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Morning Digest: Republicans spurn Trump's pick and nominate candidate who dropped out Islamophobia may have just led the GOP to fumble away a race for a swing district David Nir and Jeff Singer Aug 6 Michigan Republican Tom Smith (right). (Credit: Tom Smith Facebook) Leading Off MI-08 Former General Motors engineer Tom Smith said Wednesday he would accept the Republican nomination to take on Democratic Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet, a declaration that came one day after he became the only person we know of to ever beat a Donald Trump-endorsed primary opponent without actually being a candidate. But though both parties were startled on Tuesday evening when Smith, an unknown who dropped out of the race last month, scored a 50-33 victory against Navy veteran Amir Hassan in Michigan’s swingy 8th District, only one side is responsible for the outcome. Republicans this year have aggressively meddled in Democratic primaries across the country—conservatives publicly bragged Wednesday t...

Locally grown food and cyclospora dangers | Letters to The Republican Published: Aug. 05, 2026 By The Republican Staff By now, you’ve certainly heard about the cyclospora outbreak that has affected over 10,000 people across the country. The scope and scale of this outbreak is a symptom of our massive, global, centralized food system. Here’s how it happens: crops are grown on vast farms, and then they are washed and packaged in immense processing facilities where they commingle with crops from many other farms. Then they’re shipped from coast to coast. Wherever the point of contamination happens – whether it’s in the field or in the processing facility – the scale of these systems means that an outbreak can affect thousands of people nationwide. Are local farms immune to food safety concerns? Absolutely not. We may someday see a food safety outbreak tied back to a Massachusetts farm, and that is why local farmers take the matter seriously and why we at CISA provide food safety training...