South Carolina: Please Don't Vote for the Nepo Imbecile 100% Trump Stooge Daaarleeen

This combination of photos shows Sen. Darline Graham, R-S.C., on Oct. 21, 2026, in Pendleton, S.C., left, and Dr. Annie Andrews, Democratic nominee for Senate in South Carolina, on Oct. 11, 2026, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson/Meg Kinnard) (AP Photo/)

Being the sister of feu Lady Lindsey Graham (a closeted and bigoted hypocrite homosexual) doesn't make Daaarleeen knowledgeable about politics and policies, let alone be a Senator. She herself admitted she knows nothing about foreign affairs and domestic policies. And that is precisely why the Great Moron Trump likes her and picked her because she's a stupid dumba-s whom he can manipulate like a hand puppet and order her to vote according to his crooked wishes and not according to her knowledge, experience or conscience. She's a 100% Trump stooge.

In contrast, her opponent, Dr. Annie Andrews, the Democratic nominee for Senate in South Carolina is a practicing physician, someone with knowledge and expertise who will use her brain and her own conscience when she votes in the Senate. 

South Carolinians: Why would you pick a brainless stupid stooge over an independent-minded candidate with education and integrity? Voting for Daaarleeen would confirm the stereotype about stupid ignorant southerners from South Carolina.

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South Carolina Senate race gets unexpectedly close after Lindsey Graham's sister Darline stumbles
MEG KINNARD and JEFFREY COLLINS
Updated Tue, November 3, 2026 


WASHINGTON (AP) — Six months ago, the South Carolina U.S. Senate race was expected to be another straightforward campaign for incumbent Lindsey Graham and his dominant Republican Party.

But Graham's sudden death in July and the elevation of his political neophyte sister Darline from a placeholder role to seeking her own six-year term have roiled the race.

Now supporters of Democrat Annie Andrews can envision something that seemed impossible in this century of double-digit Republican wins — flipping a Senate seat in one of the nation's most reliable GOP strongholds.

Whoever wins will be the first woman elected to represent South Carolina in the U.S. Senate. But that bit of history has taken a backseat to whispers that have grown into actual predictions that Andrews could be the first Democrat since 1998 to win a statewide race for the U.S. Senate or the governor's office.
Darline Graham went from political sibling to stand-in senator

Darline Graham, by her own admission, is a reluctant candidate. She was abruptly thrust into the political spotlight after her brother, a U.S. Senate stalwart, died seeking his fifth term.

Republican Gov. Henry McMaster appointed Darline Graham to finish her brother's term in a widely hailed move, given the siblings' close relationship. Lindsey Graham helped raise his younger sister after their parents' early deaths.

Darline Graham's decision to seek a full six-year term was more surprising. The snap primary, organized just a month after Lindsey Graham's death, drew some of the top names in South Carolina politics.

President Donald Trump wanted Darline Graham in the Senate, and he immediately and forcefully backed her. The president had feuded with her brother at times but saw Lindsey Graham as an ally during his second White House term, particularly on the war with Iran.

As Darline Graham and U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman, an occasional Trump critic, battled it out in a primary runoff, the president campaigned for her in the state and returned twice in the final weeks before the election.

But that presidential backing may be eroding Graham's support from both sides. It bothers independent voters unhappy with Trump's second term and Norman supporters on the right who are unhappy that the president interfered in what should be a decision left up to the state's voters. Both groups are uneasy about Graham's inexperience and the prospect of turning the seat into a Graham family dynasty.

In a primary debate, Graham was asked whether the U.S. has a national security interest in Taiwan and the South China Sea — a longstanding contention of both Democratic and Republican administrations. She struggled to answer before admitting, "National security is not my thing."

As Republican-affiliated groups across the country reshuffled last-minute campaign spending, Senate Republicans' primary super PAC sent reinforcements to deep-red South Carolina to shore up Graham, even as Republicans said they remained confident they would retain the seat.

Annie Andrews retooled her campaign to face Darline Graham

Andrews had already been campaigning for more than a year and had won her primary outright when Lindsey Graham died, forcing her to rejigger a general election plan centered on ousting the incumbent.

Andrews has benefited from South Carolina's leadoff status on Democrats' 2028 presidential nominating calendar. Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly have visited the state, boosting her visibility and their own.

But in recent weeks, Andrews has run an independent campaign and has rarely appeared alongside prominent Democrats from South Carolina or elsewhere. She has focused on economic problems and says Graham will be like her brother, a part of the same Washington cabal that enriches only itself and cares little about the people back home.

When they met for their sole debate last month, Graham and Andrews traded barbs over the economy, war with Iran and artificial intelligence. But they mostly argued over who was less qualified for the South Carolina Senate seat. Andrews came up short in a 2022 challenge to Rep. Nancy Mace but has remained visible since, though she's never held office or run statewide.

Graham fended off Andrews' accusation that the Republican was seeking to ride her brother's political coattails, saying she had legally kept her maiden name to maintain a connection to her parents, both of whom died when she was young. "Thank you for bringing up a horrible, tragic memory for me," she added.

It's been decades since South Carolina elected a Democrat to the US Senate

A New York Times/Siena poll conducted in October appeared to show a close race.

But polls also showed an apparently close race in 2020, when Lindsey Graham, Democrat Jaime Harrison and outside groups supporting their campaigns spent hundreds of millions of dollars in South Carolina's most expensive election. In that reelection, Lindsey Graham's last, the Republican sailed back into office by a 10-percentage-point margin.

The last Democrat elected to a Senate seat in South Carolina was Fritz Hollings, who won his final term in 1998. Since then, Republicans have held both Senate seats, and only one Democrat — Jim Clyburn — represents the state in the U.S. House.

Republicans have benefited from straight-ticket voting, which allows voters to choose all GOP candidates on their ballot. The race for South Carolina's open governor's seat hasn't appeared as close as the U.S. Senate contest.

Libertarian and Constitution Party candidates are also on the general election ballot.
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Collins reported from Columbia, South Carolina.

MAGA-GOP Midterms Implosion is Trump's Worst Nightmare

The American people have had enough of Trump's manufactured chaos around the world whose only goal was to enrich the criminal felon and his billionaire cronies and corrupt family. Trump's deception and lies, his racism, xenophobia and hatred toward all non-white human beings has sickened the American voter who is now expected to bring decency and normality back to America by enabling the Democrats to seize both the House and the Senate.

The orangutan will soon be returned to his golden cage in Mar-a-Lago.

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Prediction Markets Forecast Trump’s Worst Nightmare
Vic Verbalaitis
Tue, November 3, 2026

President Donald Trump is set to face a crushing humiliation on Tuesday if the prediction markets' forecasts prove true.

Bettors on both Kalshi and Polymarket overwhelmingly expect Democrats to sweep all seven key Senate races in Tuesday's midterm elections.

At the time of writing, Texas Democratic nominee James Talarico boasted a 73 percent chance of winning against the scandal-ridden Ken Paxton, according to bettors on Kalshi, who poured a staggering $73 million into the market. Polymarket bettors felt similarly, giving the Democratic state rep a 73 percent chance also.

Talarico has been turning heads with an impressive campaign in ruby-red Texas. / Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

In Michigan, Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed had an even more commanding lead against his opponent, Republican Mike Rogers. El-Sayed has a 78 percent chance of winning the vote on Polymarket and stood at 77 percent on Kalshi.

Kansas' Adam Hamilton and Maine's Troy Jackson also held significant leads over their Republican adversaries, having a 63 percent chance and a 72 percent chance of winning on Polymarket and a 64 percent chance on Kalshi.

Sherrod Brown in Ohio held an impressive lead over incumbent Republican Sen. Jon Husted, with a 70 percent chance to win on Kalshi and 71 percent chance on Polymarket.

Iowa's Josh Turek, however, held a much narrower edge over Trump-endorsed Republican Ashley Hinson, leading by only about a few points on both markets.

Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola also led her Republican opponent Dan Sullivan with a victory chance of 71 percent on Polymarket and 70 percent on Kalshi.

The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House for comment on the Senate race odds.

More generally, Kalshi traders have poured over $100 million into a market predicting a 73 percent chance of a Democratic sweep, where the party gains control of both congressional chambers. At the time of writing, 60 percent of traders projected that Democrats would hold more than 52 Senate seats after the election.

