December 6th, 20240The 2024 election is over, but the arguments about what it means are continuing. Did Donald Trump and the Republican Party win a mandate to govern as they wish? Did Democrats try too hard to appeal to their political base? Or not hard enough?
But drawing conclusions about the meaning of an election, especially about what it says about...
November 15th, 20242Arab and Muslim American voters did not remove Democrats from office, nor did they cost Kamala Harris the Oval Office. They merely sent a strong message that Palestine matters, not only to Arabs and Muslims but to many Americans as well.
The ones who cost the Democrats the elections are the Democrats themselves. Their humiliating...
November 9th, 20240Alongside the presidential race, elections for all 13 of Michigan’s U.S. Congressional Districts were held Tuesday. The results favored the Republican Party, which increased its share of Michigan seats in the House of Representatives to seven members after Republican candidate Tom Barrett in District 7 (Lansing area) defeated his...
August 23rd, 20240Disappointed Pro-Palestinian activists said Kamala Harris' speech to close the Democratic convention in Chicago failed to demonstrate any break from the status quo, after a week in which the most divisive issue facing the party was mostly ignored.
Under pressure to respond to critics of U.S. support for Israel's war in Gaza, the vice...
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...
July 19th, 20240Democrats at the highest levels are making a critical push for President Biden to rethink his election bid, with former President Obama expressing concerns to allies and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi privately telling Biden the party could lose the ability to seize control of the House if he doesn’t step away from the 2024...
July 13th, 20240WASHINGTON, D.C. — Joe Biden failed another test on Thursday that he was trying to avoid so far this year — a solo news conference with questions from the White House press corps.
The news conference was meant to reassure an increasing disheartened group of Democratic lawmakers, allies and persuadable voters in this year’s...
March 1st, 20240A new survey from Data for Progress asked likely U.S. voters about various foreign policy issues, particularly related to the ongoing war on Gaza.
When asked if they approve or disapprove of the way Joe Biden is handling the Israel-Palestine conflict, voters disapprove by a -21-point margin, with 57 percent disapproving and 36 percent...
February 13th, 20242Michigan community leaders are encouraging voters to select "uncommitted" in the Michigan primary elections, hoping to send a message to President Biden before November that they're unhappy with U.S. support for Israel in the conflict with Gaza.
"The main push is Joe Biden's stance on the conflict taking place between Israel and...
November 24th, 20230Democratic U.S. senate candidate Hill Harper said he rejected a $20 million offer in campaign contributions from a Michigan businessman to pull out of the senate race and run against U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit) in 2024.
According to Harper, he declined the offer from the alleged donor, Linden Nelson, which would have split the...
November 24th, 20230LANSING - On Wednesday, Governor Whitmer sent a letter to Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson calling for a special election to fill two vacant seats in the Michigan House of Representatives.
The vacancy is caused by the elections of State Representative Lori Stone, who previously represented the 13th House District, to mayor of...
October 31st, 20230By Peter Schurmann
Support for President Biden among Arab Americans has plummeted in the wake of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to a new survey released by the non-partisan Arab American Institute.
The survey of 500 Arab Americans found a 42 percent decrease in those who say they approve of the president’s...
February 3rd, 20230WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives ousted Democrat Ilhan Omar from a high-profile committee over remarks widely condemned as anti-Semitic, two years after Democrats removed two Republicans from committee assignments.
The deeply divided House voted 218-211 along party lines to remove Omar...
November 19th, 20220By Peter White
Despite new laws to keep people from voting and gerrymandering election districts to take away the power of minority communities, the Republican “red wave” that pollsters predicted ahead of last week’s midterms didn’t happen.
Ethnic Media Services debriefed six experts on their reactions to the election...
November 18th, 20220DETROIT — Fresh off a double digit election victory over a Trump-backed candidate, Governor Whitmer spoke at the 50th anniversary gala for ACCESS in Detroit on Thursday.
