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The Blue Dogs Were Once Majority Makers—This Cycle They Haven't Barked

The last time that a blue wave powered Democrats to a House majority in 2018, 11 so-called Blue Dogs ousted Republicans, leaving the party in charge with a slim majority. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would affectionately refer to the Blue Dogs as “majority makers,” explaining that their conservative politics may be out of step with the party’s base, but without them, the party would be nowhere.The same was true in 2006 and 2008, when Blue Dogs made the difference for Democrats, exactly as they had...
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AIPAC-Aligned Groups Gift Doris Matsui a $785k Blitz of Last-Minute Attack Ads

AIPAC and aligned groups are funding a surge in last-minute spending behind incumbent California Rep. Doris Matsui in an attempt to save the 82-year-old Democrat from being unseated by her progressive challenger Mai Vang.AIPAC itself is funneling the money through Pro-Choice Majority Action. Pro-Choice Majority Action does not publicly associate with AIPAC, but it is legally affiliated directly with EDW Action, which has been established by Drop Site and others as a known AIPAC passthrough PAC....
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After Ashley Moody Epstein Probe, Donors Linked to Him Poured Money Into her Senate Campaign

During her tenure as Florida Attorney General, Sen. Ashley Moody led an investigation into the work-release program that allowed Jeffrey Epstein to engage in sexual encounters while imprisoned for soliciting underage girls for prostitution. After nearly two years of probing, she concluded no wrongdoing. Now Moody, a Republican, is up for reelection in a tight race for a Florida Senate seat against Democratic state Rep. Angie Nixon, and she has received $50,000 from individuals connected to Epste...
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Michigan Republican Tom Barrett Is Now Sour On Trump’s War in Iran—But Still Took Plenty of Defense Cash

While Republican Rep. Tom Barrett has been actively working to distance himself from President Donald Trump and the administration’s unpopular war in Iran, defense industry PACs and executives have poured more than $58,000 into Republican Rep. Tom Barrett’s bid for reelection in Michigan’s 7th district. He has also been on the happy end of at least a million dollars in super PAC support from Trump.Barrett broke with Trump over the Iran war in May after he repeatedly voted to support the war. In...
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AIPAC-Linked Super PACs, Pro-Israel Donors Flood Primary to Succeed Angie Craig With More Than $3 Million

Four super PACs with ties to AIPAC and Democratic Majority for Israel have surged into a Minnesota House race in the final months of the campaign, hoping to fend off the latest progressive insurgent.In the three-way race, one candidate, Matt Klein, is unapologetically supportive of Israel, while two others, Matt Little and Kaela Berg, have been critics to varying degrees. Little, however, has the support of the group A New Policy, which was founded to support pro-Palestinian candidates and lobby...
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The Last-Minute Million-Dollar Ad Spend Against Will Lawrence Is Coming From a Major Pro-Israel Group

Democratic Majority for Israel is behind a million-dollar effort to slow the momentum of populist candidate William Lawrence in the closing days of a three-way primary in mid-Michigan’s 7th congressional district, according to two sources familiar with the arrangement.Lawrence, a co-founder of the Sunrise Movement, is running primarily against data center buildouts in the district, but has also made opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the war in Iran core parts of his campaign. He has tw...
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AIPAC, Big Tech Back Diana DeGette Over Melat Kiros With $2M Spending Flood

Super PACs funded by AIPAC and major big tech donors have poured roughly $2 million behind Rep. Diana DeGette on the eve of her contentious primary in Colorado’s first congressional district against democratic socialist challenger Melat Kiros.The June 30 primary in the Denver area has drawn national attention in the wake of Tuesday’s sweeping set of wins by democratic socialists in New York. Kiros has run as a critic of unchecked AI development, telling Drop Site News she supports a moratorium o...
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Pro-Israel Donors Power Last-Minute Surge of Espaillat Spending

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Blue Dog PAC Treasurer Gets $1.2 Million Backing From Affiliated Super PAC

Blue Dog Action Fund, the super PAC spending arm for a fiscally conservative caucus of House Democrats, has already spent $1,200,000 in ad buys backing Rep. Mike Thompson’s bid for reelection this cycle while he sits as treasurer of the Blue Dog Political Action Committee, an affiliated organization that also contributed $5,000 directly to his campaign.The Blue Dog Coalition, who claim to represent “the center of the political spectrum” by pursuing “fiscally responsible” economic policies and a...
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Super PAC Network Backing Connie Chan Received Hundreds of Thousands from AIPAC

