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As many as 400 workers at more than 60 fast food restaurants in the Detroit metro area walked off the job on Friday. The fast food strike in Detroit is the second major labor action to hit an American city’s fast food industry this week: On Wednesday and Thursday, more than 100 workers in St. Louis walked off the job at roughly 30 different restaurants. These rolling walkouts followed similar actions in New York, central Pennsylvania, and Chicago.

In what will be seen as this year’s most significant election Dr Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary. Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and massive US military support to Israel became central themes actively debated across the state

“In an era where many of us can’t afford basic things like groceries or rent or healthcare, the idea that your government is sending your tax dollars to buy bombs and tanks for foreign governments seems anathema."

If the economy is the issue, he can win Michigan in November. El-Sayed's overriding message has to be that his election will help end Trump’s disastrous control of the economy. Halley Stevens concession and endorsement; Mallory McMorrow endorsement.

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Abdul El-Sayed says Tuesday’s Senate primary in Michigan is a referendum on the future of the Democratic Party.

Voters are faced with the thorny question of electability: who can win this purple state in November and potentially push Democrats toward a US Senate majority?

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