Michigan
Mudslinging in Michigan
The Republican Party pulled out all the stops in the final stretch of the state’s high-stakes U.S. Senate race, flooding the zone with anti-Arab and Islamophobic attacks on Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed — but they may not have worked as intended.
Fear and Loathing in Michigan
Swastikas, a Nazi flag and anti-Muslim placards were on display at the recent “Christian Crusader March” organized by the pardoned Jan. 6 insurrectionist and white nationalist Jake Lang in Dearborn, Michigan. The state's U.S. Senate race is testing the bounds of Islamophobia in U.S. politics.