin Filtro on the handing over of data by Telefonica to the Venezuelan government.

Whether Rogers knew the extent of the company’s collaboration with the Venezuelan government while he worked for Telefonica between April 2018 and October 2024 remains an open question, but what is certain is that Rogers has not publicly denounced the collaboration between Telefonica and the former Maduro regime.

The Advance asked Rogers’ campaign if it would do so now.

Brouillet said that Rogers believes any company that conspires with a criminal regime should be held accountable.

Rogers has, in the inverse, publicly praised President Donald Trump taking military action to depose Maduro, extradite him to the U.S. and put the former dictator up on drug trafficking charges in New York.

Rogers has a history of positioning himself as a major critic of Maduro

Maduro came into power following Hugo Chavez’s death in 2013 and remained the head of state until the U.S. government, under the Trump regime, took action against Maduro earlier this month.

On the day Maduro was captured, Rogers made a public statement praising Trump’s action.

“President Trump sent a loud and clear message: don’t mess with the US. Any foreign adversary who tries to kill Americans will pay the price. Bin Laden learned that lesson when I served as House Intel Chair,” Rogers said in a statement. “Today, Maduro was held accountable for endangering our nation with deadly poison. More Americans have died from drug overdose since 2018 than in World War I, World War II, & the Vietnam War combined. The crisis has to stop. Thankfully, President Trump is taking bold action to keep our communities safe. Our borders are secure, murders in US cities are down with drug interdiction and deportation of criminal illegal aliens, and waterborne drugs running into the US are down over 90%. Now, we’re bringing narcoterrorists to justice.”

A search of Rogers’ social media pages shows that he was quick to criticize both Maduro, in 2019, and former President Joe Biden, in 2024, over crime and immigration issues.

Rogers, as a featured guest on WOOD 106.9 FM, stated his belief that the world was better off without Maduro in power.

In 2019, Rogers posted to X, then Twitter, an article from insightcrime.org detailing criminal connections between Maduro and drug traffickers — an early pretext for charging Maduro with the crimes he now faces in the U.S. The article exposes what a former head of Venezuelan military intelligence witnessed in his time working for the regime, which included top figures in Maduro’s political orbit allowing drug traffickers to move freely in and out of Venezuela.

“This is the real Venezuela,” Rogers wrote in that post.

In 2024, Rogers criticized former President Joe Biden in a series of posts on X, saying the former president should declare the Tren de Aragua criminal gang a terrorist organization. Rogers brings up Maduro again in one post, as well.

An interview with Rogers conducted by former congressman Dave Camp for the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy notes that the podcast was a vehicle to share his insider knowledge of foreign policy, federal police work and security insights.

Much of his work with the boards he served on in his post-congressional life centered around the same insider knowledge. Still, Rogers’ campaign said that it had first heard about Telefonica’s connection to Maduro, through its business in Venezuela, when the Advance had asked for a comment in the course of reporting this story.

The Telefonica-Maduro connection was widely reported in 2021

Telefonica’s security and cybersecurity advisory council was created in 2018, which the company said would reinforce its digital and comprehensive security strategy, as well as play a role in protecting its own assets and the data of its customers.

The council included Rogers, and highlighted his work with the FBI but also as a member of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee.

Public records show Rogers served on Telefonica’s Ingenieria Y Seguridad committee for six years. It was one of several boards he sat on after leaving the U.S. House of Representatives in 2015, each focused on cybersecurity and data intelligence, which falls in line with Rogers’ experience as chair of the House Intelligence Committee and as a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Multiple financial disclosure reports filed for his Senate campaigns, the first of which he narrowly lost to now-Sen. Elissa Slotkin, are accessible to the public on the Senate’s online database. They show Rogers received $94,241 as board compensation from Telefonica Ingenieria Y Seguridad.

Compensation that he received from the board between 2018 and 2022 is not publicly available.

A copy of Mike Rogers’ offer letter for an appointment to Telefonica’s Ingenieria Y Seguridad committee, which included a description of his duties with the board. | Provided by the Rogers for U.S. Senate campaign.

Telefonica, based in Madrid, Spain, has business throughout Latin America, working with different subsidiaries to provide region-specific cell phone services.

One of those regions is Venezuela, operating as Telefonica Movistar. In 2022, Telefonica released a transparency report that revealed a wide swath of data interceptions into the private communications of Venezuelan Telefonica Movistar customers at the behest of Maduro’s security agencies, according to the watchdog group Ve Sin Filtro.

The report said that the company, in 2021, worked at the behest of the Maduro regime to intercept those communications against 1.5 million customers in Venezuela, more than 20% of both telephone and internet lines offered by Telefonica Movistar. Calls were tapped, text messages were monitored and the locations of customer phones were handed over to Venezuelan authorities, Ve Sin Filtro reported. The interceptions also included the capturing of customer internet traffic.

