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DSA Watch @DSA_Watch Hasan Piker calls the 700,000+ Haley Stevens voters and the 51% of Michigan Democrats that did not vote for Abdul El-Sayed "Islamaphobic pieces of shit."

Democrat voters in Michigan are jumping ship in droves after radical progressive Abdul El-Sayed narrowly clinched the Democratic Senate nomination Tuesday night. Even loyal MS NOW viewers and self-described liberals are openly declaring they will not vote for the socialist-backed candidate and will instead support Republican Mike Rogers in November. MS NOW host Chris Jansing herself reported the stunning defection: "And I want to tell you really quickly, as I was getting on the plane this morning, A guy who was a big fan of MSNOW said to me, 'I'm anxious to see who wins... I voted for Haley Stevens...

Wednesday's Morning Joe gave Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed a friendly platform, and failed to press him on the radical implications of two of his signature positions: Medicare for All, and his condemnation of Israel as an "illegal apartheid state" that is "bloodthirsty" and commits "genocide." [snip] El-Sayed also accused Israel of "genocide” and described its conduct under Netanyahu as “bloodthirsty,” the latter accusation having ugly echoes of antisemitic blood libels. Politicians who oppose support for Israel often claim they’re not anti-Israel—just anti-Netanyahu. Not El-Sayed. By branding Israel an “illegal apartheid regime” that predates and outlasts Netanyahu, he made explicitly...

MIKE ROGERS FOR U.S. SENATE ROGERS ON MICHIGAN DEMOCRAT NOMINEE FOR U.S. SENATE "The choice this November is simple: common sense or complete insanity. For more than 25 years, one party has controlled Michigan's two Senate seats — and they've run our state into the ground. They've driven 200,000 manufacturing jobs out of Michigan. They've dropped our schools to 45th in the nation. They've saddled families with the highest utility rates in the Midwest. Working people are paying more, earning less, and getting left behind. And now the same failed politicians are asking us to send Abdul El-Sayed to Washington....

Less than a 1% lead? That's all Abdul El-Sayed has after (1) coordinated support from imams, (2) a wave of liberal endorsements, and (3) backing from an Arab Super PAC. NYT ScreenshotFreep. — El-Sayed's lead in the race was less than 1% when multiple outlets called it for him early.

Dearborn mosque leader threatens to resign. Niraj Warikoo. Updated Jan. 25, 2015. The religious leader of the Islamic Center of America — a landmark religious institution in metro Detroit that's one of Michigan's biggest mosques — said Friday he would resign unless the board of trustees dissolves. The dramatic announcement by Imam Hassan Qazwini to his packed congregation was met by cries of support from members pleading for him to stay and reflects an intense debate in one of the most notable mosques in the United States over finances and what is permissible under Islam. Imam Hassan Qazwini's opponents have...

Hamas wing of the Democratic Party The "Hamas wing of the Democratic Party" (also referred to as the "pro-Hamas wing") is a political epithet and rhetorical device primarily used by conservative commentators and members of the Republican Party in the United States. The phrase emerged in late 2023 following the outbreak of the Oct 7 War and has been used to criticize progressive (and progracist) Democrats, and party policies or candidates overly critical of Israel or sympathetic to / influenced by / accepting Arab "Palestinian" propaganda, on many occasions expressing rationalization of "Palestinian" terror / crimes campaign. ContentsBackground and OriginsUsage...

The Primary: As of August 2026, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is running in a highly competitive Democratic primary in Michigan against establishment centrist Representative Haley Stevens. Historical Potential: If he secures the nomination, he will be the first Muslim major-party nominee for the U.S. Senate. Winning the November general election would make him the first practicing Muslim to serve in the upper chamber. (Note: Former candidate Mehmet Oz, who ran in 2022, is a secular Muslim but did not win his election). If he wins, this means he used Israelophobia to Avance Islamization backed by the Hamas wing of the Democratic...

Jake Lang - January 6 Political Prisoner 🇺🇸 @JakeLang: I was just nearly STONED to death by hundreds of savage Muslims in Dearborn Michigan, I was hit right the back of the head with a rock & I’m bleeding - I’m in the back of a Police car now… White female Dearborn Police Officer Kusnir saved my life 🙏 7:07 PM · Aug 2, 2026 Jake Lang - January 6 Political Prisoner 🇺🇸 Aug 2 I am not allowed to carry any deadly weapons as a condition of my $1,000,000 bond in Texas The Deepstate has illegally disarmed me and...

Milan — Out in the country on a rutted dirt road lined with corn lives an old woman and her dog. Elizabeth Waffle, 88, was forced to move into a shabby trailer two years ago after her house burned down. She owns an old pickup truck but no computer. Nevertheless, Waffle, who lives on a modest pension, is a true believer in liberal causes and continues to make small political donations by way of ActBlue—the Democrat online fundraising platform. But somehow, those few dozen small donations she has made over the past five years have transmogrified into 14,696 donations totaling...

