After the viral exchange between Abdul El-Sayed and a heckler named “Tommy,” independent reporter Marisa Kabas uncovered the man’s ties to Republican politics.

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Independent journalist Marisa Kabas shares what she learned about “Tommy” — the heckler featured in Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed’s viral video — and his ties to the GOP, Republican Missouri Senator Josh Hawley, and prominent Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht.

You can read more of Marisa’s reporting at The Handbasket.

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In his series on Black voters, “The Deciding Vote,” Eugene Daniels talked to Rep. Ayanna Pressley about her goal for Black voters in Michigan to support Democratic Senate Nominee Abdul El-Sayed. “I’m not here because he just has a D next to his name,” she says. “The people who mean us harm are all working together, and so the people who are being harmed need to all work together.”

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Israeli citizens vote on Tuesday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeks to hold his coalition together amid the conflict with Iran and a new crackdown on Palestinians in the West Bank. MS NOW Senior Reporter Josh Einiger joins Antonia Hylton from Jerusalem with the latest.

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A federal judge ordered that writer E. Jean Carroll be paid $5 million plus interest in damages stemming from a judgment in one of her two civil cases against President Donald Trump.

Trump had made a last-ditch effort to stop Carroll from collecting the money. The president’s lawyers argued that because his request for the Supreme Court to reconsider its refusal to hear his appeal is pending, there is no final denial from the justices on the matter of his appeal, and so the distribution of those funds to Carroll is not justified.

Trump’s legal team swiftly appealed the judge’s ruling.

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