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Progressive Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon has pulled off a major upset in the Democratic primary for US Senate, defeating former National Security Council aide Alex Vindman, according to projections from multiple networks on Tuesday. Nixon will face Republican Sen. Ashley Moody in the general election. Vindman, a retired lieutenant colonel and Iraq War veteran who became nationally known after testifying during President Donald Trump's 2019 impeachment hearings, had been considered the strong favorite heading into Tuesday's primary. Nixon, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, campaigned as a progressive challenger seeking to demonstrate that insurgent left-wing politics could...

Don’t believe the Democratic National Committee’s official storyline: The DNC’s decision to make South Carolina the first Democratic presidential primary in 2028 isn’t about introducing more racial diversity into the early contests. It’s actually about keeping power in the hands of the party establishment — the people who backed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020, and who are likely to wind up supporting Kamala Harris in 2028. The fix is in. South Carolina was the establishment’s firewall against Bernie Sanders’ left-wing insurgency twice over. In 2016, Sanders nearly beat Hillary Clinton in the first caucus, in Iowa,...

Alaska Democratic Senate hopeful Mary Peltola rejected support this week from former Vice President Kamala Harris, who lost the state by double-digits in her failed 2024 presidential campaign. “Alaska is a must-win Senate seat for Democrats to retake control of the Senate,” Harris wrote in a fundraising email, urging the public to “help Mary Peltola get the support she needs” by splitting a donation between Peltola’s campaign and the ex-veep’s Fight for the People PAC. Harris continued, “So if there’s anyone who can flip Alaska and secure the Senate majority for Democrats – it’s Mary. But she cannot do it...

WASHINGTON — Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley beat Democratic socialist Francesca Hong in a come-from-behind victory during the Wisconsin gubernatorial primary Tuesday night. Crowley, 40, was ahead of the 37-year-old state representative and member of the Democratic Socialists of America 39.8% to 39.4% when the race was called by the Associated Press at 3:34 a.m. Surveys ahead of the Badger State Democratic contest had consistently showed Hong besting Crowley by double digit percentage points. Crowley had also dropped out of the race weeks before and even endorsed another opponent, before re-entering the contest and receiving the backing of outgoing Gov....

A lot of attention has been focused on the Commie Hong running in the Democrat primary for governor of Wisconsin. However, I contend that the Minnesota Democrat primary for U.S. Senator is equally, if not, MORE significant. The main contenders are a standard issue Democrat vs Flan Southside aka Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan. You might remember her from earlier this year when it was alleged that she was a ringleader of the Antifa Signal Chat that directed the Minneapolis Commie crowd harassment of ICE in an attempt to keep them from performing their duty. During these harassments, 2 people died...

The Democratic establishment took another loss on Tuesday. Michigan primary voters rejected their preferred Senate candidate, Haley Stevens, in favor of Abdul El-Sayed, the radical left-wing challenger backed by Hasan Piker, the Turkish-American influencer known for praising Hamas and Mao Zedong. It was not a decisive victory by any means. Most observers had expected an El-Sayed blowout based on recent polling, which showed him leading by double digits. He led by less than 1 point when the Associated Press called the race Wednesday morning. Mallory McMorrow, who dropped out of the race in early July, was on track to get...

FIFTY LABORATORIES OF DEMOCRACY One of the most common misunderstandings about our Founding Fathers is that they intended for each state to be free to decide how big or small a government to have. This idea, taught for generations in the schools and regularly repeated by the press and political class, posits that the Founding Fathers were specific about the federal government, but they didn’t care at all how big each state, county, or local government became. They teach that each state was to be its own “laboratory of democracy,” free to be anything from libertarian to dictatorial, as each...

No primary—especially a Senate primary—should go on this long. But Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, having dragged on for months, has turned into an interminably vicious grudge fest—one that’s not likely to subside until voters finally go to the polls on August 4 and choose between Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed.But the Michigan primary is also so bitter for the same reason that it has been so interesting. Of all of the 2026 races, this is the one that best captures the current fissures in the Democratic Party—and which seems to best predict where the fault lines of the 2028 presidential...

WASHINGTON — Democrats took a big step Friday toward making South Carolina the first state to hold its presidential primary in the 2028 cycle, potentially handing former Vice President Kamala Harris a big early advantage should she launch a third White House bid. The Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws panel gave the Palmetto State the nod to go first with 26 votes, followed by Nevada (19 votes) and longtime first-in-the-nation primary state New Hampshire (4 votes). Friday’s committee vote is expected to be approved next month by the full DNC, formalizing the calendar. Democratic activists had pushed hard in...

