Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat running for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat, spent years calling for emptying prisons, scrapping cash bail, and dismantling what he calls America's "carceral state", positions now under fresh scrutiny in a tight general election. El-Sayed, an epidemiologist who won the Democratic primary to replace retiring Sen. Gary Peters, built a paper […] The post Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed pushed mass prisoner releases, bail elimination, and 'disinvestment' from jails appeared first on American Almanac .
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat running for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat, spent years calling for emptying prisons, scrapping cash bail, and dismantling what he calls America's "carceral state", positions now under fresh scrutiny in a tight general election. El-Sayed, an epidemiologist who won the Democratic primary to replace retiring Sen. Gary Peters, built a paper trail of decarceration advocacy stretching from April 2020 through at least October 2024. Substack posts, podcast transcripts, a co-authored study in The Lancet, a magazine article demanding the CDC adopt "decarceration" as public health policy, and a webinar appearance alongside a convicted murderer and a registered sex offender all document the same consistent position:…Open
Pennsylvania's largest school district partnered with a self-described "revolutionary" organization to run mandatory "liberation" workshops for students, led in part by a convicted felon with a record of antisemitic statements. The School District of Philadelphia hosted a series of symposia between 2025 and 2026 organized through a partnership between a 10th-grade history teacher and the […] The post Philadelphia schools brought a convicted felon and prison abolition group into classrooms for mandatory student workshops appeared first on American Almanac .
Pennsylvania's largest school district partnered with a self-described "revolutionary" organization to run mandatory "liberation" workshops for students, led in part by a convicted felon with a record of antisemitic statements. The School District of Philadelphia hosted a series of symposia between 2025 and 2026 organized through a partnership between a 10th-grade history teacher and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction, an outfit that openly describes itself as a "political education program for aspiring revolutionaries." Among the facilitators who led sessions for children as young as seventh grade: Anthony Smith, who pleaded guilty to a felony for his role in torching a police car during the riots…Open
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is laughing off "Woke 1." But she's carrying baggage from the 2020 era of cultural progressivism that some Democrats say is an obstacle to a future presidential run. Why it matters: AOC's pivot to the cultural center — which she began to roll out last week in a high-profile ABC interview by saying, "Woke 1 was crazy" — is potential damage control for her past remarks about law enforcement, immigration and a range of social issues. - Ocasio-Cortez told ABC that the left's so-called excesses of that period were partly the result of the COVID pandemic and lockdowns. - But she made some of her most controversial remarks before the pandemic hit the U.S. in 2020. - "This is really going to be…
The Democratic Socialists of America platform contains radical proposals, from abolishing the Senate and office of the President to getting rid of police and prisons.
After notching primary victories, D.S.A. members in Chicago debated whether socialist candidates should be free to distance themselves from goals like abolishing prisons as they chase more seats this fall.