March 4th, 20200NEW YORK — Former New York Mayor and 2020 Democratic candidate Michael Bloomberg announced Wednesday that he is suspending his campaign and throwing support behind former Vice President Joe Biden. Bloomberg, who had funded his campaign with millions of dollars of his own money, said that after Super Tuesday’s dismal performance, he...
March 3rd, 20200DEARBORN - The Yemeni American Democratic Caucus (YADC) within the Michigan Democratic Party announced on Feb. 28 its endorsement of Vermont senator Bernie Sanders’ campaign for the presidency. After deliberations between its executive committee, the YADC believes that Sanders is the best and most qualified candidate for president, a...
March 2nd, 20200DALLAS — The campaign for U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) announced that she will be ending her 2020 Democratic presidential candidate bid and will formally endorse former Vice President Joe Biden at a rally in Dallas, Texas on Monday. Klobuchar is now the third candidate to drop out of the race in a week, following South Bend, Indiana...
January 24th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C — On yet another day of impeachment hearings, senators listened to the Democratic team on Thursday as they argued that President Trump sought a phony investigation of former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter's business dealings in Ukraine while pursuing a unproven conspiracy theory about the...
January 22nd, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C — Arguments in the impeachment trial of President Trump kicked off on Wednesday with Democrats trying to show the American public how far the corrupt scheme to undermine the country went, and urging skeptical Republicans to act on their consciences and vote to remove the president.
After voting on the operating...
January 20th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Trump’s legal team filed arguments that it plans to use as the impeachment trial is set to begin in earnest in the Senate on Tuesday. This is only the third impeachment trial of a president in U.S history. The defense team plans to argue that the president should be cleared of the two charges of abuse of...
December 21st, 20190This week, another prominent member of the Michigan government, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat and public figure who has shown support for the Arab American community, with the community reciprocating that support, took a publicized trip to Israel. After the outrage sparked by last month’s Israeli trip by Governor...
August 23rd, 20190WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Trump beat back criticism of his comments accusing American Jews who vote for Democrats of “great disloyalty” and went a step further on Wednesday, saying any vote for a Democrat is a vote against Israel.
“I think that if you vote for a Democrat you are very, very disloyal to Israel and to the Jewish...
May 24th, 20190WASHINGTON, D.C. - House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday she wished President Trump’s family or staff would conduct an “intervention” with him for the good of the country after he threw what she called a temper tantrum at a meeting with Democratic congressional leaders a day earlier.
Trump fired back,...
April 24th, 20190Washington — Police have arrested a Florida man and charged him with making threats by phone last week to freshman U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Detroit, and two other Democratic lawmakers in Congress.
Police say John J. Kless of Tamarac, Florida, called Tlaib and left threatening and profane voicemail messages.
Sen. Cory Booker...
February 15th, 20190WASHINGTON, DC — The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives approved a resolution on Wednesday that would end U.S. support for the Saudi Arabia-led coalition in the war in Yemen, as many lawmakers sought to push President Trump to toughen his policy toward the kingdom.
It was the first time the House of Representatives has...
January 25th, 20190Let us assume that you are a federal government employee who is about to miss his second paycheck because of the government shutdown. That’s one month without pay. Also, let's say that you are a Democrat and a staunch anti-Trump individual.
You should be asking the Democrats on Capitol Hill to give Trump the money for his wall and...
January 15th, 20190WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the U.S. government shutdown continues, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has slammed the “absurd” introduction of a bill targeting the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement.
Sanders, an Independent who caucuses with Democrats, may run again for president in 2020. He tweeted out an article in the...
January 15th, 20190WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senate Democrats blocked a pro-Israel bill from reaching the 60-vote threshold needed to end a filibuster and reach the floor.
The vote of 56 in favor and 44 against kept the bill from reaching the senate floor by a margin of four votes.
Michigan Democratic Senators Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters voted against...
