Behind The Michigan Vote...Israel Has Replaced Russia As Main Threat Of Foreign Interference In US Elections-

They Are Trying To Install Pro-War Corporate Democratic Centrists Who Have The Blood Of Gaza On Their Hands-

A Facebook friend and longer-term reader had a suggestion for me on a future article. My answer to him this morning is the article, in a slightly edited and expanded form.

Question-

["Lance, I’m wondering if you’d be interested in writing one of your insightful essays about this particular political race with the Progressive candidate (Abdul El-Sayed) challenged by $65m, including $30mil with Israeli fingerprints? What is racism? Does racism apply as a descriptor here? And as it relates to DNC (in addition to threatening its Centrist miscalculation of what leadership should look like at the moment, in my opinion"]

My Answer--

Thanks _____. Just getting my day started, but I was already thinking about writing something on just that, El-Sayed, AIPAC, DNC centrism and Israeli election interference.

Racism in this case is not the only or the biggest factor. It is Islamophobia.

Remember that the US has now fought four major wars against Islamic nations since the Berlin wall fell, not counting the conflict with ISIS. After the USSR collapsed, the US liberal establishment in both parties adopted Islam as the USA's new enemy image. (And China, but they are a nuclear power and therefore the US wages trade war only) This new geopolitical strategy was spelled out in the form of a book tied to the New York Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) by adviser to presidents (including Democratic ones) Samuel P. Huntington, titled "Clash Of Civilizations."

Trump and crew are targeting Democrats as communists and pro-radical Islam in order to start a new McCarthyite red scare. Democrats = Terrorists is their new math. Meanwhile it should not be lost that he was groomed by Soviet intelligence in the 70's, and in recent years has crawled on his knees to serve the interests of the former KGB/FSB head currently sitting in his Kremlin office. You know, the one who loves Stalin. And we are the communists, says the demented one.

AIPAC Is Not A Lobby Or Campaign Organization...They Are A Financial Conduit For The Netanyahu Regime--

AIPAC gives more $ to Democratic candidates than Republicans in total. A large amount goes to NY and CA campaigns to keep them locked in. But 71% of the candidates they back are GOP, mostly evangelical types who love Israel to death. Those are the fake "Christians" who send out family Christmas cards wielding AR-15s, and pray everday for World War III to bring Jesus back in order to get themselves raptured and burn all of the world's non-converts (including us Jews) in a lake of eternal fire. Wheat, meet chaff.

Russia was the worst offender over many years in tampering with our elections to help install Trump and his far right MAGA cult of evangelicals, but they also played some of their far-left fanatical Biden-basher assets among progressive dupes. That included then Trojan Horse Tulsi Gabbard, who at the time was trying to insert herself into the Sanders millieu. My wife Martha and I authored a 45 page 12 part special report in 2020 on Putin's operations to install Trump a second time. We warned six months in advance that Trump's Russian-influenced fascist mob might storm the Capitol to stop the transfer of power. Putin was going for maximum division and chaos in US by playing a left vs. right game.

After the Russians threatened moves against Ukraine, bipartisan Biden era sanctions and heightened surveillance of Russian cutout operations shut much of that off, beginning in 2021-2022. Now it is Israel backing both the Trump-aligned Christian Zionist GOP evangelical types, and the AIPAC/centrist corporate Democrats.

So the Israelis are using the Epstein class billionaire megadonors to back candidates who put Israel first. Schumer, Jeffries, Booker, all from NY-NJ are trying to purge the progressives in order to placate their Israeli-linked megadonors.

The DNC is on board with that centrism. Consequently disgusted Democratic voters are breaking away to fund individual candidates and not PACs, because they want people who will fight Trump, not work with him to drag us into Israel's wars.

The Republican political machine has 500,000,000 in the bank. The DNC is 2 million in the hole as of last week, and they are a complete clusterf*ck under Ken Martin's misleadership. And not just over the Israel-related factional infighting, but a whole array of issues, including the failure of 2024.

I'm getting news coverage like you are, but I'm isolated and lack the resources to do a through investigative job. So on issues like the ones you raise I'm a bit limited. But I have a gestalt on what is going on, and am working from that.

The activist base of the Democratic party leans progressive. They consist of voting rights defenders, POCs and other ethic minorities, the women's movement, social justice and civil rights protest groups, climate activists, defenders of LGBTQ rights, (especially Trans persons,) union activists, and consumer protection advocates, with the youth vote pretty much up for grabs. (which they should not be, but are because the DNC doesn't know how to organize its way out of a paper bag.)

