Tag: Abbas Alawieh

A long line of Dearborn voters in winter coats waiting outside a brick polling place at dawn, one voter dropping a ballot into a ballot box, with a mosque dome and a church steeple on the skyline

Dearborn Voted in Record Numbers and Changed Michigan

On November 3, 2026, Dearborn cast 45,460 ballots, more than in any election in city history, and helped send Abdul El-Sayed to the United States Senate. Arab American candidates won up and down the ballot, while the Green vote told a harder story about protest, return, and the limits of a third party in Michigan.