MoveOn to Corporations: You Can’t Buy a Senate Seat

As $ 61 million in dark money pours in to support the Stevens campaign, grassroots group helps GOTV for El-Sayed; launches mailers, digital ads, phone banks, billboards, canvassing to expose the corporate cash flying around her campaign.  DETROIT – In the final home stretch of the most-watched Senate primary race of the cycle, MoveOn Political Action is redoubling its grassroots get-out-the-vote effort for Dr. Abdul El-Sayed as the Democratic nominee for the open U.S. Senate seat.  Ahead of the August 4 primary, MoveOn is launching billboards, a digital ad targeting…

Read More...

Ossoff’s ‘Natalie’ Moment

How many words does it take to trigger MAGA world? Three, it turns out. When Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia said at a rally on Sunday that President Trump wants to “travel with Natalie”—implying an untoward relationship between the 80-year-old grandfather and his 35-year-old special assistant, Natalie Harp—the outrage from Trump allies was as loud as it was predictable: Megyn Kelly, Newt Gingrich, and Laura Ingraham, among others, accused Ossoff of misogyny, despite having previously defended Trump’s own sexist comments. (The word hypocrisy feels inadequate here.) But as this debate…

Read More...

El-Sayed Victory Proves Bold, People-Focused Agenda Is the Path Forward for Democrats 

Michigan voters reject more than $ 63 million in corporate and pro-war spending, deliver major victory for people-powered politics MICHIGAN—Dr. Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Michigan, overcoming more than $ 63 million spent by corporate interests, dark money groups, and pro-war organizations backing his opponent, Rep. Haley Stevens. El-Sayed’s victory is a triumph for bold progressives and people-powered movements over the corporate-backed, pro-war wing of the Democratic Party. His campaign showed that a populist message focused on affordability, ending costly wars, and getting big money…

Read More...