Progressive Primary Surges Clash With Federal Voting Rigging
August 3, 2026
Democratic primaries from Michigan to Missouri reveal a high-stakes fracture over foreign policy and progressive economic platforms, even as the Trump administration withholds Medicaid funding and tightens executive control over midterms. Heavy outside spending by groups like AIPAC collides with grassroots insurgencies, exposing deep institutional vulnerabilities as federal power moves to rewrite electoral rules.
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Abdul El-Sayed Answers: Can the Left Win in the Midwest? Yes.
The Michigan Senate primary is the next biggest test for the direction of the Democratic Party. The post Abdul El-Sayed Answers: Can the Left Win in the Midwest? Yes. appeared first on The Intercept.
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US Arabs eye ‘historic’ Senate win for Abdul El-Sayed despite AIPAC attacks
Senate race in Michigan comes to embody Democratic rift over Israel, as AIPAC spends heavily against progressive doctor.
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Across the US, progressives are upending Democratic primary races. Will it happen in Missouri?
On Tuesday, voters will choose between ex-congresswoman Cori Bush, or pro-Israel incumbent Wesley Bell The pastor of a historically Black church on St Louis’s north side, Rodrick Burton, has watched with bewilderment as the congressional race in his district has drawn national attention not about th…
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AOC 2028: could she be the first female US president? | Politics Weekly America
Leftwing Democrats are having their political moment in the sun, with Zohran Mamdani in New York, Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan and the endless calls for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to run for president in 2028. Has Democratic socialism shifted from the political fringe to the mainstream? And can this gro…
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How much has AIPAC spent against Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed? And why?
Pro-Israel group unleashes its spending power to help elect Haley Stevens to US Senate against progressive doctor.
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Israel’s influence industry in the US
Abdul El-Sayed's hardline campaign exposes a party, a media ecosystem and a debate over Israel in the US.
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Zohran Derangement Syndrome
NYC’s right-wing rags go full racist. Plus: Farmers pull a fast one; the human toll of deportation.
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The Democrats have one last chance to halt the erosion of US democracy – and it’s less than 100 days away | Timothy Garton Ash
American democrats need a Hungarian-style landslide to overwhelm Trump’s attempts to rig November’s midterm elections In these days of extreme weather events, it seems odd to say that the US needs a big landslide. But a landslide defeat for President Donald Trump in November’s midterm elections is e…
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‘Just cruel’: Medicaid halt in California and Minnesota plunges caregivers and disabled people into uncertainty
Shock and fury as Trump administration holds back Medicaid funding to states over alleged caregiving fraud By now, when Shannon Rosa hears about cuts to Medicaid and misinformation from the Trump administration about disabled people and their families, her predominant feeling isn’t fear or sadness.…
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Are Trump’s most blatant authoritarian moves backfiring? | Jan-Werner Müller
The president’s methods, from ‘flooding the zone’ with scandals to prioritizing loyalty over competence, could ultimately weaken rather than strengthen him The pattern is by now all too familiar: with every power grab Trump tries – from a fraudulent speech about voter fraud to appeals to his supreme…
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McCarthyism has returned to the United States – and this time it’s even more dangerous | Judith Levine
Trump’s campaign of repression echoes the red scare. But now the government has bigger ambitions and more powerful tools There are many parallels between the first McCarthy era, roughly 1946 to 1956, and Trump’s campaign of political repression, his own updated McCarthyism. Both regimes crafted a mo…
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Will the US midterm elections be free and fair? – Stateside with Kai and Carter
With Republicans' chances in the midterms looking shaky, Donald Trump is increasingly trying to rewrite the rules that govern US elections. Voting rights groups say he's really laying the groundwork to suppress voters. Trump has already moved to change mail-in voting, but he now wants Congress to pa…