Abdul El-Sayed has campaigned on reaching across the religious divide with an appeal to Christians and Muslims alike, and he boasts that over two dozen Christian leaders back his bid to replace Michigan Senator Gary Peters. Those leaders include a pastor who suggested conservative activist Charlie Kirk deserved to be shot and the senior pastor of a church that hosted a drag event for kids. El-Sayed, who once hoped to be America’s first Muslim governor, is locked in a competitive primary race with Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens. While many of his positions on topics from abortion to so-called “gender-affirming care” directly conflict with the Bible, that has not deterred some Christians from backing his campaign. Included among El-Sayed’s supporters is Larry Davis, the pastor of Christian Tabernacle Baptist in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Davis, who believes that President Donald Trump faked the multiple assassination attempts, had no kind words for Charlie Kirk after his murder. “He is being held as a hero. We shouldn’t be happy that he got killed. But we shall embrace that you REAP what you SOW,” Davis posted on Facebook alongside an anti-Kirk meme the day after the popular conservative activist was gunned down at an event at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025.   Larry Davis Facebook. In another post, Davis shared a clip of Kirk criticizing DEI and asked, “Would you give a racist out of his own mouth the medal of freedom.” On September 19, the pastor again spread his message that Kirk reaped what he sowed. “No man should take it on himself to take the life of another. But the scriptures says be not deceived God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man show [sic] that shall he also reap,” Davis said alongside an AI-generated image of Kirk and Jesus Christ. The Daily Wire sent a message to Davis to ask about his support for El-Sayed. His church, which has no listed email address, did not answer multiple phone calls. Pastor Terrance Johnson, another religious leader who endorsed El-Sayed, shared a similar animus toward Kirk. He suggested that he was not sad about Kirk’s assassination because he was a “racist bigot.” “You will accept a black man refusing to mourn his own father but you wil [sic] not accept a black man refusing to mourn a racist bigot because….. We all know why,” Johnson posted in a long screed quoting Tupac song lyrics a day after Kirk’s killing.   When someone commented on his post, “is this the heart of Christ,” Johnson responded by saying, “what is the heart of Christ.” In another post, Johnson claimed that ICE was equivalent to the Ku Klux Klan. “So ICE is the KKK rebranded. Still wearing mask it’s just that the badges are now out instead of being hid under the sheets,” he said. Johnson’s Church, Second Missionary Baptist Church in Monroe, Michigan, recently hosted El-Sayed for an event. In a Facebook post, the church said the event was for the Democrat to share “why he’s running for office.” During the appearance, El-Sayed claimed to attendees that he was the only candidate who could “guarantee you healthcare” and attacked America’s history as “sordid,” according to a video posted by the church. “We just commemorated 250 years. And I know there’s a lot of sordid history in those 250 years, but I also know what my life would have been had I been born in a place that I was supposed to be born. But for an accident of history, I get born here,” El-Sayed said. “Are we willing to put ourselves back in to correct that system so that the next 250 look a lot better than the last ones did?” “It is the many versus their money. We got a choice. Do we want them to come in and buy an election?,” he added.   Facebook: Second Missionary Baptist Church. “Second Missionary Baptist Church of Monroe does not endorse or oppose any political candidate or party,” the church posted on July 17. “Our prayer is that every voter takes time to seek wisdom, research the candidates, and make an informed decision at the ballot box.” Another pastor backing El-Sayed’s campaign is the ultra-woke Nathan Dannison of Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids, which recently hosted a “queer prom” for adults and youth that featured “12 drag performances.” Dannison, who recently said that psychedelics have been part of his “spiritual discipline” for the last twenty years, said that abolishing ICE is a baseline position any candidate supported by him needs to take. In recent Facebook posts, Dannison has defended El-Sayed over his strong anti-Israel positions. Dannison said that he’s “pretty horrified by a lot of the anti-Abdul posts I’m seeing from center-left Michigan voters that are obviously mashing the ‘fwd:fwd:fwd’ button or the copy-pasting ad copy from astro-turfed emails/sms/etc from defense lobbyists.” “Dr. El-Sayed is not antisemitic. To the contrary, one of the reasons I support him is because he understands the real and present dangers facing Jewish Americans who are being blamed for foreign policies and wars that have absolutely nothing to do with their religion and history in this country,” he added. Fountain Street Church raises funds for women to end the lives of their unborn children and says it is “proud to be the State’s longest standing abortion fund.” Other pastors backing El-Sayed’s campaign included Detroit Rev. Horace Sheffield III of New Destiny Christian Fellowship and Rev. Keith Whitney of Sanctuary Fellowship Baptist Church. Sheffield, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2014 and appeared in the anti-white documentary “White With Fear,” sells anti-Trump t-shirts on his ministry website that say “I will take Biden in a wheel chair over Trump standing up.”   