Hello, friends,

On Saturday, I put out a pretty dystopian piece about the war against Iran. Today I’ve got a much happier topic, or at least a much happier topic for most of us: The results of some Democratic primaries last night indicate that Democratic voters are fed up with conservative and conservative-adjacent Democrats.

In case you’re wondering what a conservative Dem is, I’ve got a video with my personal (your mileage may vary) political spectrum available here:

I’ve also written about New York’s terrible situation with Democrats here. As a note on that topic, my own Congressman, Tom Suozzi, is facing a primary challenge from a public defender named Danielle Welch. You can find out more about her here; I chose to support her, and I hope you’ll do the same.

And, ahhh, primaries.

This article isn’t about the Texas primary between James Talarico and Jasmine Crockett. Talarico won, I’m cautiously optimistic about his future, and I said my piece about him on Bluesky here. I think either one of them would’ve been fine, neither of them are perfect but both of them are good, so, yeah.

Meet Carla Cunningham. She’s been the Democratic Representative of North Carolina’s 109th district since 2013. That’s a long tenure! And part of her tenure, as per Jacob Biba of Bolts Magazine, was to cast the deciding vote to override Governor Josh Stein’s veto on a bill that would force law enforcement to work more closely with ICE.

Yikes, right?

Last night, Mediaite’s Michael Luciano reports that Carla Cunningham was absolutely crushed in her re-election bid by her primary challenger, Reverend Rodney Sadler. This makes sense: A recent Economist/Yougov poll found that 50% of Americans favor abolishing ICE altogether.

Cunningham wasn’t alone. WCNC’s Julie Kay reports that Nasif Majeed was defeated following a vote to cut climate regulations on Duke Energy, and following his veto-overriding vote on a bill that pupports to legislate that there are only two genders (something biologists will point out is a problem when there are more than two chromosomal possibilities for Humans to have, to say nothing of what actual gender is, you know, like).

So that’s a transphobe down, and that’s a xenophobe down as well. What does this mean?

North Carolina is not known for being the bluest, most radical-left place on Earth. It’s “purple,” in the sense that it’s kind of a toss up. You would think that even the Democratic party would be fairly conservative in a place like this, but Cunningham and Majeed lost in landslides to their challengers.

What does that tell you about other places - like, say, my native Long Island? We recently had an election where a Fascistic county executive won re-election quite handily here in Nassau County. Not at all a bastion of far-left behavior, is it? But neither is North Carolina.

And there are primary challenges afoot for both Tom Suozzi and NY-04’s Laura Gillen, two conservative, pro-ICE Democrats who have long cast themselves as happy to break with their party’s ‘dogma,’ for lack of a better term. Ally Mutnick of Politico reports that Suozzi’s run ads praising ICE in the past.

Maybe that’s something that’ll come back to bite him? Who’s to say?

Well, hopefully, I am. I live in NY-03, at least for now. I intend to vote against him in the primary.

I hope I’m not alone.