Trump is lashing out.

This is a special edition of the Wire from JVP Action

One week out from the 2026 midterms, we’re watching two key Senate races in Michigan and Florida.

In both races, pro-Palestine candidates are promising to overturn the status quo of unwavering U.S. support for genocide. So of course, pro-genocide forces are dumping last-minute millions on attack ads and Trump and his allies are spewing racist lies to try to fearmonger their way to victory.

It’s clear the political tide is turning. That’s why Trump is lashing out.

‘Trump wants to divide people.’

In Florida, Senate candidate Angie Nixon has faced a slew of anti-Black vitriol, most prominently from right-wing grifter and Trump ally Laura Loomer. But it’s not just Loomer attacking Angie.

Vice President JD Vance declared that Angie should “get the hell out” of the country at a campaign rally for her Republican opponent two weeks ago. Last week, Trump called Angie a “maniac” and a “lunatic,” and urged voters in Florida to vote for her opponent to “defend” their “safety, culture, and freedom.” Angie’s response was swift and clear:

“[Trump] wants to divide people. I want to make their lives better.”

The stakes are clear in Michigan, too. There, Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has weathered constant anti-Muslim and anti-Arab racism, and faced off against hundreds of millions in spending from the pro-genocide lobby.

In the final stretch of his campaign, Trump has leveled vicious, Islamophobic attacks against Abdul. Reports broke last week that the pro-genocide lobby group AIPAC was spending up to $9 million in the last days to try to swing the race in favor of MAGA Republican Mike Rogers. That’s after they already dumped more than $30 million in the primary in an unsuccessful attempt to stop Abdul.

Upending the political establishment.

Angie and Abdul have drawn the ire of the pro-genocide lobby and the Trump White House because they are running historic campaigns that threaten to upend the political establishment.

Each of them has galvanized everyday Americans around an obvious truth: that the billions our government spends fueling death and war abroad is money that can and should be going to our communities here at home. 

Their campaigns have merged the fight for working class Americans — for free healthcare, for higher wages, and for an end to billionaire rule — with the fight to end U.S. funding for Israeli genocide and forever wars.

These campaigns reflect the demands of the overwhelming majority of Americans, and they are cutting through the noise of right-wing fear mongering. The grassroots movements organizing as part of Angie and Abdul’s campaigns have built real momentum through months of tireless, door-to-door campaigning and speaking with voters directly. Both campaigns defeated establishment Democrats in their primaries, not because they had the most dollars or dominated the airwaves, but because they focused on field organizing and talking with working families about what matters most to them. 

This is a political earthquake.

Just a few years ago, it would have been unthinkable that a Senate candidate f could make support for Palestinian rights an unwavering part of their campaign and win. But Angie and Abdul are doing just that, and it demonstrates how the Palestine solidarity movement has been able to shift the narrative — and contend for real power. 

As everyday Americans have watched an ongoing genocide livestreamed on their phones for more than three years, we have seen a sea change in public opinion toward support for Palestinian freedom and away from support for Israel. But at the same time, the Palestinian solidarity movement knew that our members of Congress were way behind their constituents — and that big spending from lobby groups like AIPAC made it next to impossible to get unapologetically pro-Palestine electeds into office.  

Over the last few years, our grassroots organizing has begun to turn decades-old political wisdoms on their head. In November 2025 our movement helped propel Zohran Mamdani to victory as Mayor of the biggest city in the country, proving that Palestine is a political strength. Over the next year, we helped propel 16 candidates up and down the ballot to victory in their primaries, unseating establishment candidates and defeating hundreds of millions in AIPAC spending. If Angie, Abdul, and each of those candidates is elected next Tuesday, we will be ushering in the biggest slate of pro-Palestine electeds in history.

Trump and the rest of the right are scared, and they should be: This is a political earthquake. 

It’s also a direct threat to the status quo. For two years, Trump and his cronies have lined their pockets at the expense of working people and used their hard-earned tax dollars to mass murder Palestinian children. The momentum Angie, Abdul, and others like them have been able to build suggests that unquestioning U.S. support for Israel may soon be untenable. The disgusting, racist attacks we’ve seen in the last months are an indication of the MAGA movement’s political weakness, not its strength.

The only tactic at the disposal of a fascist like Trump is fear. And we’re proving that solidarity is more powerful than the right’s attempts to divide us. 

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