Tim Donner

No issue more accurately reflects the relentlessly leftward direction of the Democratic Party than the nation of Israel. Democrats have evolved from bipartisan supporters of the Jewish state for decades to open antagonists seeking to weaken, if not destroy, it. In 2016, exactly zero Democrats in the US House of Representatives voted against funding for the state of Israel. In 2024, 37 Democrats voted to cut off aid. But this week, a whopping 103 House Democrats voted to terminate all economic and military aid to our longtime ally in the Middle East, while another ten brave souls voted present.

could rightly be accused of refusing to exit the stage, but she was never going to run for president again after 2016. This time around, Democrats writ large are dealing with something far more serious as twice-failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris plans her return to the stage, rested, ready, and eager to reiterate how getting steamrolled by Donald Trump while blowing through $2 billion in 107 days was not her fault.

With so much attention these days focused on a new breed of socialists infiltrating the Democratic Party, it has been easy to overlook the decline of traditional liberalism, a hallmark of the party for almost a century. Liberalism was largely welcomed during the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, but it was increasingly scorned over the following decades. After Ronald Reagan won a landslide victory over Jimmy Carter in 1980 and launched his revolution to reduce the size, scope, and reach of the federal government, the word liberal became an insult employed ad nauseum by Republicans.

While it is true that polls conducted more than two years out from a presidential election are hardly indicative of which candidates will rise, fall, and ultimately win or lose, they do serve some useful purposes. Primarily, they test the staying power of prospective presidents, some of whom will find hope in the early numbers while others will see the unfortunate handwriting on the wall and take a pass.

A one-time progressive warrior blows the whistle on how the party shunned indispensable voters. The story, in brief

So this is it. Michigan Democrats vote tonight (Aug. 4) for their Senate nominee, and the result could well send shockwaves through the party and the entire political class. It's a showdown for an open seat between establishment candidate Rep. Haley Stevens and uber-progressive Abdul El-Sayed, who would stand to become the first Muslim in the US Senate. But it's not his faith so much as his fringe beliefs and close association with the infamous socialist influencer and virulently anti-Israel Hasan Piker that has Democrats fretting over what a triumph by El-Sayed would do to their party's already tarnished brand. Among Piker's most explosive remarks was that “America deserved 9/11.”

First, they won in New York. Then they took Maine, Colorado, and Michigan. And now, the next battleground for the energized socialist movement infiltrating the Democratic Party is Wisconsin. Francesca Hong, a chef, state assemblywoman, and member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), is running for governor, and the specter of a socialist in charge of a major swing state like Wisconsin should serve as a wake-up call for Republicans hoping to succeed outgoing Democrat Tony Evers. Hong has predictably made her bed with some of the left's most prominent progressive figures, campaigning alongside Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and socialist streamer Hasan Piker among others. She is hoping to ride the progressive wave generated by Abdul El-Sayed, who just triumphed in the Michigan Democratic primary, sending party leaders scrambling to pretend that openly anti-establishment, antisemitic socialists such as El-Sayed are welcome in their party.

Imagine what it would be like if someone you hardly knew suddenly acted like your best friend the day after you inherited millions of dollars. Well, that's kind of what it's like in Michigan, where newly minted far-left Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is welcoming a parade of 2028 Democratic presidential hopefuls to the Wolverine State. They are all lining up to kiss his ring and sing his praises after refusing to endorse him in his primary battle against establishment favorite Rep. Haley Stevens. But now he's apparently the cat's meow.

Giggling about the horrors of the pandemic and the George Floyd era marks a moment in time.

A war that began with a flourish but has since descended into a drawn-out game of cat and mouse has now entered a new, and hopefully final, stage. With voters experiencing spikes in the cost of energy and food, heavily impacted by a conflict thousands of miles away, and midterm elections approaching, President Donald Trump is hoping that Operation Economic Outcast (OEO), announced by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Aug. 24, will tighten the US vise grip on the regime in Iran. The goal is to force it to the breaking point by severing its every financial link to the outside world.