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California's progressive attorney general, Rob Bonta, quietly reinstated privileged charitable status to Arc of Justice, the serially tax-delinquent "charity" used by Code Pink benefactress Medea Benjamin to dole out millions to far-left activist groups, the Washington Free Beacon can reveal.
Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed defeated Republican Mike Rogers on Tuesday, becoming the most radical candidate elected to the upper chamber in U.S. history. El-Sayed bested Rogers after a tumultuous campaign in which he embraced noxiously antisemitic podcasters, clerics, and donors.
From the river to the sea. Blue tsunami reckoning. Americans won't be getting those $5,000 checks after all. The poll weren't wrong. If anything, they understated the carnage awaiting Republicans on Tuesday.
Maine Democrat Troy Jackson defeated Republican incumbent senator Susan Collins after campaigning as a crusader against corporate interests and "high-priced lobbyists." His victory could create opportunities for his son, who worked as a high-priced corporate lobbyist as Jackson led the Maine Senate.
Minnesota Democrat Peggy Flanagan held off former NFL sideline reporter Michele Tafoya in a closely watched Senate race Tuesday, overcoming questions about her handling of multiple fraud scandals while serving as lieutenant governor in the administration of Governor Tim Walz.
Texas Democrat James Talarico, the 37-year-old state lawmaker who shares his only disclosed checking account with his mother, defeated Republican attorney general Ken Paxton, breaking his party's long losing streak in the Lone Star State.
Colorado Democrat Manny Rutinel, a former anti-meat and anti-oil crusader who went great lengths to distance himself from his activist past, successfully unseated the Republican incumbent, Gabe Evans, in the state’s competitive Eighth Congressional District.
Arkansas voters put Democrat Hallie Shoffner out to pasture in Tuesday's Senate race in favor of incumbent Republican Tom Cotton, a Washington Free Beacon Man of the Year who was elected to a third term in the upper chamber.
Angie Nixon, the anti-Israel dues-paying Democratic Socialist and owner of Jacksonville’s black power-themed Cafe Resistance bookstore, lost her longshot Senate bid to incumbent Sen. Ashley Moody (R., Fla.) on Tuesday.
Employees of the New York Times, the Federal Reserve, Harvard, and Columbia have poured thousands of dollars in campaign cash into Democratic political campaigns—including some of the most extreme far-left candidates—a Washington Free Beacon review found.
DETROIT — Michigan Senate hopefuls Mike Rogers and Abdul El-Sayed were within 30 miles of each other as they rallied voters for the final time Monday night. Their closing messages were much further apart.
As Denver congressional candidate Melat Kiros—a socialist who said the Sept. 11, 2001, and Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks were "inevitable"—faced mounting criticism from Jewish voters, "Jews for Melat" came to her defense, publishing video endorsements and organizing "liberatory" shabbat dinners meant to showcase the…
Election Day is finally here, and no one really knows what's going to happen. Most polling suggests Republicans are in for a shellacking. House and Senate, gone. On the one hand, that seems perfectly plausible. The opposition party typically does well in midterm elections. Democrats are frothing at the mouth. They've…
Each day brings new evidence that the New York Times is abandoning nonpartisan independence and instead embracing the hard left.
The former president of the leading professional psychology association in the United States, the American Psychological Association, reacted to Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel by likening Gazans to George Floyd and Jews to racist police officers, internal emails obtained by the House Committee on…
The top Lebanese diplomat in Detroit, who attended an Arab American banquet in support of Abdul El-Sayed and other Democratic candidates last week, praised Hezbollah's 1983 suicide attack on the U.S. Marine Corps barracks, which killed 241 American service members, in social media posts unearthed by the Washington…
The political action committee affiliated with far-left Florida Marxist group Dream Defenders—which has received millions of dollars from George Soros's charitable network, advocates for abolishing prisons and defunding the police, and glorifies to Palestinian terrorist organizations—has spent $35,863 in support of…
Abdul El-Sayed's Senate campaign has been quietly supported by a shadowy network of anti-Israel donors and political groups that have quietly spent millions to elect a new breed of radical Democrats, according to a new investigation by the watchdog group Canary Mission. The same financial network is also funding other…
DUBUQUE, Iowa—President Donald Trump and House speaker Mike Johnson said they would welcome Democratic congresswoman Haley Stevens to the Republican Party following her stunning endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers for Senate in Michigan two days before voters head to the polls in what has become the nation’s most…
DETROIT — Michigan Democratic congresswoman Haley Stevens on Sunday endorsed Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers, saying she objects to the "hate" promoted by her Democratic primary opponent, Abdul El-Sayed, and some of his high-profile supporters.
