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Democrats’ midterm push clouded by infighting over party keeping 2024 autopsy under wraps
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Democrats keep winning at the ballot box as the party works to win back congressional majorities in this year’s midterm elections.
But despite a slew of electoral victories and overperformances in the more than 15 months since President Donald Trump returned to the White House, the party’s image remains well underwater in public opinion polling and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) finds itself badly trailing the rival Republican National Committee in fundraising, a crucial gauge of a party’s strength.
To make matters worse, the DNC is facing continued calls to release its internal autopsy of the party’s sweeping setbacks in the 2024 election, when Democrats lost the presidency and Senate majority and fell short in winning back control of the House.
Among those calling on the DNC to make public their report on what went wrong for the Democrats in 2024 is former Vice President Kamala Harris, the party’s presidential nominee two years ago.
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Former Vice President Kamala Harris, center, speaks with patrons during a stop at Crave restaurant ahead of a South Carolina Democratic Party fundraiser on Wednesday, April 15, 2026, in Greenville, S.C (Meg Kinnard/AP Photo)
Harris, who is mulling making another White House bid in 2028, recently told donors she believes the DNC should make the autopsy public. The news was first reported by NBC News and confirmed by Fox News Digital.
A source with knowledge said that Harris had not discussed the autopsy with DNC Chair Ken Martin, and that the former vice president did not know in advance about Martin’s decision in December to keep the 2024 election postmortem under wraps.
Martin ordered the report soon after he was elected DNC chair early last year.
Democratic Party officials interviewed over 300 Democrats from all 50 states for the report, which Martin promised would examine the party’s mistakes in 2024 and offer a roadmap to victory going forward.
There was controversy surrounding the report as it was being compiled, after reports last summer said the autopsy would skip analyzing whether then-President Joe Biden should have run for re-election in 2024 and would pass on judging key decisions made by Harris and her team, after she replaced Biden as the party’s nominee with just over three months to go until the 2024 election.
Throughout the process, Martin repeatedly pushed back on calling the report an «autopsy,» since he noted that the Democratic Party wasn’t dead. He instead labeled the report an «after-action review.»
But in December, weeks after Democrats scored major victories in the 2025 off-year elections, the party announced it would not be releasing the report.
Martin, in a statement at the time, said releasing the report would be «a distraction» from the party’s «core mission» to win back congressional majorities in the midterms.
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Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin addresses party members at the DNC summer meeting in Minneapolis, Minn., on Aug. 25, 2025. (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News)
In explaining his decision, Martin wrote, «We completed a comprehensive review of what happened in 2024 and are already putting our learnings into motion. And we’re winning again — even in places that haven’t gone blue in decades. In our conversations with stakeholders from across the Democratic ecosystem, we are aligned on what’s important, and that’s learning from the past and winning the future.»
«Here’s our North Star: does this help us win? If the answer is no, it’s a distraction from the core mission,» he emphasized.
But the DNC chair’s decision was criticized not only by Republicans but also by fellow Democrats.
«They are spiking an autopsy of the election that gave us Trump 2.0. If party leaders won’t take the steps required to rebuild ourselves into a winning coalition, we will take it into our own hands,» former DNC Vice Chair David Hogg warned in a social media post at the time.
Hogg, a gun-control crusader who was elected a DNC vice chair as Martin won election as chair, stepped down from his position last summer after upsetting party leaders for his efforts backing primary challenges against what he called «asleep at the wheel» older, longtime incumbents in safe, blue districts.
Dan Pfeiffer, a former senior advisor to then-President Barack Obama and a co-host of the popular progressive podcast «Pod Save America,» also took to social media to criticize the move.
«This is a very bad decision that reeks of the caution and complacency that brought us to this moment,» Pfeiffer wrote.
His podcast co-host and fellow Obama alum Jon Favreau called the DNC flip-flop «unreal» and «baffling.»
«The DNC’s actual position is that if the public knew more about what Democrats got wrong in the last election, it would hurt the party’s chances in the next election,» Favreau wrote on X. «How does this rebuild trust between the party insiders and grassroots activists and organizers?»
Martin last month made an appearance on «Pod Save America» to push back against the criticism.
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«We’ve been releasing that,» Martin said when asked if the DNC would release a summary of the report. «The reality is we’re not hiding the ball on this. We have been sharing those things out. There’s no smoking gun here.»
Martin noted that «we’ve been providing briefings,» as he pointed to data from the report the DNC shared with Democratic stakeholders.