The attempt to drive these constituencies out (which is Israel's goal in targeting their favored candidates for defeat) is why the DNC is broke, and the Democrats are almost as unpopular in the polls as is the GOP. Years of Democratic centrist "triangulation" with the GOP have hollowed out Democratic policy, and demoralized much of the traditional consituency base. 

Therefore due to their incompetence at mass organizing, the Dems are desperate for money and are compensating by sucking up to liberal billionaires, becoming more dependent on "big money." (Note, I was a political fundraiser and organizer for 35 years, Martha for even longer. We know how this dynamic works and how truly entropic it can be) 

The Democratic base tends toward lower income and they are being ignored, their votes taken for granted, and for the last six years or more have witnessed the DNC's watering down of Democratic ideas in order to benefit from corporate bundling and also to court moderate Republicans in the suburbs who have money. This, btw, is stupid. Anti-establishment candidates who rejected corporate money in favor of individual small donations won 42 of 60 primaries in which they ran.

AIPAC itself is an Intelligence front run as a foreign influence operation. When/if Israel's military and MOSSAD are merged with the US military, CIA, NSA, etc, it will get even worse. Israel helps train our cops, Federal Law Enforcement, private military contractors, writes much of the software which runs our government computer systems, and has since the days when Robert Maxwell (Ghislaine's father) brought in his "PROMIS" software system.  (this is also Larry Ellison's gig for which he is well paid by Israel's military establishment) They have a tech empire which markets the world's best spyware and surveillance tech. And there is already a long term working relationship with local police Chiefs and Sheriffs Departments, 80% percent of whom voted for Trump three times.

And guess what folks...the Netanyahu regime, that is unless they are removed, will use all of it against Bibi's and Trump's political opponents, branding us as anti-semites, terrorists, communists, and setting people up for FBI/DOJ targeting.

Haley Stevens got nearly 80 million in campaign money between individual donations, PACs, and megadonors to defeat El-Sayed I heard. Maybe 50-60 million of that was Israeli linked. El-Sayed outraised her in individual donations, but was otherwise outspent massively, and still he won by a hair.

Here is the breakdown as collated from a number of reliable sources:

[In her 2026 Michigan U.S. Senate primary race, Representative Haley Stevens' campaign directly raised $11.9 million, but she benefited from an unprecedented $60 million to $62 million in outside super PAC spending.

Breakdown of Pro-Israel PACs and Big Donors

Pro-Israel Super PACs: More than half of her total outside financial backing—over $30 million—came directly from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and its affiliated super PAC, the United Democracy Project (UDP). This influx marks the largest single-race investment in AIPAC's history.

Big/Corporate Donors & "Dark Money": An additional $30 million flowed from corporate-backed PACs and groups with hidden or undisclosed donors. This included $12 million to $13 million from a centrist super PAC called A Stronger Michigan, which is heavily funded by corporate-backed nonprofits.

Individual Big-Dollar Donors: Major individual billionaires and finance executives heavily underwrote the pro-Israel UDP super PAC backing her. This includes a $2.5 million contribution from Republican hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, alongside prominent executives like Robert Kraft, Haim Saban, and Mark Rowen.

In contrast, her progressive primary opponent, Abdul El-Sayed, focused on grassroots, small-dollar fundraising and managed to outraise Stevens in direct campaign donations with $14.5 million. However, he was heavily overwhelmed by the massive influx of outside super PAC money backing Stevens.]

Given the stranglehold Trump has now, with him targeting GOP dissidents, combined with huge Israeli influence over the Democratic House and Senate leadership, I honestly don't know what to tell people to do about this. I have trouble writing about problems for which I have nothing in the way of a concrete proposal which is realistic, not a setup to demoralize people. Suggesting people call their representatives about damage being done by MAGA or their allies can be like pissing into a cat-5 hurricane.

A political campaign which makes stopping Israel the centerpiece is like starting a PAC run by the Weather Channel which people follow and support because they love complaining about the weather. It is myopic and superficial, an exercise in political impotence. That can't be the entirety of our purview.

I'm fine with saying, "let's get a blue wave and after the midterms start taking Trumpworld apart piece by piece." Great idea.  But because the Democratic leadership around Schumer, Jeffries, and Booker are morally bankrupt, not leading the opposition to Trump but just doing performance art for C-Span, I have little confidence in them. However I do have confidence in my readers, because they fight.

Trump is doing more to hurt Trump than the Democrats. That, in fact, is the Democratic strategy for winning the elections. Play possum, do just enough to hype their fundraising, then sit back and eat popcorn while enjoying the show of Trump destroying himself.