Other nations within the region that were included in the report also had data interception within their home countries, but at a much lower rate than what Venezuela had acquired.

In some cases, specific internet pages were blocked and accounts hacked, which rang true in the case of a Venezuelan human rights organization. Some of these requests came from the National Telecommunications Commission, or CONATEL, which is the Venezuelan government’s regulatory body over telecommunications within its borders.

The watchdog group noted that data interceptions performed by telecoms on orders from their regulating governments can be key ways for law enforcement to investigate serious crimes, but the wide array of interceptions performed by Maduro’s regime pointed more toward systemic abuse of human rights standards and judicial due process.

Ve Sin Filtro reported that agencies that were able to access who a user was calling, how long the calls lasted, what the subscriber’s data showed, included the military, Venezuela’s public ministry, its main criminal investigation agency, police forces, and its National Experimental Security University.

“Nowhere does it mention that the orders come from courts or come with the approval of judges, as they do in other countries, which means there isn’t evidence of the validation of courts for these interventions as it is required by Venezuelan law, with particular exceptions such as the case of emergencies and flagrant crimes, in which the CICPC can make a direct request,” the group said, referring to Telefonica’s transparency report. “But even in these cases the prosecutor must be notified and it must be included in the file.”

Spanish newspaper El Pais reported on the document, noting that the admission fell in line with what human rights organizations have called massive surveillance of the Venezuelan people over the course of the last decade. It also noted that human rights defenders in Venezuela believed the espionage targeted opposition politicians and activists.

The Washington Post also reported on the company’s report and findings, writing that the incursions included wire taps but also the censoring of content like news websites, political commentary portals, and even streaming media websites like SoundCloud. Three human rights organizations were blocked by Telefonica and the Maduro regime and two websites providing VPN, or virtual private network, services. People in restrictive nations often use private networks to access internet service or webpages that are censored in their regions, and have played a key role in pushing out social media content during times of protest or revolution.

The Post also interviewed Miguel Henrique Otero, president of El Nacional, one of Venezuela’s last remaining independent newspapers, when it wrote about the issue in 2022.

He said it was clear to him and other like-minded Venezuelans that Telefonica was complicit in following orders from the Maduro regime to violate human rights, without justification or due process.

This story was updated to include additional comment from the Mike Rogers campaign.

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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers was a member of an advisory board at Telefonica, a cell phone service provider operating largely in Latin America which admitted in 2022 to collaborating with the Venezuelan government — then led by the now-deposed Nicolas Maduro — to spy on its citizens.

Rogers, a former Congressman who represented a mid-Michigan district from 2001 to 2015, sat on the company’s cybersecurity and technical innovations board for more than five years, earning nearly $100,000 in compensation as a result, according to public financial disclosures filed during his 2024 run for the U.S. Senate and his most recent bid.

When asked, Rogers’ campaign claimed that it was the first the former representative knew of the connection between Telefonica and the Maduro regime, despite the incident being widely reported by both a Spanish news outlet and The Washington Post.

Rogers’ campaign also said that his work with the board largely focused on advising Telefonica’s cybersecurity division on technical items and threats from China.

The campaign further blamed Democrats working against him for drawing a connection to him and Maduro that it claims did not exist, and chalked it up to “fake news about a former House Intelligence Chair and national security expert having ties to the very regime he has outspokenly condemned, and celebrated the downfall of.”

“Mike merely served on a technology advisory board, where he advised on how to stop the Chinese Communist Party from infecting the company’s networks,” said Rogers spokesperson Alyssa Brouillet. “This is nothing more than a flailing attempt to distract from the fact that the Michigan Democrat candidates are out-of-touch with working people and consistently trailing Mike Rogers by every barometer.”

The campaign was asked to provide Michigan Advance with a job description outlining Rogers’ role with the company showing that his work was focused solely on China.

An offer letter from Telefonica outlining Rogers’ role states that he would provide the board with “input, ideas and expert advice about Telefonica’s security decisions as requested by the company from time to time” according to the board’s specific charter.

The offer letter does not, however, specifically note that Rogers’ input and expertise was solely focused on Chinese security and network threats.

For years, there have been suspicions about the pervasiveness of tapped calls and the excessive and unjustified monitoring of other forms of communication, but this report has shed a light for the first time on the real scope of this threat to civil and digital rights across the country.

– Watchdog group Ve Sin Filtro on the handing over of data by Telefonica to the Venezuelan government.

Whether Rogers knew the extent of the company’s collaboration with the Venezuelan government while he worked for Telefonica between April 2018 and October 2024 remains an open question, but what is certain is that Rogers has not publicly denounced the collaboration between Telefonica and the former Maduro regime.

