Progressive candidates in Michigan and Missouri are facing off against corporate-backed centrists in key House and Senate races. Will voters send a message to the political establishment and AIPAC by electing candidates who prioritize Medicare for All and ending US aid to Israel?

With AIPAC taking an outsized role in funding a number of centrist primary campaigns this election cycle, the results Tuesday night are expected to reveal whether the lobby group can continue to influence elections and US policy regarding Israel, while a growing number of Americans view Israel negatively following nearly three years of its US-backed assault on Gaza.

Dan Pfeiffer, a former Obama administration staffer who co-hosts the podcast “Pod Save America,” said that with the Democratic establishment particularly throwing its weight behind pro-Israel US Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) in the race between her and progressive former public health official Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s US Senate race, Tuesday will be “the culmination of one of the most heated and expensive Democratic Senate primaries in history.”

“The Democratic establishment threw everything it had at Abdul El-Sayed,” said Pfeiffer. “If he wins, the reverberations will be felt far outside of Michigan.”

This is our chance!

Other key elections today - though this list is incomplete:

  • State Rep. Donavan McKinney, a former labor organizer, is running to unseat Thanedar in the state’s 13th District, and recently notched endorsements from the Democratic Socialists of America and Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa.). Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) have also thrown their support behind McKinney.

  • Lawrence has also been endorsed by Sanders, Tlaib, and a number of progressive groups in his race in the state’s 7th District, where he and the two moderate candidates seek to oust US Rep. Tom Barrett.

  • Former US Rep. Cori Bush vs. Rep. Wesley Bell. In Missouri’s 1st District in St. Louis, former US Rep. Cori Bush is running for a second time against Rep. Wesley Bell, who defeated her in the 2024 primary after nearly two-thirds of his campaign funding came from the United Democracy Project (UDP), a super political action committee affiliated with AIPAC. The group allocated more than $100 million toward defeating candidates that supported Palestinian rights and opposed US military funding for Israel that year.

  • Eat_Your_Paisley
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    22 days ago

    Haley will be defeated by Abdul because she’s unlikable, Abdul will loose to Mike in November then we’ll all ring our hands