Trump, 80, seems to have accepted that a blue wave is likely inevitable in Tuesday's midterms.

Trump and the GOP are likely facing a midterm disaster. / Umit Bektas / REUTERS

"For some reason, the sitting president doesn't win the midterms. But we gave this a very strong shot," he said during a speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Monday.

The president's abysmal approval rating, which has dropped as low as 32 percent, likely has much to do with the impending blue tsunami.

Trump's unpopular war with Iran has caused global gas prices to skyrocket, impacting Americans at the pump. Meanwhile, his flippant tariffs have made everyday goods more expensive.

Haley Stevens's Betrayal Backfires on GOP-MAGA: Pro-El-Sayed Fundraising and Polling Surge

The next Democrat Senator from Michigan Abdul El-Sayed (left) and the white trash supremacist and traitor turncoat Haley Stevens.

The past 24 hours have seen a significant boost in polling and fundraising in favor of Abdul El-Sayed, which can only be interpreted at anger in the Democrat base at Haley Stevens and her betrayal and defection to the MAGA herd of morons.

Republicans have been touting Haley Stevens's 11th-hour treason (by endorsing her enemy MAGA candidate Mike Rogers) as a heroic act of bravery on her part, further drilling the fact that the GOP-MAGA cult is 1- racist to the bone and the betrayal by Stevens can only be attributed to her white trash hatred of dark-skinned Muslim El-Sayed, and 2- that the Zionist fascists of AIPAC have terrorized to ruin Stevens if she doesn't defect.

Meanwhile, El-Sayed's campaign said it raised $2.4 million within a few hours of Stevens's defection, the best-ever fundraising day for the Democrat candidate representing some 65,000 new donors.

Stevens's betrayal came after months of tension between her and El-Sayed since he defeated her in the Democratic primary in August, and after the Zionist lobby exerted enormous pressure on her to prioritize Israel over all the miseries Trump and his Zionist allies have inflicted on the American people in their absurd war against Iran.

The role played by AIPAC in pushing Stevens to betray her party and her principles became evident after Stevens's boyfriend Jason Turkish, who is an Israeli immigrant who hates El-Sayed because he is the son of Egyptian immigrants, announced he would vote for the MAGA stooge Mike Rogers.

El-Sayed meanwhile dismissed the betrayal by Stevens, telling reporters, "At the end of the day. I actually don't think about Haley Stevens," and added later, "None of this matters." Michigan Representative Debbie Dingell revealed that she had spoken to Stevens repeatedly over the past week and that she and others were "worried" about her because she was under a lot stress as Zionist backers of Mike Rogers were pressuring her. Dingell said that the "strong Jewish community in her district" had mounted a vitriolic and racist attack against El-Sayed.

Meanwhile the Michigan African-American community was dismayed at Stevens's betrayal and its leaders vowed to make a push for African voters to head to the polls. Virgie Rollins, chair of the Democratic National Committee Black Caucus said in a statement that she was "dismayed that Congresswoman Haley Stevens has revealed herself to be a sellout who used Black Michiganders for a political stunt." House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said that Stevens "made a terrible decision, blindsided everyone and isolated herself from the House Democratic caucus."

A CNN poll last week found about 75% of Black voters saying they were backing El-Sayed and 10% said they were backing Rogers. Another CNN poll showed El-Sayed with a 49%-42% margin over Rogers while a New York Times/Siena poll conducted over the last week of October and released Sunday showed the race 53%-42% El-Sayed.

Stevens is expected to complete her betrayal by resigning from the Democrat Party since it signaled the end of any career she might have as a Democrat. She is expected to join the pro-Trump MAGA-GOP herd of morons. Curtis Hertel, the chair of Michigan's Democratic Party, said Stevens's move "shows that she has abandoned everything she claims to care about" and that she "is not a current member of the Michigan Democratic Party, nor will she be in the future."

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called the move "a despicable betrayal" and several of her House Democratic colleagues suggested she should be expelled from the House Democratic caucus.

Irony of "Democracy-for-Jews-Only" Zionist Colony in Palestine: Its Palestinians Hold its Future

Must Read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism_as_settler_colonialism

The dark paradox of Israel’s election — and ours
Andrew O'Hehir
Mon, November 2, 2026

Campaign billboard depicting Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, Tel Aviv, Oct. 26, 2026. Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images

Benjamin Netanyahu didn't win last week's election in Israel. But he didn't exactly lose it either. The real loser may have been Israel's fragile democracy, already corrupted from within, perhaps past the point of no return, by Netanyahu's decades-long death-grip on power.

On the eve of a momentous election in the United States, the parallels are both inexact and unavoidable. Israelis must now decide what kind of country they will have, or at least what kind they aspire to have. They must decide whose votes actually count, and whether some citizens are more equal than others.

Those same questions also confront Americans, both in this week's midterm elections and, in a more general sense, on the larger political and historical stage. No doubt it is tempting for liberals and progressives to express outrage at the blatant flaws and contradictions of Israeli democracy. But to invoke the Christian tradition here, it might be better to remove the plank from your own eye before trying to remove the speck from your brother's.

On the surface, the electoral arithmetic in Israel appears straightforward. Parties opposed to Netanyahu's far-right government won 67 of the 120 seats in the Knesset, Israel's parliament. So a majority coalition of anti-Netanyahu forces is clearly achievable, right? You would think so, except that 19 of those 67 seats were won by Israel's "Arab parties," an all-time high, and that startling fact has thrown the entire political system into confusion.

Netanyahu and his allies have spent the last week airing groundless allegations that the election was fraudulent or rigged, a refrain that Americans are likely to hear a great deal in coming days. What the Zionist far right means is that too many Israeli Arabs — meaning the Palestinian population that remained in Israel after the state was created in 1948 — decided to vote this time, an outcome that no one expected, and that none of the parties representing the Jewish majority particularly wanted.

Now, in a masterstroke of historical or perhaps biblical irony, Israel's Arab minority — which is not a monolithic group in political or cultural terms, and until now has never been electorally significant — holds the balance of power, and perhaps the nation's future, in its hands.

Gadi Eisenkot, the former general who leads the centrist-Zionist opposition to Netanyahu, promised during the campaign not to form a government with Arab support. Over the last several nights, thousands of demonstrators in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem have urged him to do precisely that, since the only realistic alternative is the grim default setting of Israeli politics: another wobbly right-wing government headed by Netanyahu, which means more brutality and destruction in Gaza, more war with Iran and more settler violence in the West Bank.

As Gideon Levy of the left-leaning Israeli newspaper Haaretz explains it,

The future of Israel now depends on its Arab citizens and on the attitude of its Jewish citizens toward its Arab ones. Eighty years after the Nakba and the establishment of the Jewish state, Israeli Palestinians may determine its fate. Is there greater historical justice than that?

The election's unexpected results are "a cause for rejoicing," Levy writes, in that they have presented Israelis with a clear choice "between a government led by Benjamin Netanyahu and a government that includes the Arab parties." If the "change bloc" within the Zionist majority cannot accept a coalition with Arab Israelis, he continues, "they will make it clear that they are actually the same as Netanyahu, that they prefer even the devil Netanyahu over repressing their racism. … [E]veryone will know that racism is the supreme value in this country, across the board, above any other value."

That ferocious language certainly does not represent mainstream Israeli opinion, but it's fair to say the strong emotion beneath Levy's words is far more widely felt. I don't think it's possible for a non-Jewish observer (such as myself), however well educated or sympathetic, to understand the anguish felt by Jewish people — wherever they live, and whatever their political views — at the enormous distance between what Israel originally represented to the world, or claimed to represent, and what it represents now.

I'm old enough to remember when most American liberals and progressives viewed the state of Israel in overwhelmingly positive terms, as a locus of charismatic or heroic renewal for the people Hitler couldn't kill, infused with the spirit of European socialism and, not far below the surface, the collective guilt of the Holocaust. I grew up in one of the most left-liberal corners of America, surrounded by educated adults who supported the civil rights movement, opposed the Vietnam War, hated Richard Nixon and loved Israel. Golda Meir and Moshe Dayan were beloved celebrities; the Six-Day War of 1967 and the Yom Kippur War of 1973, as narrated by U.S. media, were straight-up battles between the forces of light and darkness.

