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The Republican Party in Michigan issued a mocking response after Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said former President Barack Obama will be joining him on the campaign trail.Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) announced his retirement 18 months ago, and El-Sayed is trying to win the seat to keep it in Democrat control. Losing it to Republicans would significantly bolster the GOP's efforts to maintain control of the U.S. Senate.'President Obama is parachuting into Michigan, in a desperate to attempt revive Conman Abdul's floundering campaign.'On Monday, El-Sayed said Obama would attend a rally in Detroit at the end of October in his campaign to defeat Republican Mike Rogers. Black voters in Detroit have expressed misgivings about El-Sayed."It is my honor and privilege to announce that President @BarackObama is joining us on the trail in Detroit," wrote El-Sayed on social media.If El-Sayed wins, he would become the first Muslim to hold office in the U.S. Senate. Republicans have lambasted him for extremist statements he has made in the past and for his associations with anti-American extremists like influencer Hasan Piker.Greg Manz, the senior communications adviser of the Michigan GOP, mocked the development in a statement to Blaze News."President Obama's upcoming trip to Detroit proves Conman Abdul El-Sayed has a severe base problem. It's no surprise to us that Democrats are playing defense in the very city where 'Democrats for Rogers' launched — Motor City voters are abandoning the Conman because working families have zero interest in having their taxes hiked to pay for a government-controlled health care scheme that costs $32 trillion," he said."President Obama is parachuting into Michigan, in a desperate to attempt revive Conman Abdul's floundering campaign," Manz added, "because Democrat support is evaporating daily in Detroit — it's a Hail Mary for an extreme candidate who can't even energize his own base."The Democrats for Rogers group also released a statement including comments from El-Sayed slamming Obama when he was re-elected in 2012. RELATED: WATCH: 9/11 hero's father narrates powerful ad against Abdul El-Sayed "[Obama] has perpetuated war, violated our civil liberties, deported more people from our shores than any other president before him, and the list of his failures goes on," said El-Sayed at the time. Failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris has already campaigned for El-Sayed.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Lea Martin arrived in America expecting to find the country she'd heard about her entire life: uncultured, superficial, and different from Europe in all the wrong ways.Instead, she found something she never anticipated.Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck has read her new book, "Dear Land of the Free," and he calls it “almost like a love letter” about his beloved country.Martin explains that she wrote the book after she broke up with her ex-boyfriend and felt “disassociated.”“I felt like, oh my god, I need to write this love letter to this country that gave me so much and helped me transform so much,” she tells Glenn.“So, it’s just my whole love for this country that gave me so, so much,” she adds.“What was it that flipped you … because I know what people say in Europe about America, and it’s almost a cartoon version of us. But what was it that you either saw that you were like, ‘Oh my gosh, I have this all wrong,’ and what flipped you to this?” Glenn asks.“When I arrived in the U.S., I had so many cliches, and I’ve never dreamed about moving to the U.S. It just happened because of my ex,” she explains. “And then when I arrived here, I realized how wrong I was because we have so many cliches around food, around Americans, around so many things here.”“And I realized I was so wrong,” she says, noting that “one of the biggest cliches” is that Americans are “uncultured” because they don’t travel as much as Europeans.“And I’ve realized there’s a lot of nuance in this cliche,” she says.“It’s so easy for us to travel because also the flight tickets there are way cheaper, while in the U.S. it's more complicated. This country is so huge. Like, when even I was in Pennsylvania, I did a road trip in Pennsylvania, and I was like, I’m still in the same state, but I can drive hours and hours and hours,” she explains.When she road-tripped through Texas, she found the same thing, calling it “endless.”“Each state has its own specialties, people, mindset. It’s so interesting,” she adds.Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

