By Elizabeth Gresosky
Last week on CNN, Van Jones revealed that a large group of Democrat operatives had been pushing coordinated messaging on affordability ahead of the midterm elections that reached hundreds of millions of users on social media every day.
He called it “the most effective online organizing campaign.”
“Now it can be told. How did we win the narrative on affordability? Was it just these nice little Democrats out there running for office…? No. The Republicans never figured out what we were doing,” he explained.
A group called the American Accountability Network, supposedly run by the Democrat strategist Rio Tazewell, was behind the effort. It mobilized tens of thousands of real humans – not just bots – to push certain messaging leading up to the election.
Their efforts reached hundreds of millions across social media: 32.5 million people on Instagram, 88.8 million on X, and 185 million on Facebook were reached every single day, according to Jones.
The focus of their messaging was affordability.
THE ELECTION WAS IN FACT GAMED!!! Revealed: The coordinated Democratic social media campaign that won the midterms "Democrat operatives coordinated tens of thousands of people through the “American Accountability Network” to amplify their unaffordability message across social media. The Republicans never figured out what we were doing,” Van Jones said.
— Steve Gruber (@stevegrubershow) November 8, 2026
The purpose was “driving the kitchen table affordability message and tying that to Democrats on a positive and Republicans on a negative,” Jones explained.
The Republicans “couldn’t get any traction on these cultural war issues anymore because we figured out how to get around all that,” he continued.
“Don’t get mad at me, I was given permission to reveal this!” he said. “That network is going to continue to push for kitchen table issues and hold our Democratic lawmakers accountable.”
Questions remain about the organization’s financial structure and whether or not the people pushing the messaging were paid.
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