NEW POD 🎧: @rozina_ali on Islamophobia then and now — as we approach 25 years since 9/11, Ali says Islamophobia has only accelerated. Our conversation on how anti-Muslim rhetoric is shaping this year’s midterms, and why hate picks up every election cycle: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intercep...Mostrar mais

Progressive state Rep. Angie Nixon wins Florida’s special Senate primary over Alex Vindman, a centrist who far outraised her

NEW POD 🎧: We’re bringing you an early Intercept Briefing episode breaking down last night’s results. With @jessica_m_wash & @jonahmv podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intercep...

When we spoke last week, El-Sayed said his race wasn’t about the right vs the left: “Most people don't walk around asking, ‘Where do I sit on the left right spectrum?’ Most people are walking around asking, ‘What the hell's going to happen if I get sick?’” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intercep...Mostrar mais

SMP backs El-Sayed: "El-Sayed's vision for a healthier, more affordable future has energized voters"

another incumbent down: state Rep. Donavan McKinney beats Rep. Shri Thanedar (who self-funded and was boosted by crypto $) by 3.8 points

it's official: AP calls for El-Sayed

Donavan McKinney is now leading Rep. Shri Thanedar w 41 % of votes in

NBC projects Will Lawrence win in MI-7

Rep. Shri Thanedar has taken the lead in MI-13

AIPAC's UDP out with a $35k buy in CA-14 (Swalwell's old seat) for Melissa Hernandez who came in 2nd in the primary

NEW: Cori Bush has no regrets. We spoke ahead of her race to take back her old seat on Tuesday. No, she hasnt spoken to AOC. No, she wouldn’t take back her infrastructure vote. And yes, she’s still the same Cori. “They just radicalized me more.” theintercept.com/2026/08/01/missouri-cori-...Mostrar mais

NEW POD: Abdul El-Sayed tells me about the Trump voters backing him. "I give them a kinda quizzical look," he said. "I ask why, and it's because, 'Hey, I really think you want me to have healthcare.' I'm like, 'I really want you to have healthcare.'" podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intercep...Mostrar mais

AIPAC's super PAC has spent $2.6 million so far against Cori Bush in next week's primary, per most recent IE report yesterday

NEW POD 🎧: Trump built a national police force to go after immigrants. Now, with a budget bigger than most militaries around the world, it’s bringing the war on the southern border home to roost. w/ @naureenshah & @nayna_gupta podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intercep...Mostrar mais

You can read here about all the money Democrats poured into the AZ-01 primary and lost theintercept.com/2026/07/15/arizona-democr...

NEW: Shai Davidai is leaving Columbia. theintercept.com/2025/07/09/pro-israel-pro...

The day after Trump sent the national guard to crush protests against ICE in LA, 75 Democrats voted for a resolution that praised ICE. Meanwhile, only one Democrat has introduced legislation this session to protect protesters: Rep. Ilhan Omar theintercept.com/2025/06/11/protests-ilhan...Mostrar mais

SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/ice-columbia-s...

A former campaign staffer told me Fetterman is bleeding staff because of his hard-right turn - and not just on Israel. “This is a guy who, since Trump won, is for lack of better word basically a useful idiot for Republicans.” theintercept.com/2025/02/19/fetterman-staf...Mostrar mais

NEW: Fetterman is losing 2 more staff - bringing total to 6 since his hard pro-Israel turn. “I think the staff is probably frustrated that working in the Fetterman office means you’re just working on Israel all the time,” a frmer campaign staffer told me theintercept.com/2025/02/19/fetterman-staf...Mostrar mais

NEW: a man in Oregon state prison has been in solitary confinement for more than 250 days. He’s a disabled combat veteran with PTSD - and the person to receive the harshest prison sentence in relation to 2020 BLM protests theintercept.com/2024/12/05/blm-george-flo...Mostrar mais

NEW: I spent months tracking every single dollar AIPAC spent this year. This investigation paints a picture of just how much the pro-Israel lobbying group has reshaped elections after starting to spend directly on candidates just 2 years ago 🧵 theintercept.com/2024/10/24/aipac-spending...Mostrar mais

NEW: AIPAC helped him oust Cori Bush w $9 million. Now one of Wes Bell’s last acts as a prosecutor before entering Congress is charging eight protesters arrested outside the Ferguson Police Dept. on the anniversary of Mike Brown Jr.’s killing w felonies theintercept.com/2024/10/03/wesley-bell-fe...Mostrar mais

NEW: Uncommitted will NOT back Harris, no meeting w/ VP after DNC. VP’s “unwillingness to shift on unconditional weapons policy” or make a statement “upholding existing U.S. and international human rights law has made it impossible for us to endorse her.” theintercept.com/2024/09/19/uncommitted-ka...Mostrar mais

Uncommitted presser: 630 deadline to accept request for a Palestinian speaker has passed. “This has been a disastrous decision by the Democratic leadership to deny a bare minimum ask that we asked for weeks ago before the convention.”

