Rep. Katie Porter also sought Our Revolution's endorsement, but OR said she hadn't pulled ahead in polling or demonstrated a path to victory. “We do have a concern about whether she would be the stronger candidate in the field to consolidate for progressives," Geevarghese said.
"While yes, he is a billionaire, and that’s a real and important concern, it’s equally important to recognize how he’s used his wealth and power,” Geevarghese said.
I asked Our Revolution ED Joseph Geevarghese why the group, which has built itself on fighting the influence of wealth and corporate power in politics, is endorsing a billionaire ...
NEW: Our Revolution is endorsing billionaire Tom Steyer for California Gov. Founded by Bernie Sanders after his 2016 presidential campaign, the group says if progressives don't consolidate after Swalwell's exit, they risk handing the seat to a Republican theintercept.com/2026/04/20/c...
@akelalacy.bsky.social and @ali-gharib.theintercept.com also break down Sen. Bernie Sanders resolutions to block the sales of bombs and bulldozers to Israel. The bills failed mostly along party lines with a handful of defections to the Republican side, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
New Intercept Briefing, @akelalacy.bsky.social speaks to @mattduss.bsky.social about how Dems can use unpopularity of the war to push an anti-war agenda. Time and time again voters demonstrate they don't want a "foreign policy establishment that is addicted to militarism, that is addicted to war."
NEW POD 🎧: A historic number of Democrats voted for Bernie Sanders’s measures to block bombs & bulldozers to Israel this week. I speak w Sanders’s former adviser @mattduss.bsky.social about Israel, Iran and why anti-war candidates become war-mongering presidents podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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“What I care about is the answer, and I care that people in this country don’t get health care at the same time that money goes to kill others in another country” @democracynow.org host Amy Goodman tells @akelalacy.bsky.social in new @theintercept.com Briefing.
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SPECIAL EPISODE 🚨 🎧: I speak with Amy Goodman of @democracynow.org about her mantra to mainstream media: "steal this story, please," an eponymous documentary on her life's work, the role of independent media & the pitfalls of news built on access journalism podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
On today's episode, we go deep on the Christian influencers pushing for War with Iran. Plus, @akelalacy.bsky.social
and I discuss how the war is shaping the midterms.
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Coming off a loss in IL primaries, Kat Abughazaleh launches a new effort “merging mutual aid, political action, and apolitical events.” @jesswash.bsky.social covered her campaign’s mutual aid program here: theintercept.com/2025/12/26/k...
EXCLUSIVE NEWS: Sen. Bernie Sanders endorses Claire Valdez in NY-7, siding with Mamdani & NYC socialists in a fight that has split progressives in New York. Outgoing Rep. Nydia Velázquez & NY WFP are backing Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso. theintercept.com/2026/04/02/b...
World War Trump
An analysis by The Intercept reveals that the “peace” president has embroiled the U.S. in more than 20 military interventions, armed conflicts, and wars.
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Where in the world has Trump made war? We're keeping count!
NEW POD 🎧: how do we value protest in an age massive repression? Trump’s “homeland empire,” state violence and bringing global wars home with Nikhil Pal Singh & @jesswash.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Lee Rosenberg is on her finance committee. It’s public information that he was AIPAC’s president. I hope that helps
This is funny because I have no clue if these donors are Jewish. They just gave to AIPAC!
This story does not “conflate” donors with AIPAC - they gave hundreds of thousands of $$ to AIPAC and it’s super PAC and DMFI. Almost $5 million in total. And as we note in the story, Krishnamoorthi has also taken hundreds of thousands of $ from pro-Israel groups & Kelly has taken pro-Israel $ too
SCOOP: you know AIPAC is spending millions on Illinois races. It’s publicly stayed out of Tuesday’s Senate race - but AIPAC donors have been giving to Lt. Gov. Julianna Stratton’s campaign since August. & a former AIPAC president is on her finance committee. theintercept.com/2026/03/12/a...
NEW POD 🎧: Iran is the *8th* country Trump has launched attacks in. W/ help from AI, strikes in Iran outpaced the 1st days of Israel’s siege on Gaza “by more than double” per @nickturse.bsky.social. & @sambiddle.com explains: AI is making war more reckless & deadly podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
In addition to the 14 people who got sick, 112 other individuals have been isolated in connection to the outbreak, according to Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas.