Whitney is the president of Moses Action, an advocacy group that pushes for left-wing criminal justice reform and supported a ballot initiative to make the right to end the life of your unborn child a constitutional right. “Throughout black history, government officials — most of them white men — have made decisions about black women’s bodies and health that have been harmful, traumatizing, and often deadly. Granting our current lawmakers the ability to dictate personal health decisions feels like a dangerous step backwards,” the group said in a statement. Several of the pastors listed on El-Sayed’s campaign website, including Bishop Alan Evans and Pastor Parris McMurray, appear to be affiliated with the Church of God In Christ, Inc. The denomination adopted a “sanctity of life” resolution in 2019 that “abortion is the killing of the innocent” and describes abortion as “genocide.” The denomination did not respond to questions about its pastors endorsing the pro-abortion El-Sayed. El-Sayed wants to codify the right to an abortion in federal law and suggested he will fight back on efforts to crackdown on abortion pills. “Everyone has the right to make personal decisions about their healthcare,” his campaign website says. “That includes reproductive and gender-affirming care. I’ll fight to codify the rights once protected by Roe v. Wade into federal law.” Earlier this month, El-Sayed earned the endorsement of the Council of Baptist Pastors of Detroit and Vicinity, which said it supported his emphasis on “affordability” and “human dignity.” It did not respond to questions about El-Sayed leftist advocacy on social issues. “Pastors attend to their communities in the best and worst of times, and their support is about trusting me to show up in those moments with them,” El-Sayed said. “Together, we’re building a Michigan that brings people together across faiths, regions, and backgrounds in the work of offering dignity, opportunity, and respect for every Michigander.” The Democratic primary is on August 4.

Leftist agitators set up a “lawless” zone in Madison, Wisconsin, to protest the fatal police shooting of a knife-wielding felon, prompting local residents to lash out at city officials for not doing anything to restore order to the streets.  Multiple blocks of a Madison neighborhood are blocked by barricades of wooden pallets, trash cans, and boards with nails sticking out of them to protest the shooting of Corey Ruiz, a man with an extensive criminal history. Tents were also set up in the zone by activists, and the homeless population has moved into the zone as city officials ignore calls from locals to clear the area.  The city is even helping the agitators, bringing in portable toilets, trash cans, and even parked trucks to block off intersections, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. “As a resident trapped in the protest zone, I feel the protest turned into a very disrespectful occupation focused on punishing Willy Street for the incident,” one local told WMTV. “It is now a lawless zone and homeless encampment barricaded on all four sides with groups blocking local residences and businesses from surviving.” The neighborhood has been plagued by people urinating in the streets, drinking, loud fights, and agitators stealing trash cans for their blockade. One sign put up in the zone reads, “There’s more of us than them. We must revolt.”  “I feel like we are suffering and we shouldn’t be. Like [protesters] are claiming that they’re supporting the community by being down here, but they’re actually harming the community by shutting down major businesses on this stretch,” Jeff Schmidt, the co-owner of the Weary Traveler restaurant, told the Sentinel.  The city of Madison did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire, but Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway’s office previously said officials were “exploring many avenues to reach a successful resolution without further heightening tensions and causing more harm to impacted community members, including protesters.” “A number of different City agencies are working to meet the needs of the neighborhood to the best of their ability,” she told the Sentinel. “We ask that everyone extend grace to each other in this difficult time.” The unrest stems from an incident last week in which police say Ruiz pulled a knife on them. Ruiz had dozens of criminal convictions, including for robbery by force, strangulation, drug possession, vehicle theft and battery of a public safety worker, resisting law enforcement, and drug paraphernalia. Other residents told the outlet that they are “very much upset with Madison leadership,” that the area is in a “state of fight-or-flight,” and that they described the situation as “extremely stressful.”  Sentinel reporter Laura Schulte posted photos and videos from what she said people are calling the “Corey Ruiz Autonomous Zone.”  I don’t usually enter the encampment this direction, but there are lots of boards with nails here to keep people out pic.twitter.com/shoLPfWxeY — Laura Schulte (@SchulteLaura) July 29, 2026 During the height of the widespread rioting following the death of George Floyd, leftist agitators set up the so-called “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” in Seattle that quickly turned into a violent drug den. 