The Advance asked Rogers’ campaign if it would do so now.

Brouillet said that Rogers believes any company that conspires with a criminal regime should be held accountable.

Rogers has, in the inverse, publicly praised President Donald Trump taking military action to depose Maduro, extradite him to the U.S. and put the former dictator up on drug trafficking charges in New York.

Rogers has a history of positioning himself as a major critic of Maduro

Maduro came into power following Hugo Chavez’s death in 2013 and remained the head of state until the U.S. government, under the Trump regime, took action against Maduro earlier this month.

On the day Maduro was captured, Rogers made a public statement praising Trump’s action.

“President Trump sent a loud and clear message: don’t mess with the US. Any foreign adversary who tries to kill Americans will pay the price. Bin Laden learned that lesson when I served as House Intel Chair,” Rogers said in a statement. “Today, Maduro was held accountable for endangering our nation with deadly poison. More Americans have died from drug overdose since 2018 than in World War I, World War II, & the Vietnam War combined. The crisis has to stop. Thankfully, President Trump is taking bold action to keep our communities safe. Our borders are secure, murders in US cities are down with drug interdiction and deportation of criminal illegal aliens, and waterborne drugs running into the US are down over 90%. Now, we’re bringing narcoterrorists to justice.”

A search of Rogers’ social media pages shows that he was quick to criticize both Maduro, in 2019, and former President Joe Biden, in 2024, over crime and immigration issues.

Rogers, as a featured guest on WOOD 106.9 FM, stated his belief that the world was better off without Maduro in power.

In 2019, Rogers posted to X, then Twitter, an article from insightcrime.org detailing criminal connections between Maduro and drug traffickers — an early pretext for charging Maduro with the crimes he now faces in the U.S. The article exposes what a former head of Venezuelan military intelligence witnessed in his time working for the regime, which included top figures in Maduro’s political orbit allowing drug traffickers to move freely in and out of Venezuela.

“This is the real Venezuela,” Rogers wrote in that post.

In 2024, Rogers criticized former President Joe Biden in a series of posts on X, saying the former president should declare the Tren de Aragua criminal gang a terrorist organization. Rogers brings up Maduro again in one post, as well.

It’s past time Joe Biden declares Tren da Aragua for what it is: An international criminal organization, terrorizing Americans.

Maduro is emptying his prisons and flooding America with dangerous criminals through our wide open border. Enough is enough.

— Mike Rogers (@MikeRogersForMI) March 18, 2024

An interview with Rogers conducted by former congressman Dave Camp for the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy notes that the podcast was a vehicle to share his insider knowledge of foreign policy, federal police work and security insights.

Much of his work with the boards he served on in his post-congressional life centered around the same insider knowledge. Still, Rogers’ campaign said that it had first heard about Telefonica’s connection to Maduro, through its business in Venezuela, when the Advance had asked for a comment in the course of reporting this story.

The Telefonica-Maduro connection was widely reported in 2021

Telefonica’s security and cybersecurity advisory council was created in 2018, which the company said would reinforce its digital and comprehensive security strategy, as well as play a role in protecting its own assets and the data of its customers.

The council included Rogers, and highlighted his work with the FBI but also as a member of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee.

Public records show Rogers served on Telefonica’s Ingenieria Y Seguridad committee for six years. It was one of several boards he sat on after leaving the U.S. House of Representatives in 2015, each focused on cybersecurity and data intelligence, which falls in line with Rogers’ experience as chair of the House Intelligence Committee and as a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Multiple financial disclosure reports filed for his Senate campaigns, the first of which he narrowly lost to now-Sen. Elissa Slotkin, are accessible to the public on the Senate’s online database. They show Rogers received $94,241 as board compensation from Telefonica Ingenieria Y Seguridad.

Compensation that he received from the board between 2018 and 2022 is not publicly available.

Telefonica, based in Madrid, Spain, has business throughout Latin America, working with different subsidiaries to provide region-specific cell phone services.

One of those regions is Venezuela, operating as Telefonica Movistar. In 2022, Telefonica released a transparency report that revealed a wide swath of data interceptions into the private communications of Venezuelan Telefonica Movistar customers at the behest of Maduro’s security agencies, according to the watchdog group Ve Sin Filtro.

The report said that the company, in 2021, worked at the behest of the Maduro regime to intercept those communications against 1.5 million customers in Venezuela, more than 20% of both telephone and internet lines offered by Telefonica Movistar. Calls were tapped, text messages were monitored and the locations of customer phones were handed over to Venezuelan authorities, Ve Sin Filtro reported. The interceptions also included the capturing of customer internet traffic.

Other nations within the region that were included in the report also had data interception within their home countries, but at a much lower rate than what Venezuela had acquired.

