by Tom Perkins | Aug 3, 2026 | AIPAC, Democratic Party, elections, News, Senate
Early in the Michigan Senate Democratic primary, Erin Mallen sent $10 to State Senator Mallory McMorrow. Mallen, a mom who runs an Etsy shop near Traverse City, a liberal bastion in northern Michigan, liked McMorrow — she is young and a break from the Senate’s establishment who occupied a middle lane between Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed, Mallen said. Lagging in the polls…
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by Sharon Zhang | Jul 31, 2026 | 2026 election, Abdul El-Sayed, AIPAC, Dark Money, elections, Islamophobia, Michigan, News
On Thursday, Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Michigan) posted a bizarre and racist rant against opponent Abdul El-Sayed over his criticisms of AIPAC — even as Stevens’s campaign has already faced pushback for embracing bigoted attacks. In a post on X addressed directly to El-Sayed late Thursday evening, Stevens said that “[e]veryone in America understands you want to blame all of your problems on…
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by Sharon Zhang | Jul 24, 2026 | 2026 election, Abdul El-Sayed, AIPAC, Department of Homeland Security, ICE, Michigan, News, Palantir
Up until this week, House representative and Democratic Senate candidate Haley Stevens’s campaign shared a mutual consultant with far right tech surveillance company Palantir, new reporting reveals, bringing renewed attention to Stevens’s record on ICE as she faces a contentious race against Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan. Drop Site News’s Ryan Grim reported on Thursday that the consultant…
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by Eli Clifton | Jul 21, 2026 | 2026 midterms, Abdul El-Sayed, AIPAC, Israel lobby, Michigan, News
The August 4th Democratic primary for Michigan’s open Senate seat pits Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.), backed by nearly $15 million (to-date) in support from a super PAC controlled by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), against Abdul El-Sayed, a candidate who characterized Israel’s war in Gaza as a “genocide” and blamed “the impact of AIPAC in our politics” for the U.S.
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by Sharon Zhang | Jul 17, 2026 | AIPAC, Democrats, Gaza, Genocide, Hakeem Jeffries, Israel, News, Rashida Tlaib
Over 100 Democrats voted for a House measure to cut $3.3 billion in military funding for Israel on Wednesday, marking a shift within the party even as the amendment still overwhelmingly failed to pass. The amendment, introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky), failed 104 to 314. The legislation would have stripped the 2027 State Department and national security funding bill of a provision…
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by Aastha Uprety | Jul 11, 2026 | AIPAC, Claire Valdez, Darializa Avila Chevalier, Democratic Socialists of America, DSA, elections, Israel, labor, Labor Unions, New York, New York City, Op-Ed, Palestine, UAW, Unions, Zohran Mamdani
While the rest of the U.S. left celebrated two major wins in New York’s congressional primaries in June, much of the organized labor movement was left licking its wounds. The combined heft of New York City’s largest labor unions was not enough to best the candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the star power of Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Darializa Avila Chevalier won…
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