That says more about the moral blindness or willful innocence of American liberalism, I must admit, than it says about Israel. In any event, when I saw Joe Biden's fateful bear hug with Netanyahu on the tarmac of Ben Gurion Airport in the aftermath of the dreadful Oct. 7 attack, I understood it. I recognized the country Biden was coming from, because I came from there too: It was the Democratic majority of the not-so-distant past, when Israel was embraced as a light to the nations and left-wing radicals who brought up the Palestinian cause were being unreasonable hotheads, if not openly antisemitic and a little bit Nazi.

What Israel has become during Netanyahu's long and destructive reign is now clear to most of the world, and most of all to the many Jewish or Israeli critics who have been speaking difficult truths for many years, often at enormous personal cost. I am disinclined, however, to judge too harshly those who cling to the vision of Israel as an exceptional nation — one that has stumbled, perhaps, but may yet regain its true path.

Like I said earlier, we should mind the plank in our own eye first. Isn't that the same vision that many Americans still cling to? That somehow, on the other side of this dreadful phase of our history — yes, a full decade of Donald Trump, but I'm afraid the damage goes back a lot further than that — the "indispensable nation" variously articulated by Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama is still there, still retrievable, still bending its moral arc toward justice.

Americans and Israelis are conjoined by history, for better or worse, and now see each other as distorted reflections, through a glass darkly, as the King James Bible puts it. We face versions of the same decisions this week, about whose votes count and whether the highfalutin words of our constitution apply to everyone. About whether to see terror and tyranny for what they are, and turn the page.

The post The dark paradox of Israel's election — and ours appeared first on Salon.com.

Updated]: Michigan's Haley Stevens: AIPAC Stooge and Traitor Who Hates Muslims and Blacks

[Update]: See below for the Zionist infiltration of Mike Rogers' campaign, which explains why traitor and AIPAC agent, the Democrat Haley Stevens, has switched camps. Is this what the American voter wants? Israeli agents deciding what kind of Congress should Americans have? A Congress at the beck and call of a War Criminal like Netanyahu?

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Michigan voters: Vote on the character of the candidate, not on the stuff he/she promises and says.

Look for integrity, constancy, principle, decency. Don't be fooled by sweet talk, by bigoted religious fervor, by outlandish promises, by racist hatred of others.   

Haley Stevens has no integrity. She's a waverer. She has no principles. Paid by AIPAC and under pressure from the MAGA racist criminals on the right side of the aisle, she has jumped ship, just like the eternal fence-sitter Joe Manchin, and just like that idiot from Pennsylvania John Fetterman...

As predicted, [https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2026/10/white-trash-supremacist-racism-seeps.html] Haley Stevens is a traitor, a racist and an Islamophobe. She has now endorsed her own enemy. How can you trust someone like Haley Stevens who so easily changes her mind and switches camps?

Michigan voters: You now have many more reasons NOT to vote for Rogers. The Haley Stevens betrayal is one more evidence that Israel's Zionists control the United States.

In the end, Haley Stevens chose Israel over the United States and over the American people now suffering from Trump's war on behalf of the Zionists. 
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Two People on Mike Rogers’s Campaign Are Registered Agents for Israel
Malcolm Ferguson
Mon, November 2, 2026

Two staffers on Republican Mike Rogers's Senate campaign are registered foreign agents for the state of Israel—including the campaign spokesperson who facilitated his Sunday press conference with Democratic Representative Haley Stevens.

Drop Site News reported Sunday that Abigail Ronson, a former Mike Johnson staffer and now Rogers campaign spokesperson, registered as a foreign agent for Israel back in May. The Foreign Agent Registration Act, or FARA, recognizes a foreign agent as someone who "within the United States (1) engages in 'political activities' on behalf of a foreign principal; (2) acts as a foreign principal's public relations counsel, publicity agent, information-service employee, or political consultant; (3) solicits, collects, disburses, or dispenses contributions, loans, money, or other things of value for or in the interest of a foreign principal; or (4) represents the interests of the foreign principal before any agency or official of the U.S. government."

Ronson announced the news Sunday that Stevens, the failed Democratic Senate nominee for Michigan, was at church with Rogers. She also facilitated the press conference in which Stevens endorsed Rogers despite earlier telling fellow Democrats she would support the party's nominee, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed.

Ronson is connected to Rogers's campaign through campaign strategy firm Convergence Media, and is subcontracted with the Havas Media Group, one of the primary vessels for pro-Israel ads and initiatives. Her FARA registration specifically states that she will offer "strategic communications, planning, and media services in support of Havas' engagement by the State of Israel to develop and execute a nationwide campaign in the United States to combat anti-semitism." 

Knowing that, it isn't shocking to see her front and center in the midst of one of the most stunning political betrayals ever—especially given that it was centered around a debate over support for Israel and AIPAC's election influence.

Another registered foreign agent for Israel, Jason Stokes, is also part of Rogers's campaign through Convergence and Havas. Stokes registered as a foreign agent in October 2025 due to his work with Havas, Drop Site reported, and has written many of Rogers's press releases.

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How an attempt at Democratic unity in Michigan imploded
Eric Bradner, Edward-Isaac Dovere, Brian Todd, CNN
Mon, November 2, 2026 


Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Michigan, speaks alongside Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers after a church service at Perfecting Church, in Detroit on Sunday, November 1, 2026. - Jose Juarez/AP

As recently as Saturday night, the prospect of Democrat Haley Stevens endorsing Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan's Senate race had seemed implausible.

Stevens issued a statement praising Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed for saying he disagreed with a controversial advertisement that blamed the high cost of living in Michigan on the United States' aid to Israel. Despite a week of speculation about her withdrawing an endorsement for El-Sayed, her primary rival, she repeatedly said that she would do no such thing.

When staffers reached out last week to urge her not to endorse Rogers, Stevens replied in a text message, according to a person who saw the message: "Omg why would you think I would do that??!!"

As recently as midnight Saturday, she told a key ally that she was sticking with El-Sayed. Then on Sunday morning, things changed.

She appeared at a Black church in Detroit with Rogers and then announced her change of heart to reporters gathered outside and on social media.

Her move stunned the political world — including Stevens' friends, colleagues and even her own congressional staffers, most of whom found out about her decision on social media and promptly quit, according to a statement from her chief of staff and people familiar with the matter.

The question that could decide Michigan's Senate race — and potentially, with it, which party will have majority control of the chamber for the last two years of Donald Trump's presidency — is whether Stevens' endorsement of Rogers will change votes or amount to more than political melodrama.

There have long been signs of discontent with El-Sayed within the Democratic coalition. Stevens was strongest in the August primary with Black and Jewish Democrats, some of whom have balked at supporting El-Sayed, a Muslim who is a strident critic of Israel's actions in Gaza and an advocate for ending foreign aid for Israel's military.

Prior to Stevens' defection, CNN's most recent poll of the Michigan Senate race had El-Sayed leading Rogers by seven points – with 95% support from Democratic likely voters. Already, Stevens' endorsement of Rogers is becoming something of a rally-around-the-flag moment for Democratic leaders — uniting a coalition in the race's final days around a shared sense of the stakes at hand.

Among the Democratic leaders who denounced Stevens and strongly backed El-Sayed were two of his most powerful intra-party critics: Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, who tacitly supported Stevens in the primary, and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who just days ago said El-Sayed's views on Israel were "wrong" and "more than concerning."

Schumer accused Stevens of a "despicable betrayal."

"Senate Democrats are united in our support for Abdul El-Sayed, because we know he will fight for the economic interests of working families in Michigan, unlike Mike Rogers, who is a tool of Donald Trump and billionaire donors," the New York Democrat said.

Schumer added that Democrats "are equally united in our total revulsion at the racist, Islamophobic, and over-the-top false attacks on Abdul by Republicans."

Pelosi, meanwhile, said on social media that El-Sayed "must win," and that Stevens "has chosen to dangerously betray Michigan families' healthcare, freedoms and future with her horrific endorsement of Mike Rogers."

As Stevens and Rogers spoke to reporters outside the church after the service, an individual in the crowd shouted: "Haley's a traitor!"

An El-Sayed campaign spokeswoman said he had raised $1.2 million in the hours after Stevens endorsed Rogers — his second-largest total in a single day since winning the primary.