In some cases, specific internet pages were blocked and accounts hacked, which rang true in the case of a Venezuelan human rights organization. Some of these requests came from the National Telecommunications Commission, or CONATEL, which is the Venezuelan government’s regulatory body over telecommunications within its borders.

The watchdog group noted that data interceptions performed by telecoms on orders from their regulating governments can be key ways for law enforcement to investigate serious crimes, but the wide array of interceptions performed by Maduro’s regime pointed more toward systemic abuse of human rights standards and judicial due process.

Ve Sin Filtro reported that agencies that were able to access who a user was calling, how long the calls lasted, what the subscriber’s data showed, included the military, Venezuela’s public ministry, its main criminal investigation agency, police forces, and its National Experimental Security University.

“Nowhere does it mention that the orders come from courts or come with the approval of judges, as they do in other countries, which means there isn’t evidence of the validation of courts for these interventions as it is required by Venezuelan law, with particular exceptions such as the case of emergencies and flagrant crimes, in which the CICPC can make a direct request,” the group said, referring to Telefonica’s transparency report. “But even in these cases the prosecutor must be notified and it must be included in the file.”

Spanish newspaper El Pais reported on the document, noting that the admission fell in line with what human rights organizations have called massive surveillance of the Venezuelan people over the course of the last decade. It also noted that human rights defenders in Venezuela believed the espionage targeted opposition politicians and activists.

The Washington Post also reported on the company’s report and findings, writing that the incursions included wire taps but also the censoring of content like news websites, political commentary portals, and even streaming media websites like SoundCloud. Three human rights organizations were blocked by Telefonica and the Maduro regime and two websites providing VPN, or virtual private network, services. People in restrictive nations often use private networks to access internet service or webpages that are censored in their regions, and have played a key role in pushing out social media content during times of protest or revolution.

The Post also interviewed Miguel Henrique Otero, president of El Nacional, one of Venezuela’s last remaining independent newspapers, when it wrote about the issue in 2022.

He said it was clear to him and other like-minded Venezuelans that Telefonica was complicit in following orders from the Maduro regime to violate human rights, without justification or due process.

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Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker(R-Miss.) said on Thursday that he has seen “no evidence of war crimes” committed during the U.S. military’s Sept. 2 strikes against an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean, and he indicated that his panel does not plan to further probe the controversial operation.

“I have seen no evidence of war crimes. The fact is that our military is asked to make incredibly difficult decisions. Service members must do so based on the best available information and often under very tight timelines,” Wicker said in a lengthy statement.

Wicker said he is “satisfied” with all of the information the committee has received regarding the Sept. 2 attack, where two survivors were killed in a strike authorized by Navy Adm. Frank Bradley. Wicker said the strikes against “narco-terrorists” in the U.S. Southern Command area are based on “sound legal advice.”

“When reports first surfaced about a secondary strike, my office immediately directed inquiries to the department to ascertain the veracity of these reports. I promised that SASC would take this matter seriously and conduct thorough oversight. We have done so,” the Mississippi senator said. “Both military and civilian Pentagon leaders have worked in good faith to provide answers to us without any delays.”

Wicker’s panel said it would investigate the Sept. 2 operation, during which the U.S. military conducted four strikes against the purported drug-trafficking vessel in the Caribbean, shortly after The Washington Post revealed a second strike, ordered by Bradley, took place during the mission.

Some Democrats and law-of-war experts have asserted the follow-up strike constituted a violation of international law. Democrats have pushed for a complete investigation of the incident and for the Trump administration to release the full video of the mission. Administration officials and Republicans in Congress have argued that the operation is lawful and that two survivors in the water were trying to flip over the boat, which was severely damaged after the first strike that killed nine people on board, and continue on with their mission.

Wicker’s statement comes days after the chair of the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Mike Rogers(R-Ala.), said he will end his panel’s inquiry into the Sept. 2 strikes.

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A Texas oil billionaire with deep ties to the Christian Nationalist movement and a rising presence in the national GOP scene, has contributed $5 million to a super PAC backing Republican Mike Rogers’ U.S. Senate campaign in Michigan, marking a foray into Midwest politics.

Tim Dunn’s contributions to the Great Lakes Conservative Fund, or GLCF, were made in two installments of $2.5 million each in April and June and accounted for more than 98% of the PAC’s total fundraising during the first half of 2025, according to a mid-year report filed July 31 with the Federal Election Commission.

Dunn, the CEO of Midland-based CrownQuest Operating, has long been a major financier of far-right political causes in Texas and beyond, with his deep-pocketed influence drawing national attention for pushing Christian nationalist ideology, which critics say aims to reshape American democracy to reflect a narrow interpretation of Christian values.