Spencer Cox would like you to know he is not running for president. "No, really," the Utah governor insists at the beginning of Off Ramp, a book introducing readers to his upbringing, governing philosophy, and vision for the nation's future. Sure, dude.
When the story of Karyann Parkinson—a Virginia mom convicted of child abuse for letting her five-year-old walk alone to a nearby pond—went viral last month, I didn't know what to think. Of course, the authorities' reaction was disproportionate; trusting your kid shouldn't be a crime. But as a parent, I wondered…
"A rabbi, a priest, and an imam walk into a research program funded by NASA to talk about the intersection of God and aliens," quipped Business Insider after NASA gave more than $1 million to Princeton's Center of Theological Inquiry to study how the world's religions might respond to the discovery of extraterrestrial…
In the summer of '71, as rock royalty played for charity at the Concert for Bangladesh in New York, a band of cretinous dirtballs emerged from the Midwest's teenage wasteland with a breakout album that made mincemeat of the fashionable save-the-world vibe. It was titled Love It to Death, and the cover showed the group…
Michigan congresswoman Haley Stevens will no longer appear at a planned “unity” event for her Democratic Senate primary opponent Abdul El-Sayed after he refused to condemn an antisemitic ad produced on his behalf that blames the rising cost of groceries on Jews and Israel.
So much of Washington's attention is concentrated on Taiwan that Americans sometimes forget China picks fights with nearly all of its other neighbors too. Beijing's claims to the South China Sea and various islands owned by our allies garner some attention, but the land grabs to China's south are less well known.
Jasmine Crockett's pastor called U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement "the new KKK" at a boisterous campaign rally for Texas Senate candidate James Talarico on Thursday. Talarico thanked him for the "kind words" and congratulated him on his expected accession to Crockett's Congressional seat.
Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon said she can't be held accountable for any laws that her charitable black-power-themed Cafe Resistance bookstore may have violated because she secretly resigned from the nonprofit nearly a year ago. Nixon's prior statements tell a different story.
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed continues to double down on his public associations with antisemites, campaigning Thursday alongside a Nation of Islam "student minister" and acolyte of the antisemitic group's longtime leader, Louis Farrakhan, who has referred to Jews as "termites" and praised Adolf Hitler.
President Trump sent a video message to the ten-year anniversary celebration of Unleash Prosperity, a pro-growth group that focuses on economic policy. It was a warm greeting, paying tribute to the group’s founders, who Trump called “four of the all time greats”—”my friend Steve Moore,” Arthur Laffer, Steve Forbes…
Abdul El-Sayed has a long history of involvement with a notorious Michigan mosque whose leaders have defended payments to the families of terrorists and offered prayers to Allah to destroy the Jews.
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who faces growing opposition from Jewish Democrats, quietly attended a banquet Wednesday night for an Arab-American lobbying group led by Osama Siblani, a notorious Dearborn-based activist who said that Arabs should send Israeli Jews "back to Poland," that Israel's actions in…
The Obama administration "found evidence suggesting" that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) committed immigration fraud by marrying her brother, the New York Times revealed on Thursday. Imagine that!