November 9th, 20180WASHINGTON — Now that the Democrats have won control of the U.S. House of Representatives, they need to choose a leader and that means solving one of their toughest puzzles: Nancy Pelosi.
A contest among the Democrats for the House’s top job of speaker will play out over the next 10 weeks or so, with the formidable 78-year-old San...
November 6th, 20180WASHINGTON - American voters will decide whether Trump’s Republicans maintain their grip on the U.S. Congress, or if Democrats can slow the president’s agenda after a divisive campaign marked by clashes over race, immigration and trade.
The first national elections since Trump captured the White House in a stunning 2016 upset is a...
October 15th, 20180 WASHINGTON, DC - On Friday, October 12, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) led 27 of her Democratic House colleagues in calling for the Saudi government to support an independent investigation into the whereabouts of Jamal Khashoggi, a U.S.-based Saudi journalist and writer who went missing after entering the Saudi Arabian consulate...
October 6th, 20180WASHINGTON - A deeply divided U.S. Senate on Saturday confirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, as Republicans dismissed accusations of sexual misconduct against the conservative judge and delivered a major victory to President Trump.
By a vote of 50-48, the Senate gave a lifetime job to Kavanaugh, 53, after weeks of fierce...
September 23rd, 20180A blue wave in November could not only take the House majority away from the GOP, but could also cause turmoil within the Democratic party next year, according to a report by The Hill.
As a progressive wave grips the party, producing upset primary victories in cities like the Bronx, the publication writes that Democrats are bracing...
September 15th, 20181DEARBORN – Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gretchen Whitmer has reaffirmed her “unwavering support” for Israel and said she is 100 percent opposed to BDS.”
In response to what Whitmer’s campaign calls “baseless smears” from her Republican opponent Bill Schuette's “partisan attack dogs” in the form of articles...
September 1st, 20180If you take a dim view of our political parties, you’re in sterling company. So did George Washington.
In his famous farewell address, he warned us against “the baneful effects of the spirit of party.” A political party, he wrote, “agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of...
August 31st, 20180LANSING – Michigan voters are gearing up to elect candidates for governor, attorney general and secretary of state, among others, on November 6.
Following the primary elections, which saw the defeat of progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed to his rival and establishment Democrat, Gretchen Whitmer, elected officials and Arab Americans...
August 1st, 20180
YPSILANTI — With the days fast counting down to Michigan’s Aug. 7 primary election, gubernatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign has been taking Southeast Michigan by storm, as diverse crowds pack halls along his tour route.
At his fourth rally of the weekend, Brown Chapel AME Church in Ypsilanti was filled with an...
July 13th, 20180WASHINGTON — For decades it was seen as too politically risky to criticize Israel, but this midterm cycle a growing number of Democratic candidates have begun openly criticizing some of its policies.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the first-time candidate who upset 10-term incumbent Rep. Joseph Crowley in last month’s Democratic...
July 6th, 20180Progressive and unorthodox candidates for Congress have been racking up major victories in the past few months, sending shockwaves and turning heads in a political arena long-dominated by White Republican men with deep pockets.
On June 26, 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated a 10-term Democratic incumbent in the primaries...
June 23rd, 20181LANSING – The national wave of youth activism sparked by the shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. is leading Michigan lawmakers to push for lowering the voting age to 16.
State Sen. David Knezek (D-Dearborn Heights) and State Rep. Yousef Rabhi (D-Ann Arbor) introduced the mirror bills in the House and...
May 4th, 20180LANSING – In an increasingly heated battle to remove one other from the ballot this primary election, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Shri Thanedar is challenging rival Abdul El-Sayed’s eligibility to run for office. The two are running against Gretchen Whitmer in the Democratic primary.
Thanedar filed the complaint with the...
May 4th, 20180LANSING — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Shri Thanedar has spent millions of dollars in the Democratic primary race for governor, but he might not get on the ballot after questions were raised regarding the validity of 26,000 petition signatures required to place his name on the ballot in August.
Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign...