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Former Republican Texas House Speaker Joe Straus, who is Jewish, told the Texas Tribune that Dunn felt he was unqualified to hold that position, telling him in 2010 that “only Christians should hold leadership positions” in that state’s lower chamber.

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CNN also reported that former associates of Dunn said his ultimate goal was to “replace public education with private Christian schooling.”

A request for comment by Michigan Advance was sent to Dunn, but has yet to be answered.

Dunn’s support of Rogers, a former mid-Michigan congressman seeking the GOP nomination to run for U.S. Senate in 2026, marks a significant foray into Midwest politics by an out-of-state donor known for reshaping Texas’s Republican Party in his own image, but who has also shown an increasing interest in influencing national politics.

While the Great Lakes Conservatives Fund is an independent expenditure-only committee and is legally prohibited from coordinating directly with Rogers or his campaign, Rogers has not publicly spoken about Dunn’s involvement in the race, and his campaign did not respond to a request for comment by Michigan Advance.

The Detroit News reported that the PAC spent more than $21 million on Rogers’ unsuccessful 2024 U.S. Senate run, which he narrowly lost to now-Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Holly).

However, Dunn’s political network has also come under fire for its ties to white supremacists and antisemites.

In 2023, a top official at one of Dunn’s Texas-based PACs, Defend Texas Liberty, met with white nationalist Nick Fuentes, who has openly espoused antisemetic views including that the Holocaust was “exaggerated”.

While Dunn called the the Fuentes meeting “a serious blunder,” the Texas Tribune uncovered numerous close ties between other associates of Fuentes and the Defend Texas Liberty PAC, which Dunn later shut down before launching a new PAC called Texans United for a Conservative Majority.

Regardless, Dunn has become one of the most influential Republican donors in the country, donating $5 million to President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign for the White House, while also co-founding the America First Policy Institute, a conservative think tank that has produced more than a dozen officials now staffing the Trump administration including Education Secretary Linda McMahon and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.

Rogers, meanwhile, has cleared the GOP field and is the lone Republican seeking the nomination for Michigan’s U.S. Senate seat.

mike Sessions, former GOP Michigan Rep. Mike Rogers, formerly the chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, appears likely to have influence in the Trump administration. He is being considered for both national security advisor and assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism. His former chief of staff, Andy Keiser, is also being considered for the position of deputy national security advisor.

Two other people listed for national security advisor are retired Army Lt. Gen. Micheal Flynn, who served as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency under President Barack Obama, and Stephen Hadley, who served in the same role under former President George W. Bush. Flynn, Rogers, and Hadley are all hawkish. Flynn has called for the destruction of the Syrian city of Raqqa, Hadley served as deputy national security adviser during the invasion of Iraq and Rogers said in 2014 that ground troops should be deployed to fight the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.

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As they await January 2, 2016 — the day they can legally become lobbyists — former Rep. Mike Rogers(R-Mich.) and his former chief of staff, along with two more of Rogers’ onetime staffers, have found a use for some of the lawmaker’s $1.3 million leftover campaign funds.

It doesn’t involve many contributions to other candidates or the Republican party — two of the more common deployments of unneeded election money.

So far this year, the staffers and a new Rogers-led nonprofit have received $272,644 from his old campaign account, most of which was raised last cycle from industry political action committees. Rogers was chairman of the House Intelligence Committee when he announced his retirement in March 2014, declaring he’d serve out the rest of his term and leave Congress to do a radio show.

But he also became honorary chairman of a new group called Americans for Peace, Prosperity and Security (APPS), which received $200,000 of the campaign funds this year.

Back in January, Rogers converted his principal campaign committee into a PAC called Securing America’s Future. Securing America’s Future hasn’t raised a dime of its own in 2015 (as of June 30) but has spent more than $413,000 of the money raised while Rogers was in office — including the $200,000 to APPS, which is labeled “donations.”

Money also went to Rogers’ former chief of staff Andrew Keiser, who became an assistant treasurer of the PAC in June, while the PAC paid $45,043 to his company, Keiser Strategies LLC. Keiser is also a principal officer of APPS, tax records show. According to Federal Election Commission data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics, Securing America’s Future is the only federal committee or campaign the company has ever had as a client.

Rogers’ former executive assistant received $17,000 in disbursements from the PAC, mostly for “office equipment” and “administrative consulting,” and a former legislative assistant received $5,760.

Yet despite all that spending and the fact that Keiser Strategies’ work is labeled “political strategy consulting,” according to the PAC’s reports to the FEC, the PAC has donated just $5,000, or roughly 1 percent, to a federal candidate’s committee.