For years, Maine Democrat Troy Jackson, running for Senate as a "working class voice" and "logger by trade," has claimed to run a "Logging and Forestry" company, Jackson Associates, in his rural town of Allagash. It's actually a consulting firm, according to Jackson's personal financial disclosure, which shows that…
Election Day is next Tuesday. Most normal Americans have better things to do than follow politics obsessively, so we've prepared a helpful guide explaining where the major parties stand on the issues that matter most.
The New York Times, which boasts about its independence and employing more than 2,000 journalists, is increasingly relying on left-leaning outside nonprofit organizations to provide news and editorial content.
Abdul El-Sayed's father sits on the board of a notorious Islamic charity that was once busted for funneling cash to Saddam Hussein and has been raided by the FBI and the U.S. military. The board also features two current members who belonged to the Muslim Brotherhood, according to documents from federal prosecutors.
Democratic political groups and their consultants—including those supporting Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed—are recruiting canvassers with "previous felony convictions" to knock on voters' doors in Michigan, Kansas, Ohio, and other battleground states, according to job listings reviewed by the Washington…
Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon is doubling down in the campaign's final days on her fierce opposition to Israel, promoting an endorsement she received from a virulently anti-Israel group that shares ties with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and whose founder has represented several…
President Donald Trump will announce an EPA proposal on Tuesday evening gutting Biden-era regulations that placed strict limits on methane emissions from oil and gas drilling operations, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
Newly released data on the Harvard College class of 2030 say the class is 43.2 percent Asian-American, a record high and more than double the level when Students for Fair Admissions first sued Harvard alleging racial discrimination in admissions.
Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon's campaign paid a Jacksonville auto body shop owned by Nixon's brother-in-law $6,795 for "vehicle wash & road services," according to campaign finance records filed this month and reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. The only "road service" the shop provides is towing…
The "mom" featured in a controversial Michigan Senate ad struggling to pay for eggs—and blaming the war in Gaza—is a Los Angeles-based actress who boasted of shutting down "a big intersection in Hollywood" as part of an anti-Israel protest and submitted public testimony calling on California to ban natural gas in new…
Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman, who visited Jeffrey Epstein's infamous Caribbean island and sent gifts to Epstein and his "girls," has contributed millions of dollars to the House and Senate Democratic super PACs flooding the airwaves with ads linking Republicans to the dead sex offender.
Abdul E-Sayed wrote that it was "troubling" that the United States killed the al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri—who is widely considered the mastermind of 9/11—in a 2022 targeted drone strike. Killing al-Zawahiri was "a fig leaf" to cover up the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, El-Sayed wrote in 2022.
Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon violated myriad federal and state laws, including federal wire fraud laws, in the operation of her black power-themed Cafe Resistance bookstore, an ethics watchdog alleged in a complaint filed Tuesday. The alleged violations stem from Nixon's failure to report to the IRS…
Harvard, almost constantly congratulating itself for its courage in standing up to the supposed authoritarian crackdown of the Trump administration, simultaneously saw its endowment soar on the basis of an investment recently valued at $2.2 billion in Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
Abdul El-Sayed exudes a volatile combination of "toxic masculinity" and "small-dog energy" on the campaign trail, especially when fielding questions from the press. The Michigan Democrat, who claims to be 5-foot-9 in basketball shoes, is trying to become one of the shortest men to serve in the U.S. Senate since the…
A top aide to Abdul El-Sayed has publicly called former president Joe Biden a "dipshit" and "rapist" and blasted the United States as "cringe" on July 4, a Washington Free Beacon review of now-deleted posts shows.
Cenk Uygur, the uncle of anti-American streamer and Abdul El-Sayed campaign surrogate Hasan Piker, is behind an ad supporting El-Sayed in the Michigan Senate race that blames Israel for high grocery prices in the United States and accuses El-Sayed's Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, of dual loyalties. One Jewish…
Abdul El-Sayed sought to "soothe" anti-Israel voters in Dearborn during a roundtable discussion this week with local activist Osama Siblani, who has called Hamas and Hezbollah "freedom fighters" and called for Israeli Jews to be sent "back to Poland."
As Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) tells it, she and her husband, Tim Mynett, are on the precipice of financial ruin. The embattled lawmaker told MSNOW she lives a "basic" paycheck-to-paycheck lifestyle and struggles to pay rent on her two homes—in the same Wednesday interview during which, asked whether she was related…
When Abdul El-Sayed interviewed for the job of Wayne County health director in 2023, he insisted he had "no intention" of leaving the job "anytime soon" to run for political office and was in it "for the long haul." Just over two years later, he launched a campaign for the U.S. Senate.
For years, Colorado Democrat Manny Rutinel, the Democratic nominee in the state's competitive Eighth Congressional District, introduced himself to media outlets and environmental activists as the CEO of Climate Refarm, "a company leveraging carbon markets to pay food providers to switch to plant-based options."
Ian Fleming called his secret agent James Bond because the name was dull. But there is nothing dull about Robin Wigglesworth's history of the bond market's relentless innovation toward efficiency, liquidity (and crashes) from the Middle Ages to the present. Wigglesworth, the editor of the Financial Times's witty…
Take care before judging a book by its subtitle. Those expecting The Visionaries, a new work by the British historian James Holland, to contain a detailed exposition of the 1944 conference in Bretton Woods that led to the formation of the IMF and the initial phase of the World Bank will be disappointed to discover
In early May 2007, my friend and I wandered the streets of Oita, Japan, at night, trying to understand this strange culture all around us. Near a main downtown intersection close to Miyako Machi, the "red-light district" of the area, I saw a young man with dark, slicked-back hair, a black suit, white-collared shirt…
A ghost story should start with a time reference, according to the man who may be the master of the form. "A slight haze of distance is desirable," wrote M.R. James. "'Thirty years ago,' 'Not long before the war,' are very proper openings."
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) appeared to take a shot at President Donald Trump in the video she posted Friday that depicted her strolling along a serene Minnesota lakeside with her current husband. The video was set to a violence-hued hip-hop diss track by a Somali musical duo who rap about how they will "subjugate and…
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) appeared to take a shot at President Donald Trump in the video she posted Friday that depicted her strolling along a serene Minnesota lakeside with her current husband. The video was set to a violence-hued hip-hop diss track by a Somali musical duo who rap about how they will "subjugate and…
The FBI raided the home of the left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed's mother in the early 2000s, likely in connection with a terror financing case that shut down the Islamic charity she worked for, according to El-Sayed's sister, Eman Abdelhadi.
Most diplomats are judged by their ability to stay out of the news, but Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack made headlines this week. Speaking at the Global Security Forum in Doha, he said, "America as the guarantor to the world, for the last 80 years, it is no longer there." Accordingly, the United States is
Most reasonable observers can agree that James Talarico, the Democrat running for student body president U.S. Senate in Texas, has an authenticity problem.
Multnomah County, Ore., agreed on Wednesday to eliminate all race-based housing programs as part of a voluntary compliance agreement with the Trump administration, which had alleged that the county's "culturally specific" services—including special apartments for the "BIPOC community"—violated the Fair Housing Act.
On Sept. 23, Nebraska "independent" Senate candidate Dan Osborn was thrown a private Washington, D.C., fundraiser cohosted by an Anthropic lobbyist. The next day, Osborn declared at a press conference that he would "never" accept contributions from AI companies and accused his Republican opponent of being a shill for…
Democrat Hallie Shoffner, running for Senate in Arkansas against incumbent Republican Tom Cotton, argued that requiring "proof of citizenship" to vote "disenfranchises 22 million Americans." She said the SAVE Act, the proposed federal legislation that calls for that requirement, would impact "low-income Americans"…
CHICAGO—Mehdi Hasan, the fired MSNBC host who now runs the virulently anti-Israel news startup Zeteo, presided Tuesday over a gathering focused on the malign influence of AIPAC—the pro-Israel American lobbying organization—which is being portrayed by a growing chorus of far-left conspiracy theorists as a shadowy…
An internal document from the group that organized Democratic congressional candidate Brad Lander’s trip to the West Bank describes Israel as “genocidal” and engaged in “ethnic cleansing” and says the trip’s goal is to build support for “international intervention” against Israel.
