• Making universal healthcare a key campaign issue

• Selling progressive policies to a swing state that voted for Trump twice

• Trump’s $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget, paid for with cuts to social programs

• Israel’s war in Gaza, which El-Sayed describes as a “genocide”

• El-Sayed’s campaign rally with streamer Hasan Piker

• How Democrats can connect with Trump voters without compromising on policy

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El-Sayed’s Top Issue: Universal Healthcare

El-Sayed brings impressive credentials to the healthcare debate. He rebuilt Detroit’s Health Department after it was shuttered, led Wayne County’s Department of Health, Human and Veteran Services, and co-authored a book on Medicare for All. As mentioned in the interview, respected medical journal The Lancet found that the Medicare for All legislation sponsored by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) would not only save 68,000 lives each year, but would save American taxpayers roughly $150 billion annually.

El-Sayed he argues that the biggest obstacle to universal health care isn’t logistical, but rather political cowardice enabled by corporate money.

He pointed to a familiar Washington pattern: consultants armed with polls convince candidates to chase voters where they already are rather than persuade them toward something better. El-Sayed sees that as a fatal mistake, and he invoked an unlikely role model to make the point.

“The best evidence I can point to, as much as I hate to point to him, is Donald Trump,” El-Sayed said. “When he came down that hideous golden escalator, nobody was talking about immigration, but he kept talking about it and talking about it and talking about it to the point where now he’s using immigration to destroy the Constitution itself.”

El-Sayed believes Democrats need to show the same commitment to healthcare that Trump showed to immigration — relentlessly, unapologetically, in every forum. And he says the reason most Democrats don’t is simple: they’re financially compromised.

“Too often, the people who are willing to fight for health care in the first place are taking money from the companies who benefit from the system as it is,” he said. “I don’t take corporate money. I never have, I never will. I’m the only person running for Senate in Michigan who can say that.”

Selling Universal Healthcare in a State That Voted for Trump in 2024

When asked if he could make the case for universal healthcare in a state that twice voted for Donald Trump in the last twelve years, El-Sayed said he’s already doing it. He described a health care town hall held in Houghton, in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula — hardly a Democratic stronghold — where 100 people showed up, many of them Trump voters.

“It’s only those of us who spend a lot of time thinking about politics who use this really outdated model of left versus right, Democrat versus Republican,” he said. “Most people don’t think about politics that way, because most people don’t think about politics.”

His pitch to those voters is direct and economically grounded: with every paycheck, before they have any say in the matter, their insurance company takes its cut through premiums — and then, when they actually get sick, they’re hit with a deductible on top of that. Medical debt in America has reached $225 billion, more than the GDP of half the states in the U.S.

He recounted a memorable encounter on the campaign trail with a man who told him bluntly: “I never met a Muslim, and I’ll be honest with you — I don’t like you.” But the man said he was going to vote for El-Sayed anyway.

“He said, ‘I thought you were either dumb or honest. I know what a doctor can make, and you’re out here trying to talk to people like me about giving me health care, and I think you really want me to have healthcare,’” El-Sayed recalled. “I said, ‘Sir, I really want you to have healthcare.’”

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Trump Wants $1.5 Trillion from Social Programs to Fund War. El-Sayed Points Out the Hypocrisy

President Trump proposed $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon, and wants to fund it by enacting even steeper budget cuts to programs that provide healthcare, housing, social services, and disaster assistance to Americans.

El-Sayed drew a sharp contrast between how government spending on domestic programs is treated versus military spending and foreign aid.

“Every single time you come up with one of these programs, some smart legislator comes up to you and says, ‘Well, Doctor, how you gonna pay for that?’” he said. “And the crazy thing is, when you’ve got a general who’s drawing up war plans, or you’ve got a treaty that says we’re just gonna write you a check for $3.5 billion — it doesn’t matter if you’re conducting an apartheid or a genocide with it — nobody actually asks, ‘Hey, General, how you gonna pay for that?’”

He said his role as a senator would be to force that question — to be the voice in the chamber demanding accountability for military expenditure with the same rigor applied to spending on schools and healthcare. He also pushed back on the notion that supporting a foreign government is somehow a senator’s job.

“My job is to advocate for Michigan,” he said. “It’s a crazy thing that somehow people think that their job in the U.S. Senate from you-name-the-state is to advocate for a foreign government.”

He added a personal note: his family immigrated from Egypt, one of the largest recipients of U.S. military aid. “I love and revere the Egyptian people just like I love and revere the Jewish people, just like I love and revere people from all over the world. I just don’t pay my taxes so that those people get tanks and bombs.”

El-Sayed Calls Gaza War a Genocide. Here’s Why

El-Sayed didn’t hesitate on using the specific word “genocide” to describe what Israel is doing to Palestinians in Gaza — a major issue for Michiganders in the 2024 presidential election.

“I went to good public schools and a good public university where they taught me that words have meanings, and that usually you should use the words that describe the meanings,” he said. “When you articulate that you want to cleanse people of a certain ethnicity from a place, then proceed to bomb all their infrastructure and their homes and their schools and their hospitals in contravention to international law, and then try to ship them off to other places — having articulated a particular animus for those people as a function of their ethnicity — that meets [the definition of] genocide.”

He acknowledged the political cost of that position. The American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) called him “the most dangerous candidate for the U.S.-Israel relationship” and is expected to spend $20 million in the Michigan Senate race to defeat him.

“I honestly wish they’d send me a t-shirt. I’d wear it every day,” El-Sayed remarked. “I’m not afraid of AIPAC.”

His broader argument is that foreign policy and domestic policy are inseparable — that money spent on bombs abroad is money not spent on schools and health care at home — and that voters increasingly understand that connection.

“I’m not willing to give up my dignity and my beliefs and my sense of the truth so that I can have an office where they can tell me what I can and can’t do with the office,” he added.

El-Sayed Defends Rally with Hasan Piker — and Says Politics Is About Connecting with Audiences

El-Sayed recently held a packed campaign rally at the University of Michigan with streamer Hasan Piker, who has an audience of millions, primarily among the Gen Z cohort. Piker has made controversial statements in the past — including expressing more sympathy for Hamas than Israel. El-Sayed rejected calls to disavow Piker and questioned the efficacy of political purity tests.

“If we played that game to its logical conclusion, none of us would ever talk to anybody,” he said. “I just thought that we had gotten past the cancel culture ridiculousness of the early 2020s.”

He pointed out that then-Vice President Kamala Harris invited Piker to stream from the Democratic National Convention in 2024. He also noted that on the very same day he rallied with Piker, he appeared on Fox and Friends — a fact that drew none of the same criticism.

“Fox and Friends and I disagree on a lot more than Hasan and I disagree on,” he said. “Should I not go on them?”

El-Sayed said his calculus is simple: go everywhere, talk to everyone, and trust that the message holds up.

“If Fox and Friends give me a platform, Hasan gives me a platform, or you give me a platform, or Rogan gives me a platform, or Bill Maher — who said some absurd things about people who pray like I do — gives me a platform, I’m going to go there. Because my conversation is with the broader public, and I’m going to go anywhere and talk to everyone who gives me the opportunity.”

El-Sayed’s Message to Michigan’s Trump Voters

Because El-Sayed is a Democrat running in a state that voted for a Republican in the most recent presidential election, connecting with Donald Trump voters in red counties is a must for any Democrat hoping to win a general election. El-Sayed said he approaches his conversation with Trump voters from a place of genuine respect. He argued that most people who voted for Trump did so because they felt they had no better option.

He described a telling exchange with a Trump voter over the Second Amendment. The man challenged El-Sayed, expecting standard Democratic pablum. Instead, El-Sayed engaged him directly, walking through what the Second Amendment was actually designed to protect against — government tyranny — and asking whether that logic extended to nuclear weapons.

“He was like, ‘Okay, okay, fair point,’” El-Sayed recounted. “And after the discussion, he pulled out a $100 check and said, ‘I’m going to support you.’ I was like, ‘Wait — why? We disagreed.’ He said, ‘We disagree on this point, but we agree on a lot more than we disagree on, and the fact that you were willing to debate me and share your perspective tells me that when you get to the halls of power, you’re going to say the same things.’”

For El-Sayed, that exchange captures what he thinks is fundamentally broken about how Democrats have approached these voters — and how to fix it.

“I don’t run away from my positions. I don’t trim my positions to go and earn a vote because I have some stereotype about what somebody else believes,” he said. “Take me or leave me. I want you to know what I believe.”

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• Trump’s promise of mass pardons to White House staff — and why it’s unlike anything in American history

• How Oyer was fired after refusing to recommend restoring Mel Gibson’s gun rights

• The $1.5 billion in financial penalties Trump has wiped out for convicted white-collar criminals

• The pay-for-play pardon system: how donations, ambassadorships, and political loyalty have replaced merit

• The national security implications of pardoning Changpeng Zhao, who processed transactions for Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Hamas

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Trump’s Unprecedented Promise: Pardons for Anyone Who Breaks the Law on His Behalf

A recent Wall Street Journal report quoted staffers concerned that they’re being given illegal orders. Trump’s response is: Don’t worry, you’ll get a pardon.

According to Oyer, Trump has treated the pardon power in a way that no other president has before. While Joe Biden did issue a handful of preemptive pardons, there was never a suggestion that preemptive pardons were promised to members of his staff in advance to sanction illegal conduct going forward.

Trump has said he’s going to pardon anybody who came within 200 feet of the Oval Office, which would obviously extend to business associates, political allies, and more.

How Trump Dismantled the Non-Political Pardon Process

The Pardon Attorney is a non-political job, created so the Justice Department can advise the President on how to exercise his pardon power. When Donald Trump came into office, all of that changed. People seeking pardons started going directly to the front doors of the White House rather than through the Justice Department.

Oyer’s office had a staff of about 45 people responsible for carefully reviewing and investigating applications for clemency. But now there is little if any vetting taking place. What matters under Trump is political support, donations to his campaign or his causes, or personal connections with people in his orbit.

According to the Cato Institute, Joe Biden granted 80 pardons during his four-year term. Trump has already issued 166 pardons — not including the more than 1,500 January 6 rioters — issuing pardons at eight times the rate Biden did.

Oyer emphasized that there are people who are truly deserving of a second chance — people who’ve been convicted of low-level crimes decades ago who are still enduring collateral consequences, people who can’t get professional licenses, who face housing barriers — who are being completely overlooked by Donald Trump. There is no space for recommendations based on merit under the current administration.

Current Pardon Attorney Ed Martin has a belief in “no MAGA left behind,” and that pardons should be used to reward those who are loyal to the president.

How Should the Pardon Power Be Reformed?

Former January 6 police officer Michael Fanone told Raw America he’d like to amend the Constitution to eliminate the pardon power entirely. Oyer noted that while she understands Fanone’s point of view given the mass pardons of January 6 rioters, there are many other people out there who are deserving.

According to Oyer, new guardrails are needed to rein in pardon power. She called on Congress to “step up and conduct oversight” by demanding more transparency around the decision-making process and investigating the donations and the lobbyists involved in securing pardons.

A report from the Campaign Legal Center outlined six ways Trump is rewarding his supporters. This includes ambassadorships, cabinet appointments, dropped investigations, and even pardons. Jared Kushner’s father Charles, for example, was convicted on multiple felony charges and was rewarded with an ambassadorship to France.

Oyer observed that Trump’s pardons cannot be undone, and that many have “tremendously harmed and re-victimized victims of crime.” She added that Trump has pardoned some of the biggest white-collar criminals in history, and that many of those pardoned owe their victims tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars. She tracks all of this on her Substack’s “pardon tracker.”

“The total comes to around $1.5 billion — that’s billion with a B — in debts that he has forgiven through pardons,” Oyer said. “These are debts owed to people who were defrauded and victimized, in many cases to taxpayers whose money was stolen. And all of this while Donald Trump claims to be cracking down on fraud as a major priority. It’s nonsense and hypocrisy.”

The Worst Pardons: Drug Lords, Embezzlers, and a Sheriff Who Sold Badges

Some of Trump’s most egregious pardons to date include former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was sentenced to 45 years for conspiring to traffic cocaine into the United States. Nevada State Legislator Michelle Fiore was also pardoned for embezzling $70,000 from a police memorial fund, using the money to pay her rent and get plastic surgery. Virginia Sheriff Scott Jenkins sold badges to untrained businessmen for $75,000 in bribes.

Oyer said she was “not aware of any other president who has systematically disregarded or not sought input from the pardon attorney the way Donald Trump has.” During her seven-week tenure, she was not consulted about dozens of pardons granted beyond the January 6 pardons.

Oyer was eventually fired over refusing to recommend giving actor and director Mel Gibson permission to have firearms again after being ordered to do so by then-ttorney General Pam Bondi.

“My experience pushing back within the Trump DOJ is what got me fired — and if I had to do it again, I would do exactly the same thing,” Oyer said.

“What I knew about him is that he had a conviction for a very serious domestic abuse incident involving his ex-partner, whom he hit while holding their child. She was injured. He pleaded guilty and was convicted,” she continued. “I had no information to suggest he had rehabilitated himself or was the type of person who could safely possess a firearm.”

Oyer noted that “the data is very clear that domestic violence incidents are much more likely to be fatal when the abuser has a gun.” And because she refused to make the recommendation and declined to reconsider her decision, she was escorted out of the building hours later by security officers.

The National Security Threat: Pardoning Someone Who Processed Money for Al Qaeda

In 2025, Trump’s DOJ pardoned Changpeng Zhao, who headed the cryptocurrency exchange Binance. Zhao facilitated over 1.5 million illegal virtual trades and allowed prohibited transactions to members of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Hamas. However, perhaps because he brokered a $2 billion investment in the Trump family’s crypto company, he was given a full presidential pardoned.

Oyer argued that the pardon was not only endemic of the Trump administration’s “hypocrisy” on crime, but also “very dangerous” in terms of national security. Trump’s allowed Zhao to get back into the crypto space, opening up the possibility of actions that could potentially endangers national security, and enable consumer fraud and other scams.

“This is a very clear example of Donald Trump placing his own personal and family financial interests ahead of the interests of the American people,” Oyer said.

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Trump’s DOJ’s January 2026 Epstein files dump revealed that Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein had an extensive, secret relationship spanning roughly 18 months, from early 2018 until the day Epstein was arrested. Bannon sought Epstein's help building his European populist movement, while Epstein offered use of his jet, homes, and connections. Bannon in turn offered media training to help rehabilitate the convicted pedophile's image.

Signorile's reporting for The Signorile Report on Substack dug into a particularly explosive thread: the Epstein files contain thousands of text message exchanges between the two men, including evidence that Bannon recruited Epstein into a scheme to "take down" Pope Francis. Bannon recorded 12 hours of interviews with Epstein for a documentary that was really a PR makeover for a convicted sex offender.

Meanwhile, Bannon, who’d spent years publicly demanding the release of the Epstein files and calling Epstein a "globalist child molester," has gone almost completely silent since his own name turned up in the newly released records. He hasn’t mentioned Epstein on his show even as the story dominates headlines.

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Trump Prepares to Put Thousands of US Troops in Harm’s Way

So here’s where things stand with Iran. According to Reuters, the Trump administration is actively discussing the deployment of thousands of additional U.S. troops to the region, on top of the roughly 50,000 already stationed there.Four sources, including two U.S. officials, told Reuters that “securing” the Strait could mean putting American troops on Iran’s actual shoreline.

There’s also been discussion about sending ground forces to Kharg Island, which handles 90% of Iran’s oil exports. One official called that option “very risky.” The U.S. already struck the island earlier this month, and Iran has the capability to hit it with missiles and drones.

And then there’s the uranium question. Officials have reportedly discussed deploying U.S. forces to secure Iran’s stockpiles of highly enriched uranium. Experts say that would be extraordinarily complex, even for special operations forces.

Thirteen U.S. troops have been killed so far. About 200 have been wounded. The U.S. military has carried out more than 7,800 strikes since launching the war on February 28th. And Trump, the guy who spent years railing against American entanglement in foreign wars, is now refusing to rule out boots on the ground in Iran.

Attack on Qatar Facility an “Armageddon Scenario” for Gas Prices

While all of that is unfolding, Iran launched ballistic missiles at Qatar’s Ras Laffan complex, the largest liquefied natural gas facility on the planet. And the damage is severe.

In normal times, roughly a fifth of the world’s LNG supply flows out of that facility. It’s enormous. Think a complex nearly three times the size of Paris, built over decades, at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars.

Iran hit it twice. First on Wednesday night, then again in the early hours of Thursday morning. QatarEnergy says two of its LNG units have been damaged so badly that repairs will take three to five years and cost the company $20 billion a year in lost revenue.

Gas prices in Europe jumped 30% when markets reopened. They’ve more than doubled since the war began. Oil hit nearly $119 a barrel. Energy experts aren’t sugarcoating it. One analyst told the Financial Times that this was an “armageddon scenario.” There are early signs that some politicians are already pushing for a relaxation of bans on Russian gas imports.

This is a global economic crisis in the making, and it’s directly connected to a war the American public was never asked about and never voted for.

Almost All Republicans Just Voted to Gut Social Security and Medicare

Back home, nearly every House Republican voted recently for a proposed constitutional amendment that would effectively ban deficit spending, with one exception: War.

The amendment, led by Republican Andy Biggs, failed to reach the two-thirds threshold required. The final vote was 211 to 207. Every Republican who voted backed it. Only one Democrat crossed over.

Now, why does this matter? Because passing and ratifying this amendment would, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, “immediately devastate programs that are appropriated annually” like housing assistance, education, and medical research. And eventually, it would force cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and food assistance.

Here’s the kicker: this vote came less than a year after those same Republicans passed what they called the “Big Beautiful Bill,” cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans and largest corporations. Nonpartisan analysts estimate it added more than $4 trillion to the national debt.

So to be clear about what just happened: Republicans blew a $4 trillion hole in the deficit to cut taxes for billionaires, and then turned around and voted to constitutionally prohibit deficit spending in a way that would gut the retirement and healthcare programs working Americans have paid into their entire lives.

Democrat Brendan Boyle put it plainly: “American families don’t need a lecture on fiscal responsibility from the same politicians who just added $4 trillion to the debt.”

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Kicked Out of Arkansas Restaurant

And finally, something a little lighter, though it says quite a bit about the political moment we’re living in.

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she was asked to leave a Little Rock restaurant called The Croissanterie earlier this month. She arrived unannounced with her State Police security detail, was seated for over an hour, and says the owner approached her security team and asked her to leave because her presence was making employees feel “threatened and uncomfortable.”

The restaurant tells a somewhat different story. They say that when they realized Sanders was there, she was already seated and eating, so they chose not to interrupt. As her security detail became more noticeable to both staff and other guests, staff approached a member of the security detail and quietly asked Sanders to wrap up her visit, since she’d finished dining and they have a 90-minute table limit.

The Croissanterie specifically denies using the word “threatened” and says they made a difficult call to support employees who were uncomfortable.

Sanders, for her part, released a statement calling the whole thing “discrimination and hate” and contrasting it with “warm Arkansas hospitality.”

This may be a local story, but it’s also a perfect microcosm of how the culture war gets manufactured. A restaurant makes a judgment call. A governor turns it into a statement about discrimination. And suddenly a croissant shop in Little Rock is national news.

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