A resurfaced video showing a Democrat U.S. Senator waving an upside-down American flag at a 2017 rally with the Somalian community is going viral online.The video on social media is taken from a speech Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) gave at a Somalian celebration for a presidential election in the African country.'We have more to do, but we will continue to fight for you!'In the video she promises to remove restrictions on cash remittances to Somalia and uses a traditional Somalian phrase to show her support for the interests of the Somalian community in Minnesota."As you know, we are home to the largest Somali population in the United States, and we are so proud of that fact in Minnesota!" she yells to loud applause.At one point someone hands her the upside-down U.S. flag, and she waves it haphazardly."Oh, thank you. Very good!" she says.While it might have been an oversight on her part, the video shows Somalian attendees waving U.S. flags upside down. Mostly, they wave the Somalian flag and others wave the U.S. flag right side up.One apparently upside-down U.S. flag can even be seen in the background of a photo Klobuchar posted from the event on social media."Congressman [Keith] Ellison and Senator [Al] Frankin and I worked so hard to reduce the redundant regulations on remittances to Somalia, lessening the burden for banks!" she added, referring to other Democrat officials. "We have more to do, but we will continue to fight for you!"A short clip on social media showed the objectionable parts spliced together, but the longer video is available for context on the YouTube channel for Somali TV of Minnesota.A Blaze News request for comment from the Klobuchar campaign was not returned before time of publication.RELATED: ICE deports Somali man accused of torture and war crimes who was found driving for Uber in DC In 2025, BlazeTV host Christopher Rufo and his colleague at City Journal reported on how some of the remittances to Somalia have ended up funding terrorist groups like Al-Shabaab.This is not the only time Somalians in Minnesota have seemingly treated the American flag with irreverence. For example, a similar incident unfolded years later when community leaders accidentally raised a large U.S. flag that was upside down during a Somali Independence Day event in July in St. Paul, Minnesota.The St. Cloud Police Department told Fox News they were alerted to the incident and an officer was sent to the event. The officer was able to correct the flag "without objection," and the event's organizers "indicated to City staff that the flag being flown upside down was not intentional."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

If a rock concert in 2026 isn't overtly political, is it really a rock concert?Apparently not if the Strokes are involved.'As we as we fight fascism and genocide, raise wages, and guarantee health care to everyone.'Fight the PowersThe New York band performed before roughly 40,000 fans at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens on Friday, with a lineup that included Beach House, TV on the Radio, and Fcukers — plus a couple of considerably more political special guests.One famous audience member made sure everyone knew he was there."Austin Powers" star Mike Myers posted several photos from the concert to Instagram while wearing a black T-shirt reading "FIGHT FASCISM," emblazoned with the familiar red raised fist of left-wing protest movements.Myers described the Strokes with fire emojis before writing, "#voteinnovember #fightfascism."The leftist love wasn't limited to the crowd.Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) took the stage before the Strokes' set and heaped praise on the band."The greatest city in the world is now welcoming the greatest rock band of our generation, who have always been committed to a better future for all of us," Ocasio-Cortez declared, "as we fight fascism and genocide, raise wages, and guarantee health care to everyone," she continued, as the crowd cheered.The audience got even louder when AOC introduced the next guest: Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders.RELATED: GRAVE 'DIGGER': Will Tom Cruise's $100 million eco-flop bury Warner Bros.? Bern there, done thatAOC escorted Sanders to the microphone, the two raising their arms together as the crowd roared.Sanders opened by joking that he had come to sing a few songs."You wouldn't want to hear that," he added.He then thanked the Strokes for "standing up for economic justice" and "fighting racism," while praising the band's "understanding that health care is a human right."Sanders closed by urging the audience to vote and to "stand up to authoritarianism" in November.The Strokes have been "feeling the Bern" for a few years now. The band performed at a Sanders campaign rally in New Hampshire during the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, with frontman Julian Casablancas calling Sanders America's "only truly non-corporate candidate" and declaring, "This is why we support him."Friday's event — which the band's website noted was taking place in "one of the most culturally diverse neighborhoods in the world" — also featured a live edition of Casablancas' podcast, "S.O.S. Earth Is a Mess," devoted to climate change.RELATED: Did these 6 movies about Satan accidentally summon him to their sets? ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images Citizen MikeAs for Myers, this was hardly his first recent political outing.The Canadian-born actor endorsed Liberal Party leader Mark Carney during Canada's 2025 federal election and helped popularize "Elbows Up," a hockey-derived rallying cry that Canadians adopted while pushing back against President Donald Trump's tariff threats and repeated talk of making Canada the 51st state.Myers is also an American citizen. In a previous interview, he spoke about being grateful for that citizenship and described living in the United States as a privilege.Apparently dual citizenship also means never having to choose just one country's politics.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!