What Stevens said on CNN

In an interview Sunday night with CNN's Anderson Cooper, Stevens said that endorsing Rogers was "just a weight off my shoulders." But she struggled to answer questions about why she'd changed her mind.

"Abdul has been getting angrier and angrier," Stevens said. "There are so many Democrats who want to vote for our Democratic nominee, and they're just being told, 'Hey, this is a party you don't belong in, or this is a campaign you don't belong in.'"

What she didn't explain, despite being asked several times, was what had changed between Saturday — when she told several Democrats she intended to appear with El-Sayed and Clyburn at church — and Sunday morning, when she instead went to a Detroit church with Rogers and endorsed him.

She said she was tired of watching El-Sayed stand with Hasan Piker — but didn't address the reality that El-Sayed's campaign appearances with Piker came before the primary election, and Stevens had endorsed El-Sayed after that primary's conclusion.

"I'm just sick of the people he stands with," Stevens said.

Michigan Rep. Debbie Dingell, a Democrat who had told CNN Sunday that Stevens reassured her Saturday that she wasn't switching sides, reacted by saying: "That was one of the most painful interviews I have ever watched."

Why did Stevens switch her endorsement?

Shortly after their primary, which El-Sayed won by less than a percentage point, the two hugged at a state party unity breakfast. But they had not campaigned together in months – or spoken directly during that time, as CNN reported last week.

Democrats attempted to negotiate a joint appearance Sunday at a Black church in Detroit alongside South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn, one of the party's most influential figures. The goal was to shore up Black support for El-Sayed.

One longtime Michigan Democratic operative said many older Black voters tend to cast their ballots on Election Day, rather than voting early, "because of a well-earned higher skepticism of absentee voting." Those votes could be an essential piece of the Democratic coalition El-Sayed is trying to hold together.

Stevens said in a statement Friday morning that Clyburn, who endorsed and campaigned with her in the primary, had invited her to the church — and that she would be attending, marking the first time she would appear jointly with El-Sayed on the campaign trail.

However, she also issued a list of demands for El-Sayed — including attempting to pressure him into denouncing an outside group's new advertisement that blamed the United States' foreign aid for Israel for Americans' struggles with high costs. The ad features two people in a grocery store suggesting they can't afford basic goods due to the aid. It echoed what El-Sayed has often said on the campaign trail about Israel, even as he distanced himself from the ad.

El-Sayed responded in a statement Friday night that Stevens "seems intent on relitigating a primary that ended three months ago."

It became clear that the joint appearance wouldn't happen late Friday, when CNN and other outlets reported that El-Sayed's campaign had asked Stevens to skip all campaign events in the race's closing days. Dingell said on CNN Saturday that she was the one who delivered the message to Stevens.

Still, on Saturday, El-Sayed denounced the ad, and Stevens issued a statement praising him for doing so — developments that made her decision Sunday more of a head-scratcher to many Democrats close to her. Dingell told CNN Sunday that Stevens had reassured her overnight that she wasn't switching sides.

Standing next to Rogers on Sunday, Stevens mentioned four times that El-Sayed's campaign had excluded her from his events. She pointed to it again in her endorsement video posted on X, noting El-Sayed "had said that I was no longer welcome in his campaign and that I should stay away. And he's right."

"My vote for Senate is going to be with Mike Rogers, and I will tell you why. Because we have to stand with country. We can't stand with hate. We can't stand with Hasan Piker," she said.

Party officials moved swiftly on Sunday to publicly condemn Stevens and criticize her focus on being uninvited. But they privately said there was blame to go around — notably for El-Sayed.

"He acted like he won the primary in a landslide, but he didn't," one longtime Democratic official told CNN. "Abdul gave himself his own October surprise."

El-Sayed went ahead Sunday with the event. After asking reporters to focus on questions about issues facing people in his state rather than "two folks who aren't here right now," El-Sayed was asked if he believed Stevens had betrayed his party by backing Rogers.

"At the end of the day, I actually don't think about Haley Stevens," he said, standing next to Clyburn. "I think about, like I said, the 9,999,998 people who are not those two. Because you know what? I'm just less interested in the politics of it all than I am in the policy of it all."

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed attends a church service at Greater Emmanuel Institutional Church of God in Christ, Sunday, November 1, 2026, in Detroit. - Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP

A core tension in Michigan reemerges

A deeply emotional argument for many in the Democratic Party became particularly personal for El-Sayed and Stevens, both of whom are known for not listening much to advisers and following their own instincts.

Stevens was backed in the primary by tens of millions of dollars in spending from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee — a flashpoint between her and El-Sayed, who denounced AIPAC and the influence of money in politics at nearly every campaign event. El-Sayed was criticized for campaigning with Piker, the stridently pro-Palestinian live-streamer with a long history of controversial comments about Jews, including comparing Jewish residents who oppose El-Sayed to members of the Ku Klux Klan, remarks widely denounced as antisemitic. AIPAC on X reshared Stevens' video on Sunday endorsing Rogers.

During the primary, El-Sayed portrayed Stevens as an AIPAC puppet and called her "the least capable candidate in America."

"Everyone in America understands you want to blame all of your problems on Jewish Americans," Stevens responded on X days before the August 4 election.

As AIPAC's allied groups boosted her campaign, the animosity grew too. El-Sayed's multiple shots at Stevens as being a puppet angered her and made her dig in. Meanwhile, she was rankled by his repeated refusal to affirm that Israel had a right to exist as a Jewish state and his statements that it was committing genocide in Gaza and that funding to the country was hurting Michiganders.

Many of Stevens' Democratic critics on Sunday blamed Stevens' fiancé, Michigan lawyer Jason Turkish, who endorsed Rogers last week and did media interviews criticizing El-Sayed as uncommitted to Jewish safety.

One former Stevens staffer noted Sunday that after she and Turkish became engaged in May — something they kept private until after the August primary — Stevens grew more focused on defending Israel and AIPAC, even as the Democratic Party and US public opinion as a whole has become more skeptical of Israel. In the ex-staffer's view, she was speaking less about the message she'd run on and won with before: growing Michigan's economy and protecting manufacturing.

The topic often came up while preparing for interviews or donor calls, the staffer said. Preparing for a June interview, Stevens pressed aides on why she should avoid defending AIPAC when she had done so in a 2022 House primary against former Rep. Andy Levin and won.

Speculation about Turkish's influence burst into the open on Sunday, as Democrats — many of whom had either spoken to Stevens recently or been briefed by people who had — suggested he was playing an outsized role for a candidate's partner.

Former Pennsylvania Rep. Susan Wild, who in 2023 was Stevens' roommate in Washington and whose children regularly text with Stevens, said she was "terribly sad and disappointed" by her friend's "appalling" move.

"If this is because of her new relationship (about which many of us were so happy for her after she lost the primary), all I can say is that any woman who abandons her friends when a new guy comes along is no friend at all," Wild said.

Stevens' mother, Maria Marcotte, a retired advertising executive, told CNN in a statement that her daughter's fiancé had nothing to do with the change of heart — and that Marcotte herself had also voted for Rogers.

"Haley is her own woman. She always has been. Suggesting a man made her decision for her is insulting to her, and it is insulting to me as her mother," Marcotte said.

She pointed to episodes in which progressive pro-Palestinian activists hounded Stevens during the primary campaign.

"Abdul should not have thrown her out of the campaign for speaking her truth," she said. "Haley made this choice herself, with her eyes open, the way she has made every hard choice in her life. And I know Haley will support whoever wins this election, because that is who she is. I have never been prouder of her."

Who's to blame?

The anger between the two rivals kept growing from a distance after El-Sayed won the primary.

El-Sayed grouped Stevens in with all those he decided he didn't need to build his coalition after his primary victory. Stevens would tell people that she thought he was running a weird and losing campaign, but that she didn't feel it was her obligation to fix it.

Rogers aides, aware that his path to victory largely depended on a Democratic civil war, restrained themselves to spreading word of discontent and convincing themselves they weren't just fantasizing that they could get her all the way to endorsing.

Then came the grocery-store ad that rekindled the tension. It was released by a group linked to Cenk Uygur, co-creator of The Young Turks and — in a twist practically designed to create acrimony — Piker's uncle.