Rep. Greg Casar joins the uncommitted sit in

On the L

Rep. Omar: it’s been unconscionable “to witness my colleagues in this administration refusing to recognize the genocidal war that is taking place in Gaza … working tirelessly for a ceasefire is really not a thing and they should be ashamed of themselves”

Democrats are really leaning into the “convicted felon” thing despite pressure from criminal justice reformers to dispense w that kind of language and acknowledge that justice-impacted people are also voters

AOC’s transformation since 2018 is remarkable. She started our helping lead a climate sit-in in Pelosi’s office. Now she’s speaking in the lead up to Biden’s speech at the DNC and thanking his administration for its leadership

Uncommitted Dearborn cofounder Layla Elabed just left the podium in tears as Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan described treating a child with his face blown off in Gaza and hearing another child say he wanted to die because all of his family was gone

The day after Rep. Cori Bush lost her election in the face of $8.5 million from AIPAC, the White House denounced her for criticizing AIPAC

AIPAC has spent $25 million+ to take down two Black members of the Squad this cycle. $25 million theintercept.com/2024/08/06/aipac-cori-bus...

Justice Dems statement on Bush loss: “AIPAC will soon become our generation’s NRA … Make no mistake, AIPAC has created a blueprint for right-wing Super PACs to try and buy elections.”

NEW: AIPAC has spent >$7 mill to oust Rep. Cori Bush, including on ads distorting her face, elongating her jaw & forehead. “The people of St. Louis deserve better than to see their first Black Congresswoman racistly distorted into a caricature,” Bush said. theintercept.com/2024/07/31/aipac-cori-bus...Mostrar mais

it’s pretty wild how much of the anti-Bowman/Bush stuff is just not-so-thinly veiled racism

AIPAC’s next target is Rep. Cori Bush. $2 million on the race so far

NEW: The U.S. backed off sanctioning an IDF battalion w documented human rights violations including actions that led to the death of an American citizen. The leader of the battalion’s U.S. nonprofit arm (yes) has given almost $100k to AIPAC’s super PAC theintercept.com/2024/05/23/aipac-donor-st...Mostrar mais

NEW: Jamaal Bowman’s primary could be the most expensive in history. AIPAC is expected to spend up to $25 million to elect their recruited candidate, George Latimer. 1/4 of Latimer’s funds have been raised thru AIPAC, and at least $200k from GOP donors theintercept.com/2024/05/03/aipac-jamaal-b...Mostrar mais

"dissent must never lead to disorder" is a pretty remarkable thing to say in a country founded on both of those things

Fetterman has now withdrawn his support for an LBGT community center in Philadelphia and requested that funding for its expansion be removed from a HUD appropriations bill

folks

NEWS: Bush, Tlaib, Carson, Lee, Ramirez lead colleagues in call for immediate ceasefire

While Israel drops white phosphorus on Gaza, flattens entire villages and tells 1 million people to evacuate in <24 hours, Amy Schumer is posting information on her instagram claiming that Israel wants to “minimize civilian casualties.” Still, people are turning to her for fac…Mostrar mais

NEW: The only Palestinian-American person in Congress mourned the deaths of Israelis and Palestinians and called to end violence. Dems attacked her, leadership said nothing. "What they said should not have been remotely controversial,” said @bethavemiller theintercept.com/2023/10/11/israel-tlaib-b...Mostrar mais

NEW: Activists in Georgia posted flyers naming one of the cops in Tortuguita’s killing. They were arrested, placed in solitary confinement and now face a felony and 20 years in prison. W/ @natashalennard theintercept.com/2023/05/02/cop-city-activ...

New: the 1st & biggest donor to the Bakari Sellers-backed PAC planning to spend $1 million to oust Rep. Rashida Tlaib is a hedge fund manager who has given >$1 million to GOP committees & candidates this year, including Herschel Walker, & $125k to DMFI PAC theintercept.com/2022/06/10/rashida-tlaib-...Mostrar mais

Does the New York Times think it’s irrelevant to mention the people who spent $6.5 million in SF to send this message?