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It’s hot outside. But the DSA is hotter.
Fresh off major primary wins in Colorado and New York, the Democratic Socialists of America is looking to prove that it can translate its momentum beyond deep-blue House primaries and into competitive statewide races.
DSA officials and allies told POLITICO they’ve already shifted organizers, volunteers and resources toward battleground Michigan and Wisconsin, where progressive Abdul El-Sayed is locked in a hotly contested Democratic primary for Michigan Senate and DSA-backed Francesca Hong is gaining steam in her primary for Wisconsin governor.
Both El-Sayed and Hong are planning a series of major rallies ahead of their primaries, and their campaigns and DSA organizers are currently discussing bringing many of the movement’s biggest stars — including recent winners from New York and Colorado — to generate attention and shore up the broader national effort. That will likely include a trip to Michigan for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who just made a major endorsement for El-Sayed.
“It’s DSA summer. We can’t stop racking up wins,” said Emma Vigeland, co-host of the long-running progressive program The Majority Report, who has campaigned for DSA candidates this primary season. “We’re seeing the culmination of 10 years of democratic socialism becoming more mainstream.”
Sustaining that summer momentum will be a tall task, as the DSA and the insurgent left try to harness the infrastructure they need to extend their wins into the battlegrounds.
But popular Twitch streamer Hasan Piker and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) are already planning to hit the trail to boost DSA picks in Michigan and Wisconsin ahead of the August primary.
And DSA membership has surged, according to national co-chair Megan Romer, with more than 7,500 new members signing up nationally since the sweeping victories in the Big Apple.
The DSA held a national members call Thursday night to rally the troops featuring two of the organization’s newest stars: Pennsylvania congressional nominee state Rep. Chris Rabb and Melat Kiros, who this week scored a major primary upset in Colorado over longtime Rep. Diana DeGette. Members also addressed Speaker Mike Johnson’s recent attacks on the group.
“This is a movement moment,” Hong said in an interview, pushing back on skeptics who question whether democratic socialists can win statewide in a state President Donald Trump carried twice. “More and more folks are recognizing that the system is rigged and they deserve a more democratic economy, where the power and control are with the workers and not the establishment, the elites and the mega corporations.”
The democratic socialist surge has been building since Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign brought the movement into the mainstream. But it’s been supercharged by progressive voters’ frustration with Democratic leadership, especially following former President Joe Biden’s late exit during the 2024 race and the party’s tepid response — in the eyes of many in the base — to the second Trump administration.
That anti-Washington sentiment has now resulted in DSA’s most successful primary season yet, putting democratic socialists on pace to have at least eight aligned members of Congress next year, not to mention the mayorships of New York City, Washington and Seattle — with more races still ahead.
But it hasn’t all been smooth sailing. In California, DSA-backed Sean Dougherty lost his blanket primary against Rep. Jimmy Panetta, while Chris Bennett fell short against Rep. Kevin Kiley, losses that point to a bigger question ahead: How far can the movement translate its surge of national attention and energy? Especially as establishment Democrats and outside groups look to blunt its momentum — and as Republicans ramp up efforts to turn the group into a campaign boogeyman.
“One of the biggest challenges of organizing is helping people channel their organic excitement — positive or negative — into movement growth,” Romer said. “We’ve built these structures and now we get to help people find their way into them so they can use them to win what they want.”
In Wisconsin, Hong is mounting one of the group’s clearest tests yet of whether a democratic socialist can win statewide, running on affordability and opposition to data center expansion — a message that has boosted her into a leading position in some polling heading into next month’s contest.
Public polling in the Wisconsin governor’s race has been sparse. A Marquette University Law School poll from March showed Hong leading the Democratic field at 14 percent among voters who named a candidate, ahead of Mandela Barnes at 11 percent, with 65 percent still undecided.
Hong, who last week appeared on Piker’s stream and raised over $50,000 from viewers in under an hour, says she plans to try unconventional ways of meeting voters heading into the primary.
“We will continue to be campaigning in creative ways, where people are meeting a candidate where they weren’t expected to meet a gubernatorial candidate — bike rides and dive bars,” she said.
Nearby Michigan is shaping up to be perhaps the most important state on the primary calendar this August for the strength of the insurgent movement in the Democratic Party. El-Sayed is not explicitly backed by DSA, but he’s widely viewed within the movement as part of the same progressive project, and organizers are going all in behind El-Sayed’s Senate campaign.
