In a recent article on this blog, we took a look at @DemsForMike, an X account purportedly run by Michigan Democrats who plan to cross party lines to vote for Republican Mike Rogers over Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in the upcoming U.S. Senate election. This account is affiliated with a super PAC, TFM (“Together For Michigan”), which was originally founded in August 2026 under the name “Democrats for Mike Rogers”, and which has received over five million dollars in contributions thus far. As discussed previously, the X account gets most of its engagement from Republicans rather than Democrats, and a review of FEC records reveals the same is true of the alleged group’s funding. Almost all of the money received by the super PAC to date is from individuals and groups who generally contribute to Republican candidates, and the largest donor is a conservative super PAC that is partially funded by the Rogers campaign.
The super PAC presently known as TFM was initially founded on August 27th, 2026, three weeks after the @DemsForMike account was created. The super PAC was initially named “Democrats for Mike Rogers”, but was renamed to “Together for Michigan” and subsequently “TFM” following a September 8th notice from the FEC that the super PAC’s name may not contain a candidate’s name. All versions of the super PAC’s Statement of Organization list outgoing Michigan State Representative Karen Whitsett as both Custodian of Records and Treasurer. Whitsett, who announced she was leaving the Democratic Party back in March, has signed all TFM/”Democrats for Mike Rogers” FEC filings as of October 25th, 2026.
As of October 21st, 2026, the super PAC has spent $5,672,090.13 on the Michigan Senate race. This money has primarily been paid to a variety of consulting companies that offer various advertising services, including text messaging, online and TV ads, and canvassing. Several of the organization’s video ads, most of which feature the same small group of people who are allegedly voting for Mike Rogers, have racked up significant view counts on multiple platforms, including YouTube and X.
In early October 2026, the X account @america, associated with Elon Musk’s America PAC, posted one of the video ads produced by “Democrats for Mike Rogers”. It is presently unclear whether this came about due to coordination between the people behind “Democrats for Mike Rogers” and Musk’s super PAC, or was simply the result of America PAC personnel encountering the ad on their own and incorporating it into their existing efforts to promote Rogers’ candidacy.
FEC records show a total of $5,718,641.21 received thus far by TFM/”Democrats for Mike Rogers”, a statistically insignificant $780.48 of which (0.014%) is unitemized small-dollar individual contributions. Of the remaining $5,717,860.73, $5,538,000 (96.9%) is from a mix of conservative super PACs and individual donors whose history shows they primarily donate to Republican candidates. Despite the name, “Democrats for Mike Rogers” is almost entirely financed by Republicans. Of the nineteen named individual donors, only five have Michigan addresses; the remainder include three donors from Florida, three from Tennessee, two from New York, and one each from California, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Ohio, and Utah.
The largest donor to TFM/”Democrats for Mike Rogers” is another super PAC, GLCF (“Great Lakes Conservatives Fund”), which has contributed $4,100,000 to TFM as of October 14th, 2026. Although the name “Great Lakes Conservatives Fund” suggests that this super PAC might support a variety of Republican candidates in various states, almost all of GLCF’s spending thus far is related to the Michigan Senate race. At least some of GLCF’s funding comes from the Mike Rogers campaign itself; to date, Team Rogers has contributed $751,801 to GLCF, which means that the Rogers campaign is indirectly providing at least some of the money behind the “Democrats for Mike Rogers” effort.
As with their finances, GLCF’s social media presence is likewise focused almost exclusively on the Michigan Senate race. Their X account (@GreatLakes_HQ), which was created in July 2026 and frequently promotes Mike Rogers and attacks Abdul El-Sayed, has frequently reposted content from the @DemsForMike X account.
Political consultant Abby Ronson, whose firm Convergence Media has been paid over $4 million by the Mike Rogers campaign, appears to be involved in the “Democrats for Mike Rogers” project in multiple ways. Ronson is the creator of an August 20th Google doc announcing the "Democrats for Mike Rogers" effort, on which her Rogers campaign email address appears as both uploader and owner. Ronson is also a registered foreign agent, having lobbied for Brad Parscale’s public relations firm Clock Tower X on behalf of the State of Israel.
Ronson’s X account (@abbyronson) and the “Democrats for Mike Rogers” account (@DemsForMike) have repeatedly amplified each other’s content. Additionally, the two accounts have on multiple occasions posted the exact same screenshots at similar times, suggesting that Ronson may be involved in operating the @DemsForMike account. The identical images of a (misrepresented) mobile notification posted an hour apart are particularly interesting.
On a final note, the @DemsForMike X account recently posted an AI-generated flyer advertising a seven-hour “early vote rally” in Pontiac, MI, featuring free food, music, and a bouncy house. Despite the account’s repeated claims to represent thousands of Rogers-supporting Democratic voters, the actual rally consisted of a handful of people standing around in an otherwise empty parking lot. When combined with the rest of the available data points, this rally is just one more sign that “Democrats for Mike Rogers” is an astroturf campaign rather than a genuine movement.
I just posted this on their Twitter account. They blocked me within 60 seconds.