“There has been nothing but crisis after crisis inside the walls of this tent city," Escobar said in a statement, NBC News reported.
#ICE
The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE.
Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009.
A quick thread:
While Talarico calls for partially defunding ICE (not abolition) in favor of services (like healthcare) he also supports boosts to border funds, such as The Dignity Act, which increases militarization and surveillance at ports of entry. w/ @akelalacy.bsky.social
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Ahead of the 2024 presidential election, IMEU relayed concerns to Harris’s campaign that Gaza would cost her votes. After the election, IMEU was one of several groups that met with the Democratic National Committee over concerns about Israel policy. IMEU had concluded the issue was a liability in its own polling — and in the meeting, the DNC acknowledged it had found the same. In January, IMEU sent a letter to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, obtained by The Intercept, warning the congressional Democrats’ campaign arm about the DNC’s findings and its own, and advising DCCC about the group’s plans to run ads against vulnerable Republicans. IMEU sent the letter to DCCC prior to reporting from Axios that verified the DNC’s Gaza autopsy findings.
“We are confident in saying that internal DNC data corroborated our conclusion that Biden’s support for Israel cost Democrats votes in 2024, and have concerns that the DNC’s suppression of this report is motivated, at least in part, by their finding that support for Israel is an electoral liability for the party,” reads IMEU’s letter. “We look forward to engaging with you to ensure that the pivotal lessons from the 2024 election are not repeated, and instead incorporated into the Democratic Party’s strategy in the months ahead and before the pivotal midterm general elections.” DCCC did not respond to the letter and did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
IMEU was one of the groups that confirmed that a DNC autopsy of 2024 found Harris lost voters over Gaza. Prior to Axios's reporting on the autopsy, IMEU also sent a letter to DCCC in January warning them about the DNC's findings & advising them about plans to run these Israel ads
The war has aggravated long-standing Republican fault lines on foreign policy and resurfaced questions about where the party that calls itself “America First” actually stands on embroiling the U.S. in fighting overseas. Those rifts were on full display this week, when Trump appeared to walk back comments from Secretary of State Marco Rubio blaming Israel for dragging the U.S. into the war. “The perception that President Trump launched this war against Iran for Israel’s benefit is dividing his base and will benefit Democrats in 2026,” said IMEU spokesperson Hamid Bendaas, “if Democrats choose to take advantage.”
With Republicans sparring over whether or not Israel dragged the U.S. into war with Iran, progressives see an opening:
EXCLUSIVE: The pro-Palestine group @imeupolicy.bsky.social is spending $2 million on ads against Republicans in toss-up districts over ties to Israel & for Dems who support blocking weapons to Israel, taking advantage of GOP vulnerability amid Trump's war on Iran theintercept.com/2026/03/04/i...
“Their policies on Gaza are pretty much the same,” said Azra Siddiqi, a community activist who met with both campaigns as part of a coalition of over a dozen Muslim organizing groups. Before the primary, she said her group couldn’t “really recommend one over the other.”
In a mid-February email shared with The Intercept, organizers told Talarico they could not formally endorse him because he had not addressed their concerns on Israel and Gaza. They described being brushed off by the campaign and “feeling disregarded in this process.” “I want to be candid,” wrote organizer Hatem Natsheh, “if Talarico wins the primary, success in the general election will require broad coalition support, including ours. We sincerely hope it will not be too late to rebuild communication and trust should the campaign wish to re-engage in a meaningful way.” Several days later, Talarico’s campaign sent Natsheh a backgrounder saying he would support legislation to end offensive weapons to Israel, would push to make sure defensive weapons weren’t used to harm civilians, and would “not take campaign contributions from any PACs on any side of this conflict — because I want people to know that my position is driven by my values, not any outside influence.” Organizers also requested a similar statement from Crockett’s campaign, Siddiqi said, but they did not hear back.
A group of Muslim organizers told Talarico they couldn’t support him less than a month before the election because they weren’t convinced by his positions on Israel and Gaza. His campaign later sent them a position paper outlining his pledges