A slate of Republican candidates endorsed by President Trump, including former NFL kicker Jay Feely, emerged victorious Tuesday in Arizona’s primary elections, while a Democratic socialist House hopeful suffered a massive defeat. Feely, who played for six teams, including the New York Jets and New York Giants, during his 14 seasons in the NFL, defeated former state lawmaker Joseph Chaplik in the Arizona 1st District race by a 49.4%-35.2% margin. The district, rated a toss-up by the Cook Political Report, is being vacated by Rep. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.), who opted to run for governor, and is expected to be hotly...

ARIZONA ELECTIONS: Today’s primaries in Arizona will set up several competitive House battleground races this fall, as well as competitive elections for governor, secretary of state and other offices. Today’s primaries in Arizona will also set up several competitive House races this fall.

Fox News host Jesse Watters dissects the Maine U.S. Senate race while sounding the alarm over socialism’s influence within the Democratic Party on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’

Insurgent socialist candidate Melat Kiros defeated longtime Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) Tuesday in Colorado’s 1st District House primary, marking the latest blow to the establishment wing of the Democratic Party. Kiros came out on top of the incumbent, 49.3% to 43.5%, by the time the Associated Press called the race late Tuesday. Kiros’s win in the solidly blue district follows a string of victories by socialist and far-left candidates over incumbent and establishment-backed Democrats in New York in June, and it’s expected to tilt the political makeup of the House Democratic caucus even further to the left after the midterm...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries publicly embraced a new crop of congressional nominees Saturday, including three Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidates whose primary victories have fueled fresh debate over the Democratic Party’s leftward shift ahead of the 2026 midterms. The powerful New York lawmaker’s post highlights the challenge facing the top House Democrat as he works to unite his party ahead of the general election. If Democrats take back the House in November, Jeffries is expected to become the next speaker. That means he’ll likely be leading a Democratic caucus with more self-described Democratic Socialists than ever before. So far,...

Despite her famous family and high profile diplomatic career, Caroline Kennedy doesn’t often issue public statements. This week, she made an exception, sharing a message of support for her son Jack Schlossberg. He is currently running as a Democrat for the U.S. House of Representatives in New York's 12th Congressional District. She said in a video shared to Schlossberg’s Instagram account. “We need a new generation that still believes in the old values. Vote for Jack by June 23rd.” The message comes shortly after news broke that Caroline and her husband Ed Schlossberg have moved in with their son-in-law Dr....

House Democratic leadership's preferred candidate in Maine's 2nd district, state Sen. Joe Baldacci, lost his primary to progressive rival Matt Dunlap, state election officials announced early Friday morning. Why it matters: This is the second time this month that a candidate backed by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has fallen short in their primary.

The New York primary is a week from Tuesday. Early voting has already started in the city and continues through Sunday, and while Mayor Zohran Mamdani is not on the ballot, he could be a deciding factor in several key congressional races. There are some years when barely 10% of New York's registered voters cast their ballots in the city's primaries. For the candidates, raising awareness is half the battle. "We need people to vote! Right now, with early voting, we're seeing extremely low turnout," said District 7 Congressional candidate Julie Won. The City Council member is one of several...

Sen. Lindsey Graham held a campaign event in Downtown Charleston [last] Friday, where he outlined his political priorities and urged supporters not to back down heading into election season... Regardless of the topic being discussed, Graham found a way to loop in how his tight relationship with the President is a pillar voters should lean on when at the polls...

Nobody believes that Karen Bass is indifferent to whether she faces Nithya Raman or Spencer Pratt as her opponent in November. Raman is a weak candidate, and every Democrat wants Spencer Pratt out of the race for obvious reasons, not the least of which is that anybody but a leftist on the ballot is an atrocity in their eyes. When Raman collapsed after the sole mayoral debate, Raman's polling and chances of victory, which were considered good, nosedived into single-digit territory. On election night, nobody was shocked that Pratt had closed the gap with Bass, just as nobody was surprised...

There is something seriously wrong with a government, and its people, when they cannot count votes in what one would expect to be a reasonable time frame. What's a reasonable time frame? France, as an example, can say who won a presidential election by early morning of the next day, at the latest. In CA, as of right now, only about 58% of some estimated 8 million plus votes have been counted. And the LA primary for mayor? Still counting. I'll assume that this counting is not even by hand (as in France, I believe) but by "sophisticated" machines, and...