AIPAC is taking a victory lap after 2 of the 4 candidates it backed in the Illinois primaries won their races. But is it really a resounding win if you have to spend $22 million to still lose 2 races?

A war powers resolution intended to rein in the Trump administration’s war on Iran failed in the Senate. Groups are already promising to primary any Democrat who supports the war.

Israel is emerging as a central theme in the upcoming midterms, with one of the clearest examples being Illinois’s 9th district Democratic primary.

The Trump administration is in damage control mode after Mike Huckabee claimed Israel has the biblically mandated right to stretch from the Nile River in Egypt to the Euphrates River in Iraq.

AIPAC spent millions in New Jersey’s 11th district to take out Tom Malinowski in the Democratic primary after he hinted at conditioning aid to Israel. They sank his campaign, but they helped Analilia Mejia, a candidate much further to the left, win.

In New Jersey, AIPAC is targeting former ally Tom Malinowski for saying that military aid to Israel should be conditioned.

There is suddenly a litmus test in the Democratic Party on naming the Gaza genocide.

Gaza. The Israel Lobby. U.S. support for occupation, apartheid, and genocide. These subjects will play a significant role in the midterm elections, and groups like AIPAC are already adapting to a reality where most voters view them as a problem.

This year, Israel will account for over a quarter of all free travel gifted to Congress members, and AIPAC is overwhelmingly setting the agenda.

The American Jewish community is in open crisis over its support for Israel after two years of genocide in Gaza. A key issue in this crisis is a topic once considered too taboo to criticize: the Israel lobby.