They are f*cking idiots. That is exactly what the German Social Democrats strategy was to contain Adolf Hitler's Nazis, to wait until the next election and capitalize on the damage he did. And how did that work out? 53 days after being sworn in as Chancellor he was "Der Führer," and there never was a "next election" in Germany until 50 million bodies were piled up.

The DNC's thinking is guaranteed to fail, because people will not be motivated as before to just go out vote against something they are against, or fear. They will however turn out <for> someone who they see fighting for them, and who are not just the usual "big talk no action" hypocrites who won't fight which they've been sending to Washington for years. They will not overcome their fears of voter intimidation by ICE or the incel miiitias at the polls unless they are motivated and inspired by their candidates.

These “Fettermans,” the centrist/pro-war Israeli government backed candidates, couldn't inspire cream cheese to spread evenly on a Poppy seed bagel. They suck as candidates and are morally conflicted as humans, because they are funded by, therefore obligated to billionaire assholes who are ruining our lives and futures, and who still are enabling the Netanyahu regime to commit war crimes.

This is not by any means an attempt on my part to glorify the progressives as all-knowing, pure, or our greatest last hope for the future. Some people will go with that line, and I'm ready for it. They are sprinkled with opportunists, agents, Jacobin type "knee-jerks" who are themselves advocates of left-wing accelerationism, vigilantism, and restoring a bunch of French antique guillotines to working order. (such as the misguided defenders of Luigi Mangione.) And truthfully there are actual anti-semites scattered in there also who are too enraged to differentiate between the Netanyahu regime, the State Of Israel, the Israeli people, and Jews in general.

Some of the anti-Israel progressives are in fact Israeli assets (some consciously, others as dupes) being used for their purposes, to both divide the Democrats, and to provide a "scary face" with which to motivate both voters and donors to "reject extremism." The establishment controlled "fake opposition" tactic is a very old game, one which we should remember that George Orwell wrote about in "1984."

The Israelis and their PACs have attempted to smear New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani in terms that approach demonization. That means he is a target for violence. Using the tactic of "guilt by association," the AIPAC/centrist faction is likewise attacking other candidates he's endorsed, and painting them with the anti-semitism/extremist brush.

The most dangerous thing about slander is that it works. When your media is run by genocide defending private equity kingpins who opt for tabloid-style news and party line propaganda like Fox, slander against their opposition becomes the busiest folder in our inboxes. Now, it is coming from the so-called liberal opposition media as well, in their case directed against the Left.

Americans tend to be enraged much of the time, due to their circumstances. This was the culture of ancient Rome and The Coliseum, in which the "vox populi" demanded their daily ration of blood. So they buy into slander readily because they are in a perpetually pissed off state.

Now the oligarchy is using wealthy Israeli right-wing religious zealots as their cutouts to keep MAGA in power by dividing the Democrats. These operatives are squarely behind the centrist exclusionist campaign which is designed to force the progressives out.

Arming Israel is far from their only priority. They are pushing a "Third Way," an alliance of Purple Democrats with the soon-to-be post-Trump MAGA, to bring about a US corporate run dictatorship with a "friendly face." Such a regime would be led by techo-utopian fascists like Peter Thiel, in league with "soft fascists" like Ramaswamy, and chameleon-like "nice billionaires" like Mark Cuban who are clever at fooling people with their fake empathy. The overt Nazis in this group like Musk and Yarvin would stay in the background for reasons of widening the appeal of post-Trump MAGA version 2.0, but would still have seats at the table.

We've made an effort here to project what might happen in the next years in anticipation of Trump's likely departure, one way or another. The majority of Republicans are secretly as anxious for him to be gone as we are, though their motivations are far different from ours.

The bottom line is that much of the political maneuvering and gamesmanship we are witnessing is a game of "who comes out on top" regardless of the midterm election outcome. Everyone expects a Blue Wave, and various factions of the US Wall Street/Silicon Valley establishment are trying to engineer these elections such that they control the Democratic Party in the aftermath.

What Is their goal? Well, pretty much the same as that of the Heritage Foundation and their book, Project 2025. Except the book has a different cover. That is, to bury the Democratic legacy of FDR, JFK, and LBJ for good, to insure that everything associated with the New Deal and that tradition is dead and buried, and replaced by some newly evolved version of corporate techno-fascism. The right-wing GOP wants to impose it by force while calling it "freedom." The Democratic centrists are trying to "sell it," and convince us we are restoring "democracy in action" while we are in the process of bleeding out.  It would be a "Potemkin Village" democracy, just for show.

"Fascism with a Democratic face." "Have a nice day" wars. "Don't worry, be happy" poverty.  That is where the current centrist takeover of the Democratic Party will lead, <if we let it.>

(Photo of Gaza ruins...AIPAC's and our tax dollars at work)