Drop Site is reader-funded. No paywalls. No advertisers. No billionaire owners. Just journalism that answers only to you. If you value this work, please consider making a tax-deductible donation today.San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan has pledged not to accept support from “AIPAC or its lobbyists and representatives” in her bid for California’s 11th congressional district, but federal campaign records show that the pro-Israel organization is working behind the scenes to funnel money to suppor...
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The Iran War Is Crushing Nebraska Workers. Dan Osborn Is One of Them

With the cost of fertilizer and energy inputs surging due to the war on Iran, Nebraska’s farming industry, always squeaking by on the thinnest of margins, is being thoroughly brutalized. The town of Lexington is in free fall amid the closure of a beef processing facility that served as the town’s foundation. And in Omaha, a city where AI severely threatens employees in the primary industry of insurance, anxiety is at an all time high. It’s not a great time to be a politician who’s the son of a b...
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Rep: Delia Ramirez: "Money is the most TOXIC poison in this place"

Today our team at Drop Site published my interview with Illinois congresswoman Delia Ramirez, one of the leading progressive voices on Capitol Hill. We sat down for just about twenty minutes to discuss the role that influential special interest groups and lobbies like AIPAC, defense and private prison contractors, and large multinational corporations like Amazon have played in impeding her push for a higher minimum wage, blocking bombs to Israel, & abolishing ICE.Subscribe to Drop SiteYou can fo...
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Despite Denials, AIPAC Is Now Funding Campaign of Ala Stanford In Philadelphia

AIPAC has been funneling money into the campaign of Dr. Ala Stanford in Pennsylvania’s 3rd congressional district, before the next slate of Democratic primaries, new federal campaign filings reveal.Stanford has denied taking AIPAC money in the race for an open Philadelphia seat, but the records show the pro-Israel group has been secretly routing money directly to her campaign and into a super PAC supporting her that backs candidates who are involved in science or medicine. The structure allows S...
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Rep. Angie Craig's Campaign Is Quietly Distancing the Minnesota Senate Hopeful From AIPAC

As a reader-funded independent news outlet, we operate free from the influence of governments and corporate backers. This is essential to our mission: to report on what matters most, beholden only to the truth. In that spirit, we made a commitment to ensure that our journalism is free for everyone, not locked behind a paywall. But that means we rely on the voluntary support of our community of readers. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our work today. Keep DSN Reporting...
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With the House Eyeing Another Iran WPR Vote, Pro-Israel Democrats Explore Routes to Delay

Story by Julian AndreoneDemocrats in the House are preparing to force a vote on another War Powers Resolution as early as next Wednesday. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters that, this time, he is optimistic the effort to cease American hostilities in Iran will win the votes of the Democratic holdouts on the Massie-Khanna effort earlier this month.Jeffries was referring to Democrats who voted against the WPR introduced by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R-KY), w...
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Hakeem Jeffries Whipping Votes Against Trump’s So-Far-Unbridled War on Iran

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries will whip votes in support of the War Powers Resolution this week, multiple Democratic sources told Drop Site News.Whipping the vote means that Democratic leaders will apply pressure to colleagues to vote in support of the resolution to constrain Trump’s war ambitions, making defections more costly internally. The whip team is run by the party’s number two in the House, Rep. Katherine Clark of Massachusetts.The decision comes after a group of progressive D...
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In Trump’s orbit, some muse about mandatory military service

Christopher Miller, who led the Pentagon during the chaotic closure of Trump’s tenure in Washington, detailed his vision for the ASVAB and a range of other changes as part of Project 2025, the conservative Heritage Foundation’s aspirational government-wide game plan should the presumptive Republican nominee return to the White House. Though Trump has not publicly endorsed its policy proposals, Miller is among a cluster of influential former administration officials and GOP lawmakers who have mus
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Philips Agrees to Pay $1 Billion to Patients Who Say They Were Injured by Breathing Machines

A Royal-Philips breathing machine user shows the device the company sent her as a replacement after a recall. It was missing vital components.

After years of legal battles, Philips has agreed to pay more than $1 billion to settle lawsuits waged by thousands of people who say they were injured by breathing machines capable of releasing toxic particles and fumes into their noses, mouths and lungs.

The proposed settlement unveiled Monday between the global manufacturer and plaintiffs’ lawyers wil
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