"Now it can be told," CNN commentator Van Jones, barely holding back his glee, explained Nov. 5 on CNN program "The Source."
"Tens of thousands of online humans, not bots, coordinated to make the affordability message a winning message online," Jones said.
Those activists worked through a left-wing group, the American Accountability Network, that partners with liberals to reach an online audience on social media.
Using that group, Jones shared, the Democrat activists had a single goal to reach voters with what he called the "kitchen table affordability message."
The activists, Jones shared, hit up more than 32 million people a day on Instagram, almost 89 million a day on X, and around 185 million people on Facebook every single day, whispering in their ears that affordability was an issue.
"The Republicans never figured out what we were doing," Jones also bragged.
Conservative commentator Gentry Gevers posted on X about the supposed trickery, and he pointed out crude oil prices suddenly dropped sharply the day after Democrats won Congress.
"They (Democrats) did not win on policy. They won on volume. They manufactured a crisis, pointed it at your gas tank, and flooded every feed in America until it worked. And Jones said the network is not going away," Gevers wrote.
On his American Family Radio program, show host Abraham Hamilton III told listeners about Jones' revelation of the American Accountability Network.
"There's a difference between organically sharing your opinion versus you having an alliance with - dare I say - a major political party that is literally manufacturing a crisis," Hamilton commented.
After looking into the American Accountability Network, Hamilton said the group was created in 2025.
"It was created for one purpose and one purpose only: To counter the dominance of conservatives in the social media, in the podcast digital space. That's the whole purpose."
Gary Bauer, president of American Values, says the op was a major part of the rout that may have put the GOP in a hole for a generation to come.
"There was a complete change in the electorate. Christian evangelicals inexplicably voted at some of the lowest percentages in years," Bauer states.
Couple the op with a rising generation that has been indoctrinated to believe capitalism is the problem, and socialism is the answer, that turned out in huge numbers. That, he said, is the 2026 midterms in a nutshell.
"We've got to get our act together fast. We've got some people that should be able to help us on this, like Elon Musk. We've got to come up with our own operation," Bauer states.