GREELEY, Colo.—Democrat Manny Rutinel, the former climate activist running in the Centennial State's competitive Eighth Congressional District as a supporter of the oil and gas industry, identified the man he hopes tops the Democratic ticket in 2028: Obama administration interior secretary Ken Salazar, who…
GREELEY, Colo.—Democrat Manny Rutinel, the former climate activist running in the Centennial State's competitive Eighth Congressional District as a supporter of the oil and gas industry, identified the man he hopes tops the Democratic ticket in 2028: Obama administration interior secretary Ken Salazar, who…
Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola is running for Senate against the "rigged system in DC that's hurting Alaska while politicians feather their own nest." Before launching her campaign, Peltola made hundreds of thousands of dollars working for a lobbying firm she joined months after cosponsoring a bill that the firm…
Abdul El-Sayed's campaign treasurer is also the treasurer of a shadowy super PAC spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to boost third-party candidates in the Michigan Senate race and other battleground contests, a Washington Free Beacon investigation has found. In Michigan, the PAC is presenting the libertarian…
At least six men who joined Abdul El-Sayed in signing a notorious 2012 letter calling for a Muslim Brotherhood "purge" of the media and police have also donated handsomely to his two runs for office, mostly to his current Senate campaign, records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.
A public middle school in the Berkeley, California, school district held fundraisers to raise money for a group with "fiscal and personnel ties" to a Palestinian terrorist organization, a House Committee on Education and Workforce report released on Wednesday found. The district's superintendent also promoted the…
A Democratic attorney general whose political rise was boosted by over $100,000 from George Soros secured a $25 billion judgment against Meta on Wednesday — the largest in the history of mankind — in a case that charged Meta with misleading users about its privacy practices. A judge found the company guilty of 43…
Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico now claims he is a friend to his state's oil and gas interests, recently stating that he owes "a lot to that industry." But, as a far-left state representative, Talarico—who at the time was pushing a Texas version of the "Green New Deal"—advocated in favor of eliminating…
Sometimes the New York Times is so biased it’s actually funny. This was one of those days, on multiple fronts.
Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan's (D.) administration spearheaded the awarding of millions of dollars in grants and contracts to a "harm reduction" group that supplies "booty bumping" kits to drug users to help them safely ingest drugs through "the butthole."
A radical, police-bashing activist who resigned from a nonprofit job in the wake of an antisemitism scandal has been named to a $225,000 a year position "overseeing" New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani's (D.) Office of Criminal Justice, the Washington Free Beacon can reveal.
A mysterious company linked to a high-level anti-ICE activist has paid Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon at least $70,000 in personal wage income this year for unknown services, even as she runs for federal office. The wages, which helped Nixon break even after years of negative net worth, raise additional…
The flagship law review at the University of California, Berkeley, is poised to delete all internal application records after the Washington Free Beacon reported on the journal's use of personal statements to promote a "diverse membership," sparking concerns that the journal is attempting to destroy evidence that…
Nikole Hannah-Jones—the New York Times magazine staff writer, MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant winner, 1619 Project Pulitzer Prize winner, and Howard University faculty member—is out with a new analysis of New York City education policy that faults “school choice” for creating inequality in the city’s schools while…
Gavin Newsom showcased his greasy charm on the campaign trail this weekend in New Hampshire. The California governor impressed at least one member of the voting public—Jake Sullivan, the longtime Hillary Clinton aide who served as Joe Biden's national security adviser. Sullivan's wife, Rep. Maggie Goodlander (D…
Colorado Democrat Manny Rutinel, the congressional nominee running in the state's competitive Eighth Congressional District who has sought to distance himself from his climate activist past, has taken nearly $11,000 in political contributions from his former colleagues with the far-left environmental group…
The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) abruptly canceled the screening of a film documenting Hamas violence on Oct. 7, 2023, after anti-Israel activists objected to the film being shown at the union's conference center, event organizers told the Washington Free Beacon.