Ocasio-Cortez, who endorsed El-Sayed during his 2018 gubernatorial bid, joins Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who previously backed him in this campaign, in lining up two of the most influential voices on the left behind him.
“Everybody in the coalition is on the same page, whether it be Justice Dems, whether it be [Working Families Party], whether it be DSA,” said Vincent Vertuccio, Egret Strategies, a consulting firm that has worked with leftists running for office this cycle. He said Michigan is “absolutely the next focus of this national movement.”
Piker, who has become a highly sought-after surrogate for insurgent candidates this primary season, told POLITICO that he was headed to Michigan soon to rally support: “Abdul El-Sayed is not DSA affiliated, but he’s a progressive fighter. He’s a Berniecrat, and I’m excited to help him out to the best of my ability.”
A recent Quantus Insights poll from late June found El-Sayed leading Rep. Haley Stevens 41 percent to 36 percent, with state Sen. Mallory McMorrow trailing at 8 percent. McMorrow dropped out of the race on Sunday after failing to gain traction.
The DSA has another target in Michigan: Ousting incumbent Rep. Shri Thanedar, a former democratic socialist member whom the organization says it expelled over what it described as a “substantial disagreement with the values of DSA.” Thanedar at the time claimed he had renounced his membership, citing the organization’s promotion of a pro-Palestinian rally in New York City in the days immediately after Hamas’ attack on Israel in October 2023.
The representative now faces a DSA-backed challenger in state Rep. Donavan McKinney in Michigan’s 13th District.
Tlaib, an original member of the Squad, is working hard in her backyard to boost both McKinney and El-Sayed. In an interview, she said that the current momentum behind insurgent candidates reminds her of the 2018 wave that first brought her into Congress along with other Squad members, and their frustration once Democrats won unified control in the 2020 elections.
“Democrats had the trifecta and we couldn’t even get the Voting Rights Act passed. We couldn’t even get Build Back Better passed that was about child care and housing,” she said. “These are not years that we can get back for our residents, and especially our children.”
McKinney has hit Thanedar over taking corporate PAC money and questioned his progressive credentials. Tlaib and DSA are banking on their organizing efforts to propel the challenger to victory.
“[Mckinney] was raised in Wayne County all his life. He understands what it feels like to smell like rotten eggs when you go outside because the air is so polluted,” Tlaib added. “People are hungry for folks that will move with urgency.”
CLARIFICATION: This article was updated to reflect McMorrow’s Sunday decision to suspend her Senate campaign.
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Warrior, a red-tailed hawk blind in one eye and wearing training leather anklets and straps, escaped from American Bald Eagle Foundation staff on Friday afternoon. They have searched for him since he flew away during a training session.
A center media release described the hawk as an elderly ambassador bird, “left his handler during a scheduled exercise. Both the handler and Warrior were participating in the exercise under the supervision of two experienced, senior [curators],” the release said.
Staff tracked him through Friday evening but lost track of him Saturday. They are attempting to recall him using voice commands and food rewards.
Resident crows and ravens are providing some unexpected help as their mobbing behavior has repeatedly indicated Warrior’s location and helped search teams follow his movements, according to the release. However, those crows are also chasing Warrior from area to area and make it difficult for him to settle long enough for staff to recover him.
Foundation staff ask for anyone who sees a red-tailed hawk wearing leather straps or acting calm near people to contact the foundation at 907-766-3094.
He is not a danger to the public and is not likely to approach a stranger, but staff ask people not try to capture or approach him and instead document his exact location and watch him from a safe distance.
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The campaign to keep Folarin Balogun on the field for the United States’ World Cup run began just minutes after the team’s leading goal-scorer received a red card that would sideline him for the team’s next match.
Following Wednesday’s victory against Bosnia and Herzegovina, White House FIFA World Cup Task Force executive director Andrew Giuliani alerted President Donald Trump to Balogun’s punishment for a rash tackle — removal from the Bosnia match and a routine one-match suspension that would keep him out of a must-win encounter against Belgium.
Trump and Giuliani had been speaking regularly about the World Cup for months. During the planning stages for the tournament, the president received frequent briefings on logistics, security and the U.S. team’s prospects. Once the competition began in mid-June, those conversations accelerated to multiple times each week.
