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A University of Chicago student who exposed remarks by Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., about deterring young conservatives from working in the administration of President Donald Trump told Campus Reform in an interview that her warning has only motivated students to stand up for their political beliefs. Michael Bicksel, a second-year student and senior editor of The Chicago Thinker, has since filed a formal Senate ethics complaint against the Michigan Democrat for threatening political persecution against young Americans interested in serving in a Republican administration. “The power imbalance here is really, really stark,” Bicksel told Campus Reform, describing the controversy as...

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed (D-MI) said President Donald Trump is acting like an “unserious fool.” Host Jonathan Karl said, “You said that Democrats should drop the decorum and treat Trump, these were your words, as the unserious fool that he is. So how is that going to work? How are you going to deliver on your promises? You’re calling the president the unserious fool that he is.” El-Sayed said, “Well, let’s talk about how he is an unserious fool. Think about this war in Iran that every single president had resisted fighting because, of course, it...

Michigan has elected Abdul El-Sayed, the first Muslim U.S. senator in American history. This is an extraordinary moment. But anyone seeking to understand how it happened must begin with the people who made it possible, especially Black Detroit, whose organizing, relationships and determination helped secure this victory.

Lebanon News & OSINT on X: "🌲 - 🇱🇧🔰🇺🇸 The U.S. State Department has declared Lebanon’s Consul General in Detroit, Ibrahim Sharara, persona non grata, ordering him to leave the United States by Sunday, November 8. The decision follows a Washington Free Beacon report highlighting social media posts attributed to Sharara in which he praised the 1983 Beirut Marine barracks bombing, which killed 241 American servicemen. The report also highlighted Sharara’s participation in an Arab-American community event in Michigan attended by Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed." Conversation @LebOSINT Lebanon News & OSINT @LebOSINT 🌲 - 🇱🇧🔰🇺🇸 The U.S. State...

The editor — who goes by “CopyleftEverything” — is also responsible for dozens of other edits to pages on the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the American Communist Party and the Revolutionary Communists of America. The editor was “diligent in what appears to be a clean-up of El-Sayed’s page” heading into Tuesday’s general election where the radical Dem defeated Republican Mike Rogers, according to investigative journalist Ashley Rindsberg. ..tracked revisions to El-Sayed’s page and posted them this week on X. They include a June 12 edit where wording is changed from El-Sayed “has never been granted a medical license” to...

Michigan Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed’s Wikipedia page was quietly whitewashed over the past few months by a mysterious editor, including scrubbing a series of antisemitism controversies, according to social media sleuths. The editor — who goes by “CopyleftEverything” — is also responsible for dozens of other edits to pages on the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the American Communist Party and the Revolutionary Communists of America. The editor was “diligent in what appears to be a clean-up of El-Sayed’s page” heading into Tuesday’s general election where the radical Dem defeated Republican Mike Rogers, according to investigative journalist Ashley Rindsberg. Both Rindsberg,...

The progressive doctor overcame Trump's 'jihadist' rhetoric and GOP attacks to flip the closely watched Senate seat.

Ecstatic after an early morning victory, El-Sayed’s fans spontaneously began chanting “free free Palestine” outside his party venue.

The New York Times came in for online mockery Tuesday after a list it published of Jewish voters saying they would back Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed for Senate included the unfortunate moniker “Jack Mehoff.”The Times initially reported Sept. 17 on the letter, which it said was signed by “more than 500 people who identify as Jewish leaders or voters” in the Mitten State and insisted that El-Sayed is “clearly the better choice for Jews.” *** Records reviewed by The Post lists someone named Jack Mehoff as living on campus at Michigan State University in East Lansing. The university did not...

Donald Trump: Agreed with Benjamin Netanyahu to stop US funding to Israel at the end of 2026 | The Jerusalem Post. Trump: US will stop funding to Israel after end of 2026, will 'help Israel if they need it'. The president went on to praise Israel as a particularly reliable American ally, contrasting its conduct with that of other US partners. By Idan Kweller. November 3, 2026. On the morning of the US midterm elections, US President Donald Trump made a startling claim in an interview with Fox & Friends: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself initiated a plan to end...

President Trump announced Tuesday that he had reached an agreement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop US aid to Israel after the end of the year. “They don’t need it,” Trump said on Fox & Friends Tuesday morning. “We give them more than anybody else, and they no longer need it. We’ve been doing it for years. I’ve been doing it, but Israel is a very thriving country. They don’t need it. If they did need it, I would say keep it going.” The president said the idea came from Netanyahu himself, suggesting that the agreement was also...