More than 1,000 people attended the half-a-century celebration at the Marriott hotel in the Renaissance Center for an organization that began as a modest,...
November 18th, 20220The U.S. Department of Justice has decided to investigate the killing of renowned Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, with Israel saying it does not plan to cooperate.
The investigation by the FBI comes after months of pressure from rights groups, Democrats and Abu Akleh’s family on the Biden administration to push...
November 11th, 20220The midterm elections shocked most observers and political experts throughout the nation. While Republicans gained a few seats in the Congress, and may perhaps still win the majority there, nothing like the widely predicted "Red Wave" came to fruition. The Senate is still up for grabs, and Democrats scored a number of major victories...
November 11th, 20220After the state lost a congressional seat from the census and with redistricting causing upheaval to the U.S. House maps, Democrats have broken the tie in the Congressional roster from Michigan and added two new faces.
After the Nov. 8 election, Michigan will have seven Democrats and six Republicans in the U.S. House of...
November 11th, 20220Hamtramck native Abraham Aiyash will become the first Arab American to be a majority leader in a state legislature next term after he was selected by his colleagues to be Michigan’s new majority floor leader of the State House. Aiyash will be the highest-ranking Muslim American in Michigan legislative history.
"Incredibly honored...
November 9th, 20220Governor Whitmer enters her second term with Democrats likely to control all levels of power in the State Capitol for the first time since the 1980s and backed by a dramatic show of voters’ support for keystone Democratic issues, including abortion and voting rights.
But even as state Democrats celebrated their sweep of state...
November 9th, 20220Democrats cleared victories with wide margins despite a renewed push by Republicans to make in-roads with voters, with the picture becoming clearer as election results came out of the Dearborn Clerk’s office Tuesday night.
With all precincts reporting in Dearborn, unofficial results from the Dearborn City Clerk showed comfortable...
November 5th, 20220Control of Congress is at stake in Tuesday's midterm elections, along with President Biden’s agenda for the two years remaining in his term.
Republicans stand a strong chance of taking control of the U.S. House of Representatives, while Democrats retain a slim hope of keeping a majority in the Senate. Republican control of either...
November 3rd, 20220Former President Trump is considering launching a third bid for the White House this month and is speed-dialing confidantes to hash out possible scenarios as he looks to benefit from expected Republican wins in Tuesday's midterms, three Trump advisers said.
"I think like a moth to a flame, Trump will run in 2024," one senior adviser...
October 28th, 20222- Muzammil Ahmed serves on the boards of Emgage MI, CAIR MI and is the former chair of the Michigan Muslim Community Council. The opinions expressed are his own.
When the Muslim community and the progressive forces came together after 9/11, it was a marriage of convenience. Arabs and Muslims needed to be loved and the Progressives...
October 27th, 20220LANSING — A statewide crackdown aimed at reducing gun violence by getting illegal guns off the streets and away from people who cannot legally be in possession of a gun due to prior criminal history has led to hundreds of guns being taken off the streets.
Since the Operation Safe Neighborhoods began, law enforcement officials have...
October 21st, 20220The November election is around the corner, and because of ongoing and unprecedented attacks on civil liberties and democracy itself, we cannot emphasize its importance enough.
We know these elections will not occur in a vacuum. Recently, the nation turned its attention to our community once more; but sadly, this time it wasn’t due...
October 7th, 20220WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Biden took steps to overhaul U.S. policy on marijuana on Thursday by pardoning thousands of people with federal offenses for simple marijuana possession and initiating a review of how the drug is classified.
Biden said thousands of people with prior federal convictions could be denied employment, housing...
September 2nd, 20220In the race for governor, Democratic incumbent Gretchen Whitmer appears to be well ahead of her Republican opponent — by double digits in fact.
Results from a statewide August poll conducted by EPIC-MRA shows that Whitmer has an 11-point lead over Dixon, a comfortable lead in what's sure to be a contentious race in November. But...