Harris isn’t the only potential 2028 Democratic presidential contender calling on the DNC to make the full report public.
«Yeah, release the autopsy,» Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey said this past weekend in an interview on NBC’s «Meet the Press» on Sunday. «They should do that,» the senator added as he pointed to the DNC.
But Booker, who ran unsuccessfully for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination won by Biden and who is mulling another run in 2028, said it’s imperative his party doesn’t dwell on the past.
Rotimi Adeoye, a former Democratic operative who is serving as a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, argued in a social media post that «the mistake the DNC made is they could’ve released the report earlier in the spring, whatever’s in it, you get two weeks of bad publicity, then Trump does something stupid and everyone forgets.»
«Now it feels like something’s being hidden, which makes it way more salacious,» he claimed.
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A person familiar with the DNC’s strategy told Fox News Digital because of all the attention on the autopsy, «they are going to be forced to release something.»
The person, who asked to remain anonymous to speak more freely, said the ongoing storyline is a distraction for the DNC with the clock ticking towards the midterms, adding «it’s just not helping to be talking about this.»
The DNC pointed to Martin’s previous comments when contacted by Fox News Digital.
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República Dominicana: El Ministerio Público detuvo a 20 sospechosos de extorsionar a residentes en Estados Unidos
El Ministerio Público de República Dominicana puso en marcha la Operación XL526 contra una red criminal que, según la Procuraduría General de la República Dominicana, extorsionaba, chantajeaba y estafaba a residentes en Estados Unidos desde Jacagua, en Santiago, para obtener fondos que luego eran canalizados en maniobras de lavado de activos; la ofensiva dejó 20 personas arrestadas y derivará en presentaciones judiciales en las próximas horas.
La investigación, de acuerdo con la Procuraduría General de la República Dominicana, incluyó 28 allanamientos ejecutados en Santiago y Puerto Plata por un equipo de 35 fiscales.
Entre los detenidos hay cinco cabecillas, seis integrantes identificados de la estructura y otras ocho personas apresadas con fines de investigación, mientras las autoridades persiguen a otro hombre vinculado al caso.
La operación fue coordinada por la Dirección General de Persecución y la Fiscalía de Santiago, según la Procuraduría General de la República Dominicana.
También participaron la Dirección de Área de Investigación de Crimen Organizado, el Departamento Especial de Investigación de Delitos Trasnacionales de la Policía Nacional, HSI Santo Domingo, la Dirección Central de Prevención de la Policía Nacional y la Fuerza de Tarea contra el Crimen Organizado.
La estructura tenía su base operativa en el municipio de Jacagua, provincia de Santiago. La entidad oficial sostuvo que se trataba de una organización de carácter internacional integrada por personas con dominio del inglés y uso de herramientas tecnológicas para ejecutar las maniobras ilícitas.
El mecanismo, de acuerdo con la investigación oficial, comenzaba con la captación de víctimas mediante anuncios publicitarios. Después, las personas eran sometidas a extorsión y chantaje con un guion previamente estructurado por los cabecillas.
La Procuraduría General de la República Dominicana indicó que los imputados se hacían pasar, por medios tecnológicos, por supuestos miembros de organizaciones criminales como el denominado “Cartel de Sinaloa”. Con esa identidad falsa, exigían dinero a las víctimas y les enviaban imágenes de crímenes horrendos para intimidarlas.
Ese es el núcleo del caso: una red asentada en Santiago contactaba a residentes en Estados Unidos, los amenazaba con identidades criminales ficticias y obtenía dinero por coerción, según la Procuraduría General. Luego, esos fondos eran movilizados por distintos canales para dificultar su rastreo.
Durante la operación fueron arrestados los presuntos cabecillas Carlos José Parra Lantigua, Eliardo Peña Almonte, Renso Darío González Almonte, Josiel Pichardo Cabrera y Walinton Sosa Almonte, según la Procuraduría General de la República Dominicana.
La institución también identificó como miembros de la red a Moisés David Pichardo Aracena, Pedro Antonio Pichardo, Yumeiry Altagracia Cabrera, Danny Rafael Lantigua, Augusto José Reyes y Julio Antonio Peralta del Rosario.