A high-society doctor threw his weight behind Dr. Anthony Fauci after a fiery Senate hearing on Wednesday, taking to CNN to shield the polarizing pandemic official while declaring the public shouldn’t even care about how COVID-19 started. Appearing on CNN’s “NewsNight,” Dr. Scott Ratzan, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Health Communication, leapt to the defense of Fauci, slamming congressional probes into Fauci’s pandemic response as a full-blown “assault on science.” “What’s happened is this is an assault on science and scientists,” Ratzan proclaimed. “And unfortunately, Dr. Fauci is in that seat, 38 years of service to the country, one of the best known scientists for infectious disease, unfortunately, has taken a lot of heat for probably a lot of, shall we say, issues that were not fully his. … Today, we certainly didn’t learn anything from the way the hearing was held.” When conservative radio host Jason Rantz contended that Fauci actively worked to suppress the idea that COVID escaped from a Wuhan laboratory, Ratzan dodged the origin question entirely. Instead of demanding accountability for the deadly bug, the Harvard-educated doc shrugged off the lingering mystery. “I think the reality is we shouldn’t be worrying about the lab leak theory today,” Ratzan brazenly claimed, insisting the focus should shift to building a “healthier America” rather than pointing fingers over where the virus came from. Rantz immediately fired back: “You’re now saying that we shouldn’t talk about where COVID came from?” The fiery segment only grew hotter when CNN host Abby Phillip stepped into the ring to go after Donald Trump, eager to dump the blame for America’s dark pandemic era squarely on the 45th president’s doorstep. “I may need to remind some people … Donald Trump was president and shut the country down,” Phillip snapped, running down a laundry list of lockdown-era grievances. “He was president when the mask mandates went into place, he was president when social distancing went into place, he was president when schools shut down.” While conceding Trump deserved “an enormous amount of credit” for Operation Warp Speed, Phillip insisted Trump can’t skate away clean from the era’s fallout. “The idea that Trump bears no responsibility if the conclusion is that it all went so wrong, that doesn’t line up with the facts.”

The United States Army has reportedly been testing a new electronic warfare system that could potentially change the face of modern warfare. The Hammer of the Gods, as it is known, works by scrambling the navigation systems of targeted weapons — and doing so without detection — so that they cannot strike their intended targets from a distance without revealing themselves. As Fox News Digital reported on Wednesday, similar systems have been tested on land in recent months. The most recent test, which occurred during the Project Convergence Capstone 6 (PC-C6) experiment in mid-July, marked the first time such a system had been tested at sea. “Joint experimentation is how we prepare for future fights,” Lt. Col. Darrin Hall, chief of Modeling, Simulation, and Integration (S7/8), U.S. Space Forces Pacific, said of the experiment. “By integrating space, cyber, and conventional forces into realistic scenarios, we strengthen our ability to operate as one joint team in contested environments.” The system uses a portable signal disruptor that emits radio signals capable of jamming multiple Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) signals. Those signal disruptions cause weapons systems that rely on that information to miss their intended targets — and cause critical mission delays. The downside of such systems has always been that, because they jam radio signals used by enemy forces, they could also jam friendly signals and leave allies blind. But according to Fox, the Hammer of the Gods circumvents that problem by simultaneously establishing a communications system that allows continued contact between friendly forces even after the disruptor has been deployed. “This experiment proved that counter-PNT capabilities can be deployed, controlled, and recovered in real-world maritime operations while extending operational reach through resilient mesh networking. It demonstrates the value of joint collaboration in advancing operational readiness,” Hall added. “Positioning, Navigation, and Timing is the foundation of modern military operations. Understanding how to protect and operate through PNT disruption ensures our forces can continue to shoot, move and communicate effectively.” Experiments undertaken during operations such as PC-C6 allow the military to field-test equipment in settings that better reflect typical operational conditions.