As Stevens demanded he denounce Uygur's ad, El-Sayed returned to name-checking AIPAC in his statement criticizing Stevens, something Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel, a Stevens primary backer who has raised concerns about Jewish safety, asked him to stop doing before she endorsed him. Nessel told CNN in October that El-Sayed had agreed to her request.

Stevens' defection threatened to worsen El-Sayed's standing with Jewish voters. Rogers has already predicted publicly that he could win as much as half the Jewish vote on Tuesday.

"It feels like over the last eight weeks, Dr. El-Sayed has become more egregious in the language he's been using," said Rabbi Aaron Starr, the president of the Michigan Board of Rabbis and a leader of the "Nonnegotiable" group of Jewish leaders. That group calls on El-Sayed to do more about concerns regarding Jewish safety and to affirm Jewish sovereignty in Israel. Starr and other Jewish leaders held a call Sunday afternoon to discuss the endorsement flip.

But Stevens was also damaged with key allies.

Dingell, long a peacemaker within the state party, chided Stevens' "continued efforts to get attention."

"Unfortunately, she's seriously hurt herself," Dingell told CNN.

Curtis Hertel, the chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party, effectively booted Stevens from it. He wrote on social media: "Congresswoman Stevens is not a current member of the Michigan Democratic Party, nor will she be in the future."

Many Democrats in the state felt that for most of the preceding year, Stevens was viable in the Senate race largely because she'd cornered Schumer into effectively backing her. Into the spring, complaints circulated about what a lackluster primary campaign she was running, how much she was struggling on the stump, and how she was lashing out against those who wouldn't support her.

Despite her eventual strength with African American voters, Black church leaders were angry about her efforts to push for early endorsements. Chokwe Pitchford, a 27-year-old district commissioner from Benton Harbor and seen as a local rising star, told a story that he says encapsulated the kind of experience other Michigan Democrats he knows had: One morning, he discovered a graphic online from Stevens saying he'd endorsed her, even though as he posted in response, they'd never spoken.

"Instead of reaching out and apologizing, I had people from around the state calling from unknown numbers saying my political career is over if I don't take that down," Pitchford told CNN. "Some of us tried to ring this alarm bell a year ago; there was a problem here."

Indeed, the most robust praise for Stevens on Sunday was coming from Republicans.

"Haley said what few people are willing to say. She showed great and almost unprecedented loyalty to the Great People of Michigan with what she did," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Todd reported from Detroit. CNN's Dana Bash, Manu Raju, Nicky Robertson and Jeff Zeleny contributed to this report.

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Trump's BS Aura To Begin Fizzling into the Garbage Bin of History this Tuesday

A large majority (some 70%) of American voters now know. They've seen the Great American Moron in his golden Outhouse "making America Great Again". Alas, he succeeded in only reaping billions of dollars for himself, his cronies and his family, tarnishing the reputation of America across the globe, making life so much harder for average Americans and starting a war he has no idea how to end. 

America today has many more enemies because of Trump. Those in the international community who fake smile at him, offer him trashy gifts and pretend they like him are only biding their time and waiting for the orangutan to go back to his cage in Mar-A-Lago. So do most Americans. Let us hope that Americans, independents in particular, are not going to be bamboozled again by the Great American Liar.

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Analysis: Republicans face a midterm reckoning of Trump's making
STEVEN SLOAN
Updated Sun, November 1, 2026 

WASHINGTON (AP) — For President Donald Trump, this week's elections are about him. For his fellow Republicans, the risk is voters will agree.

Midterms almost always serve as a referendum on the president's party, and losses typically ensue. But Trump's decisions to impose tariffs, start a war and oversee extravagant Washington renovations — largely without congressional consultation — have made it harder for Republicans to navigate those historical headwinds.

There is a direct connection between his actions and higher gas prices, costlier groceries and persistently high inflation.

Republicans cannot blame the fallout from those decisions on past administrations when Trump has owned them so fulsomely. They also cannot easily distance themselves from an unpopular president who demands loyalty and routinely tells voters the economy is just fine.

At virtually every juncture before Election Day on Tuesday, Trump has complicated the task of protecting Republican majorities in Congress.

The Iran war is "making it exponentially harder for Republicans to keep the House and Senate," Rep. Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin, one of the most vulnerable House Republicans, said in a debate while noting his support for the effort.

Trump's late moves to boost GOP may not be enough

Republicans have had one distinct advantage: money.

Trump's political groups spent nearly $277 million to boost Republicans since September, a staggering amount that puts this year on pace to be the most expensive midterm ever.

But it may not be enough to carry the GOP.

His import taxes disrupted the agricultural economy and triggered a trade war with Canada, putting Republicans on defense in Senate races from Iowa, Michigan and Kansas to Nebraska, Ohio and Maine. The war in Iran that he said would be over in weeks continues eight months later with no clear strategy for conclusion, starkly at odds with his pledge to not engage in Middle East conflicts.

"This administration's actions are directly responsible for rising costs," former Democratic President Barack Obama said in Ohio.

Trump has shown little sympathy for Americans coping with rising costs. He has dismissed affordability challenges as a "hoax" and told a Georgia rally that he does not "give a damn" about criticism of gas prices — even as he celebrated profits for U.S. oil and gas companies.

All the while, he has grown far more wealthy, taking in $1.2 billion from crypto businesses while most investors lost money.

Campaigning with Democrats in competitive House races recently in Virginia, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg argued that "the corruption that we've seen is directly connected to the pain that people are feeling economically."

"You cannot separate these things," said Buttigieg, a potential presidential candidate in 2028.

Some voters are also upset at Trump's priorities, including his lavish Washington remake.

A ballroom that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts deemed "likely unlawful" is rising over the White House as the Republican administration signals it could begin work on building a triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery later this week. He has said he will defy a federal judge and move forward later this month with plans to close a park along the Potomac River that has long served as the backdrop for family picnics, scenic bike rides and affordable golf to make way for a "world class" golf course.
Midterms often challenge a president's party

Midterms are historically challenging for a president's party.

During Trump's last midterm in 2018, Democrats gained 40 House seats and 31 during Republican George W. Bush's second term in 2006. Republicans, meanwhile, picked up 63 seats in 2010 under Obama but flipped fewer than 10 in 2022 under Democratic President Joe Biden.

Redistricting has reduced the number of genuinely competitive House districts, but Trump has added to the GOP's challenge by intervening in several Senate races in ways that may ultimately erase their majority. In Texas, outgoing Republican Sen. John Cornyn has warned that Trump's pick in this year's primary, state Attorney General Ken Paxton, is weak against Democrat James Talarico, a state representative.

"Even in places like Texas, which are pretty red, we've got flawed candidates who I think are going to have a hard time," Cornyn said in a brief interview.
Low approval of Trump could weigh on Republicans

About one-third of U.S. adults approve of how Trump is handling the presidency, according to The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That's lower than Biden's approval in AP-NORC polling just before the midterms as well as Trump's first-term approval, which stood around 40% just before the midterms.

In October 2006, around 37% of U.S. adults approved of Bush's performance while about 45% approved of Obama's performance just before the 2010 elections, according to Gallup polling. Gallup's presidential approval tracking question, which was discontinued by the firm earlier this year, phrased the question differently and used a different method than AP-NORC polls so the findings are not directly comparable.

Previous presidents such as Bush and Obama, when their approval ratings were drooping, gave members of their party room to create some distance. Trump is generally not leaving that kind of space, leading candidates to take more subtle steps like removing mentions of the president from their websites.

Democrats have kept up the pressure, spending hundreds of millions on advertising that connects Republicans to Trump. A Democratic ad in Michigan, for example, called Republican Mike Rogers, a former congressman, "all in on the war, all in on Trump."

Rep. Ashley Hinson, the GOP nominee for Senate in Iowa, is testing how to balance loyalty and independence from Trump, who scheduled a rally in the state Sunday. She said in a debate that she would be Trump's "ally when it is important for Iowa, but I will push back on him."

She toured an ethanol facility in Dyersville, Iowa, a few days later alongside Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin. The visit was intended to underscore her advocacy for one of Iowa's most important industries but she soon faced questions about Trump's controversial deal with Russia to lower diesel prices.

"Lowering fuel prices across the board continues to be a priority for me," Hinson said before adding that "it makes me a little bit nervous anytime we're talking about relieving a sanction on Russia."

