DOWN GOES AIPAC
Progressive candidates keep beating AIPAC-funded Democrats, which is good news for the left wing of the party but a defeat for pro-Israel money in primaries.
- Peggy Flanagan, running against AIPAC money, won a Minnesota Senate primary by a wide margin after refusing pro-Israel donations.
- Progressive Matt Little also won his Minnesota race despite AIPAC funding two rival candidates to split the vote.
- Winners ran on kitchen-table issues — child care, a wealth tax, Medicare for All — not the "defund police" positions their opponents attacked.
- In Wisconsin, DSA-backed Francesca Hong lost the governor's primary by a hair, hurt by the sitting governor's rival endorsement and no backing from AOC or Bernie Sanders.
Outlook: The fight between progressives and the party establishment is set to peak in the 2028 presidential primary.