Democrats spent years accusing Trump of spreading "misinformation."
Now they're running the biggest scam in American politics.
And Democrats launched this Soros-backed fake news operation for the midterm election.
Democrats Can't Win On The Issues, So They're Rigging The Information War
Tara McGowan's Courier Newsroom just announced it's invading nine more states before the midterms.
That brings the network to 20 states nationwide.
Sites like "The Keystone" in Pennsylvania and "Up North News" in Wisconsin look like your local hometown paper.
They're not.
They're Democratic propaganda dressed up as journalism.
McGowan – a former Barack Obama operative – founded Courier in 2019 with one mission: Stop Trump.
George Soros and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman bankroll the operation through a maze of dark-money groups.
The network spent over $9 million on Facebook ads alone in the final months of 2024 boosting Kamala Harris and attacking Trump.
Future Forward USA Action – the Democratic super PAC that burned through half a billion dollars on Harris – funneled $13.5 million to Courier.
That made Courier one of the largest beneficiaries of Democrat dark money in the entire country.
Facebook labels Courier sites as "media/news companies."
Users scroll past stories that look like local news coverage.
They're actually microtargeted political ads aimed at swing-state voters in competitive districts.
Even CNN Admitted This Is "Pink Slime" Fake News
Jake Tapper called out Courier in 2020 for being "not an actual newsroom."
Brian Stelter labeled the network "pink slime" – sites that "look like news" but aren't.
That's coming from CNN, where standards are already in the gutter.
Even Facebook cracked down on Courier in 2020, restricting its reach and curtailing its advertising after recognizing it wasn't a real news outlet.
A 2020 FEC complaint filed by Americans for Public Trust exposed the truth: Courier was created to influence elections while dodging disclosure requirements that apply to political committees.
The complaint cited a 2019 internal memo where McGowan laid out the real plan – "counter Republicans and elevate Democratic candidates."
Not journalism.
Political warfare.
The FEC eventually dismissed the complaint in 2022, ruling that Courier qualified as a "press entity" under the media exemption.
Courier can spend unlimited money promoting Democrats without reporting who's writing the checks.
Democrats are exploiting the collapse of local journalism to flood the zone with propaganda.
And they're winning.
Your Grandkids Are Being Targeted Right Now And Don't Even Know It
When your grandson scrolls Facebook and sees "Pennsylvania Keystone" posting about local issues, he doesn't think political ad.
He thinks local news.
Courier spent $6.8 million on Facebook and Instagram ads in just two months before the 2024 election.
They weren't buying ads that said "Paid for by Kamala Harris."
They were buying ads that looked like the Erie Times-News sharing local stories.
Except every story conveniently made Democrats look good and Republicans look bad.
McGowan's now expanding into California, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, and Utah.
She says the ultimate goal is all 50 states.
Every competitive House race, every Senate battleground, every swing district where a few thousand votes determine who controls Congress.
McGowan admitted something crucial in February 2025.
She told donors they'd just come off their worst fundraising quarter in six years.
Without money, she said, "we can't get these stories in front of more of the audiences we need to be reaching."
That's not how real journalism works.
Real journalism doesn't collapse when political donations stop.
They're Coming For Your Congressional District Next
Courier already operates in Arizona, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wisconsin, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, and Texas.
Those states will decide the House and Senate in 2026.
With nine more states launching, they'll blanket every competitive district in America.
And because the FEC gave them a free pass, you'll never know how much Soros money is pouring into your local Facebook feed.
The Washington Free Beacon found that Future Forward – the group that dumped over $13 million into Courier – spent roughly half a billion dollars on Harris in 2024.
They lost.
Now they're retooling the strategy.
Instead of national campaigns everyone recognizes as partisan, they're going local.
Hiding in plain sight.
Pretending to be the Hometown Gazette while pushing the exact same talking points as the DNC.
Deception at scale, funded by dark money, enabled by Silicon Valley, and protected by federal regulators who looked the other way.
And they're betting voters won't notice until it's too late.
Sources:
- Washington Free Beacon Staff, "Dem 'Fake News' Op Expands to 9 More States Ahead of Midterms," Washington Free Beacon, February 12, 2026.
- Priyanjana Bengani, "Pink Slime: Partisan journalism and the future of local news," Columbia Journalism Review, January 2024.
- McKenzie Sadeghi and Eric Effron, "Beware 'Pink Slime.' Fake News Is Targeting Voters Before Election Day," U.S. News & World Report, October 4, 2024.
- Lachlan Markay, "FEC tosses case against progressive news network Courier," Axios, April 29, 2022.
- Samuel Chamberlain, "Liberal Courier Newsroom must register as political committee, FEC complaint says," Fox News, September 3, 2020.
