Michigan Advance: Pro-Rogers Super PAC funded by Ardent Christian Nationalist

“Dunn’s political network has […] come under fire for its ties to white supremacists and antisemites”

LANSING - A new report from Michigan Advance reveals that a Super PAC supporting Mike Rogers’ Senate campaign is almost entirely bankrolled by Texas billionaire Tim Dunn, a prominent Christian nationalist with ties to avowed white supremacists and antisemites.

Michigan Advance: Pro-Rogers Super PAC funded by ardent Christian Nationalist

• 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 […] and accounted for more than 98% of the PAC’s total fundraising during the first half of 2025
• Dunn […] 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.
• 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. 
• CNN also reported that former associates of Dunn said his ultimate goal was to “replace public education with private Christian schooling.”
• 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.
• [Rogers’] campaign did not respond to a request for comment by Michigan Advance.
• […] 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”.
• […] the Texas Tribune uncovered numerous close ties between other associates of Fuentes and the Defend Texas Liberty PAC […]

“Mike Rogers has always been up for sale to the highest bidder – this time, it’s an out-of-state  billionaire trying to buy him a Senate seat to advance a dangerous, Christian nationalist agenda,” said Michigan Democratic Party spokesperson Joey Hannum. “Michigan voters deserve answers: Will Mike Rogers return this dirty money immediately and disavow Tim Dunn’s radical agenda? Or is he already bought and paid for?”