The payments don’t appear to run afoul of the law as long as Rogers isn’t paying himself, and his spokeswoman says he isn’t. “The personal use ban (on campaign contributions) sticks with the money — it is illegal for money raised by a campaign to be given to a nonprofit that creates a job for that candidate,” Paul S. Ryan, deputy executive director at the Campaign Legal Center, explained.

Rogers uses the nonprofit group, with offices in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, to advocate for hawkish defense policy in the Republican presidential primary. The organization also helps him keep up ties to some telecom and defense industry executives, according to The Intercept.

Those ties were formed back when Rogers had an active campaign — and raised the money he’d ultimately pass along to his new nonprofit. APPS’s advisory boardincludes Greg Brown, the CEO of Motorola Services, which gave $6,500 to Rogers from its PAC in the 2014 cycle. Contributions from the telecom services industry to Rogers in 2014totaled $48,100, with $45,000 of that coming from PACs. The industry gave Rogers $252,950 over his career, campaign finance data shows.

Keeping up such relationships could pay off. For former lawmakers and top-tier employees like chiefs of staff, retirement starts the timer on a mandatory “cooling-off period,” or a brief spell during which the lawmaker or chief of staff is forbidden from lobbying his or her former colleagues in Congress; the time-out is a year for House members and generally a year for top staffers. Former members have found many ways around this rule, meant to throw a bit of sand in the gears of Washington’s revolving door. But it’s unclear whether Rogers or Keiser intend to take jobs on K Street when their cooling-off periods end in January.

The former lawmaker and his former chief of staff both were unavailable for comment when this reporter visited APPS’ Washington, D.C. office. Rogers’ spokeswoman said APPS and Securing America’s Future both strictly adhere to all federal reporting and disclosure requirements.

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Mike J. Rogers has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan, representing the state's 8th Congressional district, since 2001. His district includes Lansing and East Lansing. (map)

Record and controversies

General information about important bills and votes for can be found in Congresspedia's articles on legislation. You can add information you find on how Mike J. Rogers voted by clicking the "[edit]" link to the right and typing it in. Remember to cite your sources!

Iraq War

Rogers voted for the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 that started the Iraq War.^[1]

For more information see the chart of U.S. House of Representatives votes on the Iraq War.

Environmental record

For more information on environmental legislation, see the Energy and Environment Policy Portal

International solid waste importation and management act

In 2007, Rogers sponsored the International Solid Waste Importation and Management Act of 2007 (H.R. 518), which would amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to authorize states to restrict receipt of foreign municipal solid waste. The House passed the bill in April 24, 2007.

Main article: International Solid Waste Importation and Management Act of 2007

National Uniformity for Food Act

Rep. Rogers introduced the National Uniformity for Food Act in the House on October 27, 2005. The bill stated that no state or local government would be permitted to require a warning relating to food, including any component or package of the food, unless the specific warning had been required by the FDA and the state warning was identical to the FDA warning. This requirement of national uniformity in food warnings would apply to the food label, advertising, posters, public notices, and other forms of communication. The act was referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, of which Rogers was a member, and the committee reported on it on February 28, 2006. The bill was passed by the House on March 8, 2006, and referred to the Senate, but no action was taken there.

Main article: National Uniformity for Food Act

Bio

Background

Rogers was born June 2, 1963 in Livingston County, Michigan. He graduated from Adrian College, Adrian, Michigan in 1985 and served in the United States Army from 1985-1989. He worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1989-1994. He was a member of the Michigan State Senate, 1995-2000, serving as majority floor leader, 1999-2000. [1]

Congressional Career

He was elected as a Republican from the 8th District of Michigan to the U.S. House of Representatives in one of the nation's closest congressional races of 2000. He edged out Democratic State Senator Dianne Byrum to win the seat left open by Debbie Stabenow. Stabenow was elected to the U.S. Senate.

On January 9, 2006, Rogers announced that he was running for Majority Whip in the U.S. House of Representatives. [2] [3] The then Whip Roy Blunt (R-Missouri) had been acting Majority Leader since Thomas D. DeLay (R-Texas) was forced to step down in September 2005. In early February, Rep. John Boehner was elected to the position. [4] [5]

2006 elections

In 2006, the Democrats nominated Jim Marcinkowski to face Rogers in his November 2006 bid for reelection. (See U.S. congressional elections in 2006) [6] Rogers retained his seat.

Positions and Views

Money in politics

This section contains links to – and feeds from – money in politics databases. cid=N00009668&cycle=2006

Revolving door profile for Mike J. Rogers from the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org website.

2006 privately funded travel profile for Mike J. Rogers from the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org website.

Personal finance profile for Mike J. Rogers from the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org website.

