December 6th, 20241In a bold political move on Wednesday, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced his 2026 campaign for governor as an independent candidate. This marks his departure from the Democratic Party, despite his longstanding ties with the party's leadership, including figures in the White House.
Departure from the Democratic Party
Duggan will...
November 15th, 20240• Harris’ losses surpass 20,000 Votes in the three cities compared to Biden’s 2020 results
• Trump gains around 6,000 additional votes in Dearborn, Dearborn Heights and 2,000 in Hamtramck to what he received in 2020.
Dearborn
For the first time since 2000, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump won the cities of...
August 10th, 20240DEARBORN – After Democratic primary on Tuesday, Arab American State Rep. Alabas Farhat is now poised to continue representing Dearborn in Lansing for an additional two-year term. This comes after a heated election campaign against Ziad Abdulmalik.
Farhat, who represents District 3, a historically Democratic district, will face...
August 9th, 20240The results of the primary elections held on Tuesday have set the stage for the U.S. Senate race in Michigan, with both Democratic U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin and former Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers advancing after defeating their opponents in the primaries.
Slotkin, a resident of Holly, decisively won the Democratic primary race...
July 19th, 20240DEARBORN – Democratic Michigan State Representative Alabas Farhat, an Arab American, is seeking to retain his seat for State House District 3, which was redrawn last year to include most of Dearborn and limited neighborhoods in the Warrendale area of Detroit.
Currently serving his first term in Lansing, Farhat seeks to win a second...
June 7th, 20240Americans are more dissatisfied with their government than the citizens of any other major democracy, according to an analysis by the Washington Post. And we seem to be growing more skeptical of government every year.
In 1964, when I was first elected to Congress, nearly 80 percent of Americans trusted government to do the right thing...
November 17th, 20230FLINT – Democratic U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee announced he will not be seeking re-election in 2024.
Kildee, who represents Michigan's 8th Congressional District, says that being diagnosed with cancer earlier this year helped him make the decision.
"I was first elected to public office when I was 18-years-old," Kildee said in a...
February 17th, 20210Motivated by their justifiable aversion to former President Trump, many analysts have rashly painted a rosy picture of how Democrats could quickly erase the bleak trajectory of the previous Republican administration. This naivety is particularly pronounced in the current spin on the Palestinian-Israeli discourse, which is promoting,...
July 19th, 20200While the U.S. administration of President Trump remains adamant in its support for Israel, the traditional Democratic leadership continues to employ underhanded language, the kind of “strategic ambiguity” that offers full support to Israel and nothing but lip service to Palestine and peace.
Trump’s policies on Israel and...
February 22nd, 20190WASHINGTON, DC - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) chose Faiz Shakir, a Muslim American, to serve as his campaign manager for his second run for president.
Shakir previously served as national political director of the American Civil Liberties Union since early 2017.
Before his position at the ACLU he worked as a senior advisor to...
October 29th, 20180DETROIT— According to a new poll commissioned by the Detroit Free Press and its media partners, Democratic leads over Republicans in the Michigan races for governor and secretary of state have shrunk to 5 and 4 points respectively, while the attorney general's race is heating up as well.
Although in the U.S. Senate race Democratic...
September 1st, 20180DEARBORN — At a town hall meeting on Monday Aug. 27 at the Arab American National Museum (AANM) in Dearborn, Democratic gubernatorial nominee Gretchen Whitmer and her running mate, Garlin Gilchrist, joined forces with Abdul El-Sayed, the runner-up for the nomination, to speak with Arab Americans and Metro Detroit community...
August 10th, 20180DEARBORN/DETROIT – Abdul El-Sayed might have fallen short of the votes needed to win the Democratic gubernatorial primary on Tuesday, Aug. 7, and the possibility of going on to become the nation's first Muslim governor, but his platform’s momentum continues in full thrust among many progressives across the state. The 33-year-old...
July 28th, 20180Lansing — On Wed., July 25, just two weeks before the Democratic primary, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) endorsed Abdul El-Sayed for governor of Michigan.
Sanders defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Michigan Democratic Primary by 2 percentage points, a surprise win over Clinton, who went on to secure...
June 15th, 20180DETROIT — Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a Democratic candidate for governor, unveiled a state-level single payer healthcare plan on Wednesday.
The proposal, called Michicare, would make Michigan the first state in the country to guarantee universal healthcare coverage for all residents. El-Sayed is the first candidate for governor in...
June 1st, 20180
The ban has nothing to do with safety, makes us less safe around the world and negatively impacts our families in Michigan
DEARBORN — It's no surprise that people the world over are attracted to the message of change. As one crisis and protest follows after another, it seems like people are forcibly grasping for...
April 27th, 20180LANSING – Republican gubernatorial candidate Patrick Colbeck outraged both Democrats and fellow Republicans when he claimed that one of his Democratic rivals, Abdul El-Sayed, is part of an organized plot to take over American political leadership positions and start a “civilization jihad.”
Colbeck, currently a state senator from...
March 16th, 20180By Farah Harb
The Arab American News
The following is the continued list of Metro Detroit candidates running for congressional seats in the Aug. 7 and Nov. 6 elections.
10th DISTRICT
Paul Mitchell (Republican incumbent)
Mitchell of Dryden, replaced former U.S. Rep. Candice Miller in 2016 and has since created a system of...
March 9th, 20180DETROIT — Thousands of people attended the sanctuary of Detroit's Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church on March 3 to hear from four of the gubernatorial candidates. According to Miunited.org, Democrats Bill Cobbs, Abdul El-Sayed and Gretchen Whitmer were joined by Republican Patrick Colbeck in discussions about criminal justice reform,...
