July 19th, 20240By Dr. Muzammil Ahmed
The 2024 primary election for the U.S. Senate in Michigan is a critical contest, with two prominent candidates vying for the Democratic nomination: Hill Harper and Elissa Slotkin. The race is critical, but not because it is close; Slotkin is favored by the establishment to win. The race is critical because it is...
June 14th, 20240DETROIT – The Michigan Court of Appeals has denied the petition of Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Nasser Beydoun to have his name placed on the ballot for the August primary election. This decision follows his disqualification by state election authorities due to a technical error in his nomination petition.
The Michigan Board of...
July 31st, 20220As a rule, primary elections do not enjoy the same attention that voters give to general elections, but party qualifiers are — in some races — so decisive that the general elections seem to be a foregone conclusion, and this applies to the fullest extent to the primary elections on Tuesday, August 2.
It is a fact that the...
July 28th, 20220DEARBORN — Wayne County Sheriff Raphael Washington is running in the August 2 primary election to keep his position leading the sheriff’s office in the populous southeast Michigan county.
Washington was appointed in January 2021 following the passing of former Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon.
Washington, with 39 years of...
July 22nd, 20220HAMTRAMCK — Abraham Aiyash is running to retain his seat in the State House in the August 2 primary election, in a redrawn district that includes new neighborhoods in Detroit, as well as the area covering Hamtramck that he currently represents.
The energetic community advocate has long been closely associated with local progressive...
July 15th, 20220— Rex Nazarko is a staffer with the Emgage Michigan team
This past June, our team at Emgage and our allies came together in a celebratory event on Capitol Hill to honor and inspire Muslim American civic engagement. As our event was about to begin, we encountered heightened security measures on the Hill, which brought about...
July 15th, 20220DEARBORN — The long-running Arab American Political Action Committee (AAPAC) has announced its endorsements for the state-wide August primary elections.
AAPAC is the oldest Arab American political organization, established in 1998 and formed by a group of Arab American professionals who set out to organize and encourage the...
July 1st, 20220With primary races for Congressional seats heating up in Metro Detroit, some candidates have seen now unprecedented amounts of outside campaign funds pumped into their coffers.
Most notably, those funds, raised by pro-Israeli occupation and pro-big business entities, have been directed to mainstream, pro-Israel Democrats in order...
June 23rd, 20220HAMTRAMCK — The city of Hamtramck is on track to provide its residents election ballots and materials in Arabic for the August primary.
City officials confirmed the progress of the ballots with The Arab American News this week.
Hamtramck passed a language access resolution to provide federal voting rights act language...
June 17th, 20222DEARBORN — Voters in Dearborn can now expect translated materials in time for the August primary.
An effort to translate voting materials, including ballots, into Arabic in the city of Dearborn is now well underway, thanks to the work of a committee appointed by Mayor Abdullah Hammoud and the City Council.
The committee to...
May 20th, 20220DETROIT/DEARBORN — Wayne County Sheriff Raphael “Ray” Washington received major endorsements at a rally on Tuesday, as he runs to retain his position in this August’s primary election.
The endorsement rally took place at the Union Carpenters and Millwrights Skilled Training Center on the city’s west side, a 147,000 square...
April 22nd, 20220The deadline for withdrawal from the August primary election has now passed and here are some candidates in notable races for districts covering Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Hamtramck and more.
The following list appears on the Michigan Department of State's website and includes candidates who have withdrawn their names from each...
