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American politician and lawyer (born 1976)
As of the incoming 119th Congress (Jan. 2025–Jan. 2027), available reporting identifies four Muslim members of the U.S. House of Representatives: Ilhan Omar (Minnesota’s 5th), Rashida Tlaib (Michigan’...
Available sources show far fewer than 45 Muslims serving in the U.S. federal government; as of the 119th Congress there are four Muslim members of Congress (House) and five people have ever been elect...
The best current evidence shows Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) members serving in the U.S. House of Representatives: Representatives Alexandria Ocasio‑Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Greg Casar. Mu...
As of the start of the 119th Congress (January 2025), four members of the U.S. House of Representatives identify as Muslim: André Carson (Indiana’s 7th), Ilhan Omar (Minnesota’s 5th), Rashida Tlaib (M...
Ilhan Omar is widely reported in reputable sources as a Muslim and is listed among the small number of Muslim members of Congress; Pew Research counts her as one of four Muslims in the U.S. House for ...
The materials provided identify two overlapping lists of DSA figures: and associated with the movement. The strongest, consistent claims are that Ashik Siddique and Megan Romer co‑chair the DSA leader...
AIPAC’s financial footprint in the 2023–2024 cycle was large enough to place it among the top political actors in Washington, but its role looks different depending on which metric you use: direct PAC...
Reporting in 2024–2025 shows that four Muslim Americans served in the 119th Congress (André Carson, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Lateefah Simon) and that five individuals have been elected to Congre...
As of the 119th Congress (sworn in January 2025), available reporting identifies four Muslims serving in the U.S. House: André Carson (D‑IN), Ilhan Omar (D‑MN), Rashida Tlaib (D‑MI) and Lateefah Simon...
As of the start of the 119th Congress (Jan. 3, 2025), reporting indicates four Muslim members of the U.S. House of Representatives: André Carson (D‑IN), Ilhan Omar (D‑MN), Rashida Tlaib (D‑MI) and Lat...
Calls to “defund the police” come from a mix of grassroots activists, civil‑rights organizations, some progressive elected officials and policy researchers who argue reallocating portions of policing ...
Major political parties in the United States do formally identify as democratic socialist; instead, the primary organized voice of democratic socialism is the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), w...
The core claim is that several current and former U.S. Representatives are or have been members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA); reporting across the provided sources consistently names ...
Available reporting identifies at least two current U.S. Representatives publicly tied to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA): Rep. Alexandria Ocasio‑Cortez and Rep. Rashida Tlaib . Some outlet...
As of the 119th Congress convening January 3, 2025, four members of the U.S. House of Representatives identify as Muslim: André Carson (D‑IN), Ilhan Omar (D‑MN), Rashida Tlaib (D‑MI), and newly electe...
The available analyses present conflicting counts of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) members in the U.S. Congress, with sources claiming , , and . Because the supplied materials span different ...
As of the analyses presented, there is no single uncontested count of how many members of Congress are affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America in 2025; cited tallies range from , dependin...
As of the sources collected, a small but growing number of Muslim Americans have served in the U.S. Congress: the milestone began with Keith Ellison’s 2006 election (sworn in 2007), and by 2025 multip...
Multiple U.S. strikes during the Biden presidency—most prominently the January 2024 U.S.–UK airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen—were publicly challenged by members of Congress as having been carried...
A growing number of Muslim Americans are running for and winning offices, with at least 76 Muslim candidates on 2025 ballots and 38 confirmed victories reported by CAIR; advocates expect that particip...