By Wednesday night, the White House had committed itself to taking action over Balogun’s red card, which some soccer analysts believed to be a harsh punishment for the infraction. Giuliani, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and senior U.S. Soccer Federation officials — all of whom had watched the Bosnia match in person at Levi’s Stadium near San Francisco — began activating plans to challenge the referee’s on-field decision to issue a red card. Successful appeals of World Cup red cards are exceedingly rare.
That kicked off four days of coordinated lobbying, legal maneuvering and diplomacy that stretched from the Oval Office to FIFA’s headquarters in Zurich — and underscored how invested Trump’s inner circle had become in the second World Cup hosted on U.S. soil and the fortune of the U.S. men’s national team competing in it. POLITICO spoke to a half-dozen U.S. government and soccer officials who were either directly involved in or briefed on the week’s events.
On Sunday, a day before the U.S. was due to face Belgium with Balogun on the bench, FIFA’s Disciplinary Committee announced that it was suspending Balogun’s one-match suspension for a year. Trump thanked FIFA for “doing what was right and reversing a great injustice.” The Royal Belgian Football Association and European confederation UEFA, of which Belgium is a member, are considering taking action against the FIFA ruling, according to a high-ranking UEFA official granted anonymity to discuss ongoing deliberations.
On Thursday, Trump placed a call to FIFA President Gianni Infantino. The two men had built a friendship over nearly eight years, with Infantino becoming a frequent visitor to the Oval Office during Trump’s second term. They remained in contact even when events put U.S. government policy in conflict with FIFA’s objectives, according to people familiar with their relationship. That included when the Trump administration launched military strikes against Iran in February, jeopardizing the country’s ability to compete in the World Cup — a personal history that mattered when Trump dialed Infantino about the Balogun matter.
Trump asked about FIFA’s rules around the red card decision and the grounds for a suspension. Infantino listened carefully but made no promises about the outcome. FIFA declined to confirm any specific discussions but reiterated to POLITICO that the decision to suspend the one-match ban was made by an independent disciplinary committee.
As U.S. Soccer’s legal team formally prepared and submitted its appeal to FIFA, Giuliani and Lutnick also offered to make White House attorneys available to assist with legal analysis if needed, according to people involved in the discussions.
At the same time, Giuliani and Scott Goodwin — a hedge-fund manager who had helped to personally pay the salary of U.S. coach Mauricio Pochettino — zeroed in on the officiating history of referee Raphael Claus, who made the red card call on Wednesday. Articles examining previous controversies involving the Brazilian referee circulated among senior government officials as they evaluated every possible argument that could bolster the appeal, according to sources familiar with the discussions.
The matter quickly rose through FIFA’s legal and disciplinary channels. Emilio García, who oversees the legal affairs of soccer’s global governing body, became a central figure in advising Infantino on the available procedural options, according to people familiar with the process. García and other FIFA officials worked to determine whether the circumstances around Balogun’s tackle met the narrow standards that would allow the disciplinary decision to be revisited.
By Sunday, the answer had arrived. FIFA announced that Balogun’s one-match suspension would be suspended, clearing him to play in the United States’ next match. Many, including European soccer officials, argued that the White House’s involvement violated FIFA’s policies about insulating sporting decisions from political influence.
“In order to safeguard the legitimate rights of all participating teams and to protect the fundamental principles of fair play in our sport, both at this FIFA World Cup and at future editions of the tournament, the RBFA is investigating all potential options,” the Belgian association said in a statement released after the ruling.
FIFA insists that the decision was an independent one made by its 18-person disciplinary committee, but it would not say whether the decision was decided through a vote. Unlike other decisions made by the committee, FIFA has not published a report on the decision.
Soon afterward, Trump and Infantino spoke again. They are expected to jointly award the World Cup trophy to the tournament’s winning team after the final match, on July 19.
Tim Röhn contributed to this article.
