Bernie Sanders just said on NBC News that if Haley Stevens wins the Michigan Senate primary he’ll certainly support her, even campaign for her if she wants it. Mallory McMorrow is planning on endorsing the winner tonight, like in person, whoever it is. It looks like it’s going to be Abdul, though. Could be a big win. (UPDATE: or a tiight win!) We’ll see where it lands when all the votes are counted. (UPDATE, he wins, per NBC News call.)

But I’m really hearing a lot of, you know, whoever wins, it’s time to get to work.

Meanwhile, Cori Bush (squad!) lost her primary in Missouri where she was trying to come back and retake her seat from Wesley Bell (establishment!) Everything I’ve heard about Bush seems like there was a lot of corruption surrounding her, and I’ve heard from St. Louis people that her constituent services were just absolutely garbage. In congressional races, politics is indeed very, very local.

I’m starting to develop a theory that a lot of this “DEMS IN DISARRAY!” bullshit is, as usual, bullshit.

Whaaaaaat?

I know, I know.

We’re supposed to believe that there is a massive war between the Trojan Horse DSA vs. The Establishment, that the main character in every single race will be AIPAC. All that makes for really good TV and horse race coverage.

(The chyron for much of the night on NBC has been DEMS NAVIGATE DIVISIONS BETWEEN PROGRESSIVES, MODERATES.)

But what if it’s a lot simpler than that, and people really are just voting for who they really really really believe will fight FOR THEM?

And what if that, more than ever before, is really the determining factor here, in this age of MAGA fascism? That theory would seem to tilt things against incumbents and The Establishment, whatever that is in any given race. But not always, as we see in St. Louis tonight.

And it’s not actually as clean of a divide as “Bernie vs. Hiillary” or “progressive vs. centrist.”

Maybe it’s really more like “Fight the fascists” vs. “Say you’re fighting and then collaborate when it’s convenient and sometimes vote for Trump’s nominees and you can’t even say we should abolish ICE? Jesus, read the room.”

Yes, many voters are really pissed off about Israel/Gaza, and in any environment where politicians can campaign on “spending your tax dollars on bombs while you can’t afford food or healthcare,” that’s going to land punches.

I’d like to offer a theory, though, which is that for a lot of voters, “AIPAC” has come to signify something much greater than simply “Israel,” that the phrase — much to AIPAC’s chagrin I imagine! — has entered the lexicon as the new “Citizens United,” the end-all, be-all buzzword that tells people which candidate is bought-and-sold, owned by corporate interests, beholden to the rich and powerful, not in it for regular voters at the end of the day.

A lot of today’s fired-up voters were little kids when Citizens United happened. Their parents yell “Overturn Citizens United!” The kids yell “Fuck AIPAC!”

Is that always fair? Maybe, maybe not.

Just some jumbled thoughts on this big primary night.

Tomorrow we fight for our nominees, whoever they are.

And we watch Ohio Republicans continue coming apart at the seams, because Jesus, what a shitshow.