Who’s Really Behind the Candidates Asking for Your Vote?

Most voters know what a candidate promises. But how much do they know about the organizations working to put that candidate in office?

In this episode of The Watch Floor, Sarah Adams looks beyond the campaign slogans and follows the political coalitions forming around candidates in the 2026 elections.

The investigation begins with Democratic Socialists of America and candidates running on issues millions of Americans genuinely care about: housing, healthcare, wages, childcare, college, and affordability. Then we look at who else is standing behind some of those candidates.

Across several races, DSA and CAIR Action are supporting the same candidates. That overlap leads to a larger examination of CAIR Action, CAIR, the Holy Land Foundation terrorism-financing case, the Muslim Brotherhood's historical Palestine Committee, Hamas, and recent U.S. government actions involving Muslim Brotherhood networks.

This episode is not an argument that these organizations are interchangeable, or that every candidate they support shares the same ideology. It is about understanding the entire political coalition you empower when you cast a vote.

Who endorsed the candidate? Who organizes for them? Who mobilizes voters? Who else is in the coalition? And what are those organizations telling their own supporters they hope to accomplish?

Don't stop at the campaign slogan.

Look past the candidate.

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