Democrats aren't used to losing the information war.
They pulled out all the stops in 2024.
And Democrats were busted in one insane fake news scheme to boost Kamala Harris.
The Left's fake local news empire just got exposed
For decades, Democrats owned the media.
ABC, NBC, CBS, The New York Times, The Washington Post — they all sang from the same left-wing hymnal and Americans had no choice but to listen.
The internet blew up their monopoly.
Conservatives suddenly had their own voices.
Democrats came up with a new scheme to fool voters — fake local news sites designed to look independent but secretly funded by George Soros and left-wing billionaires.
Tax filings just exposed the biggest operation of them all.
A Democrat dark money group handed $13.6 million to something called Courier Newsroom in 2024.
Never heard of Courier?
That's the plan.
Fake hometown newspapers pump out Democrat propaganda 24/7
Courier runs 11 local "news" sites across swing states with names like The Keystone in Pennsylvania and The Copper Courier in Arizona.
The Pennsylvania site has the tagline "Pennsylvania news by and for the people of Pennsylvania."
They're funded by George Soros to pump out left-wing talking points disguised as journalism.
Courier was launched in 2019 by Tara McGowan — a longtime Democrat political operative who worked as a communications staffer before creating her own propaganda network.
CNN's Jake Tapper called out the scam, saying Courier "is not an actual newsroom, it's an organization funded by Democratic donors."
The Center for Responsive Politics labeled it "fake news."
Courier lists itself as a "Media/news company" on Facebook.
Voters saw what looked like legitimate news praising Harris when they were really seeing paid propaganda.
Courier blew $9 million in the final three months before the election on Facebook ads boosting Harris and trashing Trump.
The Copper Courier in Arizona sounds like it's been around since the 1800s copper rush.
Launched in 2019 by McGowan's operation.
Columbia's journalism review found Courier operates sites only in swing states — places where Democrats think they can fool enough voters to flip elections.
Democrats disguise political ads as local journalism
McGowan admitted in a 2022 interview that Courier won't publish positive coverage of Republicans or critical coverage of Democrats.
When asked why Courier doesn't disclose its political motivations, she said "Courier does not need to give them the full picture."
Her fake news sites don't tell readers they're reading propaganda.
CNN media reporter Brian Stelter called Courier a "pink slime" operation — partisan content masquerading as objective reporting.
By avoiding political advertising disclaimers, Courier made Democrat campaign ads look like unbiased news coverage.
That's fraud, not journalism.
After Harris lost in November, McGowan showed up at billionaire Laurene Powell Jobs's offices in February 2025 to lecture Democrat strategists on how to better "push progressive messages out."
She took millions to run a fake news network, watched it fail, and gave advice on what went wrong.
McGowan sent an email to donors in July 2025 complaining Courier needed more money to spread anti-Trump stories.
"The problem isn't the volume of the stories we are publishing — it is that without funding, we can't get these stories in front of more of the audiences we need to be reaching," she wrote.
Translation: We need more money to fool more voters with fake news.
Democrats lost their media monopoly and they're desperate
Walter Cronkite told you "that's the way it is" and you believed him because you had no other choice.
Dan Rather ran fake documents about George W. Bush and it took weeks to prove they were forgeries.
Those days are over.
Rush Limbaugh broke the radio monopoly in the 1990s.
Fox News shattered the TV monopoly in the 2000s.
The internet destroyed the newspaper monopoly in the 2010s.
Platforms like X let conservatives reach millions without media gatekeepers.
Democrats can't control what Americans see and hear anymore.
So they're building fake local news networks to trick voters who don't follow politics closely.
The fake news scheme failed in 2024.
Americans are waking up to these cons.
Democrats are already planning the next scam.
Sources:
- Chuck Ross, "Democratic Dark Money Juggernaut Gave $13 Million to 'Fake News' Network Courier Newsroom in Bid To Boost Kamala Harris, Records Show," Washington Free Beacon, January 21, 2026.
- Priyanjana Bengani, "'Pink Slime': Partisan journalism and the future of local news," Columbia Journalism Review, January 2024.
- Max Tani, "Democrats, influencers huddle for a new new media strategy," Semafor, February 17, 2025.
- Dhrumil Mehta et al., "Courier Newsroom Spent Big on a Meta Ad Blitz in October," Columbia Journalism Review, November 5, 2024.
