To donate by check, phone, or other method, see our More Ways to Give page.

Daily news & progressive opinion—funded by the people, not the corporations—delivered straight to your inbox.

Michigan Democratic candidate for Congress Donavan McKinney speaks at The People V. The Powerful rally at the Detroit Opera House on July 18, 2026 in Detroit, Michigan, along with Democratic candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed.

"The Democratic establishment threw everything it had at Abdul El-Sayed," said one podcaster. "If he wins, the reverberations will be felt far outside of Michigan."

Voters in five states are going to the polls Tuesday to cast ballots for US House and Senate candidates, including several who aim to continue a recent streak of progressive victories that—as Colorado democratic socialist Melat Kiros said after she won her own primary race last month—will send a message to "both parties, to Donald Trump, and to the entire country.”