Rogers Campaign Staffers Registered to Work for Israel
Two communications consultants working for Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers in Michigan are registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act for work connected to the Israeli government, filings show. The staffers are Abigail Ronson and Jesse Stokes, both associated with Convergence Media and Havas Media Group, according to the documents described in the reports published on November 1.
Ronson registered in May to provide strategic communications, planning and media services for Havas’s work on a U.S. campaign for Israel to combat antisemitism. Stokes registered in October 2025 in connection with the Havas work. Stokes has also been linked to press releases announcing Rogers’s Senate campaign.
Ronson is a Rogers campaign spokesperson and was present when former Democratic primary candidate Haley Stevens endorsed Rogers on November 1. She helped arrange the press conference. Stevens had previously told other Democrats that she would back the party’s candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, who defeated her by one percentage point in the August primary.
The reports also describe Ronson’s work for Rogers through Convergence Media and say the firm received millions from the campaign during the 2026 election cycle. One report said Ronson and other Convergence staff were recruited for a $46.5 million Israeli government contract involving online messaging. Rogers’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
Israel-Registered Consultants at Center of Rogers Campaign Shake-Up
Two communications consultants working for Republican Mike Rogers’s Senate campaign are registered to conduct work for Israel, filings show—a striking overlap as the campaign welcomed a high-profile Democratic defection. Abigail Ronson, a Rogers spokesperson, helped arrange Haley Stevens’s endorsement of Rogers on November 1.
Ronson registered in May to provide communications and media services for Havas Media Group’s work on an Israeli government campaign to combat antisemitism in the United States. Jesse Stokes, another consultant linked to Rogers through Convergence Media and Havas, registered in October 2025 for work connected to the same contract. Stokes has also been linked to Rogers campaign press releases.
The political stakes are sharpened by Stevens’s break with the Democratic nominee, Abdul El-Sayed. Stevens had previously told fellow Democrats she would support the nominee; El-Sayed defeated her by one percentage point in the August primary. The reports say AIPAC and affiliated groups spent tens of millions backing Stevens in the primary and are now spending millions to help Rogers defeat El-Sayed.
One report says Ronson and other Convergence staff were recruited for a $46.5 million Israeli government contract involving online messaging. Convergence also received millions from Rogers’s campaign during the 2026 election cycle. The campaign did not respond to a request for comment. The episode puts foreign influence and the role of pro-Israel spending squarely into a race reshaped by a dramatic endorsement.
Rogers Staffers’ Israel Filings Draw Scrutiny After Stevens Endorsement
Two consultants working on Republican Mike Rogers’s Michigan Senate campaign are registered foreign agents for Israel, filings show, a disclosure that has drawn attention as the campaign gains support from former Democratic candidate Haley Stevens.
Abigail Ronson, a Rogers campaign spokesperson, registered in May to provide communications, planning and media services for Havas Media Group’s work on an Israeli government campaign to combat antisemitism in the United States. Ronson helped arrange the November 1 press conference where Stevens endorsed Rogers. Jesse Stokes, another consultant associated with Rogers through Convergence Media and Havas, registered in October 2025 in connection with the Havas contract and has been linked to Rogers campaign press releases.
Stevens had previously told other Democrats that she would back the party’s candidate, Abdul El-Sayed. El-Sayed beat her by one percentage point in the August primary. The reports also say pro-Israel groups spent heavily in that contest and are now spending millions to support Rogers against El-Sayed.
One report says Convergence staff were recruited for a $46.5 million Israeli government contract involving online messaging, while Convergence received millions from Rogers’s campaign during the 2026 election cycle. These overlapping political and communications roles merit scrutiny, but the filings describe the consultants’ work; they do not establish that Israel directed Rogers’s campaign or that the endorsement was dictated by a foreign government. Rogers’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
Reported by The New Republic, The Daily Caller, The Washington Examiner.
