Within two days of Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in the 2026 Michigan Democratic Senate primary, a blue-check account with the handle @DemsForMike and the display name "Democrats for Mike Rogers" popped up on X (formerly Twitter). While this account claims to be run by Democrats who support Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers over Democrat El-Sayed, almost all of the account’s engagement is coming from conservative X users. Additionally, the account’s initial follower growth appears to have been driven primarily by amplification from prominent Republicans, including the official Michigan GOP account.
I analyzed the reposts of the most recent 100 @DemsForMike X posts with at least 3 visible reposts as of the morning of September 29th, 2026. Of the 20 most prolific reposters, 19 are right-wing accounts, most of which have extensive histories of enthusiastically posting in support of Republican candidates. The sole alleged Democrat among the top 20 accounts, @khit242 (“Anti Communist Democrat”) is an extremely new blue-check account that seems to be focused almost exclusively on the Michigan Senate race.
Overall, 94.5% of the 328 X accounts that reposted @DemsForMike five or more times during the period studied are right-wing accounts, based on profile information, post content, and the accounts they regularly amplify. While some of these accounts are (or claim to be) run by Michigan residents, many are not, and a few are demonstrably run from outside of the United States and therefore rather unlikely to be operated by Michigan voters.
As of the time of this writing, the @DemsForMike X account has roughly 11 thousand followers. Almost all of these followers were gained during the first few days of the account’s existence, with growth tapering off heavily by the time the account was a week old. Rather than representing Democratic enthusiasm for the account or Mike Rogers, the initial burst of follower growth appears to be the result of boosts from prominent conservatives, including Laura Loomer, Mark Levin, and the official Michigan GOP X account.
Some of the relatively small number of alleged Democratic accounts that boost @DemsForMike show signs of being less than entirely legitimate. Several are blue-check accounts that were created, or in the case of @TheDemCentrist, renamed, within the last few months. These accounts have generic display names such as “Anti Communist Democrat”, “DSAarenotDemocrats”, and “Democratic Centrist”, and their content primarily consists of attacks on progressive Democratic candidates, with occasional Islamophobic posts thrown in.
On October 3rd, 2026, right-wing news site The Gateway Pundit published an article containing the claim that former Abdul El-Sayed campaign staffer Jordan Domingue runs the @DemsForMike X account. Domingue disputed this on X, saying that The Gateway Pundit was incorrect, and that an earlier post he had made claiming to be the account owner was a joke. He has, however, declined to request a retraction. For the moment, the identity of the account owner remains unknown, although Domingue’s refusal to ask the Gateway Pundit to correct their assertion makes it difficult to rule him out entirely. (Interestingly, the Gateway Pundit reporter who wrote the article has repeatedly tagged the @DemsForMike account on X.)
As a final note, I was blocked on X by the @DemsForMike account at some point within the last 24 hours, despite not having posted on the platform for over a year. I did post a short thread on Bluesky on October 2nd containing some of the same information as I included in this article; the block indicates that, despite the absence of a corresponding DemsForMike Bluesky account, the operator of the @DemsForMike X account is nonetheless monitoring Bluesky (and observing discussion of the account in general).