The state and mood of Washington, D.C. this week are a combination of dire and surreal. The surreal came in the form of the funeral for Lindsey Graham, a rare politician of actual note in this day and age of politicos who are good at winning elections, toeing the line, and remaining consistently unrecognizable as having any effect on national policy. (Did you know that Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) has been in office since Princess Diana was still alive? Wild.) The event was, as is typical for the nation’s capital city, reduced to a pathetic networking session of smiles and handshakes between journos and politicians, lawyers and lobbyists, with the additional Kremlinology of who got to sit where and why. Everyone was on their phones between songs of generic holiness, stuck to the uncomfortable confines of worn brown National Cathedral chairs in the purportedly religious house that has the acoustics of a Wawa and whose respect for holiness is embodied by the head of Darth Vader perched atop its Northwest Tower, as predicted by the Gospel of Luke. For this, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) wore a suit? What was remarkable about the Graham funeral was how little resemblance it bore to the man it claimed to honor. Instead, it was a tribute isolated to a single relationship confined to the last seven years of Graham’s 31-year career in Washington: his political friendship with President Donald Trump. It was a connection built on Graham’s belief that, in the absence of his longtime foreign policy allies John McCain and Joe Lieberman, he had to make the best of things — becoming a quarterback whisperer in an offensive scheme he never thought he’d have to run. The decision reaped benefits, for Graham and for Trump — the former an old hand at driving policy in the Republican conference, the latter a political neophyte who didn’t know whom to trust or how to move legislation beyond a Truth Social post. The tributes from the front of the Cathedral focused on an appeal to the Commander-in-Chief in the front row and left his longtime friends unmentioned. The program wasn’t marked by any of his longtime political allies from his home in South Carolina. Take the world leaders out of the equation in the attending crowd, and it could’ve been a funeral for any Republican senator. The oddity of it all is that, unlike so many others, Graham’s absence is likely to be immediately felt, and felt the most by Trump’s White House, whose relationship with Capitol Hill, already strained with contention and resentment, is only going to get worse. The following day brought another insult to holiness with the circus of the Anthony Fauci hearing. The fish in the barrel claimed the Fifth the entire time, and senators expressed their undying love and affection (on the Democratic side) and their utter contempt for his lying, self-dealing, and pompous assumption of the seat of the Pope of Science. Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) blond gum-chewing staffer went viral. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) channeled the fury of millions of Americans. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) said a swear word. None of this will be of any consequence. This is where Republicans find themselves: looking back in anger, without delivering anything of substance. They’re still fighting the last war. Democrats are crazy socialists who haven’t stopped being crazy; in fact, they’ve gotten even crazier. But that’s not good enough to win, despite the insistence of too-online right-wingers that they can run that play back one more time to buck decades of historical midterm trends. Four in 10 voters say they want “revolutionary” change from this election. Do you think they care about people movers at Washington Dulles Airport? Do you think they give a sh*t if James Talarico rents a truck? That brings us to the dire mood in the capital city. House Republicans had already been planning their exit strategy and shopping for their next homes and jobs. Senate Republicans have only just noticed that they are headed in the same direction: off a cliff, at rapid speed. President Trump’s approval rating is 33% in the latest AP poll. Democratic Senate candidates currently lead in North Carolina and Georgia — where Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has promised to spend an enormous amount of cash — and are within the margin of error in Ohio and Texas, which were supposed to be red states the last time we checked. Every bout at the White House’s UFC sideshow ended in a knockout. This may not even be that close. The realization on the eve of August that the blue tidal wave could hit the Senate, too, has come too late to do much about the outcome except bitch about the damn war. And what comes after? We all know what it looks like for D.C.: committee circuses, impeachment of Cabinet figures, and lawfare targeting the president’s family and allies to a degree that will make the Joe Biden years look sleepy and innocuous. For the Left? A dramatically emboldened socialist wing, with the force multiplier of eager and willing new entrants from safe seats, all looking to make a national name for themselves. And for the Right? Two years of vindictive bloodletting and horror, blame and revisionism, and a level of factional strife that will have the city turning back to all the old “Game of Thrones” episodes, lacking as we are in newer references in the post-peak TV era. The Republican Party was emboldened by Donald Trump’s victory in 2024. But from election night on, it made the mistake of thinking that victory for the Right was fundamental. It may turn out to be the exception before the Left’s new and dangerous rule. Buckle up.