Committees and Affiliations

Committees

House Committee on Energy and Commerce

Subcommittee on Commerce Trade and Consumer Protection

Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials

Subcommittee on Health

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Committee assignments in the 109th Congress (2005-2006)

House Committee on Energy and Commerce

Subcommittee on Commerce Trade and Consumer Protection

Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality

Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials

Subcommittee on Health

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Subcommittee on Intelligence Policy

Subcommittee on Oversight

Coalitions and Caucuses

Co-Chair, Intelligent Transportation Congressional Caucus

Deputy Whip for Coalitions

Boards and other Affiliations

Co-Chair, Intelligent Transportation Congressional Caucus

Deputy Whip for Coalitions

Honorary Member, Brighton Rotary Club

Brighton Chamber of Commerce

Board of Trustees, Cleary College

Howell Chamber of Commerce

Honorary Member, Howell Jaycees

Livigston County Home Builders Association

National Guard and Reserve Component Organization

Society of Former Special Agents for the Federal Bureau of Investigation

More Background Data

Background information on Mike J. Rogers from Project Vote Smart

Interest group scorecard ratings for Mike J. Rogers from Project Vote Smart

Voting record for Mike J. Rogers from the Washington Post database

Information on Mike J. Rogers from Congress Merge

2006 Michigan CD 8 Candidate List from VIS

Wikipedia also has an article on Mike J. Rogers. This article may use content from the Wikipedia article under the terms of the GFDL.

Contact

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Mike Rogers (Michigan politician) - Wikipedia

Michael J. Rogers (born June 2, 1963)^[1]^ is an American law enforcement officer and politician who served from 2001 to 2015 as the U.S. representative for Michigan's 8th congressional district. A member of the Republican Party, he chaired the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence from 2011 to 2015.

After retiring from the U.S. House, CNN hired Rogers as a national security commentator.^[2]^ He was also executive producer of the CNN program Declassified: Untold Stories of American Spies.^[2]^

Rogers was the Republican nominee in the 2024 United States Senate election in Michigan and narrowly lost to Democratic nominee Elissa Slotkin.^[3][4]^ He is a candidate in the 2026 United States Senate election in Michigan.

Early life and career

Rogers was born in Livonia, Michigan,^[5]^ the son of Joyce A. and John C. Rogers, and spent his early years in neighboring Redford Township.^[6]^ His family moved to Brighton Township in Livingston County, where he graduated from Howell High School in 1981.^[7][8]^ He graduated from Adrian College in 1985 with a bachelor's degree in criminal justice and sociology. Rogers served in the United States Army from 1985 to 1989.^[5]^ Rogers is on Telefonica's Technical and Security Advisory Committee and a board member of IP3 International.^[9][10]

Law enforcement career

From 1989 to 1994, Rogers worked as a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in its Chicago office, specializing in organized crime and public corruption. He is a member of the Society of Former Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In 2017, Rogers was interviewed to be director of the FBI after James Comey was dismissed.^[11]^

Michigan State Senate

Rogers was first elected in 1994. In 1998, he won a second term with 68% of the vote.^[12]^ He represented Clinton, Livingston, and Shiawassee Counties. He served as majority leader from 1999 to 2000. Rogers wrote legislation creating the Michigan Education Savings Program.^[13]^

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Tenure

Rogers spoke at Hudson Institute about "Clear and Present Danger: Confronting the Cyber Threat from China and Russia".

Rogers and Secretary of Defense Ash Carter talked during the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress Eisenhower award dinner.

Rogers's measure to make education savings plans free of federal taxes was adopted in 2003 (see Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001). His health savings account program for low-income families covered by Medicaid was signed into law on February 8, 2008.^[15]^ Rogers was the primary sponsor of the Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act, H.R. bill 5037, which President George W. Bush signed into law on May 29, 2006.^[16]^ The CBO has said that Rogers's H.R. 1206 to make it easier for states to obtain waivers from some Medical Loss Ratio requirements would add $1.1 billion to the deficit between 2013 and 2022.^[17]^

On November 30, 2011, Rogers introduced the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA).^[18]^ He introduced and supported the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015 (H.R. 4681; 113th Congress), a bill that would authorize a variety of intelligence agencies and their appropriations for fiscal years 2014 and 2015.^[19][20]^ In March 2014, Rogers announced he would not seek an eighth House term.^[21]^ He later launched "Something to Think About", a daily radio segment.^[22]^ Former Michigan State Senator Mike Bishop won the Republican primary and defeated Democratic nominee Eric Schertzing.^[23]^

Committee assignments

Committee on Energy and Commerce

Subcommittee on Communications and Technology

Subcommittee on Health

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (Chairman)

As chair of the full committee, Rep. Rogers was entitled serve as an ex officio member of all subcommittees.

