It’s Dems vs. Dems in Tuesday’s primaries

New York, Florida, and Oklahoma hold primary elections; This week marks six months of war in Ukraine.

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Redrawn maps shake up Tuesday’s primaries

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• Voters in New York, Florida, and Oklahoma head to the polls Tuesday in one of this year’s final primary elections. Here’s what to watch. [Washington Post / John Wagner, Amy B Wang, Eugene Scott, and Mariana Alfaro]
• Redistricting combined two Manhattan districts, meaning the House will lose a veteran Democrat. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, 75, faces Rep. Carolyn Maloney, 76, in the race for New York’s 12th District. [Associated Press / Michelle L. Price and Brendan Farrington]
• After moving districts to avoid running against a fellow Democrat, progressive Rep. Mondaire Jones faces a crowded field for New York’s 10th District, led by former federal prosecutor and Levi Strauss heir Daniel Goldman. [FiveThirtyEight / Nathaniel Rakich]
• Meanwhile, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, whose current district was divided by redistricting, is in a controversial bid for Jones’s 17th District against progressive state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi. [USA Today / Merdie Nzanga]
• In Florida, Rep. Charlie Crist — who once served as Republican governor of Florida — faces state agriculture commissioner Nikki Fried in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. [Politico / Matt Dixon and Gary Fineout]
• In conservative Oklahoma, Trump-backed Rep. Markwayne Mullin faces former state House Speaker T.W. Shannon to replace retiring GOP Sen. James Inhofe. Mullin or Shannon could be the first Indigenous person to serve in the Senate since 2005. [NPR / Elena Moore]

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Six months of war in Ukraine

• This week marks six months since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. [Washington Post / Ishaan Tharoor]
• Kyiv and Moscow have suffered tremendous losses; however, a string of recent Ukrainian strikes on Russian targets suggest the war’s momentum may be shifting. [Wall Street Journal / Marcus Walker and Gordon Lubold]
• As the war continues, US officials are set to announce an additional $3 billion in military aid to help Ukraine prepare for the long term. [AP / Lolita C. Baldor and Matthew Lee]
• Meanwhile, experts say we may never know who’s responsible for the Saturday car bombing in Moscow that killed Darya Dugina, the daughter of a nationalist Putin ally. Russia blames Ukraine; an anti-Putin group has claimed responsibility. [Vox / Caroline Houck]

Last week, American Airlines announced plans to buy 20 planes that can travel faster than the speed of sound; if all goes to plan, commercial supersonic flights could return at the end of the decade. [Vox / Rebecca Heilwell]

• According to a recent study, up to 1 in 6 trees native to the continental US faces extinction due to disease, invasive insects, and climate change. [Washington Post / Sarah Kaplan]
• The National Archives said former President Donald Trump took over 700 pages of classified documents to his Mar-a-Lago residence when he left the White House in January 2021. [New York Times / Alan Feuer]
• A federal jury on Tuesday convicted two men for planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. [CNN / Lauren del Valle]

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“I think that, frankly, that sends a terrible message, not only just to Democrats in New York, but to Democrats across the country who are going to be fighting incredibly hard to hold on to their districts.”

[Alessandra Biaggi on Sean Patrick Maloney’s decision to run in Mondaire Jones’s district / NY1]

Putin's war comes to Russia

A car bomb killed Russian commentator Darya Dugina over the weekend. The bomb may have been meant for her father, the far-right, pro-Putin, pro-war philosopher Alexander Dugin. The Guardian’s Andrew Roth explains.

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