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Join us in Las Vegas with these CONFIRMED guests! |
Acting Secretary Keith Sonderling - Political Commentator Scott Jennings - Ron Dermer - Sen. David McCormick - RNC Chairman Joe Gruters - Chair, DOJ Task Force To Combat Antisemitism Leo Terrell - Sen. Jim Banks - Sen. Tim Sheehy - Gov. Joe Lombardo - Chairman Jim Jordan - Amb. Yechiel Leiter - Chairwoman Lisa McClain - Cong. Brandon Gill - Cong. David Kustoff - Vivek Ramaswamy - Cong. Randy Fine - Mike Rogers - Cong. Craig Goldman - Cong Brian Jack - Capt. Ed Gallrein - Michael Whatley - Radio Host Sid Rosenberg - TV Personality Emily Austin - Coach Bruce Pearl - Author and Photographer Alyssa Rosenheck |
August 30 - September 1 in Las VegasClick HERE to register today! |
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Jewish Republican Congressman Randy Fine (R-FL-6) overwhelmingly defeated an antisemitic primary challenger. |
GOP Rejects Antisemites at the Ballot Box |
The contrast between how Republicans and Democrats deal with antisemitism was starkly visible this week. In Florida's Sixth Congressional District, Republican Rep. Randy Fine faced a primary challenger who pushed openly anti-Jewish, pro-Hitler messaging. Dan Bilzerian put a disgusting AI-generated video on social media in the last days of the race that was so offensive, even Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries condemned it: |
"The hateful campaign being run by Daniel Bilzerian in Florida is blatantly antisemitic and shocks the conscience," Jeffries wrote. "People of goodwill regardless of political affiliation must reject his vile attacks on the Jewish community. This cannot and will not stand." |
Jeffries was attacked by his "progressive" colleagues for saying that. Republican voters gave Rep. Fine an overwhelming victory on Tuesday. The RJC said that night: |
Randy Fine, the only Jewish Republican in Florida's congressional delegation, was targeted by one of the most grotesque antisemitic campaigns this country has seen from a candidate for office. He beat it decisively, and we could not be prouder to stand with him. …Tonight, the Republican voters of Florida's 6th District stood up to this fanatic and buried Bilzerian's hateful campaign in the dustbin of history where it belongs. Antisemitism has no place in the Republican Party and Florida Republicans proved it once again. There is only ONE party taking on these fights and winning, and it is the Republican Party. |
Also in Florida, Rep. Byron Donalds won handily over antisemitic bigot James Fishback in the GOP gubernatorial primary. The Jewish Insider reports: |
Fishback has embraced and celebrated neo-Nazi influencer Nick Fuentes and his "groyper" followers and leaned into a variety of antisemitic tropes and conspiracy theories. He has also vowed to cut ties with Israel and suggested he would scale back state efforts to combat antisemitism. He has also run a racist campaign, including repeatedly referring to Donalds, who is Black, as a "slave"… |
The RJC said of Donalds' win: |
Byron Donalds won this race the right way, as a strong, principled conservative and an unflinching ally of Florida's Jewish community, against an opponent who ran one of the most openly bigoted campaigns in recent memory. …Antisemitism and racism have no place in the Republican Party. Tonight, the Republican voters of Florida proved it by resoundingly rejecting a candidate who campaigned on messages of hate and nominating instead a true leader of genuine character. The contrast with today's Democratic Party could not be clearer. While Republicans in Florida once again defeated bigotry at the ballot box, the Democratic Party continues to appease the antisemitism surging in its ranks and elevate far-left radicals to high office. From New York to Maine to Michigan, Democrats are shamefully abandoning the American Jewish community to the extremist mob. |
Days before the election, Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) told the Jewish Insider that antisemitism in the GOP must be fought: |
…"So with people like [Bilzerian and Fishback], you have to say, 'I don't want those people in my party,'" Scott told JI. "The Republican Party is a broad coalition of people that care about this country, but we're not going to allow antisemites into our party, period. They belong in the Democrat Party, which embraces them." "Our party is not run by antisemites and will never be run by antisemites as long as I have any power to stop it," he continued. "We have to fight, fight, fight." |
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Former congressman and Republican candidate for Senate in Michigan, Mike Rogers. (Source: CBS News Detroit, August 5, 2026, screenshot.) |
Jewish Democrats Moving to Support GOP's Rogers in Michigan |
Mike Rogers is the Republican nominee for Senate in Michigan. He is a former member of Congress and served as chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Earlier in his career he was a special agent with the FBI. He is rock-solid on national security, defense issues, and the US-Israel alliance, and is a good friend of the Jewish community. His opponent in November will be Abdul El-Sayed, a far-left socialist with ties to radical Islam who refuses to acknowledge Israel's right to exist. The alarm over the possibility of El-Sayed winning the Senate seat is so great that Jewish Democrats are moving to support Mike Rogers. The Jewish Insider reports that three prominent Jewish Democratic bundlers in Michigan hosted a fundraiser for Rogers this week. In addition, the Jewish Insider reports that Jewish leaders in Michigan are circulating an open letter urging Jewish Democrats and independents in the battleground state to sign their names in support of former Rep. Mike Rogers: |
"All of us have felt threatened and alienated by the politics and allies embraced by Abdul El-Sayed," the letter continues, "which has included demonization of Jews, equivocation on terrorism, exclusion of Jewish Americans from public life, and expression of implacable hatred of the world's only Jewish nation." If El-Sayed were to claim victory in the general election, the authors say, "we fear the far-left and anti-Jewish elements in the Democratic party would become dominant, including in the imminent 2028 presidential race," when Michigan will be among the early nominating states in the Democratic primaries. "We cannot allow him to become the Democratic standard-bearer or Michigan's senator." … "This is a moment when each of us must speak out," the letter states. "We're voting for Mike Rogers. We ask other Michigan Jewish voters to join us." |
