We have major data to unpack from the most recent elections: new insight into Americans’ attitudes toward Israel funding, progressive leaders, and more. We have ICE’s most recent acts of lethal violence to cover, noting how they connect to an ongoing campaign of terror. We have Pete Hegseth’s insane crusade to get members of the army tested for low testosterone (to keep it manly!). And, of course, we have our special guest Joy Reid to walk us all through it.
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Forty-eight percent of House Democrats support cutting off aid to Israel, actively voting against a measure to provide it on Wednesday. It’s a meaningful sea change in American politics that speaks to the work of organizers, reporters, and advocates in Gaza and around the world to bring light to Israel’s atrocities. Joy brings our attention to the powerful connections between the genocidal violence in Gaza and the boomerang that, as we know, leads to American police officers getting trained by the IDF. In her own powerful words, “These are not separate issues. Our moral imagination has to include not being for genocide, and not partnering with a country that trains our police to harm people like me.” And as she tells it, it’s more than disappointing and disheartening that the Democratic Party refuses to acknowledge this imperative and expand its moral imagination, even as voters embrace that expanded imagination and are ready for their representatives to envision and stand up for a better world.
We’re seeing contests for Democratic Party power — and for the progressive or conservative future of that party — play out right now, as in the Democrats’ race for the Michigan Senate. Haley Stevens is getting AIPAC money and the support of many from the Democratic establishment. Meanwhile, candidate Abdul El-Sayed, currently getting backing at rallies from AOC and Bernie, is sharing a progressive view of the future that speaks to the discontent his potential constituents feel and stays clear of AIPAC’s

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