Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Tun daga tsakiyar 2013, Compact Magazine ya tallata a ƙarƙashin taken "Courage to the Truth" (), wanda AfD kuma ya yi amfani da shi azaman taken. Elsässer ya rarraba mujallar da farko a taron siyasa na AfD. A cikin bazara na 2015, ya yanke shawarar yin mujallar don yakin neman zabe na AfD. Musamman tun lokacin da
Rikicin bakin haure na 2015 a Turai, Compact yana tallatawa akai-akai tare da shafukan farko da littattafan jigo ga 'yan siyasa na AfD da matsayinsu. Kwana uku kafin zaben yanki a Saxony-Anhalt a shekarar 2016, Elsässer ya karbi bakuncin taron kai tsaye tare da babban dan takarar AfD André Poggenburg, yana ba shi damar gabatar da burin AfD. Ya gabatar da Compact a matsayin muryar "mafi rinjaye" da kuma AfD a matsayin jam'iyyar su. A daren zaben Poggenburg bai amsa tambayoyin daga masu watsa shirye-shiryen jama'a ba, amma a maimakon haka kawai ya yi magana da Compact. Don haka Compact ya sanya kansa a matsayin mai magana da yawun irin AfD da magoya bayan Pegida waɗanda suka ƙi yarda da kafofin watsa labarai na yau da kullun, suna kiran shi "labarin ƙarya" ().