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Abdul for U.S. Senate | Official Campaign Website Abdul El-Sayed is running for U.S. Senate to build a government that works for everyday Michiganders — not billionaires.

Correction: I was wrong. McMorrow accepts PAC money and has AIPAC connections.

Abdul El-Sayed is the progressive: refuses PAC money, Medicare for All, Sanders-endorsed, calls out corporate Dems.

abdulforsenate.com

Aug 4, 2026 primary.

Illustration in a vintage children's book style: A Viking longship crewed by determined red salmon rowing with oars, led by a larger salmon wearing a horned Viking helmet with a grumpy, resigned expression. The ship has a red and white striped sail. In the background, a gray wooden cannery building sits on stilts over foggy water. Caption reads: "Thankful my ancestors crossed an ocean to settle somewhere even colder and wetter."

Happy Thanksgiving! 🌽🫛🥔🦃

Thankful for ancestors who looked at Scandinavia and said "not miserable enough."

Would be curious to see turnout % by district.

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Very soon... Any day now.

Yeah I'm having issues with the trust factor. Have heard Democrats already calling to accept her into the big tent. Think we need to quarantine her first, see if she can actually walk her talk. If we even get the promised vote, does she vote for extending ACA subsidies?

To go from Q, space lasers, and maga to sounding reasonable? She's totally shooting for Senate and then possibly higher office.

Right? Fascism is at the door and 86 Democrats decided THIS was the urgent priority.

Tells you everything about who they actually fear: progressive primary challengers with popular economic policies, not the authoritarian right.

Donor maintenance > stopping fascism, apparently.

So sick of Adam being my congressman. So smug.

Volunteered with the Sarah Smith campaign in 2018, we got 32.1%, better than previous challengers. With all of his recent terrible votes and Sawant's GOTV machine...

Let's put the final nail in Adams political coffin in 2026.

What "socialism" actually means:
-Medicare for All (70% support)
-Public banking (65% support)
-Worker board seats (60% support)
-Social housing (68% support)

@adamsmith.house.gov just voted to condemn policies his own constituents support.

While claiming to be progressive.

Make it make sense.

. @adamsmith.house.gov represents a D+18 district.

The general election is a lock. The primary is what matters.

And he just handed any progressive primary challenger two perfect attack lines that will activate exactly the voters who decide Democratic primaries.

Political malpractice.

. @adamsmith.house.gov could have voted NO like every other Washington Democrat.

Instead he chose to create a rhetorical weapon that can be used against Medicare for All, public housing, worker rights, and wealth taxes.

That's not moderation. That's donor service.

. @adamsmith.house.gov loves to talk about how progressive he is.

Then he votes to:
✓ Honor Charlie Kirk
✓ Condemn "socialism"

You can't claim progressive credentials while voting to celebrate right-wing extremists and attack progressive policies.

Pick a lane, Adam.

. @adamsmith.house.gov voted YES on "condemning socialism."

He was the ONLY Washington Democrat to do so.

Suzan DelBene: NO
Rick Larsen: NO
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: NO
Kim Schrier: NO
Marilyn Strickland: NO
Pramila Jayapal: NO

Even the moderates had more sense.

What these 86 Democrats just did:

They voted to create a rhetorical weapon that can be used against:
- Medicare for All
- Public banking
- Worker board seats
- Wealth taxes
- Social housing
- Universal childcare

Every progressive primary challenger just got their opposition research handed to them

Guess that makes it easy to know who to primary. Not like we didn't already know who was a corporate dem.

And Elon.

I'm still wondering where we will hold them and what we will call them. The Mar-a-Lago Accords? The Palm Beach Proceedings? Let's be honest, we'll probably just livestream it from a Denny's parking lot and call it justice.

One significant way to fix the federal deficit? Dramatically raise the minimum wage across our country. It will cause an increase in tax collections, much less people on federal assistance, and health outcomes will improve causing less reliance on federal health programs.

We're incentivizing 3rd parties to deny care using AI? Maybe you can explain how this is good.

"The model would hire private companies to use artificial intelligence to automate prior authorization. The vendors would be compensated based on a share of “averted expenditures,” rewarding participants based on the volume or cost of care they deny, the representatives said in a press release."?

Washington gave Amazon, Microsoft & Boeing billions in tax breaks while our schools are underfunded & housing costs crush working families.

If Hochul can raise corporate taxes for universal childcare, @governorferguson.bsky.social has no excuse.

Does he serves corporations or constituents?

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Let's do more of that? And also roll back to that level of spend as a % of the GDP. Let's make the MIC more accountable. Regular Audits.

It's the unaccountability that makes everyone think it's an immoral waste of money, primarily benefiting those on top. Waiting for the trickle down 40 years later

A system with zero accountability, no audits in decades, while they cut veterans benefits and social services, not sure the left is that blind. We're seeing how priorities work when contractors get blank checks but the people who served get cut.

They're both extensions of government priorities through physical force. But we're pretty far from the original point about contractor profits vs worker blame.

Just bringing it local. Police and military both have monopoly on use of force. Same budget pattern, enforcement spending grows while services that actually help people get cut. That's the issue.

It's the priorities that bother me. Defense spending grows while social services shrink. Seattle drops $3.1M on cameras manned 16hrs/day, pays police more, while other workers don't get inflation COLAs and housing funds get cut. Same pattern everywhere.

Fair, we agree on ICE and Palantir. I think the line between "traditional defense" and surveillance / automation is blurrier than it used to be, but you're right that harassing individual workers doesn't help anyone. The contractor profit extraction is the real problem either way.

Imagine we might not align on this.

These companies have been building tools used against protestors, immigrants, activists for decades.

When did Palantir's ICE contracts become okay? When was drone warfare not questionable? This is a long way from DARPA creating the Internet.