JNS reports that Rabbi Asher Lopatin, director of community relations at the Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor has announced that he will vote for Mike Rogers: "Lopatin, who made clear that he was speaking personally, and not issuing a Federation endorsement, said that he has 'concerns, but I have to do whatever I can to make sure this candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, does not win.'" |
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Help Our Republican Candidates! |
The 2026 midterms are here! It is CRITICAL that Republicans retain and expand their majorities in the House and Senate in 2026! The RJC has endorsed Senator Darline Graham in the Special Republican Primary for the United States Senate in South Carolina. President Donald Trump personally asked her run for the seat of her late brother, the great Senator Lindsey Graham. Darline Graham brings a lifetime of service outside of politics, from her career helping South Carolinians with disabilities to her leadership at the state level, and she will bring that same determination and grit to the US Senate. We urge South Carolina Republicans to vote for her and RJC members across the country to support her! |
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To date, the RJC PAC has made endorsements in nine Senate races and 17 House races in the 2026 midterm election. Our great candidates need your support! |
You can donate to RJC PAC endorsees at the RJC PAC Portal. |
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RJC in the News |
RJC on i24's "American View" |
Republican Jewish Coalition National Political Director Sam Markstein did a 25-minute interview with i24 News show "American View". He discussed the US political landscape, the radicals winning primaries in the Democratic Party, how to reach younger voters who get their news from TikTok, and much more. Watch the full interview here. |
Jewish Insider: Mike Rogers calibrates Jewish outreach as he builds broad coalition against Abdul El-Sayed |
The Republican Jewish Coalition has indicated it intends to aggressively target the nearly 100,000 Jewish voters in Michigan who make up a potential swing bloc, with a special focus on Jewish Democrats who "now find themselves politically homeless," Sam Markstein, a spokesperson for the group, told JI in a statement. Markstein said that he could not yet share specifics about the RJC's plans to invest in the race but noted an independent expenditure is in the works and "will be significant." |
VOX: What American Jews want from the midterms |
It's hard to disentangle the effect of the Israel-Gaza war from the current political environment for Jewish voters. Sam Markstein, the political director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, told me that October 7 was a defining moment for many Jewish voters who had preexisting misgivings about the Democratic Party. Changing political and public opinion on Israel and acts of violence against Jewish people and at places of worship, as well as shifts among Democrats and the left's broader tension with AIPAC, suddenly made safety and antisemitism more pressing issues. "After October 7, American Jews focused a lot more on their safety," Markstein told me. "The main questions we heard, time and time, was who would best keep us safe, who would stand up for our students on the college campus quad, who would make us feel better about walking with our young kids to shul on Saturday morning, who would actually stand with the Jewish community and empower us to wear our Stars of David in public and not have to hide it." |
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Mandel: Democrats Take Aim at the Civil Rights Act
Seth Mandel at Commentary writes about Haley Van Erem, a former Department of Justice civil-rights attorney turned "whistleblower" whose complaints against the Trump Administration undermine President Donald Trump's efforts to protect Jewish students from discrimination on college campuses. Mandel writes: "Like clockwork, Jamie Raskin, the Maryland congressman and ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, took the baton handed to him by Van Erem and promised retribution for Trump officials… [Raskin's] Jewishness provides cover for Democrats who are, as Raskin presumably is, intent on dismantling federal protections for Jews and insulating the Democratic Party from accountability for its exploding anti-Semitism." |
US State Department: 17 Iranians Charged with Conducting Massive Cyber Theft Campaign on Behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Other Iranian Entities
A 14-count superseding (S2) indictment was unsealed today charging 17 members of the Mabna Institute, an Iran-based company that, since at least 2013, has conducted a coordinated campaign of cyber intrusions into computer systems for 144 U.S.-based universities, 178 foreign universities, at least 42 U.S.-based private sector companies, at least 11 foreign private sector companies, at least five U.S. federal and state government agencies, and at least two non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The Mabna Institute stole more than 31 terabytes of academic data and intellectual property from these universities, as well as the email accounts of employees at the private sector companies, government agencies, and NGOs. The defendants conducted many of these intrusions on behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), one of several entities within the government of Iran responsible for gathering intelligence, as well as other Iranian government and university clients. |
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Annual Leadership Summit Our biggest event of the year has new dates: August 30- September 1. Join us in Las Vegas! Exclusively for RJC Leaders and their guests. |
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