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says she will skip the Michigan Democratic Party’s August convention because she believes she will be harassed, chased around, and booed off the stage by members of her own party.This is Michigan’s sitting attorney general saying she does not trust her own political party to provide a safe environment for her. Nessel also accused Democratic leaders of failing to address complaints she previously made about party members who allegedly harassed her.

During a March 2025 stop on socialist senator Bernie Sanders's "Fighting Oligarchy" tour, left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said President Donald Trump's "deplorable and disgusting" tax cuts benefited "folks who don't really need more money." Months later, he claimed a $26,000 income deduction that was created as a part of that legislation, records show. El-Sayed and his wife claimed a "qualified business income deduction" of $26,171 on their 2025 tax return, according to a partial copy of the return. Passed as a part of Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017 and then made permanent as part of...

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, declined to apologize Monday night for his "ogre on a pike" metaphor after critics from both parties condemned the leaked remark as violent and, in some cases, sexist."Ideally, you put one ogre on a pike, and then everyone else gets the message," El-Sayed said, according to audio obtained by Politico. While El-Sayed did not name Stevens in the recording, some Democrats interpreted the remark as referring to her. Rep. Hillary Scholten, D-Mich., who has endorsed Stevens, called the remark a "violent, vulgar" threat and said candidates should be working to lower the...

Presumptive Republican nominee, former Rep. Mike Rogers (Mich.), comfortably leads progressive Abdul El-Sayed and is neck-in-neck with Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) in new polling just one week out from the Michigan Senate primary. A Michigan Education survey, which was conducted by The Glengariff Group and commissioned for Michigan Education Association and Business Leaders for Michigan, shows Rogers beating El-Sayed by 10 points in a hypothetical matchup. Eleven precent of respondents were undecided. Stevens barely edges out Rogers in a head-to-head, with the congresswoman receiving close to 46 percent and the Michigan Republican notching 45 percent support. A separate 9 percent...

The Washington Free Beacon has done some exceptional reporting on Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s past connections with the Muslim Brotherhood. Between March 23 and April 6, 2019, he headlined four private luxury yacht fundraisers for an Islamic nonprofit organization linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. One of those events hosted a speaker who has urged Muslims to “stand with” terrorist outfits Hamas and Hezbollah and stop “condemning antisemitism and condemning terrorism.” Left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed headlined a series of luxury yacht fundraisers for an Islamic nonprofit linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, including one that took place on “one...

Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed rolled out endorsements from a former New York congressman and a sitting New Jersey Democrat this week as polling shows him trailing Rep. Haley Stevens badly among black voters ahead of the August 4 primary. El-Sayed promoted the backing of former Rep. Jamaal Bowman on Sunday and Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) on Monday, both prominent black Democrats, in a race where surveys show him well behind within that bloc. Bowman aimed his post directly at the four-term congresswoman. “Haley Stevens is playing politricks, pandering, and tokenizing Black voters,” Bowman wrote on X, urging...

The forgotten story of Andrew Jackson’s first military campaign in Asia. In the winter of 1832, a merchantman flying a Danish flag pulled into a port in Quallah Battoo in the Aceh Sultanate of what is now known as Indonesia. The vessel had set out from New York City half a year ago, had circumnavigated the Cape of Good Hope, and had finally arrived here. That the vessel was named for a river in America did not strike the locals as strange and when its officers left the ship after rubbing themselves with tar to look like disreputable sailors, claiming...

There’s resistance from progressive Democrats backing el Sayed, who has called Stevens an empty suit beholden to corporate interests. Supporters of Stevens, meanwhile, may be hesitant after weeks of ads painting el Sayed as unelectable and personally flawed. The big attack ad on TV has been claims that he is “disrespectful” toward women.

Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) said Wednesday that a photo from Abdul El-Sayed’s Detroit rally told him “all he needs to know” about the progressive candidate’s standing with black voters in Michigan’s Democrat Senate primary.Clyburn, who is backing Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI), was reacting to a photo from the rally. His comments landed 13 days out from the August 4 primary, with establishment Democrats pressing their advantage over El-Sayed.“I saw a picture that concerned me coming out of Michigan. I saw the rally,” Clyburn said. “I didn’t see a single person that looks like me. That tells me all I need...

Pro-Israel research group Canary Mission said Monday that a video shows several Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)-aligned politicians joined an online rally where a speaker lamented that neutralizing Iran would strip Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis of their funding. The group shared the clip in an “exclusive” thread on X. It came from a March fundraiser called “Choose Your Fighter,” hosted by Progressive Victory to rally support for progressives opposed to the Iran conflict. The speaker was left-wing podcaster Kyle Kulinski. Kulinski argued the United States and Israel were building a “fourth Reich” before turning to Tehran’s regional proxies. “If...