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England is through to the quarterfinals after a 3-2 win over Mexico in what was likely the hardest-fought game of the 2026 FIFA World Cup thus far. After dealing with a wave of Mexican chances in the first 30 minutes, England responded with two goals against the run of play from Jude Bellingham, and the Three Lions found themselves clinging to a 2-1 lead at halftime. The second half was filled with drama. Jarell Quansah was sent off in the 54th minute for a studs-up tackle. Despite playing with 10 men, England struck again when Anthony Gordon drew a penalty, which was converted by Harry Kane. Mexico then responded with a penalty of their own after Kane was called for a foul in the box. From there, the big story of the game was England being able to defend its way to victory with a compact defense that sat deep and flawlessly handled everything that came its way. 1. Bellingham Is A Two-Way Star In the opening half, Mexico began the game on the front foot, playing great soccer, and just as it seemed as if El Tri was going to be the team to eventually find a breakthrough, it was England that surprisingly scored twice against the run of play. This was done with Bellingham making trailing runs into the box to get on the end of balls delivered from the right wing by Bukayo Saka and the second was from Harry Kane, who collected the ball out wide and hit Bellingham, making a late run for a goal. These were massively important psychological moments for England as it became the first time Mexico had conceded goals at this World Cup. Mexico, which had not lost a competitive game at this stadium since 2012, was clearly rattled. This was by far the best Bellingham had looked at the World Cup, and it was not just his goal scoring. Mexico responded well at the end of the first half and cut the lead to one through Julián Quiñones. But Mexico nearly equalized shortly after when a corner was flicked on, and it found a wide-open César Montes at the far post. Bellingham then came out of nowhere to poke it away and ensure that England had the lead at halftime. Then, at the start of the second half and right up to the red card to Jarell Quansah in the 54th minute, Bellingham was putting on a show in Mexico City. But his most important moments might have been in the final 15 minutes and 11 minutes of stoppage time when he was defending, winning duels, making tackles and constantly clearing the ball from danger. His stats were eye-opening. He only completed nine passes, but he won 9 out of 15 ground duels, had four clearances and three tackles. His aggression with his dribbles demanded a lot of respect from Mexican defenders. Bellingham covered so much ground in the second half, which was not easy in the very high altitude of Mexico City. But he was the biggest difference maker. Bellingham was not the only player who had a great performance. Winger Anthony Gordon was also instrumental in big moments that tilted the game in England’s favor. He was highly effective with his dribble and drew four fouls, one of which was a penalty. 2. Mexico Never Gave Up Mexico’s performance was very impressive, considering how it continued to fight in this game, even when it was in a bad situation. The start of this game was all Mexico, and it had England on its heels. Bellingham scored twice. Head coach Javier Aguirre deserves a lot of credit for how his team responded when its back was against the wall. The front line of Mexico all played extremely well. Wingers Roberto Alvarado and Julián Quiñones, along with center forward Raul Jiménez, were all so effective in the response. Quiñones scored his fourth goal of the tournament to pull one back at 2-1, and Jiménez again narrowed the deficit to make 3-2. Mexico was unable to find the equalizer; however, it was not without opportunities. Mexico was relentless and gave everything in the last 20 minutes, but England’s compact defense always had an answer. 3. England Was (Almost) Flawless On Defense In the 75th minute, with the score 3-2, England manager Thomas Tuchel made the decision that his team was done with attacking with 10 men. He subbed defenders Djed Spence and Daniel Burn into the game to try to defend their way to victory from that point. The last 15 minutes plus 11 minutes of stoppage time was tremendous defending from the Three Lions. In the 90th minute, Harry Kane was subbed out, and from there, it was almost always 10 English players behind the ball. English goalkeeper Jordan Pickford had an incredible game. In the first half, he made two world-class saves against Raul Jiménez, and then in the second half, Pickford was instrumental coming out of his box, claiming clearances, or punching balls away. England’s size advantage paid huge dividends in stoppage time as Mexico was sending ball after ball into the box, but England always had the answer. Mexico had 49 crosses in this game, and England had no margin for error. Fortunately for Tuchel, his team was perfect down the stretch. 4. Game Of The Tournament? There is a strong argument to be made that this was the best game of the tournament up to this point (although Cape Verde vs. Argentina has something to say about that). There were wild swings of momentum, gutsy defending, quality goals, teams responding with their backs against the wall, an incredible stadium atmosphere — and it ended with both teams having left it all on the field. Right up to the end, it seemed as if anything could happen. It was incredibly dramatic. England deserved to win this game. It went into one of the most hostile venues in the world for an opposing team. It withstood a lot of Mexican pressure, defended with a red card, and it came up with goals when it needed.Latest Sports News from FOX Sports
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