Bobby Pulido, the Tejano musician and Democratic nominee for Texas's 15th Congressional District, has given shifting stories and conflicting information surrounding his child molester bandmate, casting doubt on his claims that he didn't know of the man's sex crimes.
New York state, of all places, is emerging as a potential bright spot for Republicans in the midterm elections, with recent polls showing the Republican candidates for attorney general and for governor within reach of the Democratic opponents.
CNN was embarrassingly caught this weekend quietly altering the agenda for its upcoming Global Perspectives forum in Doha, revising sycophantic language that portrayed Qatar—a country notorious for buying influence and consorting with terrorist groups—in an overwhelmingly glowing light.
Welcome to another installment of the Washington Free Beacon's exclusive Q&A series featuring lighthearted interviews with politicians and other newsmakers. No gotcha questions. Just good, old-fashioned icebreakers to keep things fun. This week's guest is Abdul El-Sayed, a.k.a. "Dr. Dad Bod," the Democrat running for…
Abdul El-Sayed joked about how undesirable a city Flint, Mich., was, questioning why anyone would want to live in the black Rust Belt city in remarks to a largely white, Boston University audience in 2016.
Former North Carolina governor Roy Cooper's (D.) top climate advisers were paid for by a progressive nonprofit—the United Nations Foundation—in an initiative designed to enact left-wing climate policies at the state level, thus bypassing President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw America from the Paris Climate…
In January 2026, Anthropic announced a new approach to AI safety. Rather than hard-coding a list of rules and decision procedures, the company would train its model, Claude, on an 84-page "constitution" meant to instill "good judgment" and "ethical character."
Abdul El-Sayed, in a series of unearthed podcast remarks, called for a "truly inclusive" universal health care entitlement that would include "care for transgender people" and "care for immigrants." He later criticized conservatives for demonizing "the undocumented person who comes to this country and wants to get…
Are there any leftists willing to condemn totalitarians? Paul Mason's new book shows there is at least one. Offering a selective, but not irresponsible, history of Communist and revolutionary ideas, Reds pleads with the author's fellow socialists not to repeat the mistakes that cost the lives of millions. Although he…
"It's not easy to be on the vanguard of a new Republican Party or a new conservative movement," then-Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance told the "Restoring a Nation" conference in October 2022. "There is a risk that it gets folded into Fusionism 2.0," Vance warned.
The son of Sri Lankan immigrants, Randy Boyagoda grew up on the northern shore of Lake America, in the soon-to-be-annexed Territory of Mar-A-Lago North. In addition to teaching literature at the University of Toronto, he is a celebrated novelist and essayist. He is also a lifelong Catholic, whose third book was a…
Larman is well placed to make it, having spent a large part of his career reporting on the grandest and grubbiest corners of the House of Windsor, whose headquarters is just down the road—there is no vault of sordid gossip Larman can't crank open. The Secrets of Eaton Square moves house by house, rather than by…
Abdul El-Sayed fundraised earlier this month alongside a former New York City public school principal who resigned for defending the use of the term “intifada” as a t-shirt slogan, and, over the summer, with a Muslim activist who led the Gaza flotilla movement and who has described Thanksgiving as a “national day of…
Donald Trump's relationship with Vladimir Putin has long been the subject of controversy, and the recent diesel purchase agreement brought it back into the spotlight. Setting aside the feverish accusations that Trump is somehow Putin's subordinate, many think the president is overly deferential to the blood-soaked…
Jon Ossoff's makeup tab continues to mount heading into the midterms. The Democratic senator from Georgia paid his favorite Hollywood makeup artist $1,749 in July, according to his latest campaign financial disclosure. Ossoff has now paid Atlanta-based freelancer Stephanie Ponder, whose film credits include The…