A Missouri Democratic primary is heating up, and it's shaping up as a rematch over AIPAC money — bad news for Wesley Bell's low-profile strategy, better news for Cori Bush than her 2024 loss.

• Pelosi is traveling to St. Louis to rally for incumbent Wesley Bell, who has millions in AIPAC backing to fend off Bush.
• Bush narrowly lost this seat in 2024 after AIPAC-funded ads flooded the race; she's challenging Bell again, with the primary on August 4th.
• Attack ads now hit Bush for missed votes, which she ties to two COVID bouts and a funeral, not absenteeism.
• Bush paints Bell as a Republican in disguise — he once managed an anti-abortion Republican's campaign, films ads in a January 6th defense lawyer's office, and takes AIPAC and Trump-donor money.
• The big shift: voters barely knew what AIPAC was in 2024, but anger over Gaza and back-to-back primary defeats has made the group's spending a liability this time.

Outlook: Bell still holds the money advantage, but rising AIPAC awareness makes the August 4th vote far tighter than Bush's last run.