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Abdul El-Sayed Wins Senate Seat With Pro-Palestine Campaign

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  Most Read Abdul El-Sayed Wins Senate Seat With Pro-Palestine Campaign Matt Sledge, Jonah Valdez In a closely watched midterm race, El-Sayed won in Michigan by focusing on affordability and questioning U.S. support for Israel. Read More → Troy Jackson Ousts Susan Collins in Maine, Replacing 30-Year Republican Senator With a Progressive Noah Hurowitz, Austin Campbell The hard-to-beat Republican incumbent was defeated by a progressive new to the national scene as Democrats took the Senate. Read More → Protecting freedom of the press has never been more important. Thank you for being a member of The Intercept. Will you make an additional contribution to support our journalism? CONTRIBUTE → Top Stories “Offensive Driving”: ICE’s Deadly Weaponization of Vehicles Against Civilians Sophie Shepherd The Intercept reviewed more than two dozen incidents of ICE using its army of unmarked cars to attack immigrants and American activists alike. Read More → Democrats, Don’t Mess This Up Natasha ...

Bodycam: Cop Was Not in Danger When He Fired Shots That Killed 1-Year-Old Kohen Wiley

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  Most Read Bodycam: Cop Was Not in Danger When He Fired Shots That Killed 1-Year-Old Kohen Wiley Liliana Segura, Radley Balko Mississippi investigators said the shooting was “justified,” but new body camera footage shows the cop firing into the passenger’s side as the car passed by him. Read More → The Stakes of Brazil’s Presidential Election  The Intercept Briefing Podcast “Almost all of the worst ideas in the United States have been intentionally exported to Brazil,” says Andrew Fishman, co-founder of The Intercept Brasil. Listen → Protecting freedom of the press has never been more important. Thank you for being a member of The Intercept. Will you make an additional contribution to support our journalism? CONTRIBUTE → Top Stories WOW! THIS IS A MUST READ! Giant Crypto Super PAC Funnels Big Money to Former Trump Official’s Firm to Support… Democrats? Matt Sledge The Fellowship PAC routed more than half a million dollars in support of Democrats through a firm co-founded by f...

This is our most ambitious investigation into AIPAC yet

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  The American Israel Public Affairs Committee and its super PAC are among the biggest spenders in U.S. elections, pouring hundreds of millions into efforts to unseat congressional critics of Israel while hiding much of their spending through front groups with innocuous-sounding names like “Elect Chicago Women.” Now, AIPAC is retreating further, announcing it won’t endorse candidates anymore. But you can’t expect AIPAC to give up its outsized influence on American politics. The Intercept is racing to finalize a major investigative reporting effort before the election to track and unmask every dollar AIPAC spent this election cycle — and reveal the growing web of little-known affiliates. It’s our most ambitious reporting project on AIPAC yet, and we need your help to bring it across the finish line in the next week. Will you contribute $10 to help The Intercept expose the full scope of AIPAC’s midterm election spending before the polls close on November 3? If you’ve saved your paym...

ICE Raid on Ilhan Omar Shows How Dangerous Two Years of Flailing Trump Could Get

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  Most Read ICE Raid on Ilhan Omar Shows How Dangerous Two Years of Flailing Trump Could Get Natasha Lennard With his popularity tanking and his grip on power growing tenuous, Trump is becoming a decrepit tyrant — and the checks to stop him are failing. Read More → Trump Wanted Minnesota 15 Case to Be Another Prairieland. Instead, Twin Cities Rallied Behind Anti-ICE Activists. Matt Sledge The mainstream of Minnesota’s left-of-center politics — including unions, the backbone of Democratic power — are behind the radical left. Read More → Protecting freedom of the press has never been more important. Thank you for being a member of The Intercept. Will you make an additional contribution to support our journalism? CONTRIBUTE → Top Stories Susan Collins-Aligned Super PAC Buys Attack Ads in Portland… Oregon Noah Hurowitz The group Defending Main Street, long associated with Susan Collins, spent thousands attacking Troy Jackson in the wrong state. Read More → Don’t Stop at ICE, Says Progr...

DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

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  Most Read What the Prairieland Jury Never Got to Hear Adam Federman, Sara Van Horn Lawyers for an anti-ICE protester tried to argue his shot was a ricochet. The theory was squashed by gaps in the evidence and a judge’s suppression. Read More → Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline Nikita Mazurov A security researcher’s map revealed more locations of Flock devices than any other. Flock is trying to take it down. Read More → All-Day Event in NYC + Online Join us at Jewish Currents Live on October 11 in Brooklyn, New York, for a day of performances, learning, and discussions featuring Andrea Long Chu, Arielle Angel, Fadi Quran, Sam Adler-Bell, and many more. Tickets Here → Protecting freedom of the press has never been more important. Thank you for being a member of The Intercept. Will you make an additional contribution to support our journalism? CONTRIBUTE → Top Stories DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. No...