A former worker on Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan Senate campaign was among 12 anti-Israel activists indicted for an alleged campaign of threats, vandalism and intimidation targeting Michigan’s Jewish community and University of Michigan officials. Mariam Odeh, 24, was among eight people initially indicted for allegedly conspiring to threaten university officials in an effort to force the institution to sever ties with Israel. Federal prosecutors announced Friday that four additional suspects had been indicted, bringing the total number of defendants to 12. According to The Detroit News, Odeh worked for El-Sayed’s Senate campaign for two weeks in 2024, receiving nearly $750 in...

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has been accused of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood. The Midwesterner wrote that El-Sayed advocated for Sharia law and was heavily affiliated with groups that provided support to Hamas. The apple does not fall far from the tree because his own mother supported terrorist organizations. Three times, El-Sayed has avoided questions about labeling the Brotherhood a terrorist group. He instead mocked his questioner and repeated a painfully generic “this is about democracy” answer. “I’m not going to stoop to that level,” El-Sayed said when asked if he would designate the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. .......

The crazed student who attacked a Jewish influencer during a debate at the University of Michigan has been identified in online posts as a Mongolian-American activist, who raved about having just been released from a mental hospital, according to her victim. Temulun Togochog, a student at the university, is known for advocating for the rights of ethnic Mongolians living under Chinese rule in Inner Mongolia, according to watchdog group StopAntisemitism. “She said she had been in a mental institution before and she would be happy to go back if it meant she got to kill me,” Jewish activist Lizzie Benichou...

The constellation of different committees have overlapping big donors and fund the same candidates—El Sayed and some likeminded far-left House candidates who hate Israel.

You knew Morning Joe would rip Democrat Haley Stevens for endorsing Republican Mike Rogers in the Michigan Senate race. But the show took it to another, vile level today with an ugly insinuation. Mika Brzezinski: “I think also [people] see something corrupt in this dramatic turnaround. It’s not hard to make an assumption.”If it's not hard, Mika, have the guts to spell it out—instead of hiding behind your murmured insinuation. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Abdul El-Sayed is having a terrible home stretch in the Michigan Senate race, digging himself deeper on a daily basis. And for whatever reason, he just can't seem to put the shovel down. First, he refused to condemn a blatantly antisemitic ad supporting his campaign. That was too much for Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.), his former primary opponent, who had endorsed him after their race. Stevens flipped and endorsed his Republican opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers. In the final days of the campaign, El-Sayed's candidacy is tearing the Democrat Party apart, and now he is stuck playing defense on antisemitism...

At first glance, the 2026 election looks like any other midterm. The incumbent party is exhausted. The opposition is eager to rebuke an unpopular president. Economic concerns predominate. An electoral thumping seems inevitable. Check results from 2022, 2018, 2014, 2010 and 2006 for reference. Under the surface, however, an ugly force is stirring in U.S. politics that makes this midterm campaign different. For the first time in generations, antisemitism has emerged from the shadows to influence American public life. From Graham Platner to Abdul El-Sayed, from Hasan Piker to Tucker Carlson, antagonism toward Israel, “Zionists” and foreign intervention has morphed...

So think about how bad Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed must be for Stevens to cross the political aisle and endorse Rogers, the Republican candidate she initially dismissed, for senator from Michigan. So bad that El-Sayed dismissed an attack on a synagogue full of children by blaming Israel, claiming that “hurt people hurt people.” So bad that when El-Sayed was asked whether Iran or Israel was the greater threat to the US, he answered both. So bad that El-Sayed refused to denounce an advertisement that blamed Israel for high inflation. Stevens had begged for El-Sayed to stop blaming the Jewish state...

As the 2026 midterm election jamboree entered its final days, the punditocracy has been treated to a couple of cathartic and possibly clarifying shudders. As I write, Elissa Slotkin, a Democratic Senator from Michigan, is scrambling to retrieve her standing after she told an interviewer that she favored having the deep state harass people who supported Donald Trump and the MAGA agenda. She didn’t put it quite like that, of course. What she said was: “I want young people coming out of school to say, ‘Should I go work for the Trump administration?’ I want them to be like, ‘Lord,...