Joe Kent says he, Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie are hoping to build a new political movement or third party built around opposition to U.S. wars, AIPAC, and corporate money, with the initial goal of fielding a candidate for the 2028 presidential campaign.
His Senate race against Rep. Haley Stevens became a full-throated rebuke and referendum on Israel for Democratic voters in Michigan
As Democrats debate the costs & benefits of confronting Israel, Michigan’s Senate primary has become the clearest test yet of whether opposition to AIPAC can be a winning strategy. AIPAC has spent tens of millions of dollars supporting his opponent Hayley Stevens.
Three-quarters of the money spent for television ads has been spent on behalf of Stevens (who supports unconditional military aid to Israel) or against El-Sayed (who speaks out against Israeli “genocide and apartheid,” while urging an end to “unilateral blank checks” from the US.)
The vote resulted in some obvious losers, including every pro-Israel and Jewish establishment organization that spent days whipping against the amendment to little avail. Nobody is more identifiable with this camp than AIPAC: Nearly a dozen of the 103 votes came from Democrats it had previously endorsed.
Campaign expenditures for the Colorado primary attracted national attention. Drop Site follows the money trail – back to AIPAC. Super PACs funded by AIPAC and big tech donors poured $2 million against challenger Melat Kiros. Dropsite exposes how AIPAC tried to obscure its role
Tucker Carlson’s interview with Trita Parsi on the Tucker Carlson Show. They discuss Israel’s false talking points on Iran, the outsized power of pro-Israel campaign donors and think tanks, and the profound damage caused to the US.
The co-founder of AIPAC Tracker said the pledge is meant to give lawmakers who once backed Israel “a bridge to get on the right side of history.”
American Priorities, a progressive super PAC formed earlier this year, is the most significant attempt yet to rival AIPAC’s spending power. Three New York races offer the most hyper-focused tests of how effective it can be.
Powerful interests recognize that this race represents a choice between maintaining the political status quo and building something different.