Los integrantes de la red serán presentados ante la Oficina Judicial de Servicios de Atención Permanente de Santiago en las próximas horas, de acuerdo con la Procuraduría General de la República Dominicana. La investigación les atribuye presunta vinculación con crímenes y delitos de alta tecnología, asociación de malhechores, estafa, extorsión, chantaje, obtención ilícita de fondos, enriquecimiento ilícito, lavado de activos, distribución de sustancias controladas y uso de armas de fuego.
La Procuraduría General de la República Dominicana sostuvo que los fondos obtenidos eran canalizados mediante criptomonedas como Bitcoin, transferencias electrónicas, transferencias espejo y depósitos a través de empresas remesadoras y plataformas de pago.
En la mayoría de los casos, añadió la institución, las transacciones se hacían a favor de terceros identificados por la investigación para dificultar la trazabilidad del dinero y encubrir su origen ilícito.
La ostentación de bienestar económico por parte de los integrantes de la organización incentivaba la incorporación de nuevas personas, sobre todo jóvenes de Santiago de los Caballeros y municipios cercanos, según la Procuraduría General de la República Dominicana. La institución afirmó que esa exhibición de recursos formaba parte del entorno de expansión de la estructura.
Las autoridades también señalaron que los imputados empleaban mecanismos de intimidación y coacción que causaban afectaciones psicológicas graves en las víctimas.
Las amenazas provocaban temor, sufrimiento y perturbación emocional tanto en quienes recibían directamente la presión como en sus familiares, con impacto en su estabilidad personal y su calidad de vida.
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Kuwait decried Iranian attacks in a statement issued by its foreign affairs ministry, saying that the Kuwait International Airport had been targeted.
«The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses the State of Kuwait’s condemnation and denunciation, in the strongest terms, of the brutal and ongoing Iranian attacks using ballistic missiles and drones, the latest of which occurred at dawn today, targeting once again civilian and vital facilities, including Kuwait International Airport, resulting in the death of one individual, injuries to others, and damage to vital facilities, including diplomatic missions,» part of the statement declared, according to a translation of the Arabic-language post on X.
Kuwait’s Ministry of Defense spokesperson had indicated that a building at Kuwait International Airport was damaged and people were injured, according to a post on X by the official account of Kuwait Army general staff headquarters.
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People are seen at Kuwait International Airport in Kuwait City, Kuwait, on June 1, 2026. (Jaber Abdulkhaleq/Anadolu via Getty Images)
«The Official Spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, Brigadier General Saud Abdulaziz Al-Otaibi, stated that a number of hostile drones targeted today the passenger building (T1) at Kuwait International Airport as a result of the criminal Iranian aggression, which resulted in significant material damage to the building and injuries to a number of individuals, who received the necessary medical care,» according to a translation of the Arabic-language post.
«He affirmed that the armed forces are monitoring the situation in coordination with the relevant authorities, and they are in a state of complete readiness to deal with any developments, and to take all necessary measures to preserve the security of the country and its stability,» the post added.
The Iranian hostilities come more than three months since the start of the U.S. war against the Islamic Republic.
In a Tuesday statement, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) indicated that America had engaged in «self-defense strikes» against Iran.
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Imam Sadiq (AS) mosque with a giant Iranian flag installed on its front at the Palestine Square in Tehran on April 19, 2026. (ATTA KENARE / AFP via Getty Images)
«U.S. forces successfully defeated multiple Iranian ballistic missiles and drones, and conducted self-defense strikes on Qeshm Island in response to attempted attacks by Iran across the Middle East, June 2. Iran launched several ballistic missiles toward regional neighbors; however, all failed to hit their intended targets. Two Iranian missiles fired at Kuwait fell short or broke apart enroute, and three missiles launched at Bahrain were immediately intercepted by U.S. and Bahrain air defense forces,» the release noted.
«Moments earlier, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces shot down three one-way attack drones launched by Iran toward civilian mariners that were rightfully transiting regional waters. American forces also conducted self-defense strikes on an Iranian military ground control station on Qeshm Island. No U.S. personnel were harmed. CENTCOM forces remain vigilant and ready to defend against unwarranted Iranian aggression during the ongoing ceasefire,» the statement added.
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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth listens as Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of U.S. Central Command, speaks during a press briefing at the Pentagon on April 16, 2026, in Arlington, Va. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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CENTCOM noted in a post on X that, «An additional wave of Iranian drones attempting to attack U.S. forces in Kuwait failed to impact intended targets tonight. U.S. Central Command air defenses successfully downed multiple drones and ensured no American personnel or assets were harmed.»
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