U.S. Senate candidacies

Main articles: 2024 United States Senate election in Michigan and 2026 United States Senate election in Michigan

In August 2023, Rogers announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate to succeed the retiring Democrat Debbie Stabenow.^[24]^ He won the Republican primary with over 60% of the vote on August 6, 2024, and was the Republican nominee in the general election against Democrat Elissa Slotkin.^[3]^ He was defeated in the November election by fewer than 20,000 votes, while Donald Trump narrowly carried the state for the presidency.^[4]^

Rogers announced his subsequent candidacy for Senate for his state's other Senate seat in 2026 on April 14, 2025.^[25]^

Political positions

Abortion

Rogers has said he will not attempt to change Michigan's 2022 constitutional amendment protecting legal access to abortion, saying the issue of abortion should be left to the states.^[26]^

Economic policy

Rogers has supported Trump's plans for tariffs on foreign-made goods. He has said the main factor driving higher housing and consumer costs is high interest rates that could be reduced by "reining in outsized federal spending."^[26]^

Election integrity

After Trump lost the 2020 presidential election but falsely claimed that he won it, Rogers published an editorial calling for Trump to concede the election, noting that Joe Biden won an election that was conducted freely and fairly.^[27]^ Rogers changed his view when he ran for election in 2024 and 2026, both times endorsed by Trump; Rogers advanced baseless election conspiracy theories.^[27]^ Meshawn Maddock and Kenneth Thompson, two individuals who were pardoned by Trump for alleged role in Trump's fake electors plot to overturn the 2020 election, are county chairs in the Rogers 2026 campaign.^[27]^ In the lead-up to the 2026 election, Rogers called for recruiting police officers to monitor election workers.^[28]

Gordie Howe bridge

In 2026, Rogers supported President Donald Trump's threats to keep the Gorde Howe International Bridge between Michigan and Canada from opening.^[29]^ Rogers said it would be useful as part of Trump's trade war with Canada.^[29]^

Health care

Rogers has voted repeatedly against Medicare negotiating drug prices, arguing a free market solution would be more effective.^[30]^ Rogers has called for ending key provisions of the Affordable Care Act,^[31]^ and opposed extending subsidies for the Affordable Care Act.^[32]^ According to Rogers, he supports health care policies that "embrace the freedom of the free market."^[31]^

Immigration

Rogers has blamed "open borders" for increases in crime in the United States and supports a border wall and increased immigration enforcement.^[26]^

Israel-Palestine

Rogers is strongly pro-Israel, negatively commenting on opposition to Israel's invasion of Gaza in July 2025 by saying that "it is very short-sighted and politically naive to walk in and say we’re not going to allow Israel to defend itself."^{[33][better^^ ^^source^^ ^^needed}]

LGBTQ rights

Rogers opposed Title IX protections introduced during the Biden administration protecting against gender identity discrimination and spoke out against transgender athletes participating in women's and girls' sports, describing the issue as personal to him.^{[34][dead^^ ^^link}]

Personal life

Rogers has been married to his second wife, Kristi Rogers, since 2010. He has two children from his first marriage. Rogers's older brother, Bill, was a state representative in Michigan.^[35]^

Rogers sits on the Atlantic Council's Board of Directors.^[36]^ He is also the David M. Abshire Chair at the Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress,^[37]^ an Intelligence Project Senior Fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center,^[38]^ a member of George Mason University's National Security Institute Board of Advisors,^[39]^ and the chair of the board of trustees for the Mitre Corporation.^[40]

In 2022, Rogers purchased a home in Cape Coral, Florida before moving back to Michigan ahead of his 2024 run for U.S. Senate.^[41][42]

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But it's clear that the lobbying firepower on the other side of the issue is a fraction of what supporters have. One of the most vocal opponents of CISPA is the American Civil Liberties Union -- which has spent $507,000 lobbying so far this year, a 28 percent increase from the last three months of 2011. But the group used that money to lobby on 109 different bills, almost as many as AT&T. Another group that has taken a prominent stand against CISPA is the American Library Association, which has spent $54,000 so far this year, spread over 56 different pieces of legislation.

Another indication of the collective influence of backers of CISPA is the amount of money individuals or PACs affiliated with the organizations have given to key lawmakers on the issue. Last week we reported that the bill's original sponsor, Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), had received $104,000 from groups that lobbied on the bill. With new campaign finance reports filed since that story, OpenSecrets.org data now shows that Rogers has received at least $175,000 from organizations that have lobbied on the bill. That's about 15 percent of the total $1.1 million he has reported raising this election cycle. The top two groups: defense contractor SAIC (whose PAC has given Rogers $20,000 this election cycle) and Koch Industries (whose PAC has given Rogers over $14,500.)

Check out all of the donations Rogers has received on our profile of him here, and the entire list of organizations that have lobbied on CISPA here on our profile of the legislation.

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