Democrats have risks of their own

For all of the GOP's challenges, Democrats also face risks. As some in the party become bullish in their expectations, there are warnings about over-interpreting the results.

"Anger against Trump is going to be a waning emotion," Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said in an interview. "We've got to deliver."

Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., recently traveled to Hungary to study how voters rejected Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his authoritarian policies. In a speech, she spoke of a "tipping point" when "the public will refuse to accept this level of corruption."

Asked in an interview whether the U.S. is reaching a "tipping point," she said "that's the $100 million question," cautioning that voters are not "falling in love with Democrats."

"A midterm is almost always a signal and a reaction to the party in power," she said. "What we do, starting January 1, if we manage to flip the House, is going to be a proof point for those swing voters on whether they made a good call."
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Editor's Note: Steven Sloan has covered politics for The Associated Press since 2018.

This Month Celebrates Indigenous Native American Heritage: A Colonial Tragedy

Like what happened in Palestine, illegal foreign migrants and invaders arrived, massacred and displaced the indigenous populations of the Americas north and south. After some 250 years, up to 100 million indigenous Americans were erased from existence to make place for white morons from Europe.

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November Marks National Native American Heritage Month
Levi Rickert
Sun, November 1, 2026


Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Councilor Raphael Wahwassuck at the Forest County Potawatomi for the Bodéwadmi Gathering 2026 (Potawatomi Gathering). (Photo/Levi Rickert)

Nov. 1 marks the beginning of Native American Heritage Month, an opportunity to raise awareness of Indigenous history and contemporary Native issues and to recognize the Native people who enrich our nation's culture and society.

National Native American Heritage Month, as it is officially called, is the culmination of a centuries-long effort to recognize the substantial contributions of Indigenous peoples.

Dr. Arthur Caswell Parker, a Cattaraugus Seneca Indian, historian, anthropologist, and author from New York, was an early proponent of establishing a day to honor Native Americans. Parker founded several influential American Indian rights organizations, including the Society of American Indians in 1911 and the National Congress of American Indians in 1944. He also advocated for American Indians to receive U.S. citizenship.

Parker persuaded the Boy Scouts of America to designate a day to celebrate the "First Americans," an observance that took place from 1912 to 1915.

In 1914, Native rights advocate the Rev. Red Fox James, a Blackfoot tribal citizen, embarked on a 4,000-mile horseback journey to Washington, D.C., to petition the president for an "Indian Day." He presented endorsements from 24 governors to the White House. In 1919, he again petitioned the state of Washington to designate the fourth Saturday in September as an "Indian holiday."

On Sept. 28, 1915, President Calvin Coolidge issued a proclamation declaring the second Saturday in May American Indian Day. The proclamation also included the first formal appeal for Native Americans to be recognized as U.S. citizens.

Decades later, in 1976, Jerry C. Elliott (Osage-Cherokee), one of the first Native Americans to work at NASA, authored congressional legislation establishing the first Native American Awareness Week, observed Oct. 10-16.

In 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed a joint congressional resolution designating November as "National American Indian Heritage Month." Presidential proclamations recognizing the month have been issued annually since 1994.

Today, Native American Heritage Month provides an opportunity to recognize the histories, cultures, resilience, and contributions of the more than 575 federally recognized Tribal Nations, as well as Native communities across the United States. It is also a time to acknowledge the ongoing issues facing Indigenous peoples, including tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, voting rights, health care, education, and the protection of ancestral lands and natural resources.

Throughout the month, Native News Online will provide numerous articles to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.

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Equal Opportunity American White Trash Racism Extends to Asians

I beg to differ with the Guardian headline below. It is not "right wing racism". It is white American trash racism against anyone with skin color slightly darker than pig skin color. There are many leftwing racists. Believe me, I interacted with all these ignorant Americans. And, there are many rightwingers who are Africans, Asians, Arabs, Hispanics, etc. who are as dumb as the white trash rightwingers who hate them. You see, the infamous Melting Pot is nothing but a pot of cultural Chlorox aiming to bleach every tan-skinned immigrant into pig-skinned morons. The Savannah Hernandez imbecile is one of those who desperately want to bleach their skin white in order to fit into the Melting Pot. White trash Texans in particular are known for being dumb and vile racist rednecks who love God.

These non-white imbeciles are conservatives who don't understand that in the US, conservatism and rightwingism simply boil down to racism and are therefore directed at them. But they happily vote for morons like Trump who fools them with talk about family values and religious values that don't mean a thing to him, the criminal felon that he is.
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‘There’s a lot of hate’: rightwing racism stirs south Asian mobilization in Texas
Gaya Gupta
Sun, November 1, 2026


Pooja Sethi, Democratic candidate for Texas house district 47, at the capitol in Austin in June.Photograph: Houston Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers/Getty Images

Last winter, while Pooja Sethi was canvassing to become the Democratic candidate for the Texas house of representatives, she received a text from a staff member alerting her to a post on X. The Turning Point USA influencer Savanah Hernandez – a Trump supporter known for creating videos that target immigrants – had posted a photo of Sethi's campaign banner with the caption: "Welcome to politics in Texas."

The post went viral.

The responses were so vile, Sethi said, "that I called my team and I said I'm going to go home because I need to be with my son. I'm a little scared about what's happening right now." The far right even turned her name into a racist slogan: "Don't Pooja my Texas."

If elected, Sethi will become the first Asian Democratic woman and south Asian woman in the Texas legislature. "I didn't run to have to sit here and combat anti-Indian hate. I didn't know that this was going to be a thing," said Sethi to a room of about 50 south Asians gathered at a private community listening session on anti-south Asian hate in Austin at the height of election season in October.

The event, which included Washington congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, was hosted by Indian American Impact, a nonpartisan group that supports south Asian candidates and voter engagement.

Across the country, anti-south Asian hate has spiked since Trump took office. According to the Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH), online rhetoric against south Asians surged by 240% between January 2024 and June 2026. In addition to citing xenophobia and racism, the report finds that economic resentment casting south Asians as "invaders" and "job thieves", increased visibility in politics, and anti-migrant policies that include Trump's prohibitive annual fee on H1-B visa applications, have contributed to the sharp rise in hate against south Asian communities of all faiths and nationalities.

Rightwing public officials too have ramped up the xenophobic and racist rhetoric ahead of the midterm election: in September, on X, the Department of Homeland Security posted an AI-generated image resembling a movie poster that featured a Sikh man facing off against a character that looked like Optimus Prime from Transformers. The caption read: "America for Americans. Get off our roads, you don't know how to drive Mr. Singh." The agency deleted the image amid backlash.

Days later, Bo French, the Republican candidate for the Texas railroad commission, posted a photo of a photo of what appeared to be majority south Asian American UT Austin students celebrating the school's football win with the caption: "I heard UT graduation this year look like this, I didn't believe it, the problem is now obviously far worse than anyone imagined."

This rhetoric stokes fear and translates into physical violence, says Chintan Patel, executive director of Indian American Impact. "There's a lot of hate and discrimination that has been spreading for years on social media and online … but those things, they make it to the foreground."

About a week after the DHS post, a Sikh truck driver was stabbed 17 times at a rest stop in Wyoming, deepening fears of violence within the Sikh community. In October – the day before Indian American Impact's event in Austin – news broke of an attempted mass shooting at a Hindu temple in Aurora, Illinois, where a self-described white supremacist armed with a rifle and body armor had planned to "kill Indian people".

Texas has become the "ground zero" for anti-south Asian hate, says Chanda Parbhoo, founder and executive director of nonpartisan voter engagement nonprofit South Asian American Voter Empowerment of Texas Education Fund (SAAVETX EF). According to 2021 US census estimates, more than 600,000 south Asians live in Texas – the second-largest population of south Asians in the country behind California. South Asians make up one of the state's fastest growing ethnic groups.

Unlike California, however, Texas is a breeding ground for far-right policies that then travel to other state legislatures across the country.

Ahead of the 2026 midterms, Texas Republicans have built a platform on Islamophobia and attacks on migrants, issues that closely intersect with the attacks on south Asians writ large. In the last year, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton, who is currently tied in the Senate race against Democrat James Talarico, sued to shut down the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation's largest Muslim civil rights group. Paxton and Republican governor Greg Abbott deemed Cair a " terrorist organization", fabricated charges against a North Texas mosque, and launched an investigation into unsubstantiated claims of H1-B visa fraud – an inquiry that disproportionately targets Indian immigrants.

In the state legislature, Republican representative Brent Money launched a "Sharia Free Texas Caucus," which has amassed nearly 40 members, following the creation of a national "Sharia Free America Caucus" started by Texas congressmen Keith Self and Chip Roy in 2025. According to a 2026 survey by Stop AAPI Hate Action, ICE deportations of south Asians are approximately 14 times higher under Trump's second term – in July, Texas accounted for nearly a third of the nation's ICE arrests, the largest share of any state in the country.

"The hate that's happening right now is more than anything that I've seen. More than during 9/11," said Texas state representative Salman Bhojani, who immigrated to Texas from Pakistan as a teenager. "This is not the Texas that I immigrated to."

In 2022, Bhojani became one of the first Muslims and south Asians in the state legislature and arguably the most visible Muslim in Texas politics. At a re-election campaign fundraising event held two days before early voting began in Texas, Bhojani told the Guardian: "I get these calls a lot, like, every almost on a daily basis, where somebody is calling to say, "My dad was picked up by ICE, my brother was picked up by ICE, or my sister was walking on campus in a hijab and somebody pulled a knife on her."

In Bhojani's city of Euless, a white woman was sentenced to five years in prison for attempted murder after she tried to drown a three-year-old Muslim girl in 2024.

Bhojani launched the Religious Freedom Caucus to promote religious tolerance. "Today, Muslims are on the chopping block. Tomorrow maybe other communities – we cannot afford that. We need to stop it right now," he said.

While south Asian communities have become a target, as a voting bloc, they remain largely overlooked by either party. "We are still underrepresented, overlooked, and we're not getting the attention that we should probably receive for the powerhouse that we could be," says Parbhoo.

This gap prompted SAAVETX EF to collaborate with the US Immigration Policy Center at University of California, San Diego, for a first-of-its-kind statewide survey, released on Wednesday. The Belonging Under Pressure: 2026 South Asian Community Survey of about 1,000 south Asian Texans confirmed what Parbhoo has observed from voter participation efforts on the ground: more than half – 57.5% – reported at least one experience of hate in Texas during the past year due to race, ethnicity, religion, or immigration background.

A majority felt politically disenfranchised: 63.7% of respondents said their community's concerns are not well understood or not understood at all by elected officials, and 53.6% believe their community holds little to no political power.

But the survey also suggests that south Asians are motivated to vote. "Sometimes we see the lack of political agency lead to a lack of political participation," said Tom Wong, associate professor of political science and director of the US Immigration Policy Center at UCSD. "But what we're seeing in the poll is that there's high motivation to vote – to mobilize, organize, and change who's in office."

Parhboo says that as of 26 October, one week into early voting, the total number of south Asian Texans who voted in 2022 has already been surpassed.

"People have talked about the rising Hispanic electorate turning Texas blue. But it isn't any single community. It is a multiracial coalition that includes Asians," said Wong. "Asian Americans can decide outcomes in tight races," he said, including Michigan, Georgia, and North Carolina.

"I think that's one of the major takeaways, and we are thinking it might happen in Texas."

Beto O'Rourke, for example, lost the Senate election to Ted Cruz in 2018 by a margin of 2.6% – about 215,000 votes. The south Asian vote makes up that "margin of victory", Parbhoo says.

Bhojani's own race is further proof. In 2018, he was elected to the city council by only 37 votes. "These races are decided by razor-thin margins," Bhojani said. "People don't realize that in my city, 37 votes can make a difference."

Expect Trump's Frivolous Exploitation of the Justice System to Wreck the Midterms Results

His army of corrupt lawyers is ready. He knows he's losing the elections, and he's preparing to unleash his usual bullsh-t of legal challenges and fraudulent maneuvers to impede any smooth transition into the post-midterms phase when he will become a lame senile demented duck.

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Ex-Trump Official Warns About 'Messy' Post-Midterms: 'The Signal Has Now Been Sent'
Marco Margaritoff
Updated Sat, October 31, 2026 



Ex-Trump official Miles Taylor warned Friday that the current midterms fiasco in Alaska is only the start, predicting President Donald Trump and his Department of Justice will launch a "flurry of litigation" to keep non-GOP candidates from power — even if they win.

Taylor was chief of staff to Trump's ex-Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen before writing a highly critical anonymous essay in 2018 that led Trump to order an official DOJ investigation into his supposed "treason" in 2025 after Taylor revealed himself as the author.

Politics: Ex-Trump Lawyer Has A Dire Prediction For What Comes After Election Day

The former DHS official made his case on MS NOW during an appearance on "On The Line."

"I mean, the signal has now been sent," Taylor said Friday. "Folks have worried about this, and they thought maybe there was a chance that this administration was going to just take some losses the way that you would expect them to take losses in any ordinary time."

He warned, "But that doesn't look like it's going to be the case. I think we're going to have a messy post-election period and potentially a flurry of litigation. And this is the bellwether for exactly that — and that's going to lead people to wonder what happens on Jan. 3."

Taylor made his case amid a contentious Alaska Senate race between Democrat Mary Peltola, dark-horse candidate Dan Sullivan and the GOP incumbent, who is also named Dan Sullivan, prompting Trump's DOJ to file a lawsuit contending the election results should be blocked if the latter loses.

Politics: Trump Says He Ordered DOJ Lawsuit To Stop Alaska Election Certification

Taylor noted that he doesn't "want" to predict "the nightmare scenario" of Congress refusing to seat rightfully elected non-GOP candidates, but warned that "we are seeing the early signs of a difficult fight" in allowing the democratic midterms process to move forward.

Recent revelations from The New York Times allege Peltola's campaign was involved in a scheme to recruit Sullivan due to his name. The DOJ suit argues this was intended to mislead people trying to vote for the GOP incumbent.

Peltola's campaign and Sullivan have denied the allegations, and a sample of the Alaska midterms ballot shows how minor the apparent confusion could be.

MS NOW senior legal reporter Lisa Rubin argued Friday that the dark-horse candidate's eligibility in the midterms isn't even under question, and said, "Whether or not Daniel J. Sullivan had the right motives in getting on the ballot is not for us to decide."

While the Alaska Division of Elections initially disqualified Sullivan, arguing his candidacy wasn't filed in good faith, an Alaska Superior Court judge overturned that decision in June. The Alaska Supreme Court later ordered that Sullivan be included on the ballot.

"The Alaska Supreme Court has already decided, as a matter of state law and federal Constitution, that he is allowed to be there, and the United States, meaning the Department of Justice, did not seek to intervene in that. This should be game over," Rubin explained.

The senior legal reporter continued Friday, "The question about whether or not he had bad motive doesn't make this actionable under the National Voter Registration Act, the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution — or anything else."

White Trash Supremacist Racism Seeps Deep into the Democrat Party: Haley Stevens

Haley Stevens lost the Democrat primary. Yet, she can't get herself to support her Democrat rival El-Sayed against Donald Trump and his right-wing cabal.

Why? Because she's like most white trash Americans, racist Islamophobes to the bone hounded into deep fear and brainwashed by the Zionist and Ku Klux Klan cattle prods and incapable of upholding the strength of their convictions. 

On one hand, they are Democrats who want to live up to their principles. On the other hand, they are terrorized by their own white supremacist watermark that runs deep into their veins and their DNA and against their principles. As they try to manage this conflict, they fumble, sit on the fence, waver, and appear weak.

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Haley Stevens Asked If She Wants Abdul El-Sayed To Win: 'I Don't Know Why You'd Ask Me That'
Sebastian Murdock
Updated Sat, October 31, 2026



Michigan Rep. Haley Stevens (D) gave a lukewarm answer in a New York Times interview when asked if she wants Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, to win Tuesday's election.

"I think he's going to win," Stevens first said.

When pressed on her answer, Stevens then replied: "I don't know why you'd ask me that."

In recent days, Stevens has obsessively called out El-Sayed for perceived slights, including a demand that he condemn an ad that he and his campaign had nothing to do with.

She also demanded that El-Sayed take down his own ad featuring Republican talking heads — including Tucker Carlson— denouncing Republican Mike Rogers. Stevens, who is white, said El-Sayed should take down the video "out of the same respect for Michigan's Black community."

El-Sayed, for his part, seems to be done with taking Stevens' complaints seriously.

Asked a third time if she thinks El-Sayed will win, Stevens said she wants a Democrat to win.

"I ran for a Democratic nomination, intent in understanding that I wanted a Democrat to win," she told the publication. "We sat down for a long period of time, Abdul and I did, in the first quarter of '25, before we both decided to run, making that commitment to each other, so of course."

Naked Anti-Palestinian Racism as the Zionist Disneyland Forms New Government

This picture summarizes the entire tragedy of the birth of Israel over the corpse of Palestine: Western Jewish supremacist ideology and its violent takeover of the land of Palestine.

When confronted with their "Democracy for Jews Only" barbarity, the settlers of the Zionist colony in Palestine often respond with "Israel is the only democracy in the Near East". They also claim that their Israeli Palestinians (those who were not ethnically cleansed and terrorized into fleeing their lands in 1948) have such a better life under Jewish Zionist oppression than under other Arab regimes. They back their filthy colonial Jewish supremacy propaganda with the fact that the Palestinian citizens of their artificial colony have elected members in the Knesset.

Wow, what achievement! They let the Palestinians of Israel vote, but then those votes really mean nothing on the ground, confirming that the Israeli Palestinians are allowed to vote only to serve the propaganda marketing of a democratic Israel. In reality, the Zionist Jews continually discriminate against the Palestinian citizens of the colony and treat them like second class citizens. They polish the fake veneer of democracy behind which is nothing but racism and hatred against those Palestinians who make up 20% of the Zionist colony's population.

Now that the Palestinians of Israel have achieved a major victory in the latest elections - 19 seats in the Knesset - and as the civil war is under way between the secular atheists (i.e. not real Jews) of the left and the ultra-religious barbarians of the right, the Palestinians appear to be the kingmakers in the ongoing charade of forming a new government. With this sudden power they wield, the Palestinians of Israel are the object of vitriol, blatant racism and denigration by the Zionist Jewish settlers who appear to regret not having extended their ethnic cleansing of 1948 to those Palestinian citizens.

The Zionist colony has been caught in its Big Lie about being a genuine democracy. Voting alone does not make a democracy. They vote in Russia under the brutal criminal Putin. Nowadays, they vote in the US under the racist white supremacist dictatorship of Donald Trump. They vote in Lebanon's filthy oxymoronic "consensual democracy" that serves to polish the image of the corrupt feudal warlords that run the country. And now, voting in Israel is just that: A fake veneer that serves the Zionist propaganda but continues to deny the Palestinians of Israel their right to be in government.

The reason is simple: The mere existence of those Palestinians is a thorn that keeps pricking the Zionist settlers in the eye and exposes the brutal and violent colonization by European Zionist invaders who landed on the shores of Palestine and pushed the seacoast indigenous Palestinians into the hinterland or into refugee camps. Just look at the map of the Zionist colony: The Jewish parts are along the seacoast, while the northern Galilee is Palestinian, the eastern West Bank is Palestinian and the southern Gaza and the Negev desert are also Palestinian. Even Jerusalem is the mere tip of the Zionist invading arrow into the Palestinian heartland.

Too many Palestinians inside and around to really make Israel a Jewish-only nation. An existential conundrum that continues to plague the minority Zionist settlers in a sea of Palestinians they have no idea how to deal with except with brutal violence. The Zionist Disneyland on the Mediterranean is such a lovely democracy!

Notice how the Zionists refer to the Palestinians as "Arabs" and not as "Palestinians". The Zionists use this language to convince credulous imbeciles that, as Arabs, the Palestinians should easily be driven out, and ought to better belong, into other Arab countries. Using the "Palestinian" identifier confirms the unwanted reality of the existence of Palestine which the Zionists are working hard with mass murder, extermination, displacement, and genocide to deny. 
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Israeli protesters demand opposition ally with Arab parties to oust Netanyahu
Stuart White with Gianluca Pacchiani and Marie Dhumieres in Jerusalem
Sat, October 31, 2026


A protester in Tel Aviv dressed as US President Donald Trump holds a puppet depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with a sign supporting opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot (Jack GUEZ)

Hundreds of Israelis took to the streets on Saturday to urge the opposition to ally with Arab parties to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has gone on the offensive against the minority group's leaders.

Arab-majority parties made major gains in Tuesday's election, fuelled by anger over rhetoric targeting the community from Netanyahu's hard-right government, but opposition chief Gadi Eisenkot has not decided whether to seek a coalition with them.

Joining a rally in Tel Aviv, Ayelet Raz said that the Arab community, which accounts for around 20 percent of Israel's population, had a right to political participation.

"It's the last chance for real change," the 60-year-old psychologist said, warning that Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving prime minister, was a "great manipulator".

"We need to give peace a chance," she said. "Otherwise we'll have this bloodshed forever."

Tuesday's election was inconclusive, with neither bloc reaching a majority in Israel's 120-seat parliament.

Jewish-majority parties opposed to Netanyahu, known by his nickname Bibi, won 48 seats, while two Arab-majority parties, Raam and the Joint List, secured a combined 19 seats.

An alliance between the two camps would potentially give the anti-Netanyahu bloc a comfortable majority of 67 seats, but the idea is opposed by some parties in the opposition bloc.

"Arabs and Jews will only win together" and "There is a majority for change" read some of the signs held by around 500 protesters in Tel Aviv.

"67 -- United we stand, divided we get Bibi" and "Why not, really -- unless we are racist?" read some of the placards at the 100-strong rally in Jerusalem.

Arab parties have only once formally sat in an Israeli government, when Raam leader Mansour Abbas joined a short-lived coalition that lasted from 2021 to 2022.

He has voiced a willingness to do so again.

The Joint List's Yousef Jabareen, meanwhile, has told AFP he is willing to support Eisenkot in parliament without joining his government, citing, among other concerns, the war in Gaza.

- Opposition division -

Eisenkot, 66, a former military chief and political novice, largely shares Netanyahu's views on security issues including Gaza, which Israel has reduced to rubble since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.

Eisenkot reiterated on Saturday that he would only form a "Zionist government" whose members commit to the "recognition of Israel as a Jewish, democratic and liberal state" and to the "recognition of Hamas as a terrorist organisation", conditions that Arab leaders have previously refused to accept.

While he has said he does not want a government dependent on Arab lists, Eisenkot has not explicitly rejected their external support.

"I want them (the opposition bloc) to go ahead to be brave and do the right thing," said demonstrator Sharon Balaban, 55, a video artist in Jerusalem.

Yair Golan, leader of the left-wing Democrats has enthusiastically supported the prospect of a government backed by Arab parties, saying it would be racist to exclude them, and on Thursday met Abbas.

But Avigdor Liberman, leader of the right-wing anti-Netanyahu Yisrael Beitenu party, has said he will not enter a coalition that relies on Arab parties, even for external support.

"Whoever wants to rely on supporters of terrorism, let them. Yisrael Beiteinu will not be there," he wrote on Facebook on Friday.

- Arabs 'are for Hamas' -

On the sidelines of the demonstration in Tel Aviv, more than 100 Netanyahu supporters staged a counter-protest.

"It's the Right, or Palestine," they chanted, repeating a slogan from Netanyahu's campaign.

"The two Arab parties are for Hamas", said Rebecca Schindler, 60. "They want to make Israel an Arab country."

Nava Rehavia, 70, called on Eisenkot and Liberman to join a Netanyahu-led coalition and said: "The Arabs did not win, because they stole the election."

Netanyahu sought to raise allegations of electoral fraud during voting day, saying Arab parties had been caught with envelopes of cash.

Police said they had arrested three suspects, but the election commission described the incident as an isolated local case.

Netanyahu later raised allegations that Arab politicians improperly received support from Qatar.

Collaboration with Arab parties would be "a disaster for Israel", Netanyahu posted on social media on Saturday.

President Isaac Herzog is expected to grant a party leader a mandate to form a government within 28 days by Thursday, with a possible 14-day extension.

The negotiations come as Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump have hinted at a new attack on Iran, which could help Netanyahu run out the clock until new elections.

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