Two-thirds of Rep. Shri Thanedar's campaign cash came through AIPAC bundlers, according to The Intercept — a financial architecture that makes his $600K crypto loss secondary to the deeper question of whose interests a 67-percent-AIPAC-funded congressman actually represents.
The split between Hakeem Jeffries and Katherine Clark on the Massie Israel aid amendment is the news. The bigger story is that House Democratic leadership no longer has the institutional capacity to hold a coherent position on Israel — and has no policy alternative to offer.
The Cuban diaspora lobby and AIPAC spent years building the political conditions for Trump's foreign policy. Both got what they wanted. Now both are dealing with consequences they cannot blame on their opponents.
Chris Rabb, backed by the Squad, just won Pennsylvania's bluest House seat despite AIPAC's primary spending. The progressive wing is no longer the insurgency — it's the institution.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen says Democrats' Israel-Palestine strategy has failed — a public admission from a party insider that is more damning than it first appears. The real question is whether the party mistakes a political reckoning for a moral one.
Democratic presidential hopefuls are racing to reject AIPAC's brand. Down-ballot, the party's financial relationship with the lobby is intact — and the lobby knows exactly where its leverage actually lives.