Truthout

The reporting we cite

8 stories, each opening at its source.

• Truthout — 'Democrats for Mike Rogers' PAC Is Funded by Republicans, Records Show
• Truthout — Exposing BlackRock (Fink on the phone daily with Geithner, Paulson, Bernanke; the 104 contacts)
• Truthout — Mike Rogers's wealth soared as his wife's firm won billion-dollar contracts
• Truthout — 7 in 10 Democrats Say US Should Restrict Aid to Israel (Data for Progress / Zeteo, Apr 2025)
• Billionaires who fund the IDF through a US nonprofit — Truthout (left)
• Truthout: Corporate Donors Fund Dark Money Push for Third Party Presidential Challenger (Mother Jones list of 36)
• Leaked NYT memo on Gaza coverage language — Truthout summary of Intercept report
• Truthout — US embassy aide suppressed report on Israeli killings of Americans in the West Bank

Where their work appears on this site

• Rented Democrats →
• The Bipartisan Mask →
• Shielding Israel From Washington →
• The Ellison Press →
• The Fake Middle →
• The Gavel and the Contract →
• The Man in the Room →
• Israeli Influence on the United States →
• Fake Opposition →
• Media Ownership →
• Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →

How we graded the claims built on their work

8 FACT · 1 PROBABLY TRUE. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.

1. 'Democrats for Mike Rogers' is predominantly Republican-funded — its two biggest checks came from GOP super PACs.

   FACT
   Rented Democrats →

2. 2008: the voice on the Treasury's phone.

   FACT
   The Man in the Room →

3. 2010: the $10 billion shortlist, and a company bio later scrubbed from the web.

   FACT
   The Gavel and the Contract →

4. His own disclosures: from little to steadily richer.

   FACT
   The Gavel and the Contract →

5. Independent, non-advocacy pollsters find the same shift across the Democratic base.

   FACT
   The Fake Middle →

6. Larry Ellison is one of the largest individual donors to the Israeli military's US support charity.

   FACT
   The Ellison Press →

7. Mother Jones obtained a list of 36 corporate donors — even as No Labels claimed it doesn’t take corporate money.

   FACT
   The Bipartisan Mask →

8. The leaked internal style memo on Gaza coverage

   FACT
   Media Ownership →

9. The suppressed report on the killings of nine Palestinian Americans.

   PROBABLY